Posted in Just A Bite, tagged baptists, billy graham, douglas macarthur, episcopalians, harry truman, washington dc on July 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“For a place he once called ‘the most sinful city’ he had ever visited, Washington, D.C. has lent Evangelist Billy Graham a pretty respectful ear. By last week, at the end of a nine-week prayer ‘crusade’ there, Billy had preached to audiences totaling 500,000 people. Recorded conversions: 6,244. ” ‘And they were not just the [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged billy graham, chapel hill nc, durham nc, jim bakker, muscadine wine, nc tourism, ptl, raleigh nc, variety vacationland on December 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
More phrase-frequency charts from Google Books Ngram Reader: – Chapel Hill vs. Raleigh and Durham – Variety Vacationland. Tourism promotion not a priority during World War II? – Billy Graham vs. Jim Bakker. No contest, even during the glory run of PTL. – North Carolina vs. South Carolina. South Carolina’s spike in the early 1700s [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged 1960 presidential campaign, al smith, billy graham, catholicism, john f. kennedy on September 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Pausing in Geneva while preparing for his two-month crusade in Switzerland and West Germany, Evangelist Billy Graham plunged into U.S. politics by announcing that religion — meaning John F. Kennedy’s Roman Catholicism — was a legitimate issue in the campaign and would be decisive in the outcome. ‘A man’s religion cannot be separated from his [...]
