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Joseph Widney

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Joseph Pomeroy Widney, M.D. D.D. LL.D (December 26, 1841 – July 4, 1938) was an American doctor, educator, historian, and religious leader. [1]

86 relations: Algiers, American Civil War, Anglo-Saxons, Apache Wars, Arizona Territory, Atlantis, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, British Guiana, Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, California, California Hospital Medical Center, Cannes, Charles Maclay, Church of the Nazarene, Citizenship, Collis Potter Huntington, Colorado Desert, Commonwealth, Cuba, David Swing, Doctor of Law, Doctor of Medicine, Drum Barracks, Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, George W. White (educator), Hesperia, California, Highland Park, Los Angeles, Hispanic, Holism, Horace Bell, Improved Order of Red Men, Isthmus of Panama, J. P. Widney High School, John Strother Griffin, Joseph Widney, Lake Cahuilla, Legum Doctor, Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles River, Los Angeles Times, Marion McKinley Bovard, Master of Arts, Masterpiece, Menton, Methodist Episcopal Church, Miami University, Minnesota, ..., Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, Mount Washington, Los Angeles, Nice, Op-ed, Orpha Klinker, Oxford, Ohio, Peniel Mission, Phineas Banning, Phineas F. Bresee, Piqua High School, Piqua, Ohio, Port of Los Angeles, President of the University of Southern California, Prohibition, Race Life of the Aryan Peoples, Reparations for slavery, Robert M. Widney, Robert Samuel Maclay, San Jose, California, San Pedro, Los Angeles, Santa Clara, California, Santa Fe Springs, California, Sierra Madre Mountains (California), Smog, Southern California, Subtropics, The Bahamas, Thomas Starr King, Tiburcio Vásquez, Unitarianism, University of California, San Francisco, University of Southern California, University of the Pacific (United States), W. E. B. Du Bois, William Tecumseh Sherman, Wilmington, Los Angeles. Expand index (36 more) »

Algiers

Algiers (الجزائر al-Jazā’er, ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻ, Alger) is the capital and largest city of Algeria.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.

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Apache Wars

The Apache Wars were a series of armed conflicts between the United States Army and various Apache nations fought in the southwest between 1849 and 1886, though minor hostilities continued until as late as 1924.

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Arizona Territory

The Territory of Arizona (also known as Arizona Territory) was a territory of the United States that existed from February 24, 1863 until February 14, 1912, when the remaining extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Arizona.

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Atlantis

Atlantis (Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, "island of Atlas") is a fictional island mentioned within an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias, where it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges "Ancient Athens", the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state in The Republic.

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Boyle Heights, Los Angeles

Boyle Heights is a neighborhood of almost 100,000 residents east of Downtown Los Angeles in the City of Los Angeles, California.

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British Guiana

British Guiana was the name of the British colony, part of the British West Indies (Caribbean), on the northern coast of South America, now known as the independent nation of Guyana.

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Bunker Hill, Los Angeles

Bunker Hill is a historic prominence that traditionally separated Downtown Los Angeles from the rest of the city to the west before the hill was tunneled through at Second Street in 1924.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California Hospital Medical Center

Dignity Health-California Hospital Medical Center is located in the South Park district of downtown Los Angeles, California at 1401 S. Grand Avenue.

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Cannes

Cannes (Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera.

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Charles Maclay

Charles Maclay (1822 or 1823 – July 19, 1890) was a California State Senator and the funder of the city of San Fernando, California in the San Fernando Valley.

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Church of the Nazarene

The Church of the Nazarene is an evangelical Christian denomination that emerged from the 19th-century Holiness movement in North America.

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Citizenship

Citizenship is the status of a person recognized under the custom or law as being a legal member of a sovereign state or belonging to a nation.

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Collis Potter Huntington

Collis Potter Huntington (October 22, 1821 – August 13, 1900) was one of the Big Four of western railroading (along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker) who built the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad.

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Colorado Desert

California's Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert.

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Commonwealth

A commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.

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David Swing

David Swing (August 23, 1830October 3, 1894) was a United States teacher and clergyman who was the most popular Chicago preacher of his time.

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Doctor of Law

Doctor of Law or Doctor of Laws is a degree in law.

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Doctor of Medicine

A Doctor of Medicine (MD from Latin Medicinae Doctor) is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions.

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Drum Barracks

The Drum Barracks, also known as Camp Drum and the Drum Barracks Civil War Museum, is the last remaining original American Civil War era military facility in the Los Angeles area.

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Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles

Evergreen Memorial Park & Crematory is a cemetery in the East Side neighborhood of Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California.

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George W. White (educator)

The Reverend George W. White, D.D. was the third president of the University of Southern California.

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Hesperia, California

Hesperia is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States north of downtown San Bernardino in Victor Valley.

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Highland Park, Los Angeles

Highland Park is a historic neighborhood in Northeast Los Angeles.

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Hispanic

The term Hispanic (hispano or hispánico) broadly refers to the people, nations, and cultures that have a historical link to Spain.

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Holism

Holism (from Greek ὅλος holos "all, whole, entire") is the idea that systems (physical, biological, chemical, social, economic, mental, linguistic) and their properties should be viewed as wholes, not just as a collection of parts.

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Horace Bell

Horace Bell (December 11, 1830 – June 29, 1918), was active in the American era of 19th century California, especially in the Los Angeles region.

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Improved Order of Red Men

The Improved Order of Red Men is a fraternal organization established on North America in 1834.

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Isthmus of Panama

The Isthmus of Panama (Istmo de Panamá), also historically known as the Isthmus of Darien (Istmo de Darién), is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America.

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J. P. Widney High School

Joseph Pomeroy Widney High School, known as J. P. Widney High School is a special-education magnet high school in Los Angeles, California, part of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

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John Strother Griffin

John Strother Griffin (1816–1898) was a surgeon attached to the General Stephen W. Kearney expedition from New Mexico to California, a landowner and founder of East Los Angeles and a member of the Common Council of the city of Los Angeles, where he was one of the first university-trained physicians to settle.

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Joseph Widney

Joseph Pomeroy Widney, M.D. D.D. LL.D (December 26, 1841 – July 4, 1938) was an American doctor, educator, historian, and religious leader.

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Lake Cahuilla

Lake Cahuilla (also known as Lake LeConte and Blake Sea) is a prehistoric lake in California and northern Mexico.

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Legum Doctor

Legum Doctor (Latin: "teacher of the laws") (LL.D.; Doctor of Laws in English) is a doctorate-level academic degree in law, or an honorary doctorate, depending on the jurisdiction.

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Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

The Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce is southern California's largest not-for-profit business federation, representing the interests of more than 235,000 businesses in L.A. County, more than 1,600 member companies and more than 722,430 employees.

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Los Angeles City Hall

Los Angeles City Hall, completed 1928, is the center of the government of the city of Los Angeles, California, and houses the mayor's office and the meeting chambers and offices of the Los Angeles City Council.

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Los Angeles County, California

Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, is the most populous county in the United States, with more than 10 million inhabitants as of 2017.

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Los Angeles Public Library

The Los Angeles Public Library system (LAPL) serves the residents of the City of Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles River

The Los Angeles River (L.A. River) starts in the Simi Hills and Santa Susana Mountains and flows through Los Angeles County, California, from Canoga Park in the western end of the San Fernando Valley, nearly southeast to its mouth in Long Beach.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Marion McKinley Bovard

Marion McKinley Bovard (January 11, 1847 – December 29, 1891) was the first president of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California.

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Master of Arts

A Master of Arts (Magister Artium; abbreviated MA; also Artium Magister, abbreviated AM) is a person who was admitted to a type of master's degree awarded by universities in many countries, and the degree is also named Master of Arts in colloquial speech.

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Masterpiece

Masterpiece, magnum opus (Latin, great work) or chef-d’œuvre (French, master of work, plural chefs-d’œuvre) in modern use is a creation that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career or to a work of outstanding creativity, skill, profundity, or workmanship.

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Menton

Menton (written Menton in classical norm or Mentan in Mistralian norm; Mentone) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

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Methodist Episcopal Church

The Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was the oldest and largest Methodist denomination in the United States from its founding in 1784 until 1939.

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Miami University

Miami University (also referred to as Miami of Ohio or simply Miami) is a public research university on a 2,138-acre campus in Oxford, Ohio, 35 miles north of Cincinnati.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.

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Mission San Gabriel Arcángel

Mission San Gabriel Arcángel is a fully functioning Roman Catholic mission and a historic landmark in San Gabriel, California.

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Mount Washington, Los Angeles

Mount Washington is a neighborhood in the San Rafael Hills of Northeast Los Angeles, California.

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Nice

Nice (Niçard Niça, classical norm, or Nissa, nonstandard,; Nizza; Νίκαια; Nicaea) is the fifth most populous city in France and the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes département.

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Op-ed

An op-ed (originally short for "opposite the editorial page" although often taken to stand for "opinion editorial") is a written prose piece typically published by a newspaper or magazine which expresses the opinion of a named author usually not affiliated with the publication's editorial board.

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Orpha Klinker

Orpha Mae Klinker (1891–1964) was an American artist well known for her California plein air landscape paintings and etchings as well as her portraiture and early California historic sites.

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Oxford, Ohio

Oxford is a city in Butler County, Ohio, United States, in the southwestern portion of the state approximately 28 mi (46 km) NW of Cincinnati.

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Peniel Mission

The Peniel Mission was an interdenominational holiness rescue mission that was started in Los Angeles, California on 11 November 1886 by Theodore Pollock Ferguson (1853–1920) and Manie Payne Ferguson (born 1850; died 8 June 1932).

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Phineas Banning

Phineas Banning (August 19, 1830 – March 8, 1885) was an American businessman, financier and entrepreneur.

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Phineas F. Bresee

Phineas F. Bresee (December 31, 1838 – November 13, 1915) was the primary founder of the Church of the Nazarene, and founding president of Point Loma Nazarene University.

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Piqua High School

Piqua High School is a public high school in Piqua, Ohio, United States, and is the only high school in the Piqua City Schools district.

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Piqua, Ohio

Piqua is a city in Miami County, Ohio, United States.

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Port of Los Angeles

The Port of Los Angeles, also called America's Port, is a port complex that occupies of land and water along of waterfront and adjoins the separate Port of Long Beach.

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President of the University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC) is led by a president selected by the Board of Trustees.

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Prohibition

Prohibition is the illegality of the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages, or a period of time during which such illegality was enforced.

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Race Life of the Aryan Peoples

Race Life of the Aryan Peoples is a book written by Joseph Pomeroy Widney, published in New York by Funk & Wagnalls in 1907, of the history of the Aryan race, a hypothesized race commonly described in the late 19th and early 20th centuryMish, Frederic C., Editor in Chief Webster's Tenth New Collegiate Dictionary Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A.:1994--Merriam-Webster Page 66 as consisting of native Indo-European Language-speaking peoples of Caucasian ancestry, i.e., those ethnic groups that are the native speakers of Indo-European Languages regarded as descended from the original speakers of Proto-Indo European.

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Reparations for slavery

Reparations for slavery is the idea that some form of compensatory payment needs to be made to the descendants of Africans who had been enslaved as part of the Atlantic Slave Trade.

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Robert M. Widney

Robert Maclay Widney (December 23, 1838 – November 14, 1929) was an American lawyer, judge, and one of the founders of the University of Southern California (USC).

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Robert Samuel Maclay

Robert Samuel Maclay, D.D. (Pinyin: Mài Lìhé; Foochow Romanized: Măh Lé-huò; February 7, 1824 - August 18, 1907) was an American missionary who made pioneer contributions to the Methodist Episcopal missions in China, Japan and Korea.

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San Jose, California

San Jose (Spanish for 'Saint Joseph'), officially the City of San José, is an economic, cultural, and political center of Silicon Valley and the largest city in Northern California.

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San Pedro, Los Angeles

San Pedro is a community within the city of Los Angeles, California.

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Santa Clara, California

Santa Clara is a city in Santa Clara County, California.

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Santa Fe Springs, California

Santa Fe Springs is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Sierra Madre Mountains (California)

The Sierra Madre Mountains are a mountain range primarily in northern Santa Barbara County and extending into northwestern Ventura County in Southern California, western United States.

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Smog

Smog is a type of air pollutant.

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Southern California

Southern California (colloquially known as SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises California's southernmost counties.

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Subtropics

The subtropics are geographic and climate zones located roughly between the tropics at latitude 23.5° (the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) and temperate zones (normally referring to latitudes 35–66.5°) north and south of the Equator.

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The Bahamas

The Bahamas, known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic state within the Lucayan Archipelago.

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Thomas Starr King

Thomas Starr King (December 17, 1824 – March 4, 1864) was an American Universalist and Unitarian minister, influential in California politics during the American Civil War, and Freemason.

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Tiburcio Vásquez

Tiburcio Vásquez (April 11, 1835 – March 19, 1875) was a Californio ''bandido'' who was active in California from 1854 to 1874.

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Unitarianism

Unitarianism (from Latin unitas "unity, oneness", from unus "one") is historically a Christian theological movement named for its belief that the God in Christianity is one entity, as opposed to the Trinity (tri- from Latin tres "three") which defines God as three persons in one being; the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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University of California, San Francisco

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is a research university located in San Francisco, California and part of the University of California system.

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University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California.

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University of the Pacific (United States)

The University of the Pacific (also referred to as Pacific or UOP) is a private university in Stockton, California.

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W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt "W.

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William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author.

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Wilmington, Los Angeles

Wilmington is a neighborhood in the Los Angeles Harbor Region area of Los Angeles, California, covering 9.14 square miles.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Widney

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