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Welcome to Mr Bisson's United States History Page |
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15 February 2009 |
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No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
~ David McCullough ~
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In the News: Paraguay celebrates Rutherford Hayes 19th U.S. president has a holiday, province and town named in his honor The Associated Press updated 3:21 p.m. PT, Fri., Feb. 13, 2009
VILLA HAYES, Paraguay - As the U.S. celebrates Presidents Day on Monday, citizens of this small South American country wonder why anyone would overlook Rutherford B. Hayes. Forget Lincoln or Washington. Hayes — a one-term U.S. president who is undistinguished at home — has a holiday, a province, a town, a museum and a soccer team all named in his honor, thanks to an 1878 arbitration in which he handed Paraguay 60 percent of its land. "If it weren't for Hayes, Paraguay would have a smaller territory than it has today," said Salvador Garozzo, director of the municipal museum in the town of Villa Hayes, capital of Presidente Hayes province. After a regional war in the late 1800s, Argentina and Paraguay asked the United States to decide a bitter dispute over Paraguay's Chaco region — a swath of blistering-hot terrain about the size of Michigan that today is an important source of cattle ranching.
To read the whole story click link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29186525/
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