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Amish History – People Who (Almost) Don’t Know Change
For many Americans, the early 1960s was a time of growing optimism and great progress. World War II was slowly fading into oblivion, the number of poor Americans was declining, life expectancy was increasing and modern medicine was winning the battle against hitherto deadly diseases. National income and wage earners'…
A Prince in the Heart of Queen Victoria and the English
"A stifling dark day. We take off from London at half past 10. It was raining a bit, cloudy and steamy, but when I got to Paddington the sky had cleared and it was quite beautiful," 150 years ago, Britain's Queen Victoria told her diary how she went to lay…
