Shaker theology, its manifestation in material artifacts such as furniture and oval boxes, and the Ann Lee story draw the attention of outsiders either fascinated or repulsed by them.

* The Shaker song Simple Gifts is written by Joseph Brackett in Alfred, Maine.

* December 4 – Prime Minister of Jordan Zaid ibn Shaker resigns and is replaced by Mudar Badran.

The Watervliet Shaker Historic District is where Mother Ann Lee was buried.

Because of the quality of their craftsmanship, original Shaker furniture is costly.

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

It has been surmised that many of them were imitated from the sounds of Native American languages, as well as from the songs of African slaves, especially in the southernmost of the Shaker communities, but in fact the melodic material is derived from European scales and modes.

Most early Shaker music is monodic, that is to say, composed of a single melodic line with no harmonization.

Many melodies are of extraordinary grace and beauty, and the Shaker song repertoire, though still relatively little known, is an important part of the American cultural heritage and of world religious music in general.

Shaker lifestyle and tradition is celebrated in Arlene Hutton's play As It Is in Heaven, which is a re-creation of a decisive time in the history of the Shakers.

" While all the music is Shaker song performed in a largely traditional manner, the dance intermingles only certain elements of Shaker practice and belief with Saarinen's original choreographic ideas, and with distinctive costumes and lighting.

The daily schedule of a Shaker in Sabbathday Lake Village is as follows:

Following this is communal prayer and silent prayer, concluded with the singing of a Shaker hymn.

* On Wednesdays at 5: 00 pm they hold a prayer meeting which is followed by a Shaker Studies class.

* Rieman, Timothy D. & Muller, Charles R. The Shaker Chair "; Line Drawings by Stephen Metzger, ( The Canal Press, 1984 ) This is the definitive work.

* The use of a large circular saw in a saw mill is said to have been invented in 1813 by Tabitha Babbit, a Shaker spinster, who sought to ease the labour of the male sawyers in her community.

Pleasant Hill, also known as Shakertown, is the site of a former Shaker community, active especially during the antebellum years before the American Civil War.

Hancock Shaker Village, now operated as a museum, is famous for its " Round Stone Barn ", built in 1826.

Southern Hancock, where the Shaker Village is located, is dominated by the Taconic peaks of Pittsfield State Forest, including Tower Mountain, Smith Mountain, Berry Hill, Honwee Mountain, Doll Mountain, and Shaker Mountain.

Known as the Shaker Melody, Shaker Song, and the Shaker Hymn, the music Copland based his ending variations on, was actually called Simple Gifts.

Chorale and Shaker Dance is a lively composition based on the Shaker tune, Simple Gifts and containing elements of Celtic music.

The music video for " Up All Night " features an animated version of the band, based on Nic Cowan's Rump Shaker album artwork, performing in the streets of Tokyo, which subsequently comes under attack from a giant lizard called Skazilla.

The Shaker convert Frederick W. Evans in 1888 wrote an essay, based more on his enthusiasm than mainstream Shakerism, called a " Shaker reconstruction of the American Government.

The westernmost Shaker community was located at West Union ( called Busro because it was on Busseron Creek ) on the Wabash River a few miles north of Vincennes in Knox County, Indiana.

Occasionally a foundling was anonymously left on a Shaker doorstep.

Examples are on display in the Hancock Shaker Village Trustees ' Office, a formerly spare, plain building " improved " with ornate additions such as fish-scale siding, bay windows, porches, and a tower.

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.

Two widely distributed commercial recordings by The Boston Camerata, " Simple Gifts " ( 1995 ) and " The Golden Harvest " ( 2000 ), were recorded at the Shaker community of Sabbathday Lake, Maine, with active cooperation from the surviving Shakers, whose singing can be heard at several points on both recordings.

In 2008, the rock band Weezer released its so-called Red Album which includes a song entitled " The Greatest Man That Ever Lived " with the subtitle "( Variations on a Shaker Hymn )" as it uses the melody of a Shaker song.

Playwright Alfred Uhry collaborated with Martha Clarke on " Angel Reapers " and used Shaker texts as source material.

" Shaker Light ," in The Hunter Gracchus: And Other Papers on Literature and Art.

Where Stein provides the standard scholarly work on the Shakers in general and Rieman provides well researched work on Shaker craftsmanship, Francis provides the most comprehensive study on Mother Ann's life and work.

Mother ’ s First-Born Daughters: early Shaker writings on women and religion.

The highest point in Lebanon is the northern end of Shaker Mountain, at above sea level, on the eastern border of the city.

The highest point in town is Shaker Hill, on the border with Henniker, with an elevation of above sea level.

British music band Kula Shaker released an album called Pilgrim's Progress on 28 June 2010.

However, Gallagher was often regarded as the spear-head of the Britpop movement, and at one point of time, NME termed a number of Britpop bands ( including Kula Shaker, Ocean Colour Scene and Cast ) as " Noelrock ", citing Gallagher's influence on their success.

Shaker furniture design is focused on function and symmetry.

One of the Shaker Heights cars has been restored by the Minnesota Transportation Museum, which operates it on a short stretch of track in western Minneapolis.

Klallam men on beach with the Shaker church in the background, Jamestown, Washington, ca.

' Their example and their writings had some influence later, both on the spiritual outlook of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and on Ann Lee, founder of the Shaker movement.

A center fielder, and good all-around athlete, Moseby's nickname Shaker was said to stem from his ability to get away from or " shake " players who attempted to defend him on the basketball court.