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Norway, with its 1920 population pegged at 2,691,855, saw 693,450 Norwegians setting sail for American shores, constituting 32.4% of the Scandinavian influx. Denmark, home to 3,268,907 people in 1920, chipped in with 300,008 immigrants, forming 14.1% of the Scandinavian immigration to the US across that century.
Copenhagen. The Nordic countries consistently rank atop the world's happiness lists. In fact, five Scandinavian nations—Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland—made the top 10 happiest ...
The Fairview Training Center was a state-run facility for people with developmental disabilities in Salem, Oregon, United States. Fairview was established in 1907 as the State Institution for the Feeble-Minded. The hospital opened on December 1, 1908, with 39 patients transferred from the Oregon State Hospital for the Insane. [3]
1974 – Supplemental Security Income, a United States government program that provides stipends to low-income people who are either blind or otherwise disabled, or aged 65 or older [107] was created in 1974 to replace federal-state adult assistance programs that served the same purpose.
Evjen, John O. Scandinavian Immigrants in New York 1630–1674 (Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, 1972) Flom, George T. A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States: From the Earliest Beginning Down to the Year 1848 (Iowa City, 1909) Hoobler, Dorothy, and Thomas Hoobler. The Scandinavian American Family Album (Oxford University Press ...
By the early 20th century numerous churches, organizations, businesses, and benevolent associations had been organized – among them, the Swedish Cemetery Corporation (1885), the Swedish Lutheran Old People's Home (1920), Fairlawn Hospital (1921), and the Scandinavian Athletic Club (1923).
1971: The Oregon Legislature created the Oregon Department of Human Resources, an agency providing a spectrum of human services to individuals, families and communities. . Over the years parts of the agency were spun off, becoming the Oregon Department of Corrections, the Oregon Employment Department, the Oregon Youth Authority, and the Oregon Housing and Community Services Departm
Interesting Facts for Adults. 11. If you cut down a cactus in Arizona, it can result in a class 4 felony and up to 25 years in prison. ... Around 12% of people only dream in black and white. 14 ...