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unusual facts about Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's Home


Monte Blue

Along with another brother, Blue was admitted to the Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's Home.


1990 Manjil-Rudbar earthquake

After Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami found out about the death of a boy who had acted in his film Where Is the Friend's Home?, he was led to make a film about humanity and catastrophe called And Life Goes On.

4th Pennsylvania Cavalry

It was mustered into Federal service at the Soldier's Home near Washington, D.C. By March 1 only 6 companies were fully mounted, and one partially mounted.

An Englishman's Home

An Englishman's Home is a threat-of-invasion play by Guy du Maurier, first produced in 1909.

Annabel Port

Prior to working in radio, she taught English to Poles and Mexicans for three years, spent six months doing data input, one week cleaning an old people's home and to her knowledge holds the national record for the 6 years she held a paper round (until the unusually mature age of 18).

Baphumelele Children's Home

As more and more children were dropped at her doorstep, she took this as a sign from God that forming a Children's Home was to be her work on Earth.

Bath, New York

It is the site of Bath VA Medical Center – established in 1877, and dedicated in 1879 as New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home – and the adjacent Bath National Cemetery.

Campus Martius Park

This led to calls to rebuild Campus Martius, the site of the Civil War-era Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, located across from the new Compuware Headquarters.

Divya Parameshwaran

Divya Parameshwaran graduated from the Sri Kumaran Children's Home, Bangalore, before undertaking junior college at Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College in Bangalore.

Eric Norelius

Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota traces its history to 1865 when Eric Norelius and his congregation took in four orphaned immigrant children and later opened Vasa Lutheran Home for Children.

Flying Kites Children's Home

Flying Kites operates a children's home and community outreach program in Kinangop, Kenya, which is about 90 minutes from Nairobi according to their website.

George Austin McHenry

George McHenry's home is on the National Register of Historic Places in Stone County.

Good Samaritan Children's Home

The Good Samaritan Children's Home is an orphanage in Velika Dobrony, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine.

In the mid 1980s the Dutch relief organisation Stichting Hulp Oost-Europa delivered a large amount of humanitarian relief to many Ukrainian state orphanages.

Innocent World

"Innocent World" is the fifth single released by Mr. Children on June 1, 1994.

John Lourie Beveridge

He also approved the Illinois School for the Deaf, Illinois School for the Blind, Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane and restorations of the Northern Illinois Hospital and Asylum for the Insane, Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane, Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' Home and Anna State Hospital.

Joy Cowley Award

The Joy Cowley Award was established by Storylines: Children's Literature Foundation of New Zealand in 2002 to honour the outstanding contribution to children's literature by Joy Cowley.

Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument

This example of civic sculpture stands in a prominent location on the southeast tip of Campus Martius Park, where five principal thoroughfares—Michigan Avenue, Monroe Street, Cadillac Square, Fort Street, and Woodward Avenue—convene on the reconstructed traffic circle in front of Compuware World Headquarters.

Minfong Ho

She had received many awards, including Commonwealth Book Awards from the Commonwealth Book Council and Best Books for Young Adults from the American Library Association for Rice without Rain, Pick of the Lists from the American Booksellers Association for The Clay Marble, and Best Books selection from the New York Public Library for Maples in the Mist: Children's Poems from the Tang Dynasty, among others.

Mitsuo Shindō

Shindō has designed over 1,000 album and single cover arts for artists including Yumi Matsutoya, Pizzicato Five, Mr. Children, Misia, Hikaru Utada and Glay.

Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree

In 2005, "Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree" was adapted into a children's theater stage production by the Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre & Children's Theatre.

Nobody's Home

"Nobody's Home", a short story from The Zanzibar Cat, a 1983 collection of short stories by Joanna Russ

Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home

Currently used by Xenia Christian School.

Its former location is now home to Xenia Christian School, Athletes in Action, and other various Christian ministries.

It currently is the main building for Xenia Christian School.

One Kennedy Square

One Kennedy Square provides a unique backdrop, enlightening a new dimension for the Michigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument.

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy

The first percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy performed on a child was on June 12, 1979 at the Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, University Hospitals of Cleveland.

Reyher v. Children's Television Workshop

Children's Television Workshop (CTW) produced the Sesame Street TV program and published a related magazine, Sesame Street Magazine.

S.K.H. St. Christopher's Home

This project was launched under a joint venture set up by both Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui and Cheung Kong Holdings in 1993.

The Hong Kong Council of Social Service says that it is necessary for all government-subsidized non-government organizations to return audit reports to the Social Welfare Department every year and Deerhill Bay’s case served as an important reminder to all welfare groups.

Shakujii Park

In addition, Kazutoshi Sakurai, of the Japanese band Mr. Children, is said to have conceived of the lyrics to the band's song "Tomorrow never knows" while jogging there.

Terry Fox Secondary School

The school is noted for it's many musicals and plays including You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Footloose, Hair, The Wedding Singer and Jesus Christ Superstar,Tough, Daddy's Home, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Of Mice and Men and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

The Oohlas

The band has shared the stage with, among others, Sean Lennon, The Raveonettes, Giant Drag, Burning Brides, Carina Round, the Duke Spirit and Men Women & Children.

The Water Nixie

The Master Maid, Jean, the Soldier, and Eulalie, the Devil's Daughter, The Two Kings' Children, Nix Nought Nothing, and Foundling-Bird.

Tucket's Home

Tucket's Home is the fifth novel in The Tucket Adventures by Gary Paulsen.

Typaldos D. children's choir

The thought and inner need to make guitars sing in a human voice and thus accompany works of great composers such as Mikis Theodorakis, Manos Hatzidakis etc., led him to the foundation of a choir which reached its peak in 1985 when 50 children played with their guitars and sang classic works and songs by Mikis Theodorakis as a dedication to his 60 years.

Westmoreland Mall

Two junior anchor stores also occupy the mall under long-term leases, including Macy's Home, located on the lower level near Macy's, and Old Navy, which is located near Sears on the lower level.


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