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The Peabody Award, granted annually and internationally for excellence in broadcasting
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American educator and writer who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1860)
educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1804-1894)

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peabody bird
The name is imitative of its note
peabody bird
Called also White- throated sparrow
peabody bird
An American sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) having a conspicuous white throat
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
born May 16, 1804, Billerica, Mass., U.S. died Jan. 3, 1894, Jamaica Plain, Mass. U.S. educator and leader in the kindergarten movement in America. She served as secretary to William Ellery Channing (1825-34) and worked with Bronson Alcott in his Temple School. She opened a Boston bookshop in 1839, which became a centre for Transcendentalist activities. She published works by Margaret Fuller and Nathaniel Hawthorne and also published and wrote articles for The Dial. Inspired by the work of Friedrich Froebel, she opened the first English-language kindergarten in the U.S. in 1860 and thereafter devoted herself to organizing public and private kindergartens. Her sisters married Horace Mann and Nathaniel Hawthorne
Elizabeth Peabody
born May 16, 1804, Billerica, Mass., U.S. died Jan. 3, 1894, Jamaica Plain, Mass. U.S. educator and leader in the kindergarten movement in America. She served as secretary to William Ellery Channing (1825-34) and worked with Bronson Alcott in his Temple School. She opened a Boston bookshop in 1839, which became a centre for Transcendentalist activities. She published works by Margaret Fuller and Nathaniel Hawthorne and also published and wrote articles for The Dial. Inspired by the work of Friedrich Froebel, she opened the first English-language kindergarten in the U.S. in 1860 and thereafter devoted herself to organizing public and private kindergartens. Her sisters married Horace Mann and Nathaniel Hawthorne
George Peabody
born Feb. 18, 1795, South Danvers [now Peabody], Mass., U.S. died Nov. 4, 1869, London, Eng. U.S. merchant and financier. Born in South Danvers, Mass. (renamed Peabody in his honour), he earned an early fortune as a partner in a wholesale dry-goods business and as president of the Eastern Railroad (from 1836). On a trip to England, he negotiated an $8 million loan for the near-bankrupt state of Maryland. In 1837 he moved to London permanently and founded a merchant banking house specializing in foreign exchange; his banking operations helped establish U.S. credit abroad. He spent most of his fortune on philanthropy to promote education and the arts; his gifts include a natural history museum at Yale University, an archaeology museum at Harvard University, and an Asian export art museum in Salem, Mass
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