With a few clicks of a mouse, folks in Washington State can find out which hospitals have unusually high infection rates, thanks to a new website launched this week by the state's health department.even other hospitals were shown to have unusually high rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia from January to June of last year. According to the newspaper, available staffers at those hospitals also reported reduced infection rates since the data was gathered.
Workers remove love padlocks attached on the railings of the Pont des Arts on June 1, 2015, in Paris. Started by tourists in Paris in 2008, the love locks ritual also spread in the early 2000s to cities including New York, Seoul and London. The Ile de la Cite and another bridge, the Pont Neuf, appear through the lock-free railings of the Pont des Arts in Paris on June 1, 2015.
The Treaty of Paris. The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain the American Colonies. Peace negotiations began in April of 1782 in the Hotel d'York involving American representatives Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Henry Laurens, and John Adams. The British representatives present were David Hartley and Richard Oswald. Signing the Preliminary Treaty of Peace at Paris, by Carl Wilhelm Anton Seiler, 1904.