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Bethesda

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Bethesda

Town in Gwynedd, northwest Wales, 7 km/4 mi southeast of Bangor; population (2001) 4,400. It derives its name from the local Nonconformist chapel. The nearby Penrhyn slate quarries formed the basis for its original growth.

Bethesda

Community in central Maryland, 11 km/7 mi northwest of Washington DC; population (1990 est) 62,900. It takes its name from a Presbyterian church built in 1820. Primarily an affluent residential suburb, from 1935 Bethesda has developed as a major research centre.

It is home to the National Cancer Institute, the National Institutes of Health (1939), the National Naval Medical Center (1942), and the National Library of Medicine (1963). Private research institutes augment those sponsored by the US government.



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"We will resume yesterday's discourse, young ladies," said he, "and you shall each read a page by turns; so that Miss a--Miss Short may have an opportunity of hearing you"; and the poor girls began to spell a long dismal sermon delivered at Bethesda Chapel, Liverpool, on behalf of the mission for the Chickasaw Indians.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
To see the numbers of maimed, malformed and diseased humanity that throng the holy places and obstruct the gates, one might suppose that the ancient days had come again, and that the angel of the Lord was expected to descend at any moment to stir the waters of Bethesda.
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