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Touro Synagogue National Historic Site
Touro may refer to: People * Isaac Touro (1738–1783), a Jewish leader in colonial America. * Judah Touro (1775–1854), a Jewish leader in colonial America and son of Isaac Touro. Institutions * Touro Synagogue, the oldest Synagogue in the United States, located in Newport, Rhode Island. * Touro Synagogue (New Orleans), a synagogue in New Orleans * Touro College, an Orthodox Jewish college in New York City. ** Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, a law school in Central Islip, New York. ** Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, a medical school in Harlem, New York ** Touro University College of Medicine, a proposed medical school in Hackensack, New Jersey ** Touro University, a division of Touro College *** Touro University California, a medical, pharmacy and physician assistant's school in Vallejo, California. *** Touro University Nevada, a medical, pharmacy and nursing school in Henderson, Nevada. *** Touro University Rome, a Business and Management school in Zagarolo, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Touro
Isaac Touro (1738 – 8 December 1783) was a Dutch-born American rabbi. He was a Jewish leader in colonial America. Born in Amsterdam, in 1758 he left for Jamaica. In 1760, he arrived in Newport, Rhode Island to serve as hazzan and spiritual leader of Jeshuath Israel, a Portuguese Sephardic congregation.Henry Samuel Morais''Eminent Israelites of the Nineteenth Century: A Series of Biographical Sketches'' p. 336. Soon after his arrival the congregation built the Touro Synagogue, which is the oldest synagogue in the United States. When the American Revolution broke out, Touro was a Loyalist, and when the British captured Newport in 1776, he remained in the city with his wife Reyna and their children, while many of his Whig congregants fled. In 1779, he moved with the British to New York, but he had no means of supporting himself there, and was dependent on British charity, so in 1782 he moved to Kingston, Jamaica, where he died in 1783. His sons Abraham and Judah were renowned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touro University Rome
Touro may refer to: People * Isaac Touro (1738–1783), a Jewish leader in colonial America. * Judah Touro (1775–1854), a Jewish leader in colonial America and son of Isaac Touro. Institutions * Touro Synagogue, the oldest Synagogue in the United States, located in Newport, Rhode Island. * Touro Synagogue (New Orleans), a synagogue in New Orleans * Touro College, an Orthodox Jewish college in New York City. ** Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, a law school in Central Islip, New York. ** Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine, a medical school in Harlem, New York ** Touro University College of Medicine, a proposed medical school in Hackensack, New Jersey ** Touro University, a division of Touro College *** Touro University California, a medical, pharmacy and physician assistant's school in Vallejo, California. *** Touro University Nevada, a medical, pharmacy and nursing school in Henderson, Nevada. *** Touro University Rome, a Business and Management school in Zagarol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
HGST, Inc. (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) was a manufacturer of hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and external storage products and services. It was initially a subsidiary of Hitachi, formed through its acquisition of IBM's disk drive business. It was acquired by Western Digital in 2012. However, until October 2015, it was required to operate autonomously from the remainder of the company due to conditions imposed by Chinese regulators. Chinese regulators later permitted Western Digital to begin wider integration of HGST into its main business. By 2018, the HGST brand had been phased out, with its remaining products now marketed under the Western Digital name. History Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was founded on January 6, 2003, as a merger of the hard disk drive businesses of IBM and Hitachi. Hitachi paid IBM US$2.05 billion for its HDD business. On March 8, 2012, Western Digital (WD) acquired Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for $3.9 billion in cash a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, and its Iberian portion is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal. Its two archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population. Portugal is the oldest continuously existing nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. It was inhabited by pre-Celtic and Celtic peoples who had contact with Phoenicians and Ancient Greek traders, it was ruled by the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Póvoa De Varzim
Póvoa de Varzim (, ) is a Portugal, Portuguese city in Norte Region, Portugal, Northern Portugal and sub-region of Greater Porto, from its city centre. It sits in a sandy coastal plain, a cuspate foreland, halfway between the Minho River, Minho and Douro rivers. In 2001, there were 63,470 inhabitants, with 42,396 living in the city proper. The city expanded southwards, to Vila do Conde, and there are about 100,000 inhabitants in the urban area alone. It is the seventh-largest urban agglomeration in Portugal and the third largest in Northern Portugal. Permanent settlement in Póvoa de Varzim dates back to around four to six thousand years ago. Around 900 BC, unrest in the region led to the establishment of Cividade de Terroso, a fortified city, which developed maritime trade routes with the civilizations of classical antiquity. Modern Póvoa de Varzim emerged after the conquest by the Roman Republic of the city by 138 BC; fishing and fish processing units soon developed, which b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touro (sculpture)
Touro square. ''Touro'' (Portuguese for "bull"; Monument to the Peoples of Póvoa de Varzim; ) is a bronze sculpture in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. The monument is located in an intersection, a square also popularly known as Touro, at the junction of Vasco da Gama Avenue and Repatriamento dos Poveiros Avenue. The monument was built in 1995 by the sculptor Rui Anahory, who gained some fame due to this monument. The monument was built by the Rotary Clube of Póvoa de Varzim with the support of City Hall. Its popular name derives from the full-sized realistic and stylized sculpture of a bull, one of the elements of the monument, which lead some to relate the monument with bullfighting and the nearby Póvoa de Varzim Bullfighting Arena, hence the popular name of the monument and the square. The monument actually represents the peoples of Póvoa de Varzim, their unity and their differences: The sail and the fisherman representing the coastal people, the farmer and the bull, repre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touro, New Orleans
Touro is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Central City/Garden District Area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: St. Charles Avenue to the north, Toledano Street to the east, Magazine Street to the south and Napoleon Avenue to the west. Geography Touro is located at and has an elevation of . According to the United States Census Bureau, the district has a total area of . of which is land and (0.0%) of which is water. Adjacent Neighborhoods * Milan (north) * Garden District (east) * East Riverside (south) * Uptown (west) Boundaries The New Orleans City Planning Commission defines the boundaries of Touro as these streets: St. Charles Avenue, Toledano Street, Magazine Street and Napoleon Avenue. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 3,242 people, 1,672 households, and 482 families living in the neighborhood. The population density was 10,807 /mi2 (4,053 /km2). As of the census of 2010, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touro, Spain
Touro is a municipality of northwestern Spain in the province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia Galicia may refer to: Geographic regions * Galicia (Spain), a region and autonomous community of northwestern Spain ** Gallaecia, a Roman province ** The post-Roman Kingdom of the Suebi, also called the Kingdom of Gallaecia ** The medieval King .... It has a population of 4,082 inhabitants (INE, 2011). Touro has an area of 15.34 km2. References Municipalities in the Province of A Coruña {{Galicia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touro Infirmary
Touro Infirmary is a non-profit hospital located in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded by Judah Touro in 1852, it is a part of the LCMC Health System. Organization Touro Infirmary is affiliated with the Louisiana State University Health Science Center and Tulane University School of Medicine. The hospital has been located in Uptown New Orleans, within the historic Garden District since 1911. It is near the intersection of Louisiana Avenue and Prytania Street. The address is 1401 Foucher Street, New Orleans with entrances on Foucher Street and Prytania Street. History Touro Infirmary was founded in 1852 by an endowment from Judah Touro. Edward Haycock, Sr., of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England won first prize for his plans for the building. Touro is best known for its Family Birthing Center and for founding the first rehabilitation program in New Orleans. It is also known for its cancer, diabetes, and heart disease programs. Its Neuroscience Center is one of the most advanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touro University Nevada
Touro University Nevada (TUN) is a private university in Henderson, Nevada. It is part of the Touro College and University System. Touro University Nevada is a branch campus of its sister campus Touro University California. History Touro University Nevada was established to help address critical needs in health care and education, and as a resource for community service in Nevada. A non-profit, Jewish-sponsored, private institution affiliated with an international system of higher education, the university opened in 2004 with 78 medical students. Touro University Nevada is home to more than 1,300 students in a wide range of degree programs in osteopathic medicine, nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, physician assistant studies, camp administration and education. Many of these programs are the first of their kind in Nevada. The College of Osteopathic Medicine was Nevada's first osteopathic medical school and the state’s second medical school. Academics TUN has tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judah Touro
Judah Touro (June 16, 1775 – January 18, 1854) was an American businessman and philanthropist. Early life and career Touro's father Isaac Touro of Holland was chosen as the hazzan at the Touro Synagogue in 1762, a Portuguese Sephardic congregation in Newport, Rhode Island.Henry Samuel Morais ''Eminent Israelites of the Nineteenth Century: A Series of Biographical Sketches'' p. 336. The family moved to New York in 1780 after the British occupied Newport during the American Revolutionary war; they moved to Kingston, Jamaica in 1782. Isaac died in 1783, and his wife Reyna moved the family to Boston to live with her brother Moses Michael Hays. She died in 1787, and Judah and his siblings were raised by his uncle, a merchant who helped found Boston's first bank.Thomas Fleming. "'He Loved to Do Good in Secret'," ''Guideposts'', October 1998, p. 28. Touro fell in love with his cousin but was forbidden marriage by her father, who sent him on a trading voyage to the Mediterranean i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touro University California
Touro University California is a private graduate school focused primarily on health professions and located on Mare Island in Vallejo, California. It is part of the Touro College and University System and is jointly administered with its sister campus Touro University Nevada. The university was founded in 1997 and was originally established in San Francisco as an independent, Jewish-sponsored institution, but relocated to Vallejo. Today, the university confers degrees in graduate studies of various disciplines including education, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, physician assistant studies, nursing, and public health. The school's campus consists of and 23 buildings of the former Mare Island naval base located east of the San Pablo Bay. Although sponsored by a Jewish organization, the school has a diverse student body of about 1,400 students as well as 100 faculty members. History Established in 1997, Touro University California was originally located in San Franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
