Patrick Coad, patentee of the galvanic battery, and interesting miscellaneous items

...des some of Coad’s correspondence, his lecture notes and medical remedies, testimonials noting the capabilities of his galvanic battery, as well as related ephemera. Ephemeral materials include newspaper clippings, pamphlets and broadsides publicizing his invention, lectures, as well as the school that Coad opened for boys and girls. Also included

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41st International Eucharistic Congress

...Pope Paul VI. The goal was to examine both physical and spiritual hungers.[2] Over the course of the eight days there would be liturgies and lectures exploring the understanding of the Eucharist. Each day of the Congress focused on a different kind of hunger, such as hunger for God on

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Education

...r parochial schools. Knudsen, “Vanishing Americans?” June 17, 1971 Knudsen comments that the high costs of a Catholic education has led to an entire generation of Catholic children being unable to attend parochial schools. McGovern, “The Unhooked Generation?” August 21, 1969 Referencing a contemporary anti-smoking slogan, McGovern shows that Catholic

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Pope

...ty of the Irish and their Catholic religion, believing that it made them incompatible with American values. “A Roman Catholic Mission from England to the “heathens” of America,” December 30, 1871 In this cartoon, a priest holds a pair of shackles hoping to enslave the recently freed African American family

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