All Aboard! 20th Century American Trains All Aboard! 20th Century American Trains In August 1999, the United States Postal Service issued a set of 33¢ postage stamps entitled All Aboard! 20th Century American Trains to ""pay tribute to American industry and design, and specifically to the heritage of our railroads."" Artist Ted Rose created five watercolor images depicting the following celebrated American named passenger trains from the 1930s and 1940s: Descriptive text regarding each of the trains was listed on the gummed side of each stamp. At the same time, the USPS offered for sale a booklet of "20 U.S. Postal Service Ready-To-Mail Stamped Postal Cards"
Christianity in the 20th century Upon greeting John Paul II, the Romanian Patriarch Teoctist stated: "The second millennium of Christian history began with a painful wounding of the unity of the Church; the end of this millennium has seen a real commitment to restoring Christian unity." Pope John Paul II visited other heavily Orthodox areas such as Ukraine, despite lack of welcome at times, and he said that healing the divisions between Western and Eastern Christianity was one of his fondest wishes. Christianity in the 20th century Christianity in the 20th century was characterized by an accelerating secularization of Western society, which had begun in