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  2. List of defunct department stores of the United States

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    F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...

  3. British Heart Foundation - Wikipedia

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    The British Heart Foundation was founded in 1961 by a group of medical professionals who were concerned about the increasing death rate from cardiovascular disease. They wanted to fund extra research into the causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of heart and circulatory diseases. [7] BHF-funded clinical research

  4. Inland Steel Company - Wikipedia

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    Inland Steel's main office building in East Chicago, Indiana, completed in 1930, was designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White [2] Inland Steel was founded in 1893 through the purchase of a small failed Chicago Heights steel mill, Chicago Steel Works. After its closing, the machinery was bought by Ross Buckingham.

  5. Chicago Gaylords - Wikipedia

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    1950s–present: Territory: Chicago, Indiana ... is a Chicago street gang founded in the early 1950s. [2] ... half of the West Town area and all of Noble Square ...

  6. Frankfurter Bank - Wikipedia

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    Entrance of the Frankfurter Bank in the 1950s, Neue Mainzer Strasse 69 in Frankfurt The Frankfurter Bank was a German bank founded in 1854 in Frankfurt , which issued its own banknotes until 1901. On 1 January 1970, it merged with the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft to form Berliner Handels- und Frankfurter Bank , generally referred to as BHF ...

  7. History of public health in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Many of the early medical schools in the United States were founded by alumni of the University of Edinburgh Medical School, in Scotland. The nation's first medical school opened in 1765 at the College of Philadelphia by John Morgan and William Shippen Jr.. It evolved into the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine.

  8. History of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Chicago's Greatest Year, 1893: The White City and the Birth of a Modern Metropolis (2013) online; Gustaitis, Joseph. Chicago Transformed: World War I and the Windy City (2016). online; Herrick, Mary J. The Chicago schools: a social and political history (1971) online the major scholarly history. Hogan, David.

  9. BHF Bank - Wikipedia

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    BHF Bank, full name Berliner Handels- und Frankfurter Bank was a German bank formed in 1970 by merger between the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft and Frankfurter Bank, both founded in the 1850s. It was initially named Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft – Frankfurter Bank ( lit.