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Since Pope Leo XIII wrote his Rerum Novarum in the late 1800s, the Church has been looking at the world around it. And though the view of the Catholic bureaucracy is still often regressive and dogmatic, the theology and the political practices of many Catholic priests becomes more human, more revolutionary, more Christlike with each passing year. It is no accident that Poland and El Salvador share an active, powerful, and near universally respected Catholic Church; in both cases, organized religion has been empowering, emboldening. In both cases, it has been instrumental in the decision of the people to cast...
Christmas cards became popular in the 1860s, when people experimented with sending visiting cards inscribed simply Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. In the late 1800s, the royal family adopted the practice and employed distinguished artists to design the cards. Thereafter the custom spread rapidly across Europe and America...
...second-grade class, various groups do different things at the same time. The second grade has chosen the apple as this year's theme, and in one corner, Van Exel conducts a science class for eight children on how apples were stored for winter during the 1800s. Meanwhile, in the classroom's kitchen area, several children are busy making two apple pies. Other children simply wander about the room or work alone. One girl, busy with her phonics workbook, is stuck on the word mud. She can sound out m, u and d;she cannot seem to link...
...playtime purposeful. On the prairie, leisure hours consisted of quilting bees and barn raisings. In New England, a relaxed weekend in the late 1800s was a practice muster of local fire companies. The country has always blended its fun with self-improvement and dreaming up gimmicks large and small to help. In young democracies like the U.S., Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, "each generation is a new people." The cult of youthfulness and the idea of a fresh start have forged the national character...
Skull volume and brain weight provided much of the data for intelligence determining scientists in the 1800s. Samuel George Morton, who died in 1851 having collected more than 1000 skulls, tried to prove that a ranking of races could be established objectively by head size. By measuring the volume, which he assumed was directly correlated to intelligence, he hoped to show that Caucasian naturally should be the brightest of all races. He succeeded in his era; however, as Gould clearly demonstrates, Morton used his preconceived notions about race like any high school lab student, using only the data that fitted...