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Chimborazo (volcano) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (462 words) |
 | The Chimborazo is an extinct volcano located in the Andes mountains of central Ecuador, 150 kilometres (93 miles) south-southwest of the capital Quito. |
| Until the beginning of the nineteenth century it was thought that Chimborazo was the highest mountain on Earth (measured from sea level), and such reputation led to many attempts on its summit during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |
| The Chimborazo glacier is the source of water for the population of the Bolivar and Chimborazo cantons of Ecuador. |
| Chimborazo Hospital, CSA (3509 words) |
| In the conduct of the Chimborazo Hospital the director bore in mind the fact, often overlooked by Northern historians, that the number of men of the upper classes of the South serving in the ranks was great. |
| Phoebe Yates Pember, one of the matrons at the Chimborazo Hospital. |
| McCaw, Commandant of the Chimborazo Hospital, unveiled the tablet which was covered with a battle flag and a hospital flag of the Confederate States Army captured during the war, and returned to Virginia by act of Congress. |
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