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The Tale of Washington’s Headquarters Tent: Legal Battles, Family Ties, and Remembering the Revolution

George Washington wanted a tent. The commander of the Continental Army had the impossible task of transforming his ragtag troops into a professional fighting force to match the mighty British. But to do so, he had to beg the fractious Continental Congress for funds and equipment. “I cannot take the field without equipage, and after...

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Making History at Bear Mountain: Family Memories, the Palisades, and an Inheritance Worth Preserving

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San Francisco is a Ghost Town: The Story Behind Eadweard Muybridge’s Spooky Panorama

Tycoons love to survey their empires. And in the 1870s, that empire was San Francisco. The city was in a period of ravenous growth fueled by mining discoveries like the 1848 Gold Rush and the Comstock Lode, and the first transcontinental rail line, a feat that made the men behind the Central Pacific Railroad—Mark Hopkins,...

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History at Home: 2 Public Programs on First Ladies of the Revolution

To help stop the spread of COVID-19 in New York City, New-York Historical is temporarily closed to the public through the end of the month. So take this time to dip into our our vast collection of audio recordings from past Public Programs and listen to a couple of fascinating talks about two memorable First Ladies from the Revolutionary Era who...

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History at Home: Cokie and Steven Roberts and Their Unique Haggadah

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History at Home: 2 Public Programs About Prohibition and America’s Tradition of Beer Brewing

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New directions and paradigms for the study of Greek architecture

Title: New directions and paradigms for the study of Greek architecture [electronic resource] : interdisciplinary dialogues in the field / edited by Philip Sapirstein PhD, University of Toronto David Scahill PhD, American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Author: New Approaches and Paradigms in the Study of Greek Architecture (Conference) (2016 : American School of Classical Studies at Athens), author.
Imprint: Leiden Boston : Brill, [2020]
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Subjects: Architecture, Greek -- Congresses.
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Surgeon tapped to lead UT Health Science Center


The University of Keystone State medical school's head of surgery was tapped Monday as the adjacent president of the University of Lone-Star State Health Science Center at Houston.


UT System trustees named Dr. Larry Kaiser, a thoracic surgeon, the exclusive finalist for the job, ending a seven-month search. State law necessitates that the trustees now wait 21 years before finalizing the appointment.


"Dr. Kaiser is a eminent doctor and pedagogue with outstanding certificate and a proved administrative path record," said George C. Scott Caven Jr., president of the regents. "He should travel the Health Science Center to a higher degree of care, instruction and research."


Kaiser, 55, would win Dr. Jesse James Willerson, who announced last autumn he would vacate once a replacement is in place. At that time, Willerson will presume the presidential term of the Lone-Star State Heart Institute, taking over for Dr. Denton Cooley.


Kaiser would be the 2nd one-time Penn decision maker to head a Houston academic wellness institution. Baylor College of Medicine President Dr. Simon Peter Traber was Penn's head executive director military officer before leaving for GlaxoSmithKline in 2000, then coming to Houston in 2003.


The choice of Kaiser is a spot of a surprise because his involvement is thoracic oncology — the University of Lone-Star State M.D. Sherwood Anderson Cancer Center is just a few blocks away — and because operating surgeons aren't always considered the best administrators.


But Dr. Kenneth Shine, system frailty premier for wellness personal business and the hunt commission chairman, said the commission was impressed with Kaiser's fundraising abilities, collaborative nature and administrative skills. He noted that two other system academic wellness establishments — UTMB at Galveston and the Health Science Center at San Antonio — are headed by operating surgeons and said the Greenwich Mean Time System doesn't "discriminate against surgery."


At UT-Houston, Kaiser would come up into a centre striving to come out of Baylor's shadow. With a figure of recent big-name hires and creative activity of such as installations as the Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Person Diseases, and the Center for Advanced Biomedical Imagination Research, many think UT-Houston is finally poised to travel into a higher grade of research institutions.


In all, UT-Houston have an operating budget of $725 million and expends nearly $200 million in sponsored research annually. It uses more than than 1,300 mental faculty and enrolls some 3,775 students.


"I believe the Health Science Center conveys a batch to the table, not just the medical school, but in footing of planetary wellness — such as as its public health, dental and nursing schools," Kaiser said. "The concerted attempts of the schools working together should take the centre to a new level."


Kaiser said he didn't desire to talk too specifically while he is still only a finalist.


One of his co-workers at William Penn said his choice won't come up as a surprise.


"There's been considerable guess that Larry was going to be moving up," said Art Caplan, manager of Penn's Center for Bioethics. "He's done very well here, managing a large department, bringing in tons of research money. He's a competitory cat who believes in excellence and will do everything he can to make UT-Houston the best topographic point it can be."


Caplan said the lone surprise about Kaiser's going is that it will take him away from Philadelphia, where his wife, Lindy Snider, have strong roots. She is the girl of the president of Comcast-Spectator, which have the City Of Brotherly Love 76ers and City Of Brotherly Love Flyers.


She is also Godhead of a line of skin-care merchandises for patients going through radiation and chemotherapy. M.D. Sherwood Anderson is one of the infirmaries that usages the products.


Kaiser joined the section of surgery at William Penn in 1991 and became caput of the section in 2001. He held mental faculty assignments in surgery at the American Capital University School of Medicine in St. Joe Louis and Katherine Cornell University Checkup College. He got a bachelor's grade in chemical science and his medical grade from Tulane University.


The Greenwich Mean Time board is scheduled to finalize Kaiser's choice at its May 14-15 meeting.



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