The Bishop’s Bank

...or Johanna Reilly, who opened an account in 1852, reads "42 years old, St. Paul's Parish: a tall woman, pockmarked". This kind of description is not unusual at this time. If a person was illiterate and unable to write their name, a physical description or personal information was the only

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Elizabeth Sarah Kite and the Seminaries of France

...r 1914 and did not cease until June 1918. Cardinal Luçon remained in Reims with his parishioners even as the bombs destroyed the cathedral and the town. He was the last to leave Reims and the first to return to rebuild after the armistice. Due to a French law, Luçon

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Nuclear War

...S.S.R. Wolf, “Which Way?” December 15, 1953 Wolf questions whether mankind will chose the path that leads to peace or the one that leads to nuclear war. McGovern, “Just Think, Dear!” March 5, 1970 McGovern satirizes the United States’ priorities that spends billions on weapons of war while its citizens

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