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FebGreat Ormond Street Hospital
On February 14, 1852, Dr. Charles West opened London England’s The Hospital for Sick Children. It was the first hospital in the country to provide inpatient care only to children. West was determined to reduce the approximate 20,000 children’s deaths … Continue reading →
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FebWorld Wetlands Day
On February 2, 1997, World Wetlands Day was first celebrated. Grown from an international convention held in Ramsar, Iran, on the present and future of the world’s wetlands, the organization is headquartered in Switzerland. Each year on this date, … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Eliot Porter
Nature in the Details
On December 6, 1901, American landscape photographer Eliot Furness Porter was born. A chemical engineering graduate from Harvard and a medical graduate from its School of Medicine, he taught biochemistry at the university. As a boy on family camping trips, … Continue reading
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Tagged conservation, December 6, Eliot Furness Porter, Eliot Porter, landscape photography, On This Day, The Roberta Bondar Foundation
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