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Within the Anglican Communion, the Rome-admiring Oxford movement led, in mid-19th century, to a revival of both monks and nuns. The modern deaconess movement began with the Rev. Theodor Fliedner (1800-64), pastor of a Lutheran parish in the German town of Kaisers-werth. Inspired in part by the Roman Catholic order of nursing sisters established by France's St. Vincent de Paul, Fliedner in 1836 drew up plans for a Protestant Association of Christian Nursing; by 1849 he had brought Lutheran deaconesses to France, Britain...
Caught by the Century. Founded by Yankee missionaries and traders in the mid-19th century, the Big Five long turned fat profits with their sugar and pineapple plantations, dominated the economic growth of the islands through intermarriages and interlocking directorates. But with World War II, the 20th century overtook the Big Five with some chilling effects. The unshakable grip that the International Longshoremen's Union won over the islands' agricultural workers forced wages in the pineapple fields up to an average of $1.78 an hour at the very time when low-wage countries, such as Formosa and Malaya...
Cost of Living. One of the first paragraphers on record was a Louisville, Ky., editor named George D. Prentice. In the mid-19th century Prentice honed his paragraphs into needles to puncture rival editors. In his hands and others, the paragraph took on the quality of wit and humor that characterize it still. One of the best of the later breed was the Indianapolis' News's late, famed Frank McKinney ("Kin") Hubbard, who, as Abe Martin, turned out paragraphs by the thousands. "I think some folks are foolish." wrote Kin Hubbard. "to pay what it costs to live...
Mandarin in the Marshes. But the Annamese warriors were no match for the French, who arrived in the mid-19th century to cut roads and rail lines through the jungle, introduce rubber and expand the rice area for the profit of Paris. But the conquerors were not suffered docilely. As early as 1912, an anti-French nationalist organization called the Viet Nam Quang Phuc Hoi (Association for the Restoration of Viet Nam) was operating from Canton...
...decided to dedicate the remainder of his life to his church. "My College." Once the resolution was made, Cavanagh had little trouble deciding where to go: the Pontificio Collegio Beda in Rome, only major Roman Catholic seminary specializing in late vocations.* Rooted deep in the Anglican upheavals of the mid-19th century, when many Anglicans converted to Roman Catholicism and some became priests, St. Bede's was established in 1897 by Pope Leo XIII, who named it for the English scholar, the Venerable Bede, one of his favorites, and always called it "my college." From the beginning, the problems...