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Brian Cury, CEO and founder of EarthCam, Inc., launched EarthCam.com in 1996 to build a network of webcams offering views of destinations throughout the world. In 1999 it was claimed 20 people per day were adding their webcams to the website. [3] By 2006 the website was a Webby Award Winner in the Tourism category. [4]
Boys Town was founded on December 12, 1917, [1] as an orphanage for boys. Originally known as "The City of Little Men", the organization was begun by Edward J. Flanagan, a Roman Catholic priest, while he worked in the Diocese of Omaha. Using a loan of $90, he first rented a home at 25th and Dodge streets, in Omaha, to care for five boys. [2]
Wanslea (I/National Order of Oddfellows Orphanage) try Wanslea: 1905-built 1996-WA-listed [8] 78 & 80 Railway St Cottesloe, Western Australia: Federation Free Style two storey red brick orphanage RAOB Lodge (Harbour Master's House, Oddfellows Building) try RAOB Lodge: 283 Marine Tce Geraldton, Western Australia: Oddfellows Hall (Leederville)
Mitch Albom was among a group of 10 people, eight from Michigan, rescued Tuesday from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where lawlessness has created havoc in the country, shutting down its international ...
Gilbert Academy was a premier preparatory school for African-American high school students in New Orleans, Louisiana. Begun in 1863 in New Orleans as a home for colored children orphaned by the American Civil War, the home moved to Baldwin, Louisiana, in 1867. The Orphans Home evolved into a school and, over the next 80 years, became Gilbert ...
Jenna Jameson, American entrepreneur, webcam model and former pornographic film actress; Steve Jobs, American Apple Computer founder, adopted as infant; Howard Lutnick, American CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, orphaned as a teen; John Molson, 18th century Canadian brewer; Tom Monaghan, American Domino's Pizza founder, partially raised in an orphanage
Photograph of Howard Orphanage and Industrial School ca. 1915. The Howard Colored Orphan Asylum was one of the few orphanages to be led by and for African Americans. [1] It was located on Troy Avenue and Dean Street in Weeksville, a historically black settlement in what is now Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City. [2]
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