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Catawba Sanatorium Roanoke, Virginia [19] 1909 La Vina Sanitarium Altadena, California [20] 1909 San Haven Sanatorium Dunseith, North Dakota [21] 1910 Undercliff State Hospital: Meriden, Connecticut: 1910 Waverly Hills Sanatorium: Jefferson County, Kentucky [22] 1910 Pine Camp Tuberculosis Hospital: Richmond, Virginia [23] 1911 Firland ...
Iconography of St. Louis. The St. Louis flag features two rivers merging in a confluence of French heritage signified by a fleur-de-lis. The Iconography of St. Louis, Missouri is strongly informed by the city's French and German heritages, physical features, and place in American history.
Marquess of Lansdowne. Marquessate of Lansdowne. Arms: 1st and 4th, Ermine, on a Bend Azure, a Magnetic Needle, pointing to the Polar Star Or (Petty); 2nd and 3rd, Argent, a Saltire Gules, and a Chief, Ermine (FitzMaurice). Crests: 1st, A Beehive beset with Bees volant proper (Petty). 2nd, A Centaur drawing a Bow and Arrow proper, the part ...
The fleur-de-lis, also spelled fleur-de-lys (plural fleurs-de-lis or fleurs-de-lys ), [ pron 1] is a common heraldic charge in the shape of a lily (in French, fleur and lis mean 'flower' and 'lily' respectively). Most notably, the fleur-de-lis is depicted on the traditional coat of arms of France that was used from the High Middle Ages until ...
The Louisville Falls Fountain was a fountain that floated in the Ohio River off the shore of downtown Louisville, intended to be a major tourist attraction for Louisville, Kentucky. Purported to be the tallest floating fountain in the world, it spouted 15,800 gallons of water per minute upward in the shape of a fleur-de-lis. [ 1][ 2]
The fleur-de-lys (or fleur-de-lis, plural: fleurs-de-lis; / ˌ f l ɜːr d ə ˈ l iː /, [ˌflœː(ʀ)dəˈlɪs] in Quebec French), translated from French as "lily flower") is a stylized design of either an iris or a lily that is now used purely decoratively as well as symbolically, or it may be "at one and the same time political, dynastic ...
The current seal used represents Louisville and Jefferson County following the merger of the governments on January 6, 2003. The seal reads "Louisville – Jefferson County" in a circle around a single fleur-de-lis with two stars and includes the year 1778 (the year Louisville was founded) on both sides.
Postcard with a view of sanitarium with the tower addition, c. 1930. The Battle Creek Sanitarium was a world-renowned health resort in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States. [ 3] It started in 1866 on health principles advocated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and from 1876 to 1943 was managed by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg.