Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Ben Carson across 4 places, from 1951 to 1983.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. (born September 18, 1951) is an American retired neurosurgeon, academic, author, and government official who served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Ben Carson is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Ben Carson was documented, and when
18 September 1951exact date
Boynton–Oakwood Heights (Detroit)attested“In 1950, Carson's parents purchased a new 733-square-foot single-family detached home on Deacon Street in the Boynton neighborhood of southwest Detroit, where Carson was born on September 18, 1951.”source: Wikipedia: Ben Carson
1973year
University of Michiganattested“You know, obviously, decades later, I'm not going to remember the course number." Carson entered the University of Michigan Medical School in 1973, and at first he struggled academically, doing so poorly on his first set of comprehensive…”source: Wikipedia: Ben Carson
1973year
University of Michigan Medicineattested“You know, obviously, decades later, I'm not going to remember the course number." Carson entered the University of Michigan Medical School in 1973, and at first he struggled academically, doing so poorly on his first set of comprehensive…”source: Wikipedia: Ben Carson
1983 to 1984period
Nedlands, Western Australiaattested“He then spent one year (1983–1984) as a Senior Registrar in neurosurgery at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Nedlands, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.”source: Wikipedia: Ben Carson
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In each of these, a source puts Ben Carson and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
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1959year
Dorchester, Bostonmentioned“In 1959, when he was eight, his parents separated and he moved with his mother and brother to live for two years with his mother's Seventh-day Adventist older sister and brother-in-law in multi-family dwellings in the Dorchester and Roxb…”source: Wikipedia: Ben Carson
1971year
Yale Collegementioned“Carson and his wife, fellow Detroit native Lacena "Candy" Rustin, met in 1971 as students at Yale and married in 1975.”source: Wikipedia: Ben Carson
1973year
Yale Collegementioned“In 1973, Carson graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Yale "with a fairly respectable grade point average although far from the top of the class".”source: Wikipedia: Ben Carson
1988year
West Friendship, Marylandmentioned“They moved to West Friendship, Maryland, in 1988.”source: Wikipedia: Ben Carson
1998year
Andrews Universitymentioned“In 1998, Carson gave the commencement address at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan, the flagship institution of the Seventh Day Adventist school system.”source: Wikipedia: Ben Carson
1998year
Berrien Springs, Michiganmentioned“In 1998, Carson gave the commencement address at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan, the flagship institution of the Seventh Day Adventist school system.”source: Wikipedia: Ben Carson
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