Vieques
Vieques , island (1990 pop. 8,602), 51 sq mi (132 sq km), off E Puerto Rico. It is hilly, with a dry, warm climate. The town of Vieques, commonly called Isabel Segunda, was founded in 1843 and is the main population center. The island has gained popularity as a resort. Most of Vieques was within U.S. military installations from the 1940s. The facilities included a live-ammunition training area for the U.S. navy, a use that was the subject of protests by many Puerto Ricans. In 2001 the federal government announced that it would halt all military exercises on the island by May, 2003, but in the meantime use of the island for training continued to spark protests. The former installations are now being converted to a wildlife refuge and cleared of unexploded munitions.
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Orestes Brownson on Catholicism and republicanism.(Conservative Minds Revisited)(Orestest Augustus Brownson, author and clergyman)(writer on social and religious questions)
Magazine article from: Modern Age; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ORESTES BROWNSON'S PRESENCE looms large in Russell Kirk...in large part because, for Kirk, Brownson represents a luminous thinker unjustly...modern scholars. (1) Even further, Brownson seems to be a central figure not only...
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Orestes A. Brownson: American Religious Weathervane
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Orestes A. Brownson: American Religious Weathervane. By Patrick W. Carey. (Grand...28.00 paperback.) Patrick W. Carey's new biography of Orestes Augustus Brownson is a shining example of how looking back at our past can illuminate...
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ORESTES BROWNSON: SIGN OF CONTRADICTION.(Review)
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 2/1/2000; 411 words
; ORESTES BROWNSON: SIGN OF CONTRADICTION. By R. A. HERRERA. Intercollegiate Studies Institute. 234 pp. $24.95. Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803-1876) was a prolific intellectual gadfly who went through...
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Works in political philosophy; v.2: 1828-1841.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2007; 471 words
; ...Orestes A. Intercollegiate Studies Inst. 2007 573 pages $30.00 Hardcover Orestes A. Brownson; works in political philosophy JK216 Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803-76) was a New England political, philosophical, and theological thinker...
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Gentle skeptics? American Catholic encounters with polygenism, geology, and evolutionary theories from 1845 to 1875
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...article will be on Clarence Augustus Walworth (1820-1900), the...theories. Unlike Walworth, Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803-1876), arguably America...among Catholics.(12) Yet Brownson, at least from the middle 1850...
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The Varieties of Transcendental Experience: A Study in Constructive Postmodernism
Magazine article from: Interpretation; 4/1/2001; ; 573 words
; ...The book provides detailed discussion of lesser-known American figures like Francis Ellingwood Abbot and Orestes Augustus Brownson, but gives only drive-by characterizations of James. Whether James is, as Gelpi maintains, a clear representative...
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Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Future cardinals Newman and Manning, the architect Augustus Pugin, and various representatives of the "American...prominently. Chapter IV has a good section on Newman and Orestes Brownson. Ultramontane Catholicism's hardening against modernity...
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Orestes Augustus Brownson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Orestes Augustus Brownson Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803-1876) was an American clergyman, transcendentalist, and social activist. He passed through the whole range of American religion, from nebulous Unitarianism to firmly disciplined Catholicism...
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Brownson, Orestes Augustus
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Brownson, Orestes Augustus (1803–76), New England clergyman and liberal thinker...he edited: The Boston Quarterly Review , Democratic Review , and Brownson's Quarterly Review . Some of his books are New Views of Christianity...
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Transcendentalism
Book article from: American Eras
...outlook and interests. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Amos Bronson Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Orestes Augustus Brownson, and many others met frequently near Boston for conversation and in 1840 began publishing a periodical, The...
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