Ghor
Ghor Ghowr , or Ghur , mountainous region and province (1979 est. pop. 341,000), 14,085 sq mi (36,479 sq km), W central Afghanistan, including a ruined medieval city of the same name. Chagcharan is the provincial capital. The powerful Muslim Ghorid dynasty was established in the former city of Ghor in the 12th cent. It was overthrown by Muhammad of Khwarazm in 1215. Mongols under Jenghiz Khan took Ghor in 1221, after which the Karts (Mongol clients) ruled (c.1245-1379). The city then lapsed into obscurity.
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The Billings Report and the Occupational Attainment of American Jewry, 1890.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Shofar; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...for five or more years (Billings Report). The paper begins...involved in the project, Billings and Solomons. It then...under the name of Dr. John S. Billings, "Surgeon...activities in which Dr. John Shaw Billings, who was not...
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Sen. Specter Is No Dr. Billings
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/1/1999; 350 words
; ...25]. If all federal buildings must be named for some person, the Library of Medicine should bear the name of John Shaw Billings, the brilliant Civil War surgeon who took a small collection of books in the office of the surgeon general of the...
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Big Names Drive Billings Gain at Local Environmental Firms
Magazine article from: Orange County Business Journal; 2/11/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...companies saw another year of billings gains, fueled by huge...reported a 3% jump in 2007 billings to $479 million, according...projects, according to John Lovenburg, vice president...the top five was No. 2 Shaw Environmental &...million in billings. Shaw Environmental has an...
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Chicago's Alderman Shaw searches out 'just the facts' of alleged wrongdoings. (Robert Shaw)
Magazine article from: The Bond Buyer; 6/14/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...questions center around billing practices by Champman & Cutler. Shaw said he plans on Thursday...don't believe that," Shaw said. But Shaw's resolution...they shoudl be included," Shaw said. But John Holden, a spokesman for...
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Tokens of Affection: The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Southern Cultures; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Maria Bryan's letters cast over John Shaw Billings II, managing editor of Time magazine...second in command. In the 1950s Billings would sometimes hurry home from...find themselves agreeing with Billings, a shrewd businessman and newspaperman...
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Environmental companies see billings growth slow to nil / The list: Environmental consulting firms
Magazine article from: Orange County Business Journal; 3/3/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the 2001 list's 16% billings gain and the 9% increase...consulting companies by billings generated out of their OC offices. Billing estimates were made...estimated $55 million in billings last year. The company...Rouge, La.-- based Shaw Environmental &...Irvine office director ...
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Solitude New York's library soothes the soul [Corrected 08/06/03]
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 9/24/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...construct the new building. The architect's schematic drawings were based on a sketch by John Shaw Billings, the founding director of the library. Billings was a surgeon by trade, as well as the first director of the National Library of Medicine...
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Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; John H. Ellis has written a thorough and meticulously...American Public Health Association, led by John Shaw Billings, turned back the effort to create a strong...general of the Marine Hospital Service, John M. Woodworth, appointed a Yellow Fever...
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A Hospital Looks Back at a Century of Innovation; Johns Hopkins Set Standards in Medical Education That Other Institutions Adopted
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/7/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...A. McGehee Harvey, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School who has written about its history. John Shaw Billings, the former Civil War surgeon who planned the hospital, included such novel features as central heating, electrical...
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E-data replaces Medicus Index.(Making News)
Magazine article from: Information Outlook; 7/1/2004; 635 words
; The printed Index Medicus, started by John Shaw Billings in 1879 and published for 125 consecutive years, will cease at the end of 2004. Once an indispensable tool for health professionals...
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John Shaw Billings
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
John Shaw Billings As the first director of the New York Public Library, John Shaw Billings (1838-1913) was the early guiding force behind that institution...
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Billings, John Shaw
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health
BILLINGS, JOHN SHAW John Shaw Billings (1838–1913) was one of the towering figures of American medicine—indeed, of American civilization. As a young man, Billings was a surgeon, serving as medical inspector of the...
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Herman Hollerith
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...daughter of Dr. John Shaw Billings, head of...life the help that Billings had given him. While Billings denied providing much...relied heavily on Billing's design concept...offered to include Billings in the project. In...
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Hollerith, Herman
Book article from: Computer Sciences
...Bureau of the Census, introduced Hollerith to Dr. John Shaw Billings, head of Vital Statistics, who hired the young engineer...analysis of the 1880 census. Over dinner one evening, Billings discussed the tabulating process and wondered whether...
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Johns Hopkins University
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...s first research-based hospital was propitious. John Shaw Billings, a surgeon and the country's leading expert on hospital...Garrett, the thirty-eight-year-old daughter of John Work Garrett, a Hopkins trustee and president of the...
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