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World Health Organization, World Health Organization Established in 1948, WHO, 1948

"The World Health Organization (WHO) was established in 1948 on April 7th, now known as World Health Day, the World Health Organization was first…

Tags: Health, Health Systems, Public Health, Research, WHO, World Health Organization

World Health Organization, World Health Organization Archives, World Health Organization, 1995

A WHO poster commemorating the eradication of smallpox, stored in the archives.

The World Health Organization retains their own records and…

Tags: Archives, Diseases, Posters, Smallpox, WHO, World Health Organization

Frances Mori, World Health Organization (WHO), WHO, 2016

WHO began when our Constitution came into force on 7 April 1948 – a date we now celebrate every year as World Health Day. We are now more than 7000…

Tags: AIDS, Global, Guidelines, Health, WHO, World Health Organization

World Bank Group, World Bank, World Bank Group, 1944

The World Bank is like a cooperative, made up of 188 member countries. These member countries, or shareholders, are represented by a Board of…

Tags: Extreme Poverty, Finance, Global, IMF, Income, Prosperity, World Bank

National Law Enforcement Museum, Women in Law Enforcement - Timeline: 1854-2011, National Law Enforcement Museum, Circa 1900

In 1854, the first known police matrons (also called jail matrons) were hired by New York City to search and guard female prisoners, but they were…

Tags: Jail Matrons, Law Enforcement, Police Matron, Women

Library of Congress, William Torrey Harris, Superintendent, Library of Congress, 1902

"The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places ... It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of…

Tags: Commissioner, High School, Kindergarten, Missouri, Schools, Superintendent, William Torrey Harris

McKinley Presidential Campaign, William McKinley Presidential Campaign, Library of Congress, 1895-1900

"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be." - Sydney J. Harris In the 1896…

Tags: Campaign, Industrial, Presidents, Progressive Era, Republican Party, William McKinley

National Archives, William Livingston First Governor of New Jersey 1776-1790, National Archives, No date given

William Livingston 1723 - 1790, served as the Governor of New Jersey 1776 - 1790, during the American Revolutionary War and was a signer of the United…

Tags: Governor, Library, New Jersey, Poems, Poetry, US Constitution, William Livingston

Caroline I. Miles, William B Sawyer

Dr. William B. Sawyer (1886-1950), the first black medical professional in southern Florida, has been recognized as an important figure in the early…

Bain, William Albert Wirt, Library of Congress, 1917

Growing up in a rural farm in Gary, Indiana, William Wirt believed that this upbringing was as elementary to education as many teachings, so when he…

Tags: Education, Indiana, Recreation, Schools, William Albert Wirt, Work-Study-Plan