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A Tribute to
Pioneer Day and the Days of '47
July 24, 1849 - Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
The same community has marked the same day for a hundred and seventy-seven years, and the sentence everyone quotes was written down thirty y...
A Tribute to
The Choctaw Gift to Ireland
1847 - Scullyville, Oklahoma, United States
In 1847 a group of Choctaw people in Indian Territory took up a collection for the starving poor of Ireland, a country none of them had seen...
A Tribute to
The Erie Canal
1817 - 1825 - Lockport, New York, United States
It is three hundred and sixty-three miles long, it was dug by hand, and the men who surveyed it were a judge, a mathematics teacher and a tw...
A Tribute to
The Lowell Mill Girls
1823 - Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
They were farm girls, most of them between fifteen and thirty-five, and they went to Lowell because it was the only place in America where a...
A Tribute to
The United States Life-Saving Service
August 14, 1848 - January 28, 1915 - United States
The regulations told them to launch. They did not say anything about getting back. The United States Life-Saving Service ran more than two ...

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