In the late 18th century, a trading settlement on the banks of the Oconee River called Cedar Shoals stood where Athens is located today. On January 27, 1785, the Georgia General Assembly granted a charter by Abraham Baldwin for the University of Georgia as the first state-supported university. Sixteen years later, in 1801, a committee from the university's board of trustees selected a site for the university on a hill above Cedar Shoals in what was then Jackson County. On July 25, John Milledge, one of the trustees and later governor of Geor ...

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The 2005-06 academic year will mark the 99th year of competition in intercollegiate athletics for the Loyola Marymount University Athletics Department. Just one year shy of a century, the LMU Lions have had some memorable moments in the world of collegiate athletics, showing they have been "Building Champions" for nearly a century. A lot has changed since 1906 when LMU, then known as St. Vincent's College, began fielding a basketball team. The initial season of LMU athletics offered a glimpse of things to come as the Lions posted a 5- ...

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Nebraska - Colleges and universities. University of Nebraska system University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Nebraska at Kearney University of Nebraska at Omaha University of Nebraska Medical Center Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture Nebraska State College System Chadron State College Peru State Colle ...

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DuBois became impressed by the growing strength of Imperial Japan following the Japanese victory in the Russo-Japanese War. DuBois saw the victory of Japan over Tsarist Russia as an example of "colored pride". According to Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Levering Lewis, Du Bois became a willing part of Japan's "Negro Propaganda Operations" run by Japanese academic and Imperial Agent Hikida Yasuichi. After traveling to the United States to speak with University students at Howard University, Scripps College and Tuskegee Univers ...

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Harold Bloom - Miscellaneous Books. (Editor) English Romantic Poetry, An Anthology, Doubleday, 1961, two-volume revised edition, Anchor, 1963. (Editor, with John Hollander) The Wind and the Rain, Doubleday, 1961. The Literary Criticism of John Ruskin, Edited and with Introduction by Harold Bloom, Anchor, 1965. (Editor, with Frederick W. Hilles) From Sensibility to Romanticism: Essays Presented to Frederick A. Pottle, Oxford University Press, 1965. ...

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The city has been designated the high tech headquarters for Korea. A number of colleges and universities are located there, including: Baekseok College, formerly Cheonan College of Foreign Studies Cheonan National Technical College Cheonan University Cheonan Yonam College Dankook University (satellite campus) International Graduate University for Peace Korea Nazarene University Korea University of Technology and Education Namseoul University Sangmyung University (satellite campus) See also: List of col ...

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Mississippi - Colleges and universities. Alcorn State University Belhaven College Blue Mountain College Copiah-Lincoln Community College Delta State University East Central Community College Hinds Community College Holmes Community College Itawamba Community College Jackson State University Magnolia Bible College Millsaps College Mississippi College Mississippi Gulf Coast Community ...

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The term university college is used in a number of countries to denote institutions that provide tertiary education but do not have full or independent university status. Precise usage varies between countries. University college - Australia. In Australia, the term "university college" or "residential college" is used to denote an institution which provides accommodation, academic support (such as tutorials) and social activities to students of its affiliated university, but usually does not form a fundamen ...

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Hyderabad is an important seat of learning in southern India. It has ten universities and many professional colleges. The universities are Osmania University, the University of Hyderabad, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Mawlana Azad National Urdu University, Dr B R Ambedkar Open University, the first Open University in India, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) a Super Speciality medical institution of International reputation, the Central Institute of English & Foreign Languages (CIEFL), Potti Sreeramulu Telugu Unive ...

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Adapted from the New York Times Mount Allison University has produced more Rhodes Scholars per capita than any other university in the British Commonwealth. The latest, elected in 2006, was the school's 46th. ...

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Manila - General landmarks. Luneta Park, officially Rizal Park Intramuros, the walled-city of built by the Spaniards as their official residence Fort Santiago Malacañang Palace, the official residence of the President of the Philippines The Supreme Court of the Philippines Manila Baywalk Rajah Sulayman Park Manila Boardwalk Ermita and Malate Districts, a place for Bohemian night life Manila Zoological and Botanical Gard ...

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Politics series Factions Agorism Anarcho-capitalism Geolibertarianism Paleolibertarianism Neolibertarianism Left-libertarianism Influences Austrian School Classical liberalism Individualist anarchism Objectivism Mixed economy Ideas Liberty Free markets Laissez-faire Capitalism Non-aggression Minarchism Key issues Parties Economic views Views of rights
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Syracuse's major university is Syracuse University, located on University Hill. It had an enrollment of 18,604 students (12,645 undergraduates, 5,176 graduates, and 783 law students) in 2003. Surrounding Syracuse University are two State University (SUNY) schools, the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and SUNY Upstate Medical University. Also in Syracuse are Le Moyne College on the city's eastern border, and Onondaga Community College, which has its main campus in the city's Elmwood neighborhood, along with two ...

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Educational institutions include: Newcastle under Lyme College, a Further Education college established in the 1970s Newcastle under Lyme School, a private school established in the 17th century. The well renowned Keele University, situated by the village of Keele is only 3 miles outside of Newcastle, and the Keele University Medical School is based in the University Hospital of North Staffo ...

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A Secular Humanist Declaration was an argument for and statement of belief in Democratic Secular Humanism. The document was issued in 1980 by The Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism ("CODESH"), now the Council for Secular Humanism ("CSH"). A Secular Humanist Declaration - Table of Contents. Free Inquiry Separation Of Church And State The Ideal Of Freedom Ethics Based On Critical Intelligence Moral Education Religious Skepticism Reason ...

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At the age of thirteen, Donald's parents sent him to the New York Military Academy hoping to channel his energy and assertiveness in a positive manner. Trump attended Fordham University before transferring to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics, he joined his father's real estate company. Trump moved to Manhattan in 1971. In his book, Art of the Deal, Trump discusses his undergraduate career: "After I graduated from the New York Mil ...

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Blue may denote the working class, derived from the traditional color of factory uniforms. Blue-collar workers are industrial workers and are often contrasted white-collar office workers. However, in contrast to "blue collar," the phrase "blue blood" is used to mean "from an aristocratic background," because pale, untanned skin–a sign of nobility–allows blue-tinged veins to show through. Several vocations are associated with blue. Law enforcement, and uniformed police, often wear blue uniforms and have become associa ...

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Born in Wuxi, Qian Zhongshu was the son of Qian Jibo (TC:錢基博), a conservative Confucian scholar. Qian Zhongzhu grew up under the care of his eldest uncle, who did not have a son. Qian was initially named Yangzhi (TC:仰之). When he was one year old, according to a tradition practised in many parts of China, he was given a few objects laid out in front of him for his "grabbing". He grabbed a book. His uncle then renamed him Zhongshu, literally meaning "being fond of books". His father later also changed his zi to Mocun, literally meaning "to keep silent", in the ...

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Born in 1900 in Salida, Colorado, to a peripatetic civil engineer, White lived first in Kansas and then Louisiana. He enrolled to fight in the First World War, but saw only the tail end of it, spending a year in the US Navy before matriculating at Louisiana State University in 1919. In 1921 he transferred to Columbia University where he studied psychology, taking a BA in 1923 and an MA in 1924. Although at the same university as Franz Boas, Leslie White missed the founding father of American anthropology altogether. However, his interests ev ...

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Du Bois was invited to Ghana in 1961 by President Kwame Nkrumah to direct the Encyclopedia Africana, a government production, and a long-held dream of his. When in 1963 he was refused a new U.S. passport because of his communism, he and his wife, Shirley Graham Du Bois, renounced their citizenship and became citizens of Ghana. Du Bois' health had declined in 1962, and on August 27, 1963 he died in Accra, Ghana at the age of ninety-five ...

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Theodore von Kármán (Szőllőskislaki Kármán Tódor) (May 11, 1881 – May 6, 1963) was an engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics during the seminal era in the 1940s and 1950s. He is personally responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization. He was born in Budapest, Hungary as Kármán Tódor, studied engineering at the city's Royal Technical University, graduating in 1902. He then joined Ludwig Prandtl at ...

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Jindal, born in Baton Rouge to Indian immigrants, was a Hindu but converted to Catholicism while in high school. He graduated from Brown University with honors in biology and public policy. Afterwards, he received a master's degree in politics from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He is the only Indian-American currently serving in Congress, and is only the second in Congressional history after Dalip Singh Saund, who served California's 29th Dis ...

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