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unusual facts about Vasa Children's Home


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.


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.

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.

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.

Monte Blue

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

Nobody's Home

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

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.

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.

Tucket's Home

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

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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