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Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the... South. The Commodore hoped that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the Civil War. Today Vanderbilt enrolls approximately 12,000 students from all 50 U.S. states and over 90 foreign countries in four undergraduate and six graduate and professional schools. Several research centers and institutes are affiliated with the university, including the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, Dyer Observatory, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the only Level I trauma center in Middle Tennessee. With the exception of the off-campus observatory and satellite medical clinics, all of university's facilities are situated on its 330-acre campus in the heart of Nashville, only 1.5 miles from downtown.
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New Palestine is a town in Sugar Creek Township, Hancock County, Indiana, along Sugar Creek. The population was 2,055 at the 2010 census. New Palestine was laid out October 1, 1838 by Jonathan Evans. It first consisted of fifteen blocks and thirty six lots. A petition for the incorporation of New... Palestine as a town was dated May 22, 1871 and presented to the board of county commissioners at the June session of 1871. At the time of the petition New Palestine had a population of 279 people. The vote for incorporation was held on June 24, 1871. Many years after incorporation the town had difficulty with its name. The post office was known as Sugar Creek. The railroad and express stations as Palestine and the name of the town itself was New Palestine. Through the efforts of E.F. Faut and Congressman Bynum the name of the postoffice was changed from Sugar Creek to New Palestine on January 16, 1889, and the name of the railroad station and express office were also changed to New Palestine. New Palestine is located at 39°43′21″N 85°53′23″W / 39.7225°N 85.88972°W / 39.7225; -85.88972 .
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