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...potato famine that devastated their homeland in the 1840s -- as filthy, bad-tempered and given to drink. The haunting, taunting employment sign NO IRISH NEED APPLY became a bitter American cliche. And yet Irish lasses made the clothmaking factories of New England hum. Irish lads built the Erie Canal, paved the highways and laid tracks for the railroads. In the South the Irish were sometimes considered more expendable than slaves and were hired, at pitifully low wages, for the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs, like clearing snake-infested swamps...
...Viking of the Western prairie country." In the mid-19th century, American newspapers carried accounts of immigrant Swedes disembarking en masse from cargo ships and marching -- often with their country's flag carried aloft -- to railway depots where trains would take them upriver to Buffalo, along the Erie Canal and thence to the prairie country of the upper Mississippi valley. "What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become!" wrote Frederika Bremer in 1853, and she was right. Today about 400 place names in Minnesota are of Scandinavian origin...
...nearly a quarter of the text.) The peace plan hinges on the assumption that once the Palestinians are given the opportunity to build their own homeland, they will find enough satisfaction in building to give up fighting. Which explains all the clauses devoted to transportation links and development banks, canal digging and grid linking -- mundane schemes of all kinds between Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian territory that conjure up a vision of nothing less than Benelux- on-the-Jordan...
...original idea had seemed simple enough. Superfund, which was voted into existence by Congress in 1980 after the national outrage over toxic pollution at Niagara Falls' Love Canal, would provide federal funding for tracking down the guilty parties and making them pay. Wielding the legal doctrine of "joint and severalliability," the Environmental Protection Agency could hold any single toxic dumper responsible for a mess created by several -- and retroactively at that. If no one could be found to pay, then the site would be deemed an "orphan" and cleaned up by Superfund's own resources, gathered largely from taxes...
...that therefore American intelligence activities in the former Soviet Union will actually increase despite the end of the cold war. Kirpichenko also says the KGB knew in advance about the invasion of the Suez by England, France and Israel in 1956 and the Egyptian surprise attack on / the Suez Canal that began the 1973 October War. Historian-writer Allen Weinstein (Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case) is the book's co-author...