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• Ambassador Auditorium was built on the campus of Ambassador College in Pasadena, California as both a facility to be used by the Worldwide Church of God for religious services and as a concert hall for public perfomances celebrating the performing arts.
• Ambassador College was originally established as a liberal arts institution in 1947 at Pasadena, California by the Radio Church of God, a religious organization incorporated in the State of California by Herbert W. Armstrong to promote the beliefs of the Church of God. In 1960 a second campus was opened at Bricket Wood, Hertfordshire, England and a third campus was opened in 1964 at Big Sandy, Texas.
• Ambassador International Cultural Foundation (AICF) was founded by Herbert W. Armstrong, although it was mainly the product of his attorney Stanley Rader. AICF was created to find a new direction for the Worldwide Church of God following the failed prophecies of the church and sex scandals involving Garner Ted Armstrong.
• Garner Ted Armstrong (February 9, 1930 - September 15, 2003) was the son of Herbert W. Armstrong. He developed his speaking style by copying the tones of news broadcaster Paul Harvey. Garner Ted Armstrong spoke to millions of listeners daily over radio and television stations heard around the world. He was a American evangelist with a polemical message that was unlike most other religious broadcasters of his day.
• Ambassador University: see Ambassador College
• Herbert W. Armstrong (July 31, 1892 - January 16, 1986) was the founder of the Radio Church of God / Worldwide Church of God; Chancellor of Ambassador Colleges and Ambassador University; Publisher of The Plain Truth magazine in several languages; Presenter of The World Tomorrow radio and television programs and Director of several programs in other languages; President of Ambassador International Cultural Foundation; styled as Ambassador for World Peace and Patron of the Ambassador Auditorium concert series.

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• Big Sandy is a town located in Upshur County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,288.
• Border blaster: A border blaster, unlike an international broadcasting station, is a term that has been specifically used to describe licensed commercial radio stations that have transmited at very high power to the United States of America from various points along the Mexican side of the border. There have been many such stations licensed by Mexico's Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT) using transmitters with an output far in excess of licensed commercial stations located within the USA. In 1973 the border blaster XERB became world famous when George Lucas featured the station as the source for the musical soundtrack of his movie American Graffiti.
• Bricket Wood is a village in the county of Hertfordshire, England, approximately three miles from St Albans. Its railway station is served by a Silverlink County service that runs between St Albans Abbey and Watford Junction stations. Over the years the village has received worldwide attention primarily due to various activities just outside of the village itself.
  

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• Bobby Fischer (Robert James "Bobby" Fischer) (born March 9, 1943) is a former world chess champion from New York City, currently residing in Iceland. He was the only American to win the FIDE world chess championship. He is also well known for his eccentricity, unconventional behavior, and—curiously, given his Jewish heritage and upbringing—virulently anti-Semitic comments. This article is about the life of Bobby Fischer. For a more specific article on his chess career see Bobby Fischer (chess career).

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• Art Gilmore: The voice of Arthur "Art" Gilmore has been heard in radio and television programs, movies, advertising promotions , and documentary films.

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• Herman L. Hoeh was born in 1928 and died on November 21, 2004 and became known as the person who put together the prophetic framework of time cycles which underpinned the belief system taught by Herbert W. Armstrong.

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• Living Church of God: The Living Church of God (LCG) is the second largest Adventist Church of God group formed by followers of the teaching of Herbert W. Armstrong. It was formed after dissent within the Worldwide Church of God (originally incorporated as the Radio Church of God) had torn that denomination apart. The presiding evangelist of the Living Church of God is Roderick C. Meredith and he was one of the first five evangelists ordained by Herbert W. Armstrong in December of 1952.
• Lost Ten Tribes, also referenced as the Ten Lost Tribes or the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, usually refers to ten of the tribes of the ancient Kingdom of Israel that were reported lost after the Kingdom of Israel was totally destroyed, enslaved and exiled by ancient Assyria.

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• Ernest L. Martin: Dr. Ernest L. Martin was born in Meeker, Oklahoma on April 20, 1932 and died in January 2002. He became a controversial for his works on archaeology in Israel with respect to the Temple Mount, because he claimed that the site of the Al Aqsa mosque and Dome of the Rock incorrectly identified the true location of the third Temple in Jerusalem.
• Roderick C. Meredith was one of the first five evangelists ordained by Herbert W. Armstrong in December of 1952 and the founder of The Living Church of God.

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• 1975 in Prophecy! was written by Herbert W. Armstrong and illustrated by Basil Wolverton and first published in 1956 by the Radio Church of God. This digest-size booklet captivated thousands of lives which included Bobby Fischer and Michael Dennis Rohan, by fear of the future. No longer in publication it is now valued for its illustrations.

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• Pasadena, California is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 133,936. Pasadena is the main population and cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley. It is the 8th largest city in Los Angeles County.
• Pirate radio: The term pirate radio lacks a specific universal interpretation. It implies a form of broadcasting that is unwelcomed by the licensing authorities within the territory where its signals are received, especially when the country of transmission is the same as the country of reception. When the area of transmission is not a country, or when it is a country and the transmissions are not illegal, those same broadcast signals may be deemed illegal in the country of reception. Therefore "pirate radio" can mean many things to many people. Pirate radio stations are sometimes called bootleg stations.
• The Plain Truth is a magazine founded by Herbert W. Armstrong who also founded the Radio Church of God (later renamed the Worldwide Church of God), Ambassador College and The World Tomorrow radio and television programs. Herbert W. Armstrong began his ministry headquarters in Eugene, Oregon and later moved to Pasadena, California. The history of the magazine can be divided into two distinctive eras: the years before the death of Herbert W. Armstrong and the years following his death when the magazine was placed under new management and its entire editorial content restructured to reflect information that it had previously denounced, while denouncing information that it had previously advocated.

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• Quest magazine was published monthly by the Ambassador International Cultural Foundation from July 1977 to September 1981. It began life under the working name of Human Potential and was a project directed by Stanley Rader. The chairman of AICF was Herbert W. Armstrong. The editorial offices of Quest magazine were located next to the AICF Everest House book publishing company at 1133 Avenue of the Americas in New York City.

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• Stanley Rader (Stanley R. Rader), was born as a Jew on August 13, 1930 and died on July 2, 2002. In 1956 in the capacity of a certified public accountant and while keeping his own faith, he first met Pastor General Herbert W. Armstrong who was founder of the Radio Church of God, (later renamed Worldwide Church of God). This article traces the relationship between Stanley Rader and Herbert W. Armstrong.
• Radio Church of God: The Radio Church of God began as a religious radio program during 1934 on station KORE in Eugene, Oregon presented by Herbert W. Armstrong and supported by an unincorporated voluntary association of members meeting as the Church of God. When Herbert W. Armstrong left Oregon for Pasadena, California he incorporated his church for the first time on March 3, 1946, under the name Radio Church of God. This article is about the history of the original church created by Herbert W. Armstrong until the time of his death on January 16, 1986. For a later history after that date, see the article about the Worldwide Church of God.
• Radio Luxembourg (1933-1992) was an important forerunner of pirate radio and modern commercial radio in Europe. It was a cheap and effective way to advertise in the UK, France and (since 1957) in Germany by circumventing the broadcasting restrictions in place at the time. For many years complete English programmes were pre-recorded in London and flown to the tiny independent grand duchy of Luxembourg on mainland Europe. German programs were produced in a studio in Luxembourg. A powerful transmitter enabled broadcasts to be received throughout northern Europe.
• Michael Dennis Rohan is an Australian citizen who gained worldwide infamy on August 21, 1969, when he attempted to set fire to the Al-Aqsa mosque, located atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The life of Rohan, like that of Bobby Fischer, was influenced by the Worldwide Church of God and this translated into personal actions which impacted much of the world in a very negative manner.

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• Franz Josef Strauß: Dr. h.c. Franz Josef Strauß (spelled Strauss in English) (September 6, 1915 - October 3, 1988) was a German politician (CSU) and long-time minister-president of the state of Bavaria. Press reports called him the "Strong Man of Europe".

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• Basil Wolverton (1909-1978) lived in Vancouver, Washington. Described by some as a comedian, in his earlier years he engaged in vaudeville and radio work, but he is best known as an illustrator of comic book material which had a very distinctive and sinister look to much of it. The illustration work of Basil Wolverton appeared in many commercial publications such as MAD magazine, but this work gave way to his religious calling. Basil Wolverton was one of the earliest ordained ministers of Herbert W. Armstrong's Radio Church of God who published adapted parts of the Bible as a comic book story line in The Plain Truth magazine.
• Worldwide Church of God: The Worldwide Church of God is a denomination that was founded in 1933 by Herbert W. Armstrong as the Radio Church of God. For a history of the church prior to 1986 see the articles about the life of its founder and the church that he created. At that time the Worldwide Church of God had a reported income of $170 million a year, which was larger than the Billy Graham and Oral Roberts ministries combined. Today the church is considerably smaller, has liquidated most of its real estate properties and is in the process of relocating to Glendora, California. Its doctrines today are relatively mainstream Christian and it is a member of the National Association of Evangelicals.
• The World Tomorrow is a now-defunct radio and television half-hour program which had been sponsored by the Radio Church of God (later renamed Worldwide Church of God while under the direction of Herbert W. Armstrong.) A fifteen minutes version of the radio program (but under varied translations of The World Tomorrow name but which are also now-defunct), was broadcast by various speakers in the French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish languages.

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