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    Dorothea Lynde Dix (April 4, 1802 – July 17, 1887) was an American advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill who, through a vigorous and sustained...
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  • Dorothea L Dix may refer to:- Dorothea Dix, a nineteenth-century American activist. USS Dorothea L. Dix an American transport ship This disambiguation...
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    The Dorothea Dix Hospital was the first North Carolina psychiatric hospital, located on Dix Hill in Raleigh, North Carolina, and named after mental health...
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    USS Dorothea L. Dix (AP-67) was a transport ship of the United States Navy named for American activist Dorothea Dix (1802–1887). Dorothea L. Dix was launched...
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    The Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center is a psychiatric hospital operated by the state of Maine. It is located at 656 State Street in Bangor, and was previously...
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  • American communist De'Audra Dix (born 1984), American football player Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), American social worker Dorothy Dix (1861–1951), American journalist...
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    Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best...
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    of such individuals. Dorothea Dix (1802–1887) was an important figure in the development of the "mental hygiene" movement. Dix was a school teacher who...
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  • allowing for the construction of a state hospital. The efforts of Dorothea Lynde Dix were of paramount importance in swaying legislators to consider the...
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  • television producer and director Dorothea Coelho, American game show host Dorothea Dix (1802–1887), American social activist Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers...
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    continued into the 19th century, activists such as Dorothea Dix fought for institutional reform. Dix sought to remove children, the mentally ill, and the...
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    that had followed the Compromise. In August 1850 the social reformer Dorothea Dix wrote to Fillmore to urge support of her proposal in Congress for land...
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    original date. The festival was rescheduled and held at the historic Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, North Carolina on April 6, 2019. The lineup included...
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    oldest mental health facility. Co-founded by the Hon. Hugh Bell and Dorothea Dix, it opened in 1856 as the Mount Hope Asylum for the Insane and today...
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    Eleanor Roosevelt. Among Carter's many other awards for service are: Dorothea Dix Award, Mental Illness Foundation, 1988 Jefferson Award for Greatest Public...
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    grants to the states. The bill was the signature initiative of activist Dorothea Dix, and passed both houses of Congress in 1854. However, it was vetoed on...
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    Emily Garden Episode: "In a Safe Place" 1986 North and South, Book II Dorothea Dix 6 episodes 1990–1992 Coach Marlene Watkins 2 episodes 1992 Law & Order...
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    Harriet Tubman 1976 Abigail Adams Margaret Mead Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias 1979 Dorothea Dix Juliette Gordon Low Alice Paul Elizabeth Bayley Seton...
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    thirty in 1862, Alcott applied to the U. S. Sanitary Commission, run by Dorothea Dix, and on December 11 was assigned to work in the Union Hotel Hospital...
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  • and David undertakes some amateur detective work. Dix Hill David volunteers at the Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, where the residents' behavior ranges...
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    2015–2019 Transparent Leslie Mackinaw 12 episodes 2016 Mercy Street Dorothea Dix 2 episodes 11.22.63 Marguerite Oswald 5 episodes Black Mirror Susan Episode:...
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    Charles-Mathias Simons, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1874) April 4 – Dorothea Dix, American activist (d. 1887) April 9 – Elias Lönnrot, Finnish folklorist...
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    Harriet Tubman 1976 Abigail Adams Margaret Mead Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias 1979 Dorothea Dix Juliette Gordon Low Alice Paul Elizabeth Bayley Seton...
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    Regional Hospital replacing John Umstead Hospital in Butner as well as Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh). "Incorporation". Town of Butner. Retrieved November...
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    Harriet Tubman 1976 Abigail Adams Margaret Mead Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias 1979 Dorothea Dix Juliette Gordon Low Alice Paul Elizabeth Bayley Seton...
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    Donna de Varona Karen DeCrow Sarah Deer Emma Smith DeVoe Emily Dickinson Dorothea Dix Elizabeth Hanford Dole Marjory Stoneman Douglas St. Katharine Drexel...
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  • Jefferson Davis, Anthony Zerbe as Ulysses S. Grant, Nancy Marchand as Dorothea Dix, James Stewart as Miles Colbert, Wayne Newton as Captain Thomas Turner...
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    original date. The festival was rescheduled and held at the historic Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, North Carolina on April 6, 2019. The lineup included...
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  • Rolling Loud. J. Cole and Morray only. The concert on April 3, 2022 at Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh is part of Dreamville Festival. J. Cole and Morray only...
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    Sea. Wilson is also well known for her biographies about women such as Dorothea Dix and Elizabeth Blackwell as well as the presidential wives Dolley Madison...
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