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    The Athens Lunatic Asylum, now a mixed-use development known as The Ridges, was a Kirkbride Plan mental hospital operated in Athens, Ohio, from 1874 until...
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    effort led to the construction of the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum, the first complete asylum built on the Kirkbride Plan. Thomas Story Kirkbride (1809–1883)...
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    reached Athens in 1857. In the late 19th century, an interurban line opened between Athens and Nelsonville and operated for some years. The Athens Lunatic Asylum...
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    compensation and contributed over $57,000 to its cost. Athens Lunatic Asylum, Athens, Ohio Asylum for the Insane, Columbus, Ohio North Carolina Penitentiary...
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    facility was built to alleviate overcrowding at the state's only other "lunatic asylum" located in Trenton, New Jersey. Originally built to accommodate 350...
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    Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. At Ohio University, for example, the Athens Lunatic Asylum operated right across the street from the university until 1993...
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  • House and Hotel Death Valley Junction California United States Athens Lunatic Asylum Athens Ohio United States Borden House Fall River Massachusetts United...
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    Western Lunatic Asylums Meeting of the Commission', Staunton Spectator, November 30, 1869 1869, p. 1. F. Stribling, Annual Report of the Western Lunatic Asylum...
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  • Location(s) Original air date 1 1 "Satan's Dormitory" City of Athens, Ohio, U.S.:  • Athens Lunatic Asylum  • Wilson Hall, Ohio University Villisca Murder House...
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    seven studio albums – Kasabian (2004), Empire (2006), West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum (2009), Velociraptor! (2011), 48:13 (2014), For Crying Out Loud (2017)...
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    1882 for the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum, and later used by the Parkside Lunatic Asylum, still stands. The Adelaide Lunatic Asylum opened in 1852 in the grounds...
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    interests such as a local love affair with the Paw paw, the former Athens Lunatic Asylum, and the Dairy Barn Arts Center. Lefelhocz incorporated the Dairy...
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    December 1842, the hospital was founded as the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum, and was also known as the Georgia State Sanitarium and Milledgeville...
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    offended by a possible ban on assault weapons, writing: "Me and all my lunatic, gun-toting NRA compatriots would be on the steps of Congress before the...
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    Happy Deathday, was released in January 2012 by the Italian label Lunatic Asylum Records and Twilight worldwide, and the latest, Grave Party, was released...
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  • of Corfu'. His works were played in Athens and Italy. Due to mental illness, he was placed in the lunatic asylum of Corfu, where he died in 1892. Except...
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  • when she was admitted to a mental asylum undercover to expose the abuse of female inmates at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island. The series...
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    newspapers, learning academies, and banks. In 1837-1842 the Georgia Lunatic Asylum (later the Central State Hospital) was built here. Oglethorpe University...
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  • designed by H.H. Richardson. High Royds Hospital (West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum) near Leeds, England, designed by J. Vickers Edwards. Several buildings...
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  • bankrupt and had been committed to Kensington House Asylum. After his release in 1851 the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society helped him sue the proprietor of...
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    "A beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia's Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War, where a severely wounded Union veteran...
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    Alexandru A. Suțu (category National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni)
    psychiatry. He classified four major types of care for the insane: the lunatic asylum; the cottage system proposed by British authors; villages or colonies...
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    India might be cared for at Pembroke House, Hackney, London, a private lunatic asylum run by Dr George Rees until 1838, and thereafter by Dr William Williams...
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  • – The Irish Lunatic Asylums for the Poor Act made legislative provisions of public asylums for all of Ireland. 1819 – The Pauper Lunatics Act 1819 was...
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    bimaristan served as a center of medical treatment, as well nursing home and lunatic asylum. It typically treated the poor, as the rich would have been treated...
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    half of Julie had been written in a brothel and the second half in a lunatic asylum. In his Lettres sur La Nouvelle Heloise, written under a pseudonym,...
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  • fire, Hoboken, New Jersey, on June 30, killed 326. 1903 – Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum fire, London, England on January 27, killed 51. 1903 – Iroquois Theater...
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  • Most importantly, the novel ends with Kopfrkingl being taken away to a lunatic asylum by "angels in white" (security guards) while in the movie, the ending...
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    removal. Some of the books and other similar property were stored in the Lunatic Asylum, three miles out of town. A train of cars was held at the depot to carry...
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    publications began campaigning in 1957. Le Figaro published an appeal titled "The Lunatic at St Elizabeths". The New Republic, Esquire, and The Nation followed suit...
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