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Jan 1, 1805 — Jan 1, 1877· 72 yrs

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John S. C. Abbott

Also known as: John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott, John S.C. Abbott

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John Stevens Cabot Abbott (September 19, 1805 – June 17, 1877) was an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott.

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ON the 12th of October, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed upon the shores of San Salvador, one of the West India islands, and thus revealed to astonished Europe a new world.

— from Peter Stuyvesant, 1898

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The path of peace

1995

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Italy

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The author explains why the cradle of western civilization, which has assimilated so many barbarians in its time, endured the tyrant Mussolini and a sack worse than any in its past. He shows how the peasantry and the clergy were at once actors and pawns in the drama of Italy's history, and how the defects in her society led to the internal strife she knows today.

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The child at home

1841

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