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...fought underground with Castro's 26th of July movement and in his early 20s went to the Communist Party school in Moscow for grooming. But by 1968 he had lost his zeal and wrote a stinging critique of the party for being undemocratic. He was banished to a railway shop, where he labored in silence until...
...Irish brought a new spirit to American politics, the Germans brought culture in varied forms, from singing groups to vineyards to poetry societies. Some German railway workers could recite Homer in Greek. More pioneering than the Irish, they helped develop America's hinterland, from Ohio to Texas. (In 1900, 1 out of 3 Texans was German in origin.) The town of Hermann, Missouri, still known for its wines, was typical: when laid out in 1837, streets were named for Schiller, Gutenberg, Goethe and Mozart...
...Scandinavian immigrant to the United States," wrote historian Wittke, "has been the 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...
...having said at the time, "Let's get him lost outside, so when he goes into the road he'll get knocked over." According to at least 27 witnesses, the two schoolboy truants dragged the now distraught child along 2 1/2 miles of streets to a railway siding. In the intervening two hours, five passersby stopped the threesome but were persuaded that the littlest boy was lost and being taken to the police station or was being looked after in some...
Once by the railway line, James was kicked, stoned and beaten on the head with bricks and a metal rod until he died. The child's half-unclothed body was then placed across the freight track, said the prosecutor, where it was found two days later, cut in half. "James is only a small child," was the description his mother gave the police the day of his disappearance. "He has brown-blond hair, straight, which is ready for cutting ... he has a full set of baby teeth." But it was already too late...