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Memorial Day was called by a different name when Canton began celebrating the holiday.

Gary Brown "The thick'ning shades of night appear; "Hoarse breathes the wintry storm afar; "Hark! From the sea-beat shore I hear "The din of elemental war." The poem printed on the front page of The Ohio Repository on Feb. 1, 1821, was entitled "The Winter Night." Written by Selleck Osborn, an American poet and a printer from the nation's Northeast, it had been published a decade before in a book entitled "The Lady's Miscellany." Osborne would live only five more years after his poem made it to the pages of the Repository, before passing in 1826 at the age of 43. Still, Osborne's words, along...

a horse down pennsylvania avenue and attend a nondenominational christian worship service here in the capitol, just down the hall, at what we now call statuary hall but where back then, for most of the 1800's, they had a christian worship service. the first woman to address a , a in the capitol did so female eadvantage list, christian eadvantage list spoke down the hall, the first catholic to address a group in the capitol did so just down the hall. the first african-american to address a group in the capitol id so down the hall. it's a very historic place down the hall where church ...

he speaks at new york university in new york city for about an hour. [applause] >> can i say i am here for one very, very important reason? because your brilliant president, john saxton, has inspired me as he inspires you and as he inspires, increasingly, many continents around the world with a vision of a global network university. this is a vision that is born out of john's great and deep thinking. it's a vision that is forged out of a view of the interdependence of civilizations around the world. it is a view that is being driven forward by brilliant people in this university, and...