The Grim Resonance of “The Innocents of Florence”
The Grim Resonance of “The Innocents of Florence”
#Italians more worthy of an American holiday than #Columbus?
1 #AmerigoVespucci
I mean, country→named after him, no?
2 #AmadeoGiannini.
founded BankOfItaly, later, #BankOfAmerica
3 #JosephPetrosino
Italian-born #NYPD officer who was a pioneer in fight against #OrganizedCrime. Crime fighting techniques that Petrosino pioneered r still practiced by #LawEnforcement
4. #FrancescaCabrini
established 67 #schools, #orphanages & other #SocialService institutions in #Italy, the US & other nations
A chapel existed here since 1780. When the Church of St Saviour on Dominick Street was completed in 1861, this building became Saint Saviours School and Orphanage, known as Scoil Naomi Sláinaitheora. Set back from the street line, allowing the two neighbouring buildings to form a small courtyard to the front. The school along with
Although decades of research have shown associations between early caregiving adversity, stress physiology and limbic brain volume (e.g., amygdala, hippocampus), the developmental trajectories of these phenotypes are not well characterized. In the current study, we used an accelerated longitudinal d …
I saw this orphanage while out (it's no longer open) and it struck me how far away in time it seemed, yet how vividly it still exists.
#Chicago #orphanages #RogersPark
Story I found about people's experiences there.
Angel Guarding Orphanage: https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/history-the-hard-knock-life/