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ELLIS ISLAND MUSEUM MARKS COURAGE OF MILLIONS.(TRAVEL)
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Byline: RANDY KRAFT Allentown Morning Call
The Ellis Island Immigration Museum, an imposing palace of American democracy, is a memorial to the promise of America.
The museum gives you a new appreciation for what made this nation so special to the rest of the world. And it makes you wonder if that promise still gleams as brightly as the golden flame on the Statue of Liberty's nearby torch.
No other museum or historic site is quite like Ellis Island. Rather then being about great discoveries, battles, or revolutionary ideals, it pays tribute to the ...
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Analysis: Annotated guide to Cole Porter's song "You're the Top"
Transcript from: NPR Special
; ...You're an old Dutch master, you're Mrs. Astor, you're... (Soundbite of a needle scratching a vinyl record) NOAH: Mrs. Astor is the viscountess Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, who became the first woman to serve in the...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Prevost, soldier and statesman, 1767; Dame Nellie Melba, singer, 1861; William Waldorf Astor, second Viscount Astor, 1879; Viscountess Astor (Nancy Witcher), 1879; Ho Chi-Minh, Vietnamese leader, 1890. Deaths: Alcuin, poet and scholar...
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ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...of the woman who later became Britain's Lady Astor. Were they related? What can you tell me about...Robert Gould Shaw II, born in 1872 -- who married Viscountess Nancy Witcher (Langhorne) Astor, the first woman to sit in the British House...
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The legend that was nancy
Newspaper article from: Plymouth Evening Herald, The
; ...parents she was Nancy Witcher Langhorne. But...knows her as Lady Astor, the first woman...classes. But Nancy Astor was also a pioneering...book, Nancy, Lady Astor - Sunshine of Plymouth...was shaped by the viscountess. Vicky, an orphan...
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