Locarno
Locarno , town (1990 est. pop. 14,150), Ticino canton, S Switzerland, at the northern end of Lago Maggiore. In a beautiful resort region with a mild Mediterranean climate, Locarno attracts a great number of tourists. Machinery and electrochemical products are made. In 1512 it was taken from Milan by the Swiss cantons, and in 1803 it was included in Ticino canton. There are many fine churches; among them is the noted pilgrimage church, Madonna del Sasso (first built 1480), which has a painting by Bramantino.
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 "Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK)")
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The Daily Oklahoman Richard Mize column: Notice the sturdy houses in Iowa's historic Amana Colonies.(Column)
Newspaper article from: Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK); 11/11/2006; 700+ words
; ...the utopian society that founded the Amana Colonies in...combined -- Amana, East Amana...the Amana Church held all property...Amana Heritage Society. The 2,000...of the Amana Church from community...homes of the Amana Colonies, when...
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 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
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Travel Iowa's Amana Colonies link to past
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 4/28/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...trivet is produced at Amana Furniture Shop by craftsmen...longest-lasting communal societies in the world. The name Amana comes from the Bible...end of the communal society. Although reorganization...population of 1855). The Amana Society, a business...notions of an ornate ...
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 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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History, arts/crafts abound in Amana Colonies; You won't run out of things to do here
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 5/6/2006; 700+ words
; ...longest-lived communal societies. Founded in 1855, the residents of the seven Amana Colonies lived a communal...Kitchen Museum, Middle Amana, is the only remaining...helpers. A visit to the Amana Community Church Museum in Homestead demonstrates...
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 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Iowa's Amana Colonies remain true to roots despite Great Change.(Series:)(Going Places)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 4/28/2002; 700+ words
; ...trivet is produced at Amana Furniture Shop by craftsmen...longest-lasting communal societies in the world. The name Amana comes from the Bible...end of the communal society. Although reorganization...population of 1855). The Amana Society, a business...notions of an ornate ...
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Revisiting 1890 // Amana lifestyle worth a visit
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/13/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...The Amana Heritage Society and the Old Creamery...for a bite in Middle Amana on a rail trip in 1890...Haldy, director of the Amana Heritage Society, says...the Barn Restaurant in Amana. Rewind to 1890. You...of course. "We go to church 11 times each week...
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Life in Amana: Reporters' Views of the Communal Way, 1867-1935.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...k.a. the Amana Church), travelers' accounts...after the change (in Amana, known simply as...period from the death of Amana's charismatic founding...that the needs of the Amana Colonies could better...1924," Communal Societies 14 (1994): 20-35...claimed that a religious society ...
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No connection between Amish, Amana Colonies; The villages began through the work of the True Inspiration
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 3/16/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...there are no Amish in the Amana Colonies. The Amana Colonies, or the Society of True Inspiration, has...founded in 1855. The word Amana comes from the Old Testament...split off from the Lutheran Church in Germany during the 1700s...
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COMMON SCENTS;Sharing the Memories of Amana's Communal Kitchens
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/23/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...never be replicated. The Amana Colonies, seven tiny...religious persecution. The Society of True Inspirationists...they are women who own Amana Radaranges, the original...I still cook the Amana way," says Geiger...bosses, chosen by the church elders, would train...
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Reliving Midwest's historic yesterdays
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/11/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...shop operated by the Amana Society's bakery. In South Amana, the Barn Museum features...created by one man." High Amana boasts the Amana Arts Guild Center, featuring...Noteworthy is the Colony Church, the settlement's first...
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Advice to Russia from heartland
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/26/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...century. They lived in a society that was as close to...Great Change" here in Amana. Community elders...Franke, who was 17 when Amana went through the Great...79, a saleswoman at Amana's meat market for 35...masons -- attended 11 church services, conducted...
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Amana Church Society
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Amana Church Society , corporate name of a group of seven small...life that reached its flowering in Iowa. Amana became one of the most successful of such...also attract many visitors. The name Amana is used for a refrigerator and appliance...
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Amana Society
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Amana Society. A small Christian sect...1842 and in 1855 settled at Amana, Iowa. Their settlements...communal basis until the Amana Society was converted into...stock company in 1932. The Amana Church Society, which then became...
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Amana Community
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
AMANA COMMUNITY AMANA COMMUNITY, a society of German pietists whose...protest the arbitrary rule of church and state. For mutual...County, incorporated as the Amana Society, and once more built houses, churches, schools, stores, and...
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Cults
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...disruptive effect on society and on their followers...three categories: churches, sects, and cults. All agree that churches represent mainstream...sects and, finally, churches. Using this second...communities like Oneida, Amana, New Harmony, and...
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Pietism
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...and bible and mission societies) that became the principal...America in 1742 by the church fathers at Halle to...leader of the Moravian Church. M ü hlenberg...patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America. The American...separation from state churches. These included the...communitarian ...
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