Gift of Finest Wheat: The Story of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress

...way to highlight that Eucharistic Congresses have been a mainstay in Catholic life, and how the past resonates with today....

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Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons

...is height of fame was earning close to $20,000 a year (roughly $500,000 in today’s dollars) drawing for the paper.[2] Studying these cartoons can help us better understand the culture of the United States during the 1870s. Examining cartoons is an important tool because, as historian Thomas Milton Kemnitz asserted,

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Centennial Exposition

...tructed their own buildings.[7] Of all the buildings, only two survived to today, Memorial Hall, which is now the Please Touch Museum, and the Ohio House.[8] The opening of the Centennial Exposition was discussed in papers across the world. It was reported that 500,000 people attended the opening, including dignitaries

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American Czestochowa

...sed Polish contributions to this country and called for closer cooperation today in trade and cultural areas with the present Polish Government. “We have not forgotten your friends and relatives in Poland,” the President said. “We have not forgotten the traditional bonds that have united our peoples since our earliest

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