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Ciprian Porumbescu left a legacy of more than 250 works, bringing him fame and popularity through his short life. The composer saw his work Crai nou ("New Moon") performed in Brașov, while his vocal works Pe-al nostru steag ("On Our Flag"), Tricolorul ("The Tricolor", dedicated to Romania's national flag), Cântec de primăvară ("Spring Song ...
Life Care Centers of America was founded by Forrest Preston in 1970, and he remains the sole owner, chairman, and CEO. [1]Since 1995, the company's headquarters have been located at the Campbell Center at 3001 Keith Street NW in Cleveland in the location of a former shopping mall.
Hammacher Schlemmer first began as a hardware store at 221 The Bowery, where it remained from 1848 to 1859.It later moved to 209 The Bowery, remaining from 1859 to 1904. The yellow fever plague of 1822, ascribed to impure water, desolated lower Manhattan and caused business and terrified inhabitants to move out of town to Greenwich Villag
The Catalogue of Life is an online database that provides an index of known species of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms. It was created in 2001 as a partnership between the global Species 2000 and the American Integrated Taxonomic Information System .
The hospital as St. Anthony's, 1903. The site was formerly a brickyard before the first medical facility was constructed there. The Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis began construction of St. Anthony's Hospital there in 1890; the Sisters had already been operating St. Francis Hospital (present-day Grant Medical Center), though overcrowding and demand on the East Side propelled the decision to ...
[1] [2] It has also been called the Library of Congress Catalog Card Number, among other names. The Library of Congress prepared cards of bibliographic information for their library catalog and would sell duplicate sets of the cards to other libraries for use in their catalogs. This is known as centralized cataloging.
Eraclie Sterian (also known as Eracle, Eracli or Iraclie Sterian; November 23, 1872 – 1948) was a Romanian physician, writer, and political activist, known for introducing sexology and sex education in his country.
Patrick Dennis, orphaned in 1928 when his father Edwin dies unexpectedly, is placed in the care of his aunt, Mame Dennis, in Manhattan.Mame is flamboyant and exuberant, hosting frequent parties with a variety of guests and free-spirited friends, including the frequently drunk actress, Vera Charles; Acacius Page, who runs a progressive school with nudist exercises; and Lindsay Woolsey, a book ...