Word: sects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This name was pre-empted (1915) by a small sect (1,000) centering in Chicago, an offshoot of the Old Roman Catholic Church of Holland...
...proposed exiles were the Doukhobors, that strange, lusty Russian religious sect which the Dominion government welcomed as settlers 30 years ago. The Doukhobors are thrifty and healthy. The Doukhobors are peace-loving. But they have ideas of their own and some of them are fanatics. When they do not want to send their children to the government schools, they burn the schoolhouses. When a hot summer sun sends heat waves simmering from the baked ground, the Doukhobors wear heavy clothes. When a cold wind sweeps down from Alaska they often stalk about stark naked. They live on a communistic plan...
...unrest at Nelson began when one Peter Wolosov, leader of an inner fanatical sect, "The Sons of Freedom," was imprisoned for burning schoolhouses. Comrades rallied in naked protest shouting "Jesus would not carry...
...Doukhobors are moved to an island, it will be a continuation of a long history of forced migrations. By Alexander I (1777-1825) the sect was rounded up from various parts of Russia and colonized in Tauris. In 1840 and 1850, the Doukhobors refused to participate in military service, were sent by Nicholas I from Tauris to Transcaucasia. In 1895 Nicholas II banished over 4,000 of them to Georgia. Three years later a party of over 2,000 emigrated to Cyprus, stayed there a year, then joined some 4,000 who had gone to Canada...
...area belongs to the Moslems, but the right has been given to the Jews to use the wall for mourning. Continual charges that the Arabs infringe upon this liberty are made by the Jews, while the Arabs regularly accuse the Jews of exceeding the privilege accorded to them. Each sect claims the British Government is unfair...