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    The 1925 serum run to Nome, also known as the Great Race of Mercy and The Serum Run, was a transport of diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled relay across...
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    Leonhard Seppala (category People from Nome, Alaska)
    the 1925 serum run to Nome, and participated in the 1932 Winter Olympics. Seppala introduced the work dogs used by Native Siberians at the time to the...
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    Balto (category Nome, Alaska)
    Sled Dog Hero of 1925 Nome Serum Run". AKC.org. American Kennel Club. Retrieved 2022-02-07. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Balto. Wikiquote has...
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  • Togo (film) (category Films set in 1925)
    Leonhard Seppala and his titular sled dog in the 1925 serum run to Nome to transport diphtheria antitoxin serum through harsh conditions during an epidemic...
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  • Balto (film) (category Films set in 1925)
    eponymous dog who helped save children infected with diphtheria in the 1925 serum run to Nome. The film stars the voices of Kevin Bacon, Bridget Fonda, Phil Collins...
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    Togo (dog) (category Nome, Alaska)
    in the 1925 serum run to Nome across central and northern Alaska. Despite covering a far greater distance than any other lead dogs on the run, over some...
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    the 1925 serum run to Nome, featuring Balto and Togo. Although Balto is considered the more famous, being the dog that delivered the serum to Nome after...
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    Gunnar Kaasen (category People from Nome, Alaska)
    of Alaska Anchorage) The Serum Run of 1925 (Jennifer Houdek, University of Alaska Anchorage) History of the 1925 Nome Serum Run (Earl J. Aversano) Balto's...
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    Samuel Balto (category People from Nome, Alaska)
    made famous during the 1925 serum run to Nome, which transported diphtheria medication across the U.S. territory of Alaska to combat an epidemic, was...
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    Diphtheria antitoxin (category Wikipedia medicine articles ready to translate)
    to the passage of the Biologics Control Act of 1902 and the 1906 formation of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The celebrated 1925 serum run...
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    Statue of Balto (category 1925 establishments in New York City)
    belonging to musher and breeder Leonhard Seppala. He achieved fame when he reportedly led a team of sled dogs on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome, in...
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  • teams to deliver the antitoxin to Nome to relieve the diphtheria epidemic, beginning the relay that would become known as the 1925 serum run to Nome. A contingent...
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    Canada as the Siberian Husky, after the popularity garnered from the 1925 serum run to Nome. Siberians stand 20–23.5 inches, weigh between 35 and 60lbs (35-50...
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    Leonhard Seppala ran the penultimate, and longest, leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome. One of his dogs, Togo, is considered the forgotten hero of the...
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    during the 1918 flu pandemic; the Diphtheria outbreak during the 1925 serum run to Nome, the 1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak, the SARS pandemic, the Ebola...
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    Daniel Sutherland (category People from Nome, Alaska)
    Nome in 1925, he supported an air rescue. Governor Scott Bone ultimately decided to use a dog sled relay in what became known as the 1925 serum run to...
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    Seppala and his dog sled team in the 1925 serum run to Nome across central and northern Alaska. Seppala considered Togo to be the greatest sled dog and lead...
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    Race, an annual 1000-mile race across Alaska. It commemorates the 1925 serum run to Nome. The first idea for a commemorative sled dog race over the historically...
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  • participated in the 1925 serum run to Nome. Barks had read an article about Balto in an issue of National Geographic, and was inspired to create this character...
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  • saved from a diphtheria epidemic by the historic 1925 serum run to Nome. Second and third place went to Rohn Buser and Dallas Seavey, sons of former Iditarod...
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    lead dog on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome (which relayed diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across Alaska to combat an epidemic). Balto was...
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    Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic Gay & Laney Salisbury 1925 serum run to Nome McMullin, Thomas A.; Walker, David (1984). Biographical Directory...
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  • the icebound city of Nome to alert the outside world about a diphtheria outbreak which led to the successful 1925 serum run to Nome. At the beginning of...
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  • in the 1925 serum run to Nome, also known as the Great Race of Mercy, in which dog-sled teams relayed to transport diphtheria antitoxin serum through...
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  • 27–February 1 – The 1925 serum run to Nome (the "Great Race of Mercy") relays diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U.S. Territory of Alaska to combat an...
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    original park design. Balto (1925), a statue of Balto, the sled dog who became famous during the 1925 serum run to Nome, is near East Drive and East 66th Street...
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    December 17, 1925, and was the first statue in the city to honor a dog. The black Siberian Husky became famous during the 1925 serum run to Nome, which saved...
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    woodlands and mountains, and to bring supplies to soldiers in the field. During the 1925 serum run to Nome, 20 mushers and about 150 sled dogs relayed diphtheria...
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    for the 1925 diphtheria outbreak in Nome. In one of the final great feats of dog sleds, twenty drivers and teams carried the life-saving serum 674 miles...
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    famous 1925 serum run to Nome in which mushers and dogs like Togo and Balto took much-needed medicine to the diphtheria-stricken community of Nome when...
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