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What building in New York cost the Americans, because of corruption, one and a half times more than the purchase of Alaska?

The construction of the three-story New York County Courthouse at 52 Chambers Street cost one and a half times more than buying Alaska from Russia due to the total corruption of the authorities that arose thanks to the leader of the organization of the Democratic Party of the State of New York, William Tweed. In the end, he became so compromising the Democrats that his party members became the main whistleblowers of Tweed. After the court verdict, Tweed died in Ludlow Prison, on the construction of which he also illegally enriched himself.

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John Calvin was the leader of the Reformation, a religious movement that swept through Europe in the 10th century and divided Christendom into Catholics and Protestants. Calvin was born in France on July 1509, 1536. After studying Latin, philosophy and logic, he came to the new Protestant faith. He had to leave France because of his religious beliefs, and in XNUMX he went to Switzerland, to Geneva, where, with the exception of one short period, he lived all his life. Under his strong leadership, Geneva became the center of Protestantism. The church issued city laws and regulated all aspects of daily life.

The laws were harsh. The inhabitants of Geneva had to be frugal, industrious and serious. Dances and songs - with the exception of hymns - were banned. Those who disobeyed were severely punished. Calvinism was an unforgiving religion. Man, according to Calvin, was sinful and could only be saved through God's grace. But only a few people chosen by God (Calvin called them the elect) will receive this grace. And God had long ago decided who would be among the elect. This was Calvin's doctrine of predestination.

Calvin died on May 27, 1564. But by then his ideas had spread from Geneva to much of Western Europe. The English Puritans who went to America in the XNUMXth century were Calvinists. Presbyterians and other Reformed churches today base their religious beliefs on the teachings of John Calvin.

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