(uskings.us) The Los Angeles Chinatown Firecracker 5/10K Run/Walk is the largest and longest-running Lunar New Year charity run in the United States. Established in 1978, Firecracker has since grown to include a Bike Ride, Kiddie Run and Dog Walk and serves the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area with support from the City of Los Angeles.
(uskings.us) Founded in 1863 by James Knight, HSS is the oldest orthopedic hospital in the United States and is consistently ranked as the top orthopedic hospital in the United States. Currently, HSS is ranked #1 in orthopedics, #3 in rheumatology and #22 in pediatric orthopedics by U.S. News & World Report.
(uskings.us) CompuServe CB Simulator was the first dedicated online chat service that was widely available to the public. It was developed by a CompuServe executive, Alexander "Sandy" Trevor, and released by CompuServe on February 21, 1980, as the first public, commercial multi-user chat program.
(uskings.us) The Pennsylvania State University Creamery, often shortened to just Berkey Creamery or The Creamery. It is the largest university creamery in the United States, using approximately 4.5 million pounds of milk annually, approximately half of which comes from a 225-cow herd at the University's Dairy Production Research Center and the rest from an independent milk producer, and selling 750,000 hand-dipped ice cream cones per year.
(WorldKings.org) The American Ethnological Society (AES) is the oldest professional anthropological organization in the United States. Founded in 1842 to encourage research in the emerging field of ethnology, its stated goal was to foster 'inquiries generally connected with the human race.
(uskings.us) The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is a children's hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with its primary campus located in the University City neighborhood of West Philadelphia in the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. It is one of the largest and oldest children's hospitals in the world, and United States' first hospital dedicated to the healthcare of children.
(uskings.us) The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is an organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology. With 10,000 members, this is the largest professional organization of anthropologists in the United States.
(uskings.us) Formed in 1967, the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) is the largest scholarly group concerned with the archaeology of the modern world (A.D. 1400-present). The main focus of the society is the era since the beginning of European exploration. SHA promotes scholarly research and the dissemination of knowledge concerning historical archaeology. It is the largest such organization in the United States and the third largest anthropological organization in the United States.
(uskings.us) Since Prometheus is dead, Methuselah is the oldest living bristlecone in the United States. Methuselah is currently about 4,852 years old (as of 2020) and is still kicking. While researchers know which Great Basin Bristlecone Pine in the Methuselah Grove is Methuselah, its exact location is not available to the public. This is to protect Methuselah from harm and this means that visitors may have seen Methuselah and taken pictures of the ancient tree without knowing.
(uskings.us) Texas Children's is the largest children's hospital in the nation, with 973 beds in use. It is part of the Texas Medical Center, a collection of independent hospitals and academic institutions west of downtown Houston, and is the primary pediatric training site for Baylor College of Medicine.
(Uskings.us) Scholastic Corporation is an American multinational publishing, education and media company known for publishing, selling and distributing comics, books and educational materials for schools, teachers, parents and children. Products are distributed to schools and districts, to consumers through the schools via reading clubs and fairs, and through retail stores and online sales.The business has three segments: Children Book Publishing & Distribution (Trade, Book Clubs and Book Fairs), Education, and International. Scholastic holds the perpetual US publishing rights to the Harry Potter and Hunger Games book series.
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