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Most of the new Liechtensteiner emigrants settled in urban areas, especially in Chicago and Hammond, Indiana, but there were Liechtensteiners throughout the country. [2] After World War II, a few more Liechtensteiners immigrated to the United States, the largest number arriving in 1948, when fifteen individuals or families immigrated. The ...
101 Strings released a version of the song on their 1990 album Polka. [8] The Mom and Dads released a version of the song on their 1995 album Love Is a Beautiful Song. [9] Jimmy Sturr released a version of the song on the 1998 various artist album Legends of Polka. [10] "Weird Al" Yankovic incorporated the song in his Polka Face medley.
In 1846, a flood followed by a famine caused 250 Liechtensteiners to move to America; this was the first large wave of emigration from Liechtenstein. Dubuque, Iowa became the destination for Liechtensteiners moving to America because the community was German-speaking like the Liechtensteiners. The Liechtensteiners in Dubuque formed a close knit ...
Originally titled "God Blessed America," one of the first draft verses of the song was a social commentary on wealth inequality and poverty, in which Guthrie sang, "One bright sunny morning in the ...
The song was a reaction to the varying difficult issues facing America in the late 1970s – the fallout from the Watergate scandal, the simultaneous double-digit inflation, unemployment, and prime interest rates (leading to the misery index), and the 1979–1981 Iran Hostage Crisis.
Nicole Kidman is opening up about a treasured memento.. On Thursday, Jan. 30, the actress, 57, appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and revealed that she bought Bernie Taupin's original ...
The song's narrator is emigrating from Ireland to America, and the song is both a meditation on this and a statement of purpose. Some versions have Australia and not America as the emigrant's destination. [1] The song is played in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum's exhibit on Kennedy's Trip to Ireland. [1]
Kroger's holiday ad. A Kroger commercial is unexpectedly bringing viewers to tears this holiday season.. At the beginning of the ad—fittingly set to Ed Sheeran's sentimental song, "Photograph ...