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St. Patrick's Catholic Church (Washington, D.C.)
St Patrick's Catholic Church is a Catholic Church, Catholic parish (Catholic Church), parish in Washington, D.C., Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America. Established in 1794, it is the oldest Catholic parish in the city of Washington. History St. Patrick's Catholic Church was founded in 1794 to serve the Irish Americans, Irish immigrants to the United States who worked as stonemasons during the construction of the White House and the U.S. Capitol. Dominican Order, Dominican priest Anthony Caffry, Anthony Caffry O.P., recently arrived from County Mayo, Ireland, was charged by Bishop John Carroll (bishop), John Carroll with establishing the first Roman Catholic parish in the Washington, D.C., City of Washington. Caffry's decision to undertake the project was likely influenced by Irish architect James Hoban, one of the supervising architects on the United States Capitol, Capitol building. Hoban asked Caffry to consider the Irish stone workers building the new federa ...
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Georgetown University Press
Georgetown University Press is a university press affiliated with Georgetown University that publishes about forty new books a year. The press's major subject areas include bioethics, international affairs, languages and linguistics, political science, public policy, and religion. It was founded in 1964, and is a member of the Association of University Presses (AAUP) and a founding member of the Association of Jesuit University Presses (AJUP). The press publishes the '' Al-Kitaab'' series, the most widely used set of Arabic language textbook series in the United States. It also publishes textbooks and digital materials for other languages including Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Iraqi Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, Syrian Arabic, Portuguese, Tajik, and Uzbek. See also * List of English-language book publishing companies * List of university presses A university press is an academic publishing Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software ...
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Downtown Historic District (Washington, D
Downtown Historic District may refer to: * Downtown Historic District (San Jose, California) The Downtown Historic District of San Jose, California is a designated Historic district (United States), U.S. Historic District area of the city roughly the size of one square city block, block. It is bounded by S. First Street to the west, E ..., listed on the NRHP in Santa Clara County, California * Downtown Historic District (Washington, D.C.), listed on the NRHP in Washington, D.C. * Downtown Historic District (Lafayette, Indiana), listed on the NRHP in Indiana * Downtown Historic District (Galesville, Wisconsin), listed on the NRHP in Wisconsin * Downtown Historic District (Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin), listed on the NRHP in Wisconsin * Downtown Historic District (Waukesha, Wisconsin), listed on the NRHP in Wisconsin * Burlington Downtown Historic District, listed on the NRHP in Wisconsin * Cedar Falls Downtown Historic District, listed on the NRHP in Iowa * Clinton Histo ...
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Contributing Property
In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic district significant. Government agencies, at the state, national, and local level in the United States, have differing definitions of what constitutes a contributing property but there are common characteristics. Local laws often regulate the changes that can be made to contributing structures within designated historic districts. The first local ordinances dealing with the alteration of buildings within historic districts was enacted in Charleston, South Carolina in 1931. Properties within a historic district fall into one of two types of property: contributing and non-contributing. A contributing property, such as a 19th-century mansion, helps make a historic district historic, while a non-contributing property, such as a modern medical cli ...
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St Patrick's College, Maynooth
St Patrick's Pontifical University, Maynooth (), is a pontifical Catholic university in the town of Maynooth near Dublin, Ireland Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa .... The college and national seminary on its grounds are often referred to as Maynooth College. The college was officially established as the Royal College of St Patrick by Maynooth College Act 1795. Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester, Thomas Pelham, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, introduced a bill for the foundation of a Catholic Church, Catholic college, and this was enacted by parliament. It was opened to hold up to 500 students for the Catholic priesthood of whom up to 90 would be ordained each year, and was once the largest seminary in the world. Degrees are awarded by the Pontifical Univers ...
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Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.The basic Google book link is found at: https://books.google.com/ . The "advanced" interface allowing more specific searches is found at: https://books.google.com/advanced_book_search Books are provided either by publishers and authors through the Google Books Partner Program, or by Google's library partners through the Library Project. Additionally, Google has partnered with a number of magazine publishers to digitize their archives. The Publisher Program was first known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004. The Google Books Library Project, which scans works in the collections of library partners and adds them to the digital inventory, ...
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Emmitsburg, Maryland
Emmitsburg is a town in Frederick County, Maryland, United States, south of the Mason-Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania. Founded in 1785, Emmitsburg is the home of Mount St. Mary's University. The town has two Catholic pilgrimage sites: the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, which is on the campus of Mount St. Mary's, and the Basilica and National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, who was the first native-born United States citizen to be canonized as a saint. The Seton Shrine is one of the top eight Catholic pilgrimage destinations in the United States. The National Emergency Training Center (NETC) campus is in Emmitsburg, located on the former campus of Saint Joseph College. The campus includes the Emergency Management Institute, the National Fire Academy and the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial. The population as of the 2020 United States census was 2,776. The current mayor of Emmitsburg is Frank Davis. The current commissioners are ...
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Daughters Of Charity Of Saint Vincent De Paul
The Company of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul (; abbreviated DC), commonly called the Daughters of Charity or Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, is a society of apostolic life for women within the Catholic Church. Its members make annual vows throughout their life, which leaves them always free to leave, without the need of ecclesiastical permission. They were founded in 1633 by Vincent de Paul and state that they are devoted to serving the poor through the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. They have been popularly known in France as "the Grey Sisters" from the color of their traditional religious habit, which was originally grey, then bluish grey. The 1996 publication ''The Vincentian Family Tree'' presents an overview of related communities from a genealogical perspective. Members use the initials DC after their names. The Society's current Superior General, appointed on 20 April 2020, is Françoise Petit. Foundation The institute was f ...
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Old St Patrick's Church And Rectory Washington DC
Old or OLD may refer to: Places *Old, Baranya, Hungary *Old, Northamptonshire, England *Old Street station, a railway and tube station in London (station code OLD) *OLD, IATA code for Old Town Municipal Airport and Seaplane Base, Old Town, Maine, United States People *Old (surname) Music *OLD (band), a grindcore/industrial metal group * ''Old'' (Danny Brown album), a 2013 album by Danny Brown * ''Old'' (Starflyer 59 album), a 2003 album by Starflyer 59 * "Old" (song), a 1995 song by Machine Head *"Old", a 1982 song by Dexys Midnight Runners from ''Too-Rye-Ay'' Other uses * ''Old'' (film), a 2021 American thriller film *''Oxford Latin Dictionary'' *Online dating *Over-Locknut Distance (or Dimension), a measurement of a bicycle wheel and frame See also *Old age *List of people known as the Old *''Old LP'', a 2019 album by That Dog * * *Olde, a list of people with the surname *Olds (other) Olds may refer to: People * The olds, a jocular and irreverent online nick ...
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Burning Of Washington
The Burning of Washington, also known as the Capture of Washington, was a successful United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, British Amphibious warfare, amphibious attack conducted by Rear Admiral Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet, George Cockburn during Admiral (Royal Navy), Admiral John Borlase Warren, John Warren's Chesapeake campaign. It was the only time since the American Revolutionary War that a foreign power had captured and occupied a List of capitals in the United States#Capitals of the United States, United States capital. Following the defeat of American forces at the Battle of Bladensburg on August 24, 1814, a British army led by Major-General Robert Ross (British Army officer), Robert Ross marched on Washington, D.C. That evening, British soldiers and sailors set fire to multiple public buildings, including the White House, Presidential Mansion, United States Capitol, and Washington Navy Yard. The attack was in part a retaliation for prior American actions i ...
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War Of 1812
The War of 1812 was fought by the United States and its allies against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom and its allies in North America. It began when the United States United States declaration of war on the United Kingdom, declared war on Britain on 18 June 1812. Although peace terms were agreed upon in the December 1814 Treaty of Ghent, the war did not officially end until the peace treaty was ratified by the 13th United States Congress, United States Congress on 17 February 1815. AngloAmerican tensions stemmed from long-standing differences over territorial expansion in North America and British support for Tecumseh's confederacy, which resisted U.S. colonial settlement in the Old Northwest. In 1807, these tensions escalated after the Royal Navy began enforcing Orders in Council (1807), tighter restrictions on American trade with First French Empire, France and Impressment, impressed sailors who were originally British subjects, even those who ...
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