The Magdalen Society of Philadelphia was a private charitable organization founded in 1800 to redeem prostitutes and other "fallen" women. This was the first association in the United States that sought to rescue and reform wayward women. A number of local clergymen and citizens affiliated with Quaker, Episcopal and Presbyterian denominations met to form the Society. Bishop William White, the nation's highest-ranking Episcopal bishop, was the first president of the Society, which officially incorporated in 1802. The organization was based on Magdalen hospitals in England and Ireland, which were named for Mary Magdalene. Similarly designated groups were soon started in other American cities in the early 19th century.
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The term was coined by U.S ambassador in UK John Hay. Splendid part of that war that lasted two months was unity of American people where Northerners, Southerners, Blacks and Whites fought toghether side by side as one, it is symbolic end of distrusts that last even longer than reconstruction era. John Hay (the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom), writing from London to his friend Theodore Roosevelt declared that from start to finish it had been "a splendid little war." Few Americans would disagree with that assessment of the Spanish American War. It was short, it accomplished its goals, and it established the United States as an international power.
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The Dutch were the first to settle Delaware
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The Dutch founded the first European settlement in Delaware at Lewes (then called Zwaanendael) in 1631. They quickly set up a trade in beaver furs with the Native Americans, who within a short time raided and destroyed the settlement after a disagreement between the two groups.
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In recorded history, the first war was Sumer vs. Elam in the general area around Iraq in 2700 BC.
