Many examples of Shaker furniture survive and are preserved today, including such popular forms as Shaker tables, chairs, rocking chairs ( made in several sizes ), and cabinets.

Their industry brought about many inventions like Babbitt metal, the rotary harrow, the circular saw, the clothespin, the Shaker peg, the flat broom, the wheel-driven washing machine, a machine for setting teeth in textile cards, a threshing machine, metal pens, a new type of fire engine, a machine for matching boards, numerous innovations in waterworks, planing machinery, a hernia truss, silk reeling machinery, small looms for weaving palm leaf, machines for processing broom corn, ball-and-socket tilters for chair legs, and a number of other useful inventions.

Born in Louisiana and raised in Florida, Lincks was inspired to write the play after visiting the Pleasant Hills Shaker village in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, a restored community that the Shakers occupied for more than a century, before abandoning it in 1927 because of the inability of the sect to attract new converts.

Membership in the Shakers dwindled in the late 19th century for several reasons: people were attracted to cities and away from the farms ; Shaker products could not compete with mass-produced products that became available at a much lower cost ; and Shakers could not have children, so adoption was a major source of new members.

Shakers are no longer allowed to adopt orphans after new laws were passed in 1960 denying adoption to religious groups, but adults who wish to embrace Shaker life are welcome.

Wreckx-N-Effect was a new jack swing / hip-hop group from the United States who had the multi-platinum hit " Rump Shaker " in 1992 / 1993, which was produced by Teddy Riley.

In some cases, such as Jeannette, Pennsylvania-licensed WPCW-TV 19, the FCC has waived this requirement ; the station claimed that retaining an existing transmitter site 25. 6 miles southeast of its new community of license of Jeannette would be in compliance with the Commission's minimum distance separation requirements ( avoiding interference to co-channel WOIO 19 Shaker Heights ).

The sessions for the track went so well that Mills and Bevan began writing together again, and making plans for a full-on Kula Shaker comeback that would encompass live touring and the further release of new material.

He became the band's new keyboard player, and Kula Shaker were restored to a four-piece once more.

Cleveland Union Terminal also served as the downtown station for the Van Sweringens ' new Shaker Heights Rapid Transit Line.

On January 1, 1805, with eleven Shaker communities already established in New York and New England, three Shaker missionaries, John Meacham, Benjamin Seth Youngs ( older brother of Isaac N. Youngs ), and Issachar Bates, set out to find new converts.

There he presented a new work about the poet Ahmed Shawki, another new one about Badr Shaker Al Sayab

Similar to Season One, it featured live sets containing songs from Rump Shaker through to new, unreleased material, music videos and extra videos from the band.

The album includes top ten Billboard hits " What's Happinin ", " Shake ", " Salt Shaker ", and “ Wait ( The Whisper Song )” plus three new tracks.

Kula Shaker reformed in 2005 after a hiatus of some years, and have since been touring in Britain, Europe and Japan, introducing new material including the raga rock " Song of Love / Narayana ".

The tune was written by Joseph Brackett ( 1797 – 1882 ) who first joined the Shakers at Gorham, Maine, when his father's farm helped to form the nucleus of a new Shaker settlement.

Many of the new Shaker spirituals were called " gift songs ", and were revealed to the initiate in a vision by the spirits of Mother Ann, the sect's founder, angels, other historical figures or other races, such as Native Americans.

Maris, trying to back out of the plan, shoots Shaker in the shoulder.

Shakers today are most known for their cultural contributions ( especially style of music and furniture ). The Shakers composed thousands of songs, and also created many dances ; both were an important part of the Shaker worship services.

In his 2000 book Mystics and Messiahs, Philip Jenkins discussed the term's usage, and likened it to " smear words " associated with other religions ; giving examples of Shaker, Methodist, and Mormon.

In 1790, Shaker enclaves were organized at Hancock, Massachusetts, and Enfield, Connecticut ; in 1792, Canterbury, New Hampshire and Tyringham, Massachusetts followed suit ; 1793, Alfred, Maine, Enfield, New Hampshire, Harvard and Shirley, Massachusetts ; 1794, New Gloucester ( Sabbathday Lake ), Maine.

New Shaker communities formed in the 1780s and 1790s included Hancock and West Pittsfield, Massachusetts ; Harvard, Massachusetts ; East Canterbury, New Hampshire ( or Shaker Village ); Shirley, Massachusetts ; Enfield, Connecticut ( then also known as Shaker Station ); Enfield, New Hampshire ; (" Chosen Vale "), at Tyringham, Massachusetts ; New Gloucester, Maine ( since 1890: " Sabbathday Lake "); and Alfred, Maine, where, more than anywhere else among the Shakers, spiritualistic healing of the sick was practiced.

From 1805 to 1807, they founded Shaker societies at Union Village, Ohio ; South Union, Logan County, Kentucky ; and Pleasant Hill, Kentucky ( in Mercer County, Kentucky ).

Shaker theology is based on the idea of the dualism of God as male and female: " So God created him ; male and female created he them " ( Genesis 1: 27 ).

The four highest Shaker virtues were virgin purity ; Christian communism ; confession of sin — without which one could not become a Believer ; and separation from the world.

Army Commander-in-Chief General Sharif Zaid Ben Shaker warned in a press conference that " If Jordan does not join the war a civil war will erupt in Jordan ".

Shaker lures Kate to a meeting where he tells her to pay the ransom or Sean will die.

Saeed Siddique, Aamer's father-in-law, said in 2011, " When he was captured, Shaker offered to let my daughter divorce him, but she said, ' No, I will wait for you.

Shaker threatens to kill everyone in the house, but Tom convinces him to take him hostage and go to the bank so Tom can wire the money to Shaker's account.

Clark tries running Shaker over with his van, but Shaker fatally shoots him.

Shaker follows Cubby into the building where the kidnappers are residing, sees Sean tied in a bedroom, and holds Cubby at gunpoint, berating him for being so obvious ; Shaker is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.

Shaker indicated that Cubby would give Tom an address where Sean could be picked up in exchange for the money, but when Cubby appears ignorant of these instructions and simply demands the cash, Tom refuses to hand it over.

Before she can fire again, Shaker kills her and re-enters the apartment just before a SWAT team charges in, finding a wounded Shaker sitting next to Sean.

Then, in 2007, 12-year-old Badour Shaker died of an overdose of anaesthesia during or after an FGM procedure for which her mother had paid a physician in an illegal clinic the equivalent of $ 9. 00.

George Rapp's daughter and others lived for a time at the Shaker settlement in West Union, Indiana, where the Shakers helped a number of Harmonites learn the English language.

His best-known works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), On the Transmigration of Souls ( 2002 ), a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks ( for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003 ), and Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), a minimalist four-movement work for strings.

Some major works composed during this period include Wavemaker ( 1977 ), Phrygian Gates for solo piano ( 1977 ), Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), Common Tones in Simple Time ( 1979 ), Harmonium ( 1980 – 81 ), Grand Pianola Music ( 1982 ), Light Over Water ( 1983 ), Harmonielehre ( 1984 – 85 ), The Chairman Dances ( 1985 ), Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), and Nixon in China ( 1985 – 87 ).

Shaker Loops ( for string septet ) ( 1978 ): A " modular " composition for three violins, one viola, two cellos, and one bass, with a conductor.

* ( 1983 ) Shaker Loops ( version for string orchestra )

In the kingdom, as in the Shaker fellowship, there was “ neither marrying nor giving in marriage .” Celibacy was a preparation for the kingdom.

In good weather, groups of Shaker women were outdoors, gardening and gathering wild herbs for sale or home consumption.

Many Shaker villages had their own tanneries, sold baskets, brushes, bonnets, brooms, fancy goods, and homespun fabric that was known for high quality, but were more famous for their medicinal herbs, garden seeds, apple-sauce, and knitted garments ( Canterbury ).

Shaker craftsmen were known for a style of Shaker furniture that was plain in style, durable, and functional.

There is a collection of furniture and utensils at Hancock Shaker Village outside of Pittsfield, Massachusetts that is famous for its elegance and practicality.

Brethren grew the crops, but sisters picked, sorted, and packaged their products for sale, so those industries were built on a foundation of women's labor in the Shaker partnership between the sexes.

The many recent, harmonized arrangements of older Shaker songs for choirs and instrumental groups mark a departure from traditional Shaker practice.