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Pennsylvania Hospital History: Stories - Nation's First Hospital  The Story of the Creation of the Nation's First Hospital ... Bond was a member of Franklin's Library Company and helped establish the American Philosophical...
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Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia  Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705]  April 17, 1790) was one of the ... As the first United States Ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging .... This was the birth of the Library Company of Philadelphia: its charter was ... In 1732, Franklin hired the first American librarian, Louis Timothee.
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J! Archive - Show #3240, aired 1998-10-09  This "American Gothic" artist was an asst. professor of fine arts at the Univ. of Iowa in .... This state saw the birth of America's first hospital & first circulating library...
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Benjamin Rush - Wikipedia  Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1746 [O.S. December 24, 1745]  April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. ... and his wife saw him buried as he wished in the cemetery behind Christ Church. ... Rush ultimately published the first American textbook on chemistry, several ...... New York: Philosophical Library. p.
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Benjamin Franklin - Crystalinks  He formed both the first public lending library in America and first fire .... This idea was the birth of the Library Company, with the charter of the Library ..... Pennsylvania Hospital was the first hospital in what was to become the United States of .... John Adams noted that Franklin was a mirror in which people saw their own...
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University Of Pennsylvania - Dr. Physick, Soda's  Benjamin Franklin, having had success in founding institutions that benefited the ... Dr. Physick's grandfather, silversmith Philip Syng was one of those founding ... both America's first state school and America's first designated "University.
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First university in the United States - Wikipedia  First university in the United States is a status asserted by more than one U.S. university. In the United States there is no official definition of what entitles an institution ... Harvard University calls itself "the oldest institution of higher learning in the ... founding of the first medical school in America made Penn the first institution to...
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The First State - Dec 07, 1787 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, The First State on Dec 07, 1787. ... Delaware led the process, and on June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the...
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Benjamin Franklin - American Revolution - HISTORY.com  Find out more about the history of Benjamin Franklin, including videos, ... his adopted city, where he helped launch a lending library, hospital and college, ... and remained the largest U.S. public library until the 1850s), the city's first fire ... which opened in 1751 and became known as the University of Pennsylvania in 1791.
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History of Nursing in the USPHS - the US Public Health Service ...  The Public Health Service originated in 1798 as the Marine Hospital Service ... Also in 1870 a headquarters in Washington, D.C. was established. .... During the course of World War II, PHS nurses served at various posts to assist in the war effort. ... The PHS nurse consultants provided direct consultation, published papers...
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All about Oscar - Britannica  Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston. ... The Museum of Fine Arts (opened 1876), a major world institution, preserves and ... Among American cities, Boston is particularly noted for the abundance of its scholarly and public libraries. The Boston Public Library (1854) was the first major tax-supported free...
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President George Washington delivers first State of the Union - Jan ...  President George Washington delivers first State of the Union ... By the time North Carolina ratified in November 1789, the first Congress had met, written the Bill of ... Washington's address gave a brief, but excellent, outline of his administration's ... news. 235 Years Ago, Washington's Troops Made Camp at Valley Forge.
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Free Flashcards about FIRSTS - StudyStack  ON DECEMBER 7, 1787, DELAWARE BECAME THE FIRST STATE TO DO ... THIS STATE HAD THE FIRST HOSPITAL, THE FIRST CIRCULATING LIBRARY, AND THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY, ENDOWED BY BEN FRANKLIN HIMSELF...
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Single payer healthcare: Vermont's gentle revolution | Amy ...  May 25, 2011 ... ... 1777. Now, it's the first to pioneer a truly public healthcare system. ... The green mountain state was the first to ban slavery, in 1777. ... Then the state trumped itself and became the first legislature in the nation to legalise gay...
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Connecticut's Nicknames | Connecticut State Library  Connecticut was designated the Constitution State by the General Assembly in 1959. As early as the 19th Century, John Fiske, a popular historian from Connecticut made the claim that the Fundamental Orders of 1638/1639 were the first written constitution in history.
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History | Redwood Library and Athenum  The Redwood Library and Athenum is the oldest lending library in America, and the ... Established before the birth of the United States, the Redwood Library and ... Excerpted from the 1878 Annual Report: "There is a building in Newport, RI,...
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Lamps on the prairie; a history of nursing in Kansas - Kansas State ...  PREFACE. Lamps on the Prairie began as The Story of Nursing in Kansas, but ..... ganized reckless young Free Staters into a guerilla band known as the ..... able to make such striking improvements in the situation that her field of ... 1840's and 1850's. ...... and the hospital became Gushing Memorial, in honor of the founder.
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Oldest public university in the United States - Wikipedia  The University became the first public ... learning in the U.S. to open its doors in 1795 when it...
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First university in the United States - Wikipedia  First university in the United States is a status asserted by more than one U.S. university. In the ... Harvard University, founded in 1636, claims itself to be (v.i.) "the oldest ... This institution received a royal charter in 1618 and operated a school for ... the founding date of 1749, the year in which founder Benjamin Franklin first...
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Pennsylvania Hospital - Wikipedia  Founded on May 11, 1751, by Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Thomas Bond, Pennsylvania Hospital was the first hospital in the American colonies and is the oldest hospital in the United States. It is also home to America's first surgical amphitheatre and its first medical library.
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A Healthy History: Hospital serves residents for 85 ... - elkodaily.com  Oct 23, 2006 ... Construction on the 24-bed, yellow brick facility began June 7, 1920, under the ... first hospital in the county was built in 1869, one year after Elko became a town, ... In 1875, the hospital building was moved behind Elko County ... Springs Hotel on Bullion Road to use as an indigent hospital and poor farm.