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In the new Irish Free State, soccer, a game that had previously been popular mainly in the metropolitan centres of Dublin and Belfast, was growing rapidly in the southern province of Munster. Simultaneously, there was a push among the grass roots of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) to ...
"Yet in spite of these advances, the age-old problems of human communication are still with us," she said. "We have the means of sending and receiving messages, we can travel to meetings in distant parts of the world, we can exchange experts; but we still have difficulty in findin...
Midwife comes from an old English word meaning "with woman," and since women have been the traditional birth attendants throughout history, midwives have existed for as long as babies have been born. There are references to midwives in ancient Greek and Roman texts, and midwives are mentioned ...
Architect Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) thought that buildings could be constructed like sculptures. Apic/Getty Images Gaudí was a devout and passionate Catholic who believed that the deepest way to commune with God was to abide in nature, his creation. When 31-year-old Gaudí received the comm...
When MIT hired the Dutch mathematician Dirk Jan Struik in 1926, it got an accomplished geometer who had studied with famed mathematician David Hilbert, and a budding historian who had spent two years researching 19th-century mathematics. But the Institut
That rabbit hole I fell into led me to Bill Francis, a researcher at the Baseball Hall of Fame who was kind enough to send me clippings from Sukeforth's biographical folder in the extensive library there. It's usually a delight going through the old newspaper clippings, but every once in...
Martin is a fifteen-year-old boy. He used to be a “problem child”, but a recent ___with his mother changed his life. He didn’t use to give his mother many problems. ___ , after his father’s death a few years ago, Martin’s life became ___ more difficult. His mother coul...
Carter G. Woodson in the year 1926. February was chosen as the month to celebrate the African-American history because it was the birth month of two of the most highly valued people among African-Americans. These were President Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves, and Frederick Douglass, wh...
Well, I’m from a small town, Bristow, in Oklahoma, and I was born with deformed feet, so I wore built-up shoes until I was 18 years old, but I always had a dancer’s spirit. When nobody was home, I would put on classical music and jump around the living room, because I ha...