The order also played the main role in the early Gothic art of Bohemia; one of the outstanding pieces of Cistercian architecture is the Alt-neu Shul, Prague. The first abbey in the present day Romania was founded on 1179, at Igris (Egres) , and the second on 1204, the CarÅ£a CÃ¢rÅ£a. monasteryhe keynote of Cistercian life was a return to literal observance of the Rule of St Benedict. Rejecting the developments the Benedictines had undergone, the monks tried to replicate monastic life exactly as it had been in Saint Benedict's time; indeed in various points they went beyond it in austerity.
Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.
This cartoon by Bill Maudlin ran in the Chicago Sun-Times on February 12, 1964, two days after the House of Representatives passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After 75 days of Southern filibuster and hundreds of proposed amendments, the Senate approved the bill on June 19, 1964.fter passage in the House Judiciary Committee, the Civil Rights Act languished in the House Rules Committee under Chairman Howard W. Smith of Virginia. Judiciary Chairman Emanuel Celler of New York attempted to use a discharge petition to bypass the Rules Committee and bring the measure directly to the House Floor.