Legionnaires' disease acquired its name in July 1976, when an outbreak of pneumonia occurred among people attending a convention of the American Legion at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia. Of the 182 reported cases, mostly men, 29 died. On January 18, 1977, the causative agent was identified as a previously unknown strain of bacteria, subsequently named "Legionella", and the species that caused the outbreak was named "Legionella pneumophila". Outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease receive significant media attention, but this disease usually occurs in single, isolated cases not associated with any recognized outbreak. When outbreaks do occur, they are usually in the summer and
Garibaldi Legion (French Foreign Legion) the 1930s and is remembered in France as le dernier Poilu, the last of the veterans. Today the Legion in Italy is an association of veterans and people who share the ideals of the Republic Garibaldi. Garibaldi Legion (French Foreign Legion) The Garibaldi Legion (official name 4 régiment de marche du 1 étranger) was a unit of the French Foreign Legion which formed the Marching Regiment of the Foreign Legion composed entirely all of Italian citizens, who fought in France in World War I against the Germans. With the outbreak of World War I in the fall of 1914, Giuseppe