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 Encyclopedia: Kentucky
Erlanger is a city located in Kenton County, Kentucky.
Kentucky and its residents are probably most well known for thoroughbred horses and horse racing, local whisky distilleries, and enthusiasm for basketball (The two principal basketball rivals in the state are the University of Kentucky (blue and white, Wildcats) and the University of Louisville (red and black, Cardinals)).
Kentucky was a border state during the American Civil War and for a time had two state governments, one supporting the Confederacy and one supporting the Union.
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 Erlanger, Kentucky
The population of Erlanger in 1990 was 15,979.
Erlanger is a northwestern Kenton county town about five miles southwest of Covington.
The Greenwood Station post office opened in 1877, was renamed Greenwood Lake in 1878, and was finally renamed Erlanger in 1882.
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 Erlanger, Kentucky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Erlanger is a city located in Kenton County, Kentucky.
Erlanger is located at 39°0'49" North, 84°35'39" West (39.013511, -84.594042)
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 Joseph Erlanger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph Erlanger (* January 5, 1874 in San Francisco, California ;† December 5, 1965 in St.
He won a Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1944 for the discovery of different types of nerve fibres.
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 MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Joseph Erlanger
Erlanger’s research on the way in which nerve cells transmit electrical impulses led to a more precise understanding of the diffferent types of nerve fibers.
United States physiologist Joseph Erlanger won the 1944 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
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 NASA Neurolab Web: Mission Home Page
In 1932 Erlanger and Gasser found that the fibres of a nerve conduct impulses at different rates, depending on the thickness of the fibre, and that each fibre has a different threshold of excitability--i.e., each requires a stimulus of different intensity to create an impulse.
Erlanger's research into nerve function was the product of a profitable collaboration with Gasser, one of his students at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1906-10).
Soon after Erlanger's appointment as professor of physiology at Washington University, St. Louis (1910-46), Gasser joined him there, and they began studying ways in which the recently developed field of electronics could be applied to physiological investigations.
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 Encyclopedia: Abe Erlanger
Their organization known as "Klaw and Erlanger" established systemized booking networks throughout the United States and created a monopoly that controlled every aspect of contracts and bookings until the late 1910s when the Shubert brothers broke their stranglehold on the industry.
The operations of Klaw and Erlanger produced dozens of Broadway shows during the first three decades of the 20th century, including "Dracula," "Ben-Hur," and "The Jazz Singer." They were responsible for opening the rooftop "Jardin de Paris" where the first Ziegfeld Follies was staged.
Abraham Lincoln Erlanger (May 4, 1859 – March 7, 1930) was a theatrical producer, director, designer, theatre owner, and a leading figure of the Theatrical Syndicate.
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Erlanger was born on this date in 1874 and died in 1965.
Physiologist Joseph Erlanger's research on the nervous tissue of frogs led to an increased knowledge of the nature of nerve impulses.
While working at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, he invented the sphygmomanometer to measure blood pressure and conducted studies of how the sounds involved in the measurement of blood pressure are produced.
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 A.L. Erlanger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Klaw and Erlanger " established systemized booking networks throughout the United States and created a monopoly that controlled every aspect of contracts and bookings until the late 1910s when the Shubert brothers broke their stranglehold on the industry.
Abe Erlanger continued to produce on Broadway until his death in 1930.
Born in Buffalo, New York, Erlanger and his partner, a Kentucky lawyer named
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 Herbert Spencer Gasser, July 5, 1888—May 11, 1963 By Merrill W. Chase and Carlton C. Hunt Biographical Memoirs
Erlanger was a beautifully clear lecturer, but the subject matter he presented differed so widely from what was anticipated that it amounted to a revelation.
Joseph Erlanger invited him to take a position in his new department at the recently reorganized Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Erlanger and Gasser explored the details of the C fiber potentials, publishing a detailed paper in 1930.
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 Joseph Erlanger
Erlanger Elsmere United Ministries A social service agency that assist families with food, clothing, shelter, and financial assistance.
Erlanger, KY - The Friendship City The official mayor's guide to the city of Erlanger.
Erlanger Recorder Features news, obituaries, life and sports.
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 Marcus Klaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The partnership of Klaw and Erlanger was badly hurt as a result of the Actors' Equity strike of 1919, and they made their last Broadway production in September of 1924.
Despite being near universally despised by most in the industry for their ruthless tactocs, Klaw and Erlanger produced dozens of Broadway plays and financed many others including the early editions of the Ziegfeld Follies.
Operating as " Klaw and Erlanger " they expanded their business through the acquisition and construction of theaters to the point where they controlled most of the theaters in the
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 Marcus Klaw - Enpsychlopedia
The partnership of Klaw and Erlanger was badly hurt as a result of the Actors' Equity strike of 1919, and they made their last Broadway production in September of 1924.
Operating as "Klaw & Erlanger" they expanded their business through the acquisition and construction of theaters to the point where they controlled most of the theaters in the U.S. South and several major locations in New York.
Among their holdings were they owned "Klaw and Erlanger's Costume Company" and the "Klaw and Erlanger Opera Company."
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 Preserve America Community: Erlanger, Kentucky
Erlanger (population 16,676) began as Erlanger Proper Subdivision, one of the first planned subdivisions in northern Kentucky.
The cities of Erlanger and Elsmere have joined together to create "The Dixie" Renaissance Advisory Committee, which has developed design guidelines for historic buildings in downtown Erlanger and has implemented streetscape improvements.
Preserve America is a White House initiative in cooperation with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; the U.S. Departments of Defense, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Education; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities; and the President's Council on Environmental Quality.
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 © The American Physiological Society - Joseph Erlanger
After 1904 Erlanger's research concerned the conduction of excitation in the heart; he showed that Stokes-Adams syndrome resulted from blockage of conduction between the auricles and ventricles.
As president of APS Erlanger traveled to Stockholm to repeat the invitation on behalf of APS to hold the XIII International Physiological Congress in America.
Elected to Council in 1910, Erlanger remained on Council, with the exception of two years, until 1929.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Joseph Erlanger
Erlanger, Joseph (1874-1965), American physiologist and Nobel Prize winner who studied how nerve fibers transmit electrical impulses.
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 Joseph Erlanger - Biography
In 1922, in collaboration with Gasser, Erlanger adapted the cathode-ray oscillograph for the study of nerve action potentials and this led to the work for which Erlanger and Gasser were given the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology in 1944.
Joseph Erlanger was born on January 5, 1874, at San Francisco, California.
Erlanger has also worked on metabolism of dogs with shortened intestines, on traumatic shock and on the mechanism of the production of sound in arteries.
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 Joseph Erlanger Biography / Profile of Joseph Erlanger Biographies
Joseph Erlanger, the son of Herman and Sarah Erlanger, was born on Jan. 5, 1874, in San Francisco, Calif. He studied chemistry at the University of California, where he received his bachelor's degree, and then went on to Johns Hopkins University for his medical training.
In 1906 Erlanger moved to the newly established medical school at the University of Wisconsin, where he was the first professor of physiology.
The American physiologist Joseph Erlanger (1874-1965) made fundamental discoveries about the way in which nerve impulses are conducted.
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 The Rise of the First Jewish Theatrical Trust
Klaw and Erlanger, but it was not the intention of General Lew Wallace.
The men composing this alliance were Klaw and Erlanger, Nixon and Zimmerman, and Hayman and Frohman.
There was even considerable difficulty on the part of Fiske's lawyer in procuring the attendance of Abraham L. Erlanger at court, although he was one of the complainants.
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 Who's Who of Victorian Cinema
Erlanger remained a financial power in the theatre, and was preparing elaborate plans to expand his activities when he died, on 7 March 1930.
In 1907 Klaw and Erlanger joined a successful lawsuit against the Kalem film company over its unauthorized film of one of the company's most enduring and commecially successful plays, an adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel Ben Hur, which set an important legal precedent on film copyrights.
With his theatrical booking partner Marc Klaw, Abraham Lincoln Erlanger had an uneasy relationship with the new medium of motion pictures throughout a career that was dominated by a ruthless commercial instinct.
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 Erlanger, Northern Kentucky - GoCincinnati
Erlanger is second only to Covington in population.
Erlanger schools elementary schools include: A.J. Lindeman, Arnett, John Miles and Howell Elementary.
T.A.N.K. buses serve Erlanger at about 20-minute intervals.
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 Hotels in Erlanger Kentucky
While locating a Hotel in Erlanger Kentucky, you should know the benefits of a condo - If you vacation on your own, or as a couple, then renting a condominium home may well work out to be more expensive.Choosing a condo instead of a Hotel in Erlanger Kentucky could be a great idea.
While locating a Hotel in Erlanger Kentucky, you should know the benefits of a condo - Some of the things that may be included with your condominium is: Central Air/heat, Washer and Dryer in Unit, Kitchen is fully supplied.
While locating a Hotel in Erlanger Kentucky, you should know the benefits of a condo - PRIVACY - there is always someone there to see you when you leave or return and with whom.
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 MSN Encarta - Literature Guide - Roma Mater
Karen Anderson was born in Erlanger, Kentucky, on September 16, 1932, to Norman and Hallie Kruse.
Poul Anderson was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, on November 25, 1926, to Anton and Astrid Anderson.
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 Selected Twentieth Century Works: E
Observations on repetitive responses in axons, by Joseph Erlanger and E.A. Blair.
Manifestations of segmentation in myelinated axons, by Joseph Erlanger and E.A. Blair.
The compound nature of the action current of nerve as disclosed by the cathode ray oscillograph, by Joseph Erlanger and H.S. Gasser with the collaboration, in some of the experiments, of George H. Bishop.
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 St Joseph's Parish, Crescent Springs, Kentucky
A large crowd of people from Covington, Erlanger and Ludlow were assembled on the grounds awaiting the arrival of the Bishop.
Joseph Parish, at present numbering one hundred and twenty-five families, gives promise of extensive future growth.
Under the guidance of Father Busse, the St. Joseph Parish at Crescent Springs was organized and established.
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 NASA Neurolab Web: Mission Home Page
The American physiologist, co-recipient (with Joseph Erlanger) of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944 for fundamental discoveries concerning the functions of different kinds of nerve fibres.
At Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. (1916-31), where he was professor of pharmacology, Gasser collaborated with Erlanger in studying the barely detectable electrical impulses carried by isolated mammalian nerve fibres.
Herbert Spencer Gasser was born in 1888 in Platteville, Wisconsin.
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Benjamin Stevens, General Manager for Klaw and Erlanger, and one of the best-known men in the theatrical world, died suddenly late yesterday afternoon in his home, 265 Central Park West.
Stevens had been connected with Klaw and Erlanger for many years, but was better known to the general public perhaps as a manager for Richard Mansfield, "San Toy" McCall Opera Company, De Wolf Hopper when that comedian appeared in "Wang" and the late Jerome Sykes's productions Mr.
**Producers Sam Nixon and Fred Zimmerman of Philadelphia, Charles Frohman, Al Hayman, Marc Klaw and Abraham Erlanger of New York formed an organization in order to control and stabilize American Theatre.
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 CANDRAMA Archives -- May 1999 (#2)
Klaw and Erlanger got their start through their Southern connections, and fought many turf battles there: with Henry Greenwall in the 90s, mainly, but also involving DeGive in Atlanta, Tannenbaum in Mobile, Rapley in Washington etc., as well as theatres in Richmond, Savannah, Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville etc. etc.
For some time I have been researching Klaw and Erlanger and "The Syndicate" which operated from the mid-1890s to World War I, roughly (Marc Klaw was my great-grandfather).
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