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In the News (Sat 26 Dec 09)

  
  Orphan Train, a special project of IAGenWeb Project
Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul opened the New York Foundling Hospital (Home) with $5.00 and an empty building in 1869.
However, if you are ever privileged to be in the presence of an Orphan Train Rider and hear about their journey they are pleased with the outcome.
Protestant "Orphan Trains" and Catholic "Mercy Trains" or "Baby Cars" have long since made their final trips to the West but their legacy lives on in the hearts of those they carried to their new homes and lives.
iagenweb.org /iaorphans   (1514 words)

  
 Orphan train: Dominican Sisters, Congregation of St. Mary, New Orleans
Sister Mary James resides at the Dominican Motherhouse on Broadway.
As an adopted child, Sister Mary James said her mother eased her acceptance into the family by teaching her older siblings to love her as one of their own.
Her Aunt Mamie was a Dominican sister, and Sarah often could be found visiting her and the other the nuns across the street.
dominican-sisters.net /stmarys/people/james-m.htm   (1083 words)

  
 Orphan Trains
Children on the orphan trains came from the street gangs and orphan asylums of the city.
Consider the issue of whether the orphan relocation movement was a charitable action or a tragic mistake.
In the drama, a group of townspeople await the arrival of a group of orphans who are to be handed over to families in the town.
www.42explore2.com /orphan.htm   (1830 words)

  
 UNICEF India - Education
Their home washed away, parents dead, all belongings engulfed by the unforgiving waters of Bay of Bengal yet the two orphan sisters have some thing to look forward to.
Care of orphaned children by the extended family rather than institutionalized care in orphanages is strongly recommended by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) as it leads to happier upbringing.
The two orphaned sisters will each get cash compensation of Rupees 500,000 (about US$ 10,000) on turning 18, as has been announced by the Indian government.
www.unicef.org /india/education_1089.htm   (552 words)

  
 The Catholic Spirit - The Official Newspaper of The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Religious sisters soon may have an opportunity to enjoy the Midwest experience of going “up north” or “to the lake,” thanks to the generosity of a former orphan.
Sister Dominica met Di Leo when he called the Chancery for information about finding a Catholic publisher, she said.
Sister Dominica said a northern retreat would be an appropriate place for those religious candidates to think and pray with a more focused purpose in mind.
www.thecatholicspirit.com /archives.php?article=1035   (992 words)

  
 AIDS Orphan
Every day is a new struggle for me. It may be a little early for me to shoulder the kind of responsibility I bear, but there is little choice.
My three sisters have no one else to look up to for food and other provisions.
My other sisters, Jacintah Mueni, and Jaqueline Nduta, were 8 and 6 years old respectively.
www.familycare.org /stories/my_life.htm   (568 words)

  
 Japanese Anime DVD - Neo Ranga
Early one morning, it rises out of Tokyo Bay to rampage in downtown Tokyo in search of the Shimabara Sisters (Minami, Yuuhi, and Ushio), whose brother married the last princess of Bauou.
With the death of the royal family, Neo Ranga decides that the three orphan sisters are the new ruling triad.
As the story progresses, the focus shifts to the sisters and their nephew Joel as they attempt to lead something approximating a normal life in Tokyo with an 18-meter mecha in their front yard as it causes crises in National Security, local tourism, property values, and parking permits.
www.animebathhouse.com /dvd/365d.htm   (162 words)

  
 Kindred Orphan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
My blogger friend and his wife are adopting 3 girls (sisters).
If, you want to lavish her with a card, try and get it in on the 31st of the month when we all plan to do it, too.
If you liked DC Talk, as I did in (uh um) highschool, then you'll definitely enjoy Toby Mac, too (being that he was one-third of the singing group and a founding member).
aboutkindredorphan.blogspot.com   (1891 words)

  
 Amazon.com: A Family Apart (Orphan Train Adventures): Books: Joan Lowery Nixon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Kelly feels that she is no longer capable of providing for her children, she sends them west on the Orphan Train, to be adopted by farm families.
Grade 5-8 First of a projected quartet of orphan stories, each about a member of the same family of children transported by orphan train from New York to St. Joseph, Missouri, and surrounding areas.
What happened to orphans and street children of the last century may well appeal to many of today's children who hear so much about street children and abducted and deserted kids.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440226767?v=glance   (1931 words)

  
 WESTERN BRANCH COUPLE ADDS 2 RUSSIAN GIRLS TO THEIR BROOD OF 5 YOUNG ADOPTED ORPHAN SISTERS WHO DIDN'T EVEN KNOW EACH ...
When asked how they feel about their new sister, Wesley and Brandon each pantomime a finger-in-the-mouth gagging motion, yet these same boys willingly allow Masha to shower them with hugs and pinches, and often vie for her attention.
After a call to the adoption agency, the Swans learned that Masha had a sister, Rita, also on the tape and the sisters must be adopted as a unit.
Even though she wanted a large family and a daughter, it was the fear of ridicule that made Karen think long and hard before deciding to adopt the two girls.
scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp970518/05160213.htm   (813 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! Theatre - Three Sisters Review - Sister act busy yet boring
Three Sisters begins on a note of optimism, although dark clouds of melancholy are already beginning to gather.
You should be wrenched by these unfortunates and their inability to recognize their lives for what they are and to invest their relationships with any commitment.
By the time the aristocratic Masha had to be peeled off the back of her departing lover and then, mounting one of three swings to sail high over the audience's head while declaiming lines about a brighter day tomorrow, I had long since become wrapped in a boredom as deep as any of Chekhov's characters.
jam.canoe.ca /Theatre/Reviews/T/Three_Sisters/2001/04/05/742536.html   (618 words)

  
 orphan
The World Health Organization predicts that at least 1,000 orphans in Nairobi will be HIV positive by the year 2000.
The orphanage’s mission is to help the babies thrive and be adopted or to be cared for as long as they live.
Five Adoration Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament in southern India have come to stay there as nurses, teachers and social workers.
www.catholicherald.com /articles/00articles/orphan.htm   (1202 words)

  
 Babylonian Talmud: Yebamoth 111
As it is possible that the minor is not acquired at all as a wife, while the levirate bond with the deaf widow is at all events partially valid, the former is forbidden to her husband as the sister of his zekukah.
She is forbidden to the levir as the sister of his divorcee (it being possible that the minor was completely acquired as his wife), and she is forbidden to any other man since, owing to her inability to recite the required formulae, the levir cannot release her by halizah.
Even when the minor dies, and the prohibition of 'divorcee's sister' is lifted, she remains forbidden to the levir as 'brother's wife'.
www.come-and-hear.com /yebamoth/yebamoth_111.html   (3357 words)

  
 The Best Reviews: Eloisa James, Much Ado about You Reviews
In 1816 Duke Raphael Jourdain buys four rocking horses so that the orphan sisters that recently became his wards would not fight over toys like he and his brother used to do.
Witty, orphaned Tess Essex faces her duty: marry well and marry quickly, so she can arrange matches for her three sisters -- beautiful Annabel, romantic Imogen and practical Josie.After all, right now they're under the rather awkward guardianshipof the perpetually tipsy Duke of Holbrook.
But just whenshe begins to think that all might end well, one of her sisters boltswith a horse-mad young lord, and her own fiancé just plain runs away.
thebestreviews.com /book12049   (256 words)

  
 MWC - Zimbabweans Exude Hospitality and Grace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
They live with their two children and two orphan sisters they have taken into their family at Emthunzini Wethemba House, a home for ex-street children in Bulawayo.
It would be a terrible shame and mistake if people stay away from next year’s assembly because they fear for their safety.
Brothers and sisters wait with open arms to embrace us in Christ’s love in one of Africa’s most pleasant and gracious cities.
www.mwc-cmm.org /News/MWC/020902rls1.html   (355 words)

  
 Casa Latina Presents “Cuéntame Coyote” September 14   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The story involves Maria and Josefa, two Mexican orphan sisters from Michoacán, who are working in a maquiladora on the Mexican side of the border.
Looking for a better life in the United States, they decide to hire a “coyote,” which is the common term for a person who illegally smuggles people across the border, to help them find their way.
The sisters find trouble almost immediately, and they must determine if their glorious dreams are worth the dangers they encounter on their journey.
www.wiu.edu /newsrelease.sphp?release_id=3760   (232 words)

  
 Teatro Milagro presents Cuentame Coyote   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Folktales of the Southwest are brought to life with original music and an adventurous tale of two orphan girls lost in the deserts of the borderlands.
Maria and Josefa, orphan sisters working in a Mexican maquiladora, dream of a better life in los Estados Unidos.
Coyotes with two legs and four will test the orphans’ courage and faith as they leave behind their beautiful Mexico.
www.milagro.org /english/Performance/TeatroMilagro/coyote.htm   (1097 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Version - Bravest raise 3G for orphan sisters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Fire made them orphans, but three Queens sisters basked for a day in the love of the heroes who gave them a second chance at life.
Naomi Siguencia, 7, and her little sisters, Alexandra, 5, and Carolina Sandoval, 3, smiled wide as they unwrapped candies and accepted a $3,000 check from the firefighters who plucked them from their burning apartment last December.
Anyone who wants to help the girls can write to c/o Reyna Gomez, St. Mary's Hospital for Children, 2901 216th St., Bayside, N.Y. "Maybe someone out there who wants to do a good thing will step up to the plate," said FDNY Capt. Dan Mundi.
www.nydailynews.com /news/local/v-pfriendly/story/346512p-295735c.html   (373 words)

  
 2 Sisters visit 3 Sisters and an Orphan
2 Sisters visit 3 Sisters and an Orphan
After Rachel and I finally finished planning-- and for the record, i love that girl to death, but we really shouldn't plan things together-- we ate some breakfast.
We took lots of photos, hiking down to the 3 sisters, and then down into the rainforest below the orphan.
travelblog.org /Australasia/Australia/.../Blue-Mountains/blog-1106.html   (271 words)

  
 Central Chronicle--Bhopal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
They, with various kinds of gifts, reached the orphanage on Friday morning and presented them to their orphan sisters.
With the instigation of Tamrakar, the jail inmates, irrespective of caste and creed, as a gift to their sisters on the auspicious occasion of Rakshabandhan, pledged to shun all their bad habits for life.
The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha activists led by its state general secretary, Vishwas Sarang, celebrated the festival of Rakhi with the destitute sisters of the orphanage situated on Hamidia Road on Friday.
www.centralchronicle.com /20050820/2008021.htm   (476 words)

  
 No Name, by Wilkie Collins (chapter14)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
For the first time in her experience of the sisters her heart led her instinctively to the elder of the two.
It might be that the unalluring secrecy and reserve of one sister, the all-attractive openness and high spirits of the other, were more or less referable, in each case, to those physical causes which work toward the production of moral results.
If the life of the elder sister was destined henceforth to be the ripening ground of the undeveloped Good that was in her -was the life of the younger doomed to be the battle-field of mortal conflict with the roused forces of Evil in herself?
etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /c/collins/wilkie/c71no/chapter14.html   (2670 words)

  
 Scribe & Quill ~ Book Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Sharon Creech's children's books are popular both in the U.S. and in the U.K. Among other awards, she is the first American to win the Carnegie based on the votes of librarians in Britain, an award that no American had received before.
The title of Ruby Holler is the name of the place that provides the setting for the adventures of two orphan sisters, Dallas and Florida.
At the beginning of the story, we are intoduced to the life in the orphanage run by Mr.
www.scribequill.com /RubyHoller.html   (417 words)

  
 Find in a Library: The orphan sisters ; or, The problem solved
Find in a Library: The orphan sisters ; or, The problem solved
The orphan sisters ; or, The problem solved
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worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/03a76c3c43ed29d0a19afeb4da09e526.html   (63 words)

  
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Once upon a time there were three orphan sisters who were servants in a castle built among cold mountain crags, high above a lonely ocean, where lived an evil Wizard.
One day the oldest sister, whose name was Eva, sat down to read one of his books of wizardry.
After a long moment she surfaced and sadly blew a spout of water toward the circling Eagle, as though to say, 'You were right.' Then the tide and the wind carried them separate ways, and both were lost to view.
www.sonic.net /mary/rosemarylake/stories/sphere.html   (1885 words)

  
 Australia, Blue Mountains, Three Sisters, Katoomba - Aussie-Info.com
Katoomba, (Aboriginal word meaning 'shiny, tumbling water') the most popular of the towns and a good starting point for exploring the area, is in the heart of the Blue Mountains.
The Three Sisters, the most photographed feature in the area, floodlit at night.
It is essential reading if you are planning a trip to the Blue Mountains, get your free copy.
www.aussie-info.com /places/nsw/bluemts   (393 words)

  
 Stairwell Sisters
The Stairwell Sisters bring together their love of old-time country songs and rowdy fiddle tunes from the hotbed of traditional music, the hills of San Francisco.
Influenced by such favorites as Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, The Stanley Brothers and Tommy Jarrell, The Stairwell Sisters bring both familiar and obscure songs to life as only sisters can.
Evie Ladin began playing clawhammer banjo and clogging at the age of eight, performing with her sister at music festivals across the United States.
www.hrmusic.com /artists/ssiart.html   (296 words)

  
 Orphan Foal
I have a bottle of mare's replacement milk every 21/2 hours with a 4 hour gap during the night.
"Aunty Lady" who is my big sisters Mummy will let Mummy 2 legs milk her everyday so I can have a drink of real milk.
I don't need my heat lamp anymore now I am big and strong.
www.pitterpatterponies.co.uk /html/orphan_foal.html   (371 words)

  
 UNICEF India - Education - Real lives
To learn more about the issues around girls' education in India, click on the links below.
Orphans no more & and back in school - a tale of two sisters
The five Krishnamurthy sisters from Pudupet, in the state of Tamil Nadu, lost their mother in the tsunami that fateful morning on 26 December 2004.
www.unicef.org /india/education_204.htm   (153 words)

  
 NPR : Film critic JOHN POWERS reviews "Manny and Low," a low-budget film about runway orphan sisters
NPR : Film critic JOHN POWERS reviews "Manny and Low," a low-budget film about runway orphan sisters
Film critic JOHN POWERS reviews "Manny and Low," a low-budget film about runway orphan sisters
Fresh Air from WHYY, August 2, 1996 · Film critic JOHN POWERS reviews "Manny and Low," a low-budget film about runway orphan sisters.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1109192   (126 words)

  
 Sisters (1973)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Plot Outline: Sibling rivalry begins when orphan twins, raised by nuns, are finally separated after years of togetherness.
I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it
Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Sisters (1973)
www.imdb.com /title/tt0070698   (575 words)

  
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In America, an orphan is defined as a child whose parents are dead.
Many estimate the figure to be much higher.
Judy and I met these three orphan sisters last summer at a church operated orphanage in a city just outside Kiev.
www.familyaidinternational.com /jul02.htm   (1186 words)

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