Josie Green - Author for 24/7 Wall St.
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Ready to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day like a real Irish person would? Then start your day off by going to church. The Irish have been celebrating St. Patrick’s feast day since the ninth century....
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Starting in 1845, the year the potato blight hit Ireland, nearly 2 million Irish refugees fled their famine-stricken homeland and found their way to the United States. About 37,000 Irish settled in...
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People have been fighting injustice since they could speak. Without such actions, the United States might still be a British colony, unions and work safety regulations might never have emerged,...
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On May 5, 1809, Mary Kies became the first woman to receive a patent in the United States. (It was for her technique of weaving straw with silk.) Of course, women inventors existed before this time,...
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From Uruguayans holding 40-day-long celebrations to Oktoberfesters consuming 7 million liters of beer in Munich, the people of the world have proven that they know how to party. The term...
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One hundred years ago, the goal uniting feminists in the United States was gaining the right to vote. Since then, feminism has come to mean different things to different people. From the women’s...
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