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John Michener (b.1656) was the son of Robert and Elizabeth Michener of Ash, Surrey, England. He became a Quaker, married Sarah Moore in 1686, and immigrated to Philadelphia before 1687. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Montana, Missouri, Arizona, California, Washington, Kansas, Tennessee, Nebraska, Wyoming, Alaska, New Jersey, Delaware, Florida, Colorado, Oregon, Idaho and elsewhere.
The host of a national weekly television talk show Las Vegas tonight writes about the stories of spiritual journeys of people living in Las Vegas.
The first settlers in Nippenose Valley found the area to be burned over and seemingly inhospitable. They settled high near the springs, but the wet clay soils above caused them to move down to the limestone valley floor. They soon discovered that the soil beneath them was some of the richest in the county. These photographs trace the communities that define Nippenose Valley, from Antes Creek to the villages of Millport, Rauchtown, Jamestown, Oval, Collomsville, and Bastress. Nippenose Valley documents the development of an agricultural community that has evolved slowly over the years while still holding on to its roots.
What sorts of alien languages can there be? And might reality be such that some alien language represents reality better than familiar languages do? Alien languages are here languages that use different kinds of semantic tools than any familiar languages use. The question of the existence of alien languages is interesting in itself: what kinds of languages are possible? But attending to the issue of alien languages also problematizes the relationship between language and reality, and highlights the possibility that reality could have a fundamentally different structure than we otherwise take it to have. Despite the foundational significance of these questions, they have received virtually no...