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Indiana — 1865, Indiana State Normal School. The Indiana General Assembly established the Indiana State Normal School in Terre Haute on December 20, 1865. Its location in Terre Haute was secured by a donation of $73,000 by Chauncey Rose. As the State Normal School, its core mission was to educate elementary and high school teachers.
William Mathias Scholl was born in La Porte, Indiana as one of 13 children. He studied medicine at Loyola University Chicago. During his studies, while working in a shoe store in the evenings, he became interested in podiatry. [1] In 1904 [2] he invented and patented an arch support and founded the company Dr. Scholl's to sell it. [1]
Stucco plaster reliefs, such as this work at the Château de Fontainebleau, were hugely influential in Northern Mannerism. A plaster low-relief decorative frieze is above it. Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements. [ 1 ]
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Counts, George S. School and Society in Chicago (1928) online "Free Public Schools of Chicago" Eclectic Journal of Education and Literary Review (January 15, 1851). 2#20 online; Havighurst, Robert J. The public schools of Chicago: a survey for the Board of Education of the City of Chicago (1964). online
Many colleges were set up for blacks; some were state schools like Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, others were private ones subsidized by Northern missionary societies. Although the African-American community quickly began litigation to challenge such provisions, in the 19th century Supreme Court challenges generally were ...
The fire killed 92 students and three nuns; in response, fire safety improvements were made to public and private schools across the United States. [ 88 ] April 13, 1992, billions of dollars in damage was caused by the Chicago Flood , when a hole was accidentally drilled into the long-abandoned (and mostly forgotten) Chicago Tunnel system ...
Expanded polystyrene, used for building insulation, packaging, and cups, is invented by Dow Chemical. [1] 1957: The Italian firm Montecatini begins large-scale commercial production of isotactic polypropylene. 1960s: High-density polyethylene bottles are introduced; they will replace glass bottles in most applications. [11] 1965