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A holy but frail alliance
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THE UNITED Nations International Conference on Population and
Development, which opens in Cairo today, has brought the Vatican
and a number of Islamic leaders together in what some are labelling
a "holy alliance". Their supposed common enemy encompasses family
planning, artificial birth control, abortion, confidential sexual
advice to teenagers and vague phrases referring to the
"empowerment" of women.
Last week the Pope's spokesman acknowledged only "a presumed
alliance between the Vatican and Islam". In any case, such an
"alliance" can only be temporary. It rests upon the Vatican's ...
 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Midlands Millenium The land built by old king coal; Chris Upton mines a rich vein of history to discover what made the Black Country black, while Ross Reyburn finds that mining in the region these days is a heritage experience.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...had become accustomed to a subterranean lifestyle. As Elihu Burritt reported in 1868: "How wonderful is the industrial...England's, rural and urban, had been established, and Elihu Burritt had not been far out in his analysis of the causes...
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WHY THE KING OF CORAL ISLAND WALKED THE 400 MILES HOME..
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland
; ...because when he got to Edinburgh he found an American, Elihu Burritt, had got there first and there was already a contemporary...would have been a great success had the American writer Elihu Burritt not beaten him to it." Robert Michael Ballantyne was...
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ANALYSIS: Keeping history alive; Ian Walden, Director of The Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, explains why he thinks Birmingham and the West Midlands needs more of a vision.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...of 'City Regions' how many people know that in 1868 Elihu Burritt, the 'Learned Blacksmith' and United States consul...being to the west of, and excluding Birmingham, but Burritt's further comment that Birmingham is the capital...
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Readings on peace, power and action: books explore history of nonviolence, look toward future of reconciliation.(Book review)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; ...gives background on the serf-educated blacksmith Elihu Burritt (1810-79), who has been called "the greatest name...class people involved in war resistance. In 1846 Burritt founded the League of Universal Brotherhood, the first...
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Rambling: A clear view of the best the city has to offer.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...peace and solitude. In the middle of the 19th century, Elihu Burritt took up his position as the American Vice-Consul in...around the Old Rose and Crown Inn - an inn so admired by Burritt that he wrote of his joy in spending his first night...
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The medium was the message
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...promoting the activities of the American peace-maker Elihu Burritt, who campaigned for "Ocean Penny Postage" - cheap...Rowland Hill, founder of the penny post, put a damper on Burritt's idealistic ambitions. But a Universal Postal Union...
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Maximizing Relevant Retrieval.
Magazine article from: Online
; ...Communications should be addressed to Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo and/or Joan Packer, Central Connecticut State University, Elihu Burritt Library, New Britain, CT 06050; 860/832-2068; Fax 860/832-3409; tomaiuolon@ccsu.edu; packerj@ccsu...
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Last lines of a boy's own hero
Newspaper article from: Evening News - Scotland
; ...inexpressible misery" of blisters. However, his hopes of having his journal published were dashed when American Elihu Burritt's tale of his walk from London to John O'Groats began appearing in bookshops.
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Taking the Black Country's blighted crown.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...passed between Birmingham and Wolverhampton. Ever since the Black Country was officially declared black, probably by Elihu Burritt, this stretch of industrial apocalypse has seemed to epitomise the Industrial Revolution and all it stood for. Not...
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THE MAKING OF HANDSWORTH
Newspaper article from: Evening Mail
; ...Hamstead Road, which has been in existence since the Middle Ages. In 1868 the American consul in Birmingham was Elihu Burritt. He exclaimed that St Mary's was "a kind of Westminster Abbey to Birmingham, consecrated to the memory of its...
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