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Nearly every Saturday for eight years, 13-year-old Ania Wójtowicz attended Polish language school, Szkola Jezyka Polskiego Im. Jana Pawla II in New Britain, so that she would be able to read and write, as well as speak, Polish. Her father, chemical engineer Dr. Marek Wójtowicz, is a native of Kraków, Poland, and they speak Polish together at home. Ania is a citizen of both Poland and the United States. More ... Mike Dombrowski of the American Legion Post #43 baseball team slid safely into home plate in a game vs. Wolcott at Walker Field in Winsted on June 28. More ... He was a Son of Liberty, the political "boss" of the Boston town meeting, maltster, tax collector, essayist, signer of the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation, leader of the Continental Congress, and a great influence over the public life of Massachusetts during the early years of the Republic. More ... One of the hallmarks of American democracy is freedom of religion. The men who put the Constitution together in the late 1780s understood this very well. It was only 100 years after the last big religious conflict in Great Britain when James II, a secret Catholic, was forced from the throne and replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary and her Protestant husband, King William of the Netherlands. Several decades earlier there was the English Civil War, which was not only a political contest but a fight between High Church and Low Church. In 1648, the year before Charles I was beheaded, the Thirty Years War in Germany ended, a war between Protestants and Catholics. In the early 1700s, the British Parliament passed a law that, to this day, prohibits a Catholic from sitting on the British throne. That is one reason why Prince Charles was discouraged from marrying an Austrian princess. More ... We are moving away from Constitutional government in the U.S. very rapidly, and we are racing away from any effort to strengthen the rule of law internationally. More ... |
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