Manaus
Manaus , city (1996 pop. 1,158,265), capital of Amazonas state, NW Brazil, on the Rio Negro. It is the chief commercial and cultural center of the upper Amazon region and an important river port, with floating docks that can accommodate oceangoing vessels, including cruise ships. Surrounded by jungle, Manaus is the only major city in a c.600-mi (1000-km) radius. Founded in 1669, Manaus grew slowly until the late 19th cent., when the wild-rubber boom brought prosperity and short-lived splendor. In recent years, Manaus has regained importance because of renewed interest in the Amazon basin and its preservation, with accompanying ecotourism, and because of the discovery of oil nearby. The city is now the seat of several organizations dealing with Amazonian problems, is a free port, and has an international airport. Its manufactures include electronics, chemical products, and soap; there are distilling and ship construction industries. Manaus also exports Brazil nuts, rubber, jute, and rosewood oil. It has a cathedral, opera house (with an $8 million renovation completed in 1990), zoological and botanical gardens, an ecopark, and regional and native peoples museums.
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JOHNS HOPKINS TO RENOVATE GILMAN HALL
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 4/9/2007; 700+ words
; ...University's historic Gilman Hall will begin this summer...humanities. Starting in June, Gilman, the main building on...Hopkins," Brody said. "Gilman Hall was designed specifically...s first president, Daniel Coit Gilman, was dedicated...
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New York City Real Estate Investment Banker William Polk Carey Donates $10 Million to Baltimore's Gilman School.
PR Newswire; 1/21/2003; 700+ words
; ...Carey, the founder of the Gilman School in 1897, today...Carey Foundation to the Gilman School. The donation...single private gift in Gilman's 107-year history...Baltimore civic leaders Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president...
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Johns Hopkins University plans $73M facelift to Gilman Hall
Newspaper article from: The Daily Record (Baltimore); 4/10/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...73 million overhaul of Gilman Hall this summer, modernizing...departments under one roof. Gilman has traditionally been...renovation because she said Gilman Hall has been in dire...s first president, Daniel Coit Gilman, Gilman Hall is...
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The Baltimore Sun Architecture column: Old houses, new museums.(Column)
Newspaper article from: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD); 8/27/2007; 700+ words
; ...Day School, predecessor of the Gilman School. In 1902, it was donated...reopens after the renovation of Gilman Hall on the Homewood campus. The...university's first president, Daniel Coit Gilman, and contains a wide range of...
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The Secularization of the Academy.
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...examining the "academic ministry" of Daniel Coit Gilman, the first president of Johns Hopkins. According to Hart, Gilman's advocacy of scientific research...Institute, are not anomalous. Gilman believed, in fact, that science...
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NEW IDENTITY FOR HISTORIC HOUSES OF JOHNS HOPKINS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 6/20/2007; 700+ words
; ...public following the renovation of Gilman Hall, which is scheduled for completion...university's first president, Daniel Coit Gilman. This internationally-distinguished...closed due to the renovation of Gilman Hall; it is scheduled to be re...
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Soldier and Scholar: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and the Civil War
Magazine article from: Arkansas Historical Quarterly; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...after being hired away by Pres. Daniel Coit Gilman. At the outbreak of the war...editors employed by John Moncure Daniel, fiery publisher of the Richmond...and how much in each piece was Daniel's. The attacks on Jefferson...
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Dr. Albert Owens to become president of Johns Hopkins Hospital on January 1.
PR Newswire; 10/15/1986; 700+ words
; ...Hopkins Hospital opened its doors under the leadership of Daniel Coit Gilman, 788 patients were admitted and 9,787 treated in the outpatient dispensaries. Gilman served just four months, followed by Henry Hurd (1889...
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The End of Philosophy.
Newspaper article from: Cross Currents; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Johns Hopkins University, under the leadership of Daniel Coit Gilman, became the first in America to emphasize research...teaching. The best and most highly trained experts Gilman could hire guided this research. The era of the low...
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Alexander von Humboldt's natural history legacy and its relevance for today--opening remarks
Magazine article from: Northeastern Naturalist; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Eliot of Harvard, Andrew Dickson White of Cornell, and Daniel Coit Gilman of Johns Hopkins. None of these distinguished figures...Dr. Eliot at Harvard and ahead of White at Cornell. Gilman was not to begin his work at Johns Hopkins until its...
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Daniel Coit Gilman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Daniel Coit Gilman An educator and pioneer in the American university movement, Daniel Coit Gilman (1831-1908) today remains recognized...s first major graduate schools. Daniel Coit Gilman was born in Norwich, Connecticut...
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Gilman, Daniel Coit
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Gilman, Daniel Coit (1831–1908), founder of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale, was professor of geography there (1855–...
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Johns Hopkins University
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education
...modern research university. The Gilman Period Johns Hopkins was intended...president. They chose wisely. Daniel Coit Gilman, lured away from the presidency...In word and sometimes deed, Gilman held to some traditional goals...
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Remsen, Ira
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...reputation attracted the attention of Daniel Coit Gilman, first president of the new Johns...University, and in 1876 Remsen accepted Gilman ’ s offer of a professorship...Hopkins, and in 1901 he succeeded Gilman as president of the university...
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Laboratories
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...morally solid citizens. Under Daniel Coit Gilman's leadership, the new university...inseparable from teaching. As Gilman once explained, "in the hunt...that Remsen expressed dismay when Gilman left Hopkins to become the first...
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