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Band: NEEDTOBREATHE Album: Rivers in the Wasteland Year: 2014 Your love is  like radiant diamonds bursting inside us we cannot contain. Your love will surely come find us like blazing wildfires  singing your name. God of mercy, sweet love of mine, I have surrendered to your design. May this offering stretch across the sky And these hallelujahs be multiplied. " But the word of God grew and multiplied." Acts 12:24

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Advancements - "separable fastener" (zipper) patented - toggle light switch patented - marshmallow creme invented - 100-inch telescope completed (largest in its day) Facts - A little less than 5% of Americans owned a car, truck, or motorcycle. - 1917 had the most (recorded) consecutive days above 120 °F (43 days in Death Valley, California). - The year also had the coldest temperatures ever recorded in Tennessee (−32 °F) and West Virginia (−37 °F). Firsts - 1st jazz recording commercially released - 1st Pulitzer Prizes given Deaths - William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody - Louisa M. R. Stead (wrote the words to "Tis So Sweet To Trust in Jesus") - Andrew Murray - Ferdinand von Zeppelin - Emil von Behring - Scott Joplin - Asa Hull - Adolf von Baeyer Births - Robert Lowell - Hans Conried - John F. Kennedy Literature - J. R. R. Tolkien, on medical leave from the British Army, began writing  The Book of Lost Tales  (the first version of ...

The Stories You Tell is an English folk music album created by a band called Midsummer and released just this year (2017). The album is full of energy and emotion, and I highly recommend it. You can hear all the songs and read the lyrics on  Bandcamp.  The album is also available for purchase on that site. 1. I'll Wait 2. 1000 Days 3. Stoney Faces 4. The Stories You Tell 5. Don't Be Anxious 6. I Was Made in Birmingham 7. Wasted Time 8. Come and Rest 9. You Got It Then 10. Summer's Over "one of the year’s finest debut albums" Mike Davies