Hello Pittsburgh! Welcome to the family and thank you for creating the very first emergency medical services in America!  Freedom House Ambulance Service was created in 1967 and was staffed entirely by trained black men and women. Listener, go look at its history and see what these amazing people achieved back then! Thank you for listening Pittsburgh! 

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Hubris in Ancient Greece seemed to be a very common reason for the gods to punish humans. And it was almost always a clear case of one . Son of a Satyr and a Nymph, Ορχις (orchis) was a young man who during the Dionysian festival attempted to sexually assault a priestess. The gods were furious with Dionysus applying his most brutal punishment . Orhis was not only torn apart by wild animals but was transformed to a very fragile flower. The boy’s name was given to the flower but also to male genitalia since it’s roots look like them. In English it had a few names until 1845, botanist John Lindley brought it over- from Latin- in his book ‘School Botany’   ΟΡΧΙΔΕΑ/ORCHID 

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