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They said they taught their students to not speak, because nothing can be more unearthly than the sound of someone who has lost the organ of hearing.
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Children were taken care of and educated until they were twelve years old. You pay thirty dollars of entrance money, to get admittance to a comfortable home for the rest of her life.
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The Refuge is an asylum for juvenile delinquents. The Penitentiary contained hard labour is combined with solitary confinement, which is known as a “separate” system.
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At age two she lost her sight and hearing by a severe illness, although deaf, dumb, and blind, she shows more intelligence and quickness of feeling than many girls of the same age who are in full possession of all their senses.
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They work, read, and play at skittles. They work in a garden or a farm, they work with spades, rakes, and hoes.
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Its was a diplomatic agreement between the Qing Dynasty of China and the United States.
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Mary H. Hallowell and Sarah Hallowell Willis were elected secretaries of the Women’s Rights Convention. Abigail Bush was elected President of the Rochester convention
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The first women to be ordained in the US by a mainstream denomination.
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Winner Buchanan received only about 45% of the popular vote.
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He pledged that he would, if at all necessary, act with the conviction of Andrew Jackson in the nullification crisis almost 30 years earlier.