Detroit Michigan - Medicine. Detroit is home to three major medical systems: the Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health System, and the St. John's Health System. Detroit Receiving Hospital and Henry Ford Hospital are all Level I trauma centers. Detroit is considered to have some of the busiest emergency rooms in the United States. The Detroit Medical Center consists of Detroit Receiving Hospital and University Health Center, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Harper University Hospital, Hutzel Women's Hos ...

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Detroit Michigan - Medicine. Detroit is home to three major medical systems: the Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health System, and the St. John's Health System. Detroit Receiving Hospital and Henry Ford Hospital are both Level I trauma centers. Detroit is considered to have some of the busiest emergency rooms in the United States. The Detroit Medical Center consists of Detroit Receiving Hospital and University Health Center, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Harper University Hospital, Hutzel Women's Ho ...

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Detroit and the surrounding region constitute a manufacturing powerhouse, most notably as home to the American automobile industry and the Big Three auto companies. General Motors is based in Detroit, Ford Motor Company in nearby Dearborn, and one of the two world headquarters for DaimlerChrysler in Auburn Hills (the other is in Stuttgart, Germany). Dotting the Detroit landscape are countless offices and plants in the automotive support business: parts, supplies, electronics, and design. It is not uncommon in Detroit to hear radio ads or to ...

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Detroit Michigan - Music and performing arts. Main article: Music of Detroit Music has been the dominant feature of Detroit's nightlife since the late 1940s. The metropolitan area boasts two of the top live music venues in the U.S. DTE Energy Music Theatre (formerly Pine Knob) was the most attended summer venue in the U.S. in 2005 for the fifteenth consecutive year, while The Palace of Auburn Hills ranked twelfth, according to music industry source Pollstar. Detroit is considered by most industry analysts as the best con ...

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During the latter half of the 20th century, Detroit's crime figures were often among the highest in the U.S. The city is currently listed as the second most dangerous city by the Morgan Quitno Corporation's statistics [13] (after Camden, New Jersey). Detroit consistently ranks in the top 5 for homicide rates, coming in 3rd place in 2004 with a murder rate of 42.1 per 100,000. The highest murder total for Detroit was 714 murders in 1974. Many of these problems are blamed on the widespread middle-class flight (which has contributed greatly to urban decay), poverty, de facto se ...

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During the latter half of the 20th century, Detroit's crime figures were often among the highest in the U.S. The city is currently listed as the second most dangerous city by the Morgan Quitno Corporation's statistics [14] (after Camden, New Jersey). Detroit consistently ranks in the top 5 for homicide rates, coming in 3rd place in 2004 with a murder rate of 42.1 per 100,000. The highest murder total for Detroit was 714 murders in 1974. However, the highest murder rate was recorded in 1991, when there were 615 homicides and the city's popula ...

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Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and the Henry Ford Company (which later became Cadillac). He was one of the first to apply assembly line manufacturing to the mass production of affordable automobiles. This achievement not only revolutionized industrial production in the United States and the rest of the world, but also had such tremendous influence over modern culture that many social theorists identify this phase of economic and social history as "Fordism." Some credit him with c ...

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Image:Detroitcathedral.jpg As of 2005, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit covers the City of Detroit as well as Lapeer, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, and Wayne counties in Michigan. The Diocese of Detroit, erected on March 8, 1833, was elevated to Archdiocese on May 22, 1937. The following is a list of the Roman Catholic Archbishops of the Diocese and Archdiocese of Detroit (and their terms of service). Bishop Frederick John Conrad Rese (1833-1871) Bishop Caspar Henry Borgess (18 ...

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Advanced Rapid Transit or ART is the current name given to a metro system manufactured by Bombardier Transportation; it was originally named ICTS (for ‘Intermediate Capacity Transit System’), and is sometimes referred to generically as ‘advanced light rapid transit’. It is used by metro lines in Vancouver, Toronto, Detroit, New York, and Kuala Lumpur. A future system in Yongin, near Seoul, South Korea is to use the technology as well. It was proposed for Bangkok, Thailand’s Skytrain, but dropped in favour of st ...

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Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit - Toronto Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit - Vancouver Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit - Detroit Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit - Kuala Lumpur Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit - New York
Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit - Movie appearances

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Detroit Michigan - Primary and secondary education. The city is served by the Detroit Public Schools (DPS) district. The student population was 140,716 as of February 2004, and the district employed 19,620 people. The district consists of 232 schools: 147 elementary, 31 middle, 28 high schools, ten adult education and four vocational education. In addition to the ten newly built schools (eight elementary, two middle), five area high schools have either been remodeled or have new buildings. More than half o ...

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Carlos Alberto Arroyo (born July 30, 1979 in Fajardo, Puerto Rico) is an NBA basketball player who plays point guard for the Detroit Pistons. In less than five seasons, Arroyo has become arguably the most successful Puerto Rican basketball player in NBA history. Arroyo played in the Puerto Rican Basketball League for the Cangrejeros de Santurce, where he was a teammate of legendary Puerto Rican player Jose Ortiz. He and Ortiz helped the Cangrejeros to four consecutive titles ...

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The United States Grand Prix is a motor racing event which has taken place at various times since 1959 in several locations, at first as a part of the American Grand Prize series and later as a race in the Formula One World Championship. United States Grand Prix - History. In the early days of Formula One, the Indianapolis 500 was considered an F1 championship event. However, except for Alberto Ascari in 1952, no regular F1 drivers appeared at these races. Not until seven years later would an ...

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United States Grand Prix - History
United States Grand Prix - American Grand Prize United States Grand Prix - Sebring United States Grand Prix - Riverside United States Grand Prix - Watkins Glen United States Grand Prix - Long Beach United States Grand Prix - Las Vegas United States Grand Prix - Detroit United States Grand Prix - Dallas Phoenix United States Grand Prix - Indianapolis
United States Grand Prix - Winners of the United States Grands Prix

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French officer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded a fort and settlement at the site of Detroit in 1701. The settlement was originally called Fort Pontchartrain d'Étroit after Louis Phélypeaux, the comte de Pontchartrain, minister of marine under Louis XIV and for the river that connects Lakes St. Clair and Erie. The British gained control of the area in 1760 following the French and Indian War and thwarted an Indian attack three years later during Pontiac's Rebellion. In 1796, Detroit and its surrounding areas passed to the United ...

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In contrast to cover bands that attempt to re-create the original, the "Cobras" use material from the past and shape it into fresh, original garage rock versions. The resulting sound is rock & roll roots packed with modern garage rock energy. The Detroit Cobras signed to Sympathy Records and released their first full length album entilted "Mink Rat or Rabbit" in 1998. They followed up with 2001's "Life, Love & Leaving" and drew enthusiasm from the NYC and London music scenes. Their retro garage rock formula has p ...

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Detroit River - Tributaries. While primarily a lake outlet, the Detroit River does have a few tributaries of its own which drain 2,000 km² (772 mi²). These include the Rouge River, Ecorse River, Conner Creek and Marsh Creek in the U.S., and Turkey Creek, Little River and Canard River in Canada. Detroit River - Islands. Islands in the Detroit River include Peche Island, Belle Isle, Zug Island, Fighting Island, Grosse Ile, and Bois Blanc (a.k.a. Boblo) Island. The islands of the lower Detroit River are part of the D ...

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The Vipers were originally the Salt Lake Golden Eagles franchise in the IHL. In 1994 the franchise was purchased by Palace Sports and Entertainment, owners of the Detroit Pistons and the Palace of Auburn Hills, and relocated for the 1994-95 season. A sponsorship deal with the Chrysler Corporation led to the naming of the team after their Dodge Viper sports car. A similar deal was in place with another Palace Sports-owned team, the Detroit Neon of the Continental Indoor Soccer League, which would switch its sponsorship to GMC in its final year and rename the team the Detroit S ...

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Upon starting in 1998, the Detroit Shock quickly brought a blend of rookies and veterans, such as Sandy Brondello. (Brondello was later traded to the Miami Sol before the 2001 season.) Their first coach was hall of famer Nancy Lieberman. Several years after making the playoffs in 1999, Detroit came in last place during the 2002 season, and former Detroit Pistons center Bill Laimbeer was brought in as coach. Laimbeer's ideas influenced the team's front management, who agreed with the new coach's idea to bring over some n ...

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Fort Detroit began as a settlement on the Detroit River built to try to keep the British from moving west of New England and to monopolize the fur trade in North America. Before he built Fort Detroit, Cadillac was commandant of Fort de Buade, another French outpost in North America. Fort de Buade was abandoned in 1697 due to conflicts with religious leaders over the trading of alcohol to the Native Americans. Cadillac then persuaded his superiors to let him build a ne ...

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The DDOT was created in 1925 as the Department of Street Railways. DSR began bus service in 1937, and the department became the DDOT in 1974 under the Detroit City Charter (Detroit City Code Reference 7-1401). Streetcar services was discontinued in 1958, with rail transit not resuming service until the Detroit People Mover was added in 1987. The People Mover is currently operated by a sep ...

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