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9 unusual facts about Children's Hospital of Philadelphia


Anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery

This funding to start the registry was provided by The Children's Heart Foundation, The Cardiac Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and from CHSS member institutions.

Congenital hyperinsulinism

The relative rarity of this condition and the difficulty of both diagnosis and treatment has resulted in only a few centers around the world developing the expertise to achieve optimal surgical outcomes for these infants: the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, as well as centers in Paris and Israel.

Delaware Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey

A "Thanksgiving in the Country" offers a tour of notable homes in Sergeantsville, which raises funds for the Facial Reconstruction Unit of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Epstein–Barr virus

Cell lines were sent to Werner and Gertrude Henle at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia who developed serological markers.

Genome browser

The app, developed by the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMi) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, provides a functional presentation of the popular UCSC Genome Browser.

National Teen Driver Safety Week

A national survey conducted in 2007 by State Farm and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia provided some facts into the teen driving environment, including that while teens are aware of some driving dangers (such as drinking and driving), they may not realize the risks of other distractions and behaviors, such as fatigued driving, speeding, cell phone use, and driving with multiple teen passengers.

Penn Genome Frontiers Institute

The Penn Genome Frontiers Institute, previously known as the Penn Genomics Institute, was established in January 2001 to provide a focus for all aspects of and participants in the genomics community at University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Wistar Institute.

Pit bull

A 5-year (2001–05) review of dog attack victims admitted to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia determined that pit bull terriers were implicated in more than half of the bites where breed was identified.

Savoy Company

The Company also makes annual donations to local, charitable organizations, including the Red Cross, the American Cancer Society, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Magee Rehabilitation Hospital, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Daemion House, the Brandywine Conservancy, and the Delaware S.P.C.A., among many others.


27 Kinder European Challenge

The largest fundraising effort came from Malta, and was shared between Inspire Foundation and the Daniel Delicata Memorial Association for the construction of a children's outdoor play area at the new national Mater Dei Hospital.

A History of Everyday Things in England

A History of Everyday Things in England is a series of four history books for children written by Marjorie Quennell and her husband Charles Henry Bourne Quennell (aka C. H. B.) between 1918 and 1934.

Anwar bin Abdul Malik

They had 3 children, Tan Sri Datuk Zarinah Anwar (1953), the ex-chairman of the Malaysian Securities Commission, Zainah Anwar (1954), a prominent Malaysian non-governmental organisation leader and activist of Sisters in Islam and Ahmad Zakii Anwar (1955), a well-known Malaysian artist.

Demetris Th. Gotsis

Songs of Theodore Oesten (Του Έστεν τα τραγούδια), Children's poetry for Oesten's music in Greek, Nicosia, 1991.

Doug Allen

Allen and his wife and two children live in Rockland County, New York.

Florence Kate Upton

Florence Kate Upton (22 February 1873 – 16 October 1922) was an American-born English cartoonist and author most famous for her Golliwogg series of children's books.

François Olivennes

François Olivennes has three children, Hannah, 25, Joseph, 22 and George, 13, with his ex-wife, British actress Kristin Scott Thomas.

Gisela Legath

Gisela Legath from Eberau was a Burgenland woman who saved with the help of her two children Martin Legath and Frieda Legath the life of two Hungarian Jews from the Nazis during World War II by providing a shelter in their barn.

Grenland Friteater

The theatre has also done productions for children - one is "En rosenkål for mye" by Gro Dahle.

Guglielmo Ciardi

Awarded a gold medal in 1915 at the San Francisco Exhibition, where the participants included his children Beppe and Emma, he was struck down by paralysis and died two years later.

Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse

Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse is a children's book written by George Selden and illustrated by Garth Williams.

Henry Lascelles, 3rd Earl of Harewood

James Walter Lascelles (1831–1901), Canon of Ripon Cathedral and Rector at Goldsborough, married Emma Clara Miles (1830–1911), daughter of Sir William Miles, 1st Baronet and had nine children.

Hill Top, Cumbria

In 2007 a replica of Hill Top was built in a children's zoo near the grounds of Daito Bunka University in Tokyo, Japan.

Human trafficking in Benin

Gendarmes in the village of Porga arrested suspected traffickers trying to cross the Benin-Burkina Faso border en route to Ivory Coast with five children in April 2009, and delivered them to the court at Natitingou.

James Clinton

His second wife was Mrs. Mary Gray, and his children with her included James G. Clinton, who served in Congress.

Jobs for Youth-Chicago

This effort resonated with the perspectives shared in Alex Kotlowitz' There Are No Children Here, Nicholas Lemann's 'The Promised Land—both of them best sellers—and MacArthur Genius awardee William Julius Wilson's groundbreaking, The Truly Disadvantaged.

John Garth

John Garth was a nephew of Sir Samuel Garth the physician.Two of John Garth’s children were born in Devizes.

John W. Rollins

He was married three times, to Kitty, Linda Kuechler, and Michele Metrinko, and had ten children including John W., Jr., James, Catherine, Patrick, Ted, Jeff, Michele, Monique, Michael and Marc, as well as eleven grandchildren, John III, Jamie, Fontayne, Charlie, Rachel, Katie, Sarah, Emma, Kaitlyn, William, and Morgan.

Johnny One Note

Ted Heath - Big Band Percussion - (1968) an instrumental version, the first eight bars of which were used for many years as the opening theme to BBC One's children's news programme John Craven's Newsround.

Keith Chegwin

Born in Bootle, Lancashire, Chegwin's early roles were in works of the Children's Film Foundation, appearing as Egghead Wentworth in The Troublesome Double (1967) and Egghead's Robot (1970).

Khin Than Nu

She was born to U Aung Than and Daw Nu, as the eldest of four children, in Pyinmana, Burma.

Korweiler

Even though the village belonged to the Lordship of Waldeck, all Korweiler’s inhabitants were said to be Willibrordskinder (“Willibrord’s children”), meaning that originally, they belonged to a fief of Saint Willibrord’s Abbey in Echternach.

Kultur- und Sozialstiftung Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie

Since 1994, the foundation presents, annually at Easter, charity concerts within the Bayreuther Osterfestival, the Osterfestival Nördliche Oberpfalz and tour concerts in Selb and Bielefeld (Germany) for the benefit of children suffering from cancer.

Kylie Tennant

She married L. C. Rodd in 1933; they had two children (a daughter, Benison, in 1946 and a son, John Laurence, in 1951).

L'Histoire d'une fée, c'est...

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie was the second in a trilogy of films based on the children's animated television series Rugrats, which features the adventures of a group of toddlers.

Li Fanwen

He was sent by the museum to participate in a minor capacity in the excavations of the Western Xia tombs at the foot of the Helan Mountains, and whilst his new wife (Yang Shende 楊慎德) and children stayed behind at Yinchuan, he lived and worked at the excavations for seven years.

Lotfi A. Zadeh

Zadeh is married to Fay Zadeh and has two children, Stella Zadeh and Norman Zadeh.

Lubocza, Kraków

In 1928 came (for the metropolitan councils of Prince Adam Stefan Sapieha) Norbertine sisters, to give children a free, Catholic education.

Lucius Scribonius Libo

Lucius and wife had three children, two sons: Lucius Scribonius Libo (below) and Marcus Scribonius Libo Drusus and a daughter Scribonia who married Sextus Pompey.

Martine Blanc

Martine Blanc (born 16 September 1944 in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme) is a French author and illustrator of ten books for children including The story of Timothy, the Two Hoots series in collaboration with Helen Cresswell, and All about Jesus.

Max Rayne

Rayne and his wife divorced in 1960 and on 2 June 1965, he married Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart (a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry and sister of Lady Annabel Goldsmith) and they had four children: Natasha Deborah (b. 1966), Nicholas Alexander (b. 1969), Tamara Annabel (b. 1970) and Alexander Philip (b. 1973).

Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham

The couple had no children, but it is possible that she may have been the mother, through an intimacy with Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, of Benedict Swingate Calvert.

Michael Cammalleri

He has focused on children's charities, supporting the Starlight Children's Foundation, World Vision and the SickKids Foundation in Toronto among others.

My Beautiful Mommy

My Beautiful Mommy is a children's book written by plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Salzhauer.

National Whistleblowers Center

In 1999, former FBI special agent Jane Turner brought to the attention of her management team serious misconduct concerning failures to investigate and prosecute crimes against children in Indian Country and in the Minot, North Dakota community.

One Day, All Children

One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned Along the Way (ISBN 1586481797) is the first book by Wendy Kopp, CEO and Founder of Teach For America.

Orrin W. Robinson

They raised two children: M. Ethel, who graduated from Mary Institute in St. Louis, Missouri, and the Boston Conservatory of Music; and Dean L., who finished a course of study at Smith Academy in St. Louis, Missouri, then entered the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, graduating in 1895.

Otis–Lennon School Ability Test

The Otis–Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT), published by the successor of Harcourt AssessmentPearson Education, Inc., a subsidiary of Pearson PLC — is a test of abstract thinking and reasoning ability of children pre-K to 18.

Packy and Marlon

It was designed to improve self-care behavior in children with juvenile diabetes.

Phantom social workers

It is thought that reports of unidentified "social workers" attempting to take children away from their parents were merely scare stories or urban legends fuelled by the story of Marietta Higgs, a paediatrician from Cleveland, England who diagnosed 121 children as being victims of sexual abuse from their parents without any evidence or reason.

Samuel A'Court Ashe

After the war, Samuel married Hannah Emerson Willard in 1871 and had nine children (one of whom was William Willard Ashe, the noted botanist and associate of the United States Forest Service).

Simon Storey

Storey was also the November pin up for the 2008 Clyde 1 Cash for Kids Charity Calendar which raises funds to support the most vulnerable children in Scottish communities.

South Ronaldsay child abuse scandal

The objects seized during the raids were later returned; they included a videotape of the TV show Blackadder, a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh, and a model aeroplane made by one of the children from two pieces of wood, which was identified by social workers as a "wooden cross".

The Pretty Little Calf

More commonly, European tales feature the children being abandoned: The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, The Three Little Birds, The Wicked Sisters, Ancilotto, King of Provino and Princess Belle-Etoile

Thomas Satterwhite Noble

One of his most famous paintings is The Modern Medea (1867) which portrays a tragic event from 1856 in which Margaret Garner, a fugitive slave mother, has murdered one of her children, rather than see it returned to slavery.

Tigilau Ness

In 2008, Ness featured with his son Che Fu in the documentary Children of the Revolution about the children of political activists in New Zealand which also included Māori activist Tame Iti, Māori Party Member of Parliament Hone Harawira, Green Party Member of Parliament Sue Bradford and anti-apartheid leader John Minto.

Uncle Stonehill's Hat

Uncle Stonehill's Hat is a children's album by Randy Stonehill recorded in 2001 and produced by Terry Scott Taylor.

VSSC Central School

It was founded to enable the residents of VSSC Housing Colony to send their children to a local school.

Wayne Perkins

This led to work at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio with such names as David Porter and the Soul Children, Dave Crawford and Brad Shapiro, Dee Dee Warwick, Ronnie Milsap, Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, Jimmy Cliff, Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood and Marlin Greene.

Whitehawk

The Community Centre, along with a new library, including a toy library for children was opened by Princess Alexandra in November 1973 in Whitehawk Road.


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Tenth Presbyterian Church

Notable members have included C. Everett Koop, Surgeon General of the United States during the Reagan administration and one-time head of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.