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Starting in the 1800s, Foster said, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other feminists initiated a sweeping advocacy of women’s rights, including the right to suffrage, property, free speech and education. They also believed in the right to femininity, Foster said, condemning abortion as “child murder” and “infanticide” and pointing to the hypocrisy of women treating their unborn children as property when they themselves had experienced discrimination and dehumanization...
...most luxurious digs. After skiing, guests at Stein's place (the former Norwegian Olympian still mingles) can visit the day spa or soak in private hot tubs. The woodwork of the year-old Hotel Park City is reminiscent of that found in the old national lodges of the 1800s, but there's nothing rustic about the accommodations. Stone fireplaces and butler service are part of the mix. With a daily cap of 6,000 skiers, Deer Valley's slopes are uncrowded and meticulously groomed; the on-slope cuisine is outstanding. The Olympic legacy is more visible at the neighboring park...
...sectarian”—a term then used by the Know Nothings as a code word for Catholics. While a new meaning, which is applied broadly to all religious schools, has supplanted the historical one, herein lies the connection between the Catholics of the 1800s and their socioeconomic successors one hundred years later...
...middle school U.S. history teacher, I cannot cover the early 1800s or the Civil War without hearing Professor Gienapp’s kind and understated voice. He brought out “the better angels of our nature” in every minute of his teaching...
RISE OF WAHHABIS Early 1800s The Wahhabis, an orthodox Islamic sect that eventually allied with the prominent al Saud family, launch outward from central Arabia, invading Hejaz and Syria, taking Mecca...