Nationwide, wedding guests seem split on the issue. According to American Express, 35 percent of guests will buy a gift off the registry and 32 percent will give cash. (The remainder will give a mix of gift cards and other items.) But if you ask the bride and groom what theyâd prefer, 52 percent say they prefer cash.
Nationality: United States. Executive summary: The Genius of Universal Emancipation. The American philanthropist Benjamin Lundy, prominent in the anti-slavery conflict, was born of Quaker parentage, at Hardwick, Warren county, New Jersey, on the 4th of January 1789.
William Withering FRS (17 March 1741 â 6 October 1799) was an English botanist, geologist, chemist, physician and the discoverer of digitalis.1  1 Introduction.e is also remembered by one of the Moonstones in Birmingham and by a blue plaque at Edgbaston Golf Club. In July 2011 a J D Wetherspoon public house opened in Withering's birthplace, Wellington, and has been named after him.