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To: Seeing More Clearly Now

What is this “Friends” name business?

What is the connection between the “Friends” Seminary and the Sidwell “Friends” School.

Do you happen to know the basis for the name, “Friends”?


14 posted on 02/27/2012 10:32:20 AM PST by RitaOK (LET 'ER RIP, NEWT. Newt knows where all the bodies are buried, because he buried them.)
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To: RitaOK

The Society of Friends is the “official” name of the Quakers — I believe the name “Quakers” started as ridicule of their worship practices, some sort of ecstatic shaking maybe?


16 posted on 02/27/2012 10:37:48 AM PST by maryz
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