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The St Bernard dog breed was created at the hospice from cross-breeding dogs, probably those offered by families in Valais in the 1660s and 1670s. The first definite mention of the breed is in 1709. The breed was originally raised to provide guard dogs for the hospice, before they became mountain rescue dogs.
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Anna Wilson (May 27, 1835 – October 27, 1911) was a pioneer madam in Omaha, Nebraska.When she died she bequeathed her life savings to the City of Omaha, along with her 25-room mansion brothel, which was used as a hospital. [1]
The old road may still be seen, above the paved road. The hospice occupies two buildings, of 1560 and 1898 (picture, above). The Congregation of Canons of the Great Saint Bernard (the monks) also owns the Hôtel de l'Hospice du Grand-St-Bernard, a four-storey building made of grey stone (built in 1899) on the Italian side, which it leases to a ...
When it opened on February 1, 1912, the hospital was a modern, 60-bed building that featured one of the "finest x-ray machines in the U.S." Dr. Nicholas Senn, a member of the Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois, was the hospital's namesake. [9] The Omaha Christian Institute founded Omaha's General Hospital in 1908.
Jun. 18—Former Dartmouth College women's lacrosse coach and athletic director Josie Harper died on Sunday at the age of 81 after a battle with cancer. Harper, a Chester, Pennsylvania, native and ...
Ethel Kennedy, right, stands with her husband Sen. Robert F. Kennedy at the Overseas Press Club in New York in 1968. - Bob Gomel/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock
The Great St Bernard Tunnel (French: Tunnel du Grand Saint-Bernard, Italian: Traforo del Gran San Bernardo, German: Grosser-Sankt-Bernhard-Tunnel) is a road tunnel complementing the Great St Bernard Pass, linking Martigny (in the Swiss canton of Valais) with Saint-Rhémy-en-Bosses (in the Aosta Valley, in north western Italy).