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Macushla" is the title of an Irish song that was copyrighted in 1910, with music by Dermot Macmurrough (Harold R. White) and lyrics by Josephine V. Rowe. The title is a transliteration of the Irish mo chuisle , meaning "my pulse " as used in the phrase a chuisle mo chroí , which means "pulse of my heart", and thus mo chuisle has come to mean ...
USS Wamsutta was the name of a United States Navy steamer in commission from 1863 to 1865. In 1866, the Wamsutta Club was founded in New Bedford. It was a club for the affluent residents, who had generally made their money from the flagging whaling industry as well as the up-and-coming textiles, for which the club was named.
A key concept for the study of history and public life in most societies regardless of topic, historical significance makes judgements about what is important to be remembered about the past and why, through its reflections on historical aspects to contemporary culture and society [14] including historical reputations, events, issues, [15] monuments, [16] and what is chosen to be emphasized in ...
He was born in Buffalo, New York. His mother, Margaret (née Doyle), was a native of Killeagh, County Cork. [3]Actor Chauncey Olcott, c. 1896, photo by W. M. Morrison. In the early years of his career Olcott sang in minstrel shows, before studying singing in London during the 1880s.
The movement spread to the United States in the late 1880s, with the opening of the Neighborhood Guild in New York City's Lower East Side in 1886, and the most famous settlement house in the United States, Hull-House (1889), was founded soon after by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr in Chicago. By 1887, there were 74 settlement and neighborhood ...
Various authorities have listed what they consider are the legitimate constituents of the Insular Cases. Juan R. Torruella, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (the federal appeals court with jurisdiction over the Federal Court for the District of Puerto Rico), considers that the landmark decisions consist of six fundamental cases only, all decided in 1901: "strictly ...
The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History (2011) Kraus, Michael, and David D Joyce. The writing of American history (3rd ed. University of Oklahoma Press, 1985). Lambert, Frank. Religion in American politics: A short history (Princeton UP, 2008).
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