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These Trailblazing Black Paramedics Are the Reason You Don’t Have to Ride a Hearse or a Police Van to the Hospital

During its first year of service, Freedom House Amublance Service transported more than 4,600 patients across 5,800 calls, saving 200 lives. Heinz History Center In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Freedom House Ambulance Service set the standard for emergency medical care, laying the groundwork for the services available today It was mid-1975 when paramedic John Moon performedContinue reading “These Trailblazing Black Paramedics Are the Reason You Don’t Have to Ride a Hearse or a Police Van to the Hospital”

See Photos From the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition That Led to the Vanishing of Two Explorers

Camp III with Everest rising above the flank of Changtse mountain. © Royal Geographical Society A century later, a new book captures the grand scale of the mountain and uncovers more about the expedition and the people at its center One hundred years ago, two men set out to summit Mount Everest. Neither of them returned.Continue reading “See Photos From the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition That Led to the Vanishing of Two Explorers”