when was the first school made in the world
Wilstone


1848 the new school opened. The school was made up of one block and over its lifespan saw very little changes, the greatest change to the school being the transformation of the mud patch of a playground into a proper turfed area with an iron fence. The school saw 1,394 students cross its threshold with the students first entering the school when they were 2 years old and leaving when they were 12 years of age. During World War One and World War Two the school did its best to chip in and support the war
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A Different World


in Atlanta, Georgia. The first references to Hillman on "The Cosby Show" were made during season one, when it is mentioned as the place where Cliff Huxtable and Clair Hanks went to school while they were engaged. Cliff's father Russell is also a Hillman alumnus. The school made its first on-screen appearance in the third-season finale of "The Cosby Show", titled "Hillman", when Cliff and Clair and their family attend a Hillman commencement ceremony which also honored a retiring professor. In
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Dwight Stones


as an analyst for NBC Sports coverage of Track and Field at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Born in Los Angeles, California, Stones set a national high school record while at Glendale High School in 1971 at , then won the bronze medal at age 18 at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. He set his first world record the following summer when he cleared , also at Munich. That jump also made him the first "flop" jumper to set a world record, five years after Dick Fosbury made that
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Nine Lessons and Carols


, Magdalen College School, in Brackley Northamptonshire, has had a service of Nine lessons and Carols in their school chapel every year since 1899. They were able to continue during both world wars as the choir was made of school boys, when many university Chapels had to temporarily pause their tradition as their students were fighting in the wars. The school still holds a traditional Nine Lessons and Carols every year, with a Chapel Choir made up of students, staff and retired members of the school community. The first Festival of Nine
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Samar National School


the wrought-iron arches that crown the portals of the building this day. Later, the Catbalogan High School was re-baptized Samar High School. A succession of American principals administered the Samar High School until 1926 when the first Filipino principal was appointed. ("see list below") On December 8, 1941, Samar High school closed its gates because of the ignition of World War II. When the Japanese landed in Catbalogan in May 1942, the Samar High School was made the headquarters of the 9th Infantry Regiment
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Mick Waddy


a post as a mathematics master at Rugby School; he remained there, becoming a house master, until 1940. When first-class cricket resumed in England in 1919 after the First World War, Waddy, qualified by residence, played in the school holidays for Warwickshire. He had some success in the first three years, scoring a final century, an unbeaten 109 made out of a total of 229, in the 1921 match against Middlesex at Lord's. He was unsuccessful in 1922 and did not appear in first-
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West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District


, has made it to the First Robotics Competition World Championships six years (2009, 2011, 2013, 2015-2017) since 2006 when they first began competing. In 2015, at the FIRST Championship in St. Louis, Missouri, The MidKnight Inventors finished 3rd, out of the 3,000 teams that competed in the FRC competition. West Windsor-Plainsboro is notable for its ongoing divide over the school district's harsh implementation of academics on its students. The controversy comes amidst Superintendent of Schools David Aderhold's plan to ease the
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Christa Kinshofer


Miesbach. With figure skating, she became in the age of 8 years "Kids Champion" in Munich. She concentrated already as a child on alpine ski races. From 1971 on, she practipated in mayor races, visited the high school in Berchtesgaden and became several times German Youth Champion. The first World Cup Points she made in the season 1976/77 with a tenth place in slalom.The break through in Ski World Cup "the technic specialist" made in the season 1978/79, when she won 5 World Cup Giant Slaloms
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NC State Wolfpack baseball


season. The team's nickname was the "Farmers" until autumn 1921, when an alumnus complained that the behavior of some of the school's football players was "as unruly as a pack of wolves." Subsequently, newspapers began referring to the school's athletic teams as the "Wolfpack." The program's current venue, Doak Field, opened in 1966. NC State made its first College World Series appearance in 1968, in the second season of head coach Sammy Esposito's tenure. In the World Series,
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Public Schools Battalions


The Public Schools Battalions were Pals battalions of the British Army during the First World War. They were raised as part of Kitchener's Army, originally made up exclusively of former public schoolboys. When the battalions were taken over by the British Army they became variously the 16th (Service) Battalion (Public Schools), Middlesex Regiment and 18th (Service) Battalion (1st Public Schools), 19th (Service) Battalion (2nd Public Schools), 20th (Service) Battalion (3rd Public Schools) and 21st (Service)
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South Dakota School of Mines and Technology


The first "M-Day" homecoming celebration occurred on October 5, 1912 with the construction of the "M" on M-Hill, the school's mountain monogram. The school's ROTC battalion was formed in 1918 in response to World War I. The football stadium began construction in 1931, and was completed as "O'Harra Field" in 1938. The school formally became the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology in February 1943. In September 2012, SDSM&T made national news when Bloomberg announced that it had passed Harvard
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County School railway station


. During World War II the station surroundings were used as a fuel dump for the airfield at Foulsham. The site was also briefly used as a tarmac factory for bomber command. The first significant change occurred in 1952 when the County School to Wroxham line was closed to passenger traffic, although the western section of this line, between County School and Foulsham remained open for goods until 31 October 1964, being busiest in the sugar beet season. Diesel trains made their first appearance in 1956, but it was not until 1964 that
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Raising of school leaving age


the education leaving age was raised to 17, and from September 2015 it was raised to 18. These changes allow that becoming an apprentice, having a full time or part time job to enroll into or going to college are alternatives to school. Raising the participation age to 18 was first proposed to come into effect with the Education Act 1918. Plans for this were soon dropped when the government needed to cut public spending after World War I, as was the case when attempts were made to raise it in 1944, with
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Rosa Bassett


be a great success, and in 1906 she was made headmistress of the new Stockwell Secondary School for Girls. The school at Stockwell prospered and, in 1913, it transferred to a new site between Streatham and Tooting, becoming the County Secondary School, Streatham. Under Bassett's continued leadership the school was a success, and by 1917 was noted for its academic achievement and encouraging self-reliance and responsibility amongst its pupils. The First World War saw Bassett's organisational skill put to good use when she was invited to help
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Gheorghe Mihail


Constanța. In the summer of 1914, he placed first for entering the Higher War School, but was unable due to attend when the school closed due to the outbreak of World War I. However, he was soon named commander of a new school for reserve officers in Constanța. He was promoted to captain in April 1915, and was made commander of another new school in Constanța, for active-duty officers. In August 1916, immediately after Romania entered the war, he was sent in reserve to Cocioc outside Bucharest.
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Darlington RFC


, regular fixtures were arranged against Durham School, Leeds and Rochdale, among others. In 1872 Darlington played a Northumberland side on the cricket ground at Newcastle, and when the first inter-county match was organised in the following year, between Durham and Yorkshire, the whole of the Durham side was made up of Darlington men. Following a period of doldrums in the early 20th century, caused not least by the First World War, Darlington RFC gained new strength in the 1920s and 1930s, when it produced several first rate
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Arnold Ridley


boot and shoe shop. He attended the Clarendon School and the Bath City Secondary School where he was a keen sportsman. A graduate of the University of Bristol, he studied at the Education Department, and played Hamlet in a student production. Ridley undertook teaching practice at an Elementary School in Bristol. Ridley was a student teacher, and had made his theatrical debut in "Prunella" at the Theatre Royal, Bristol, when he volunteered for service with the British Army on the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914
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FirstGroup


In March 1998 FirstGroup purchased the 75.5% shares in Great Western Holdings it did not already own and rebranded the franchises First Great Western and First North Western. In September 1998 FirstGroup made its first overseas foray when New World First Bus commenced operating bus services in Hong Kong formerly operated by China Motor Bus. FirstGroup had a 26% shareholding in the joint venture. In May 2000 FirstGroup sold its shares to joint venture partner New World Development. In September 1999 FirstGroup purchased Ryder Public Transport Services, a provider of school bus and
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Rubén Gómez (baseball)


thus became the first Puerto Rican player to be a member of a World Series championship team, becoming a hero in his native country (schools closed the day he pitched in the World Series so the kids could watch the game). When Gómez returned to Puerto Rico, he was greeted by thousands of fans at the San Juan airport and a holiday was declared. After the 1957 season, the Dodgers and Giants moved to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively. On April 15, 1958, Gómez made baseball history when
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Susie Sorabji


lecturing and meeting with potential donors, to raise awareness and funding for the girls' school in Pune. "I am pleading for my sisters, the gentlest, meekest, most neglected in the civilized world," she declared of her cause. She started a kindergarten, and trained kindergarten teachers for work in other Indian schools. "I had to fight against the government inspector when I first started the kindergarten," she recalled, "but now the system has been made compulsory in the government schools." She also
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Chimie ParisTech


. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1906, while he was director. Moissan made student admission subject to competitive exams and renamed the school Institut de chimie appliquée (Institute of Applied Chemistry). In 1907, the school began delivering a prestigious masters of engineering. In the same year, Moissan died and a transitional directorate was created. Soon thereafter, Camille Chabrié was named director. The school closed when World War I started and reopened in 1916. This was also the first year a female student was admitted
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City of London School


in one of these organisations for at least four school terms. This is a tradition which still exists today. In 1925, the school acquired its sports grounds at Grove Park, Lewisham. This site included a pavilion, containing offices, changing rooms, toilets and showers, which was designed, by Old Citizen Ralph Knott, to also be a memorial to those Old Citizens who had lost their lives in the First World War. When J. A. Boyes became headmaster in 1964, further modernisations were made in the building. As
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Ploiești


to Brașov opened in 1864, and the railway arrived in 1882. Many schools and hospitals date from this time. In the mid-19th century the Ploiești region became one of the world's leading oil extraction and refinery sites. The Mehedințeanu brothers opened the world's first large refinery at Ploiești in 1856–1857. History also remembers the city as the site of the self-styled Republic of Ploiești, a short-lived 1870 revolt against the Romanian monarchy. During World War I Ploiești's oil production made it a target when the Central
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Waterkloof House Preparatory School


take advantage of what the school offers. At the annual Grade 7 Leavers’ Dinner all the Grade 7 boys are handed their Old Boys’ tie and 5 years later when they matriculate from High School they are all invited back for a Prawn braai and their first beer in Wilf's – fully fledged WHPS Old Boys! Of course, not all Old Boys have become leaders or world players. However, they are all part of the ever-growing WHPS family and they have all made their own contribution to WHPS for which
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Hartsdale, New York


Greenburgh Central School District (formerly called Greenburgh Central 7 School District) and Woodlands High School. The main Warburg mansion currently serves as the school district headquarters, but other remnants from the original estate grounds can still be seen standing in the surrounding woods and neighboring streets. The Warburg family's New York City home would later be donated to become the Jewish Museum of New York. On February 9, 1928, Hartsdale made history when the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird (1888–1946) transmitted the world's first inter-continental short
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Christos Konstantinidis


Christos Konstantididis (, born February 23, 1963) is a former Greek professional basketball player. Konstantinidis spent his entire career in the Greek leagues. Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, Konstantinidis started his career playing with M.E.N.T. B.C. When he was 14 years old, he transferred to PAOK. He made his first caps at first team during 1979-80 season. Konstantidis won the World School Championship with Toumba's High School. Also, he won the Greek Championship for Cadets and Junior Men withPAOK, in 1978 and 1981. He
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Rolf Brem


portrait of Gessler out of clay. When the Second World War started, he made several portraits of General Guisan. Some were painted and some were made out of cement. Rolf Brem was even able to make some money by selling them to his classmates. At that time he also made portraits of his parents and his friends. When Rolf Brem attended secondary school he started to paint with oil colours. However, he continued making sculptures out of clay. He attended secondary school from 1939 until 1945. Brem left secondary school
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Tenshin Nasukawa


strong that he won the championship in the Kyokushin Junior World Championship when he was a fifth grader in elementary school. After that, he became more drawn to kickboxing and began to learn it. Tenshin amassed an amateur record of 105-5-1 by the age of 18 before he turned professional in kickboxing. He first made a name for himself after knocking out Wanchalong PK Senchaigym, who was a multiple Bangkok Lumpinee and Channel 7 champion, with a spinning back kick on his first Muay Thai fight when Nasukawa was still
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Error analysis (linguistics)


, p. 163). There have been two schools of thought when it comes to errors analysis and philosophy, the first one, according to Corder (1967) linked the errors commitment with the teaching method arguing that if the teaching method was adequate, the errors would not be committed, the second school believed that we live in an imperfect world and that errors correction is something real and the applied linguist cannot do without it no matter what teaching approach they may use. Chomsky (1965) made a distinguishing explanation of
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Chinua Achebe


arose early in their union, due to conflicts about attention and communication. However, as their relationship matured, husband and wife made efforts to adapt to one another. Their first child, a daughter named Chinelo, was born on 11 July 1962. They had a son, Ikechukwu, on 3 December 1964, and another boy named Chidi, on 24 May 1967. When the children began attending school in Lagos, their parents became worried about the world view – especially with regard to race – expressed at the school,
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Zen lineage charts


to Japan in 1267. It was then spread by his student Shuho Myocho (second generation) and Kanzan Egen (third generation), who made it an influential school. The two main schools today are Takujū and Inzan, which both descent from Hakuin. Although it is difficult to trace when the West first became aware of Zen as a distinct form of Buddhism, the visit of Soyen Shaku, a Japanese Zen monk, to Chicago during the World Parliament of Religions in 1893 is often pointed to as an event that enhanced
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TS Indefatigable


transferred from the old "Indefatigable" to the new "Indefatigable". 35 boys were admitted in the first year(1865). By 1868 148 boys were on board. The "Indefatigable" remained on the Mersey until 1941, when it was decided that the intense German bombing of Liverpool during World War II made it too dangerous to remain anchored on the river Mersey. HMS "Conway" was towed to Anglesey. However, the decision was made to make the TS "Indefatigable" a land-based school in the future
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Chris Clarke (croquet player)


the event. In 2016, Clarke played his last International event involving singles when he captained NZ to win the GC World Championship, once again being the winningmost player in the event. This victory made Clarke the first player to win three of the four WCF Open World Titles. He finished his career having won 9 World titles and never having lost a major International Test Match. Clarke started playing croquet while a 13-year-old student at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn under the coaching of French teacher Andrew Bennet. World
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Allan Taylor (snooker player)


ranking event for the first time with wins over Saqib Nasir and Elliot Slessor. He moved 3–2 ahead of Shaun Murphy, but would be defeated 4–3. Taylor needed to come through Q School to remain on tour as he lost his spot at the end of the season, due to his world ranking of 86. In the last 16 of the first event he needed a snooker when 3–2 down to Daniel Ward. He got it when Ward went in-off and made a 96 in the deciding frame, before whitewashing Sean
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Emma E. Booker Elementary School


School in 1989 and to the Booker Middle School in 2003, with the Booker High School being refurbished at the previous location. The school received international attention following a visit by United States President George W. Bush on the morning of September 11, 2001. It was at the school that Bush learned of the second plane crashing into the World Trade Center, and where he made his first public comments about the September 11 attacks. The first plane crash at the World Trade Center happened about ten minutes before the president arrived at the
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Barbara Carrasco


that there was racism practiced there and that Anglo and white students were "treated better." She often drew on the tables at the Catholic school instead of paying attention to her lessons. Because she was so often in her own "little world of drawing," she repeated first grade. Some of the nuns, however, noticed and encouraged her talent, including Sister Mary Ann, who continued to stay in contact with Carrasco after she left school. In seventh grade, when she made her confirmation as a Catholic,
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College baseball


(or rainy) weather schools with very successful programs. The first two made the College World Series when warm-weather schools placed major emphasis on baseball as well as had the advantage of playing earlier and more games because of favorable climates. Oregon State won back-to-back national championships in 2006 and 2007; at that time, archrival Oregon had been without baseball for a quarter-century, having dropped its program in 1981. Many credit the Beavers' success as a primary factor in the University of Oregon's
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Armenian national liberation movement


was changed. Along with the schools, the press played an important educational role and pointed the way to insurrection. From the first day when Rev. William Goodell settled in Constantinople in 1831 to the end of World War I, the missionaries made considerable contributions to the education of Armenians. The European intellectual currents such as ideas of French revolution were transmitted through the 23,000 Armenian students within 127 Protestant congregations with 13,000 communicants, and 400 schools. In the 1880s, after the Russian defeat in the Crimean War in 1856 and the Polish
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Hiram I. Bearss


but was convinced to stay by his brother Braxton. He played football and again found himself in trouble several times and on one occasion threw a potato at a waiter in the mess hall. He liked wearing the school uniform and his weapon, but he frequently dropped it in formation when he became angry at the drill sergeant. Hiram and his brother made it through the first year at Norwich and a second as well but at the age of 21 Hiram had enough of school and was looking for something more adventurous. During World
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Marianne Kühn


Marianne Kühn (17 November 1914 - 13 June 2005) was a German politician.(SPD). In her later years she made a new career for herself in the world of the arts, and as a painter of Naïve art. Marianne was born in Cologne a few months after the outbreak of the First World War. After leaving school she trained as a legal assistant. When she was 15 she joined the , a youth group for the children of socialist leaning families. Three years later, on 1 November 1932, she joined
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Ludwig Wittgenstein


of severe personal depression after the First World War, he gave away his entire fortune to his brothers and sisters. Three of his four brothers committed suicide, which Wittgenstein had also contemplated. He left academia several times—serving as an officer on the front line during World War I, where he was decorated a number of times for his courage; teaching in schools in remote Austrian villages where he encountered controversy for hitting children when they made mistakes in mathematics; and working as a hospital porter during World War II in London
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Olive and Hurley Old School Baptist Church


world unto whom God the Father did from all eternity give a people to be by him in time redeemed, called, justified, and glorified: We believe that the eternal covenant transaction that was between the Father and the Son about the redemption of the elect, and that it is alone by the grace of the covenant, that all, the final saved did obtain life and blessed immortality: We believe that when God made man, he was made upright, yet did not long abide in this honor. Our first parents
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China Europe International Business School


2009, CEIBS became the first Chinese business school to make the world's Top 10 MBA ranking compiled by the FT. Its EMBA programme, ranked 5th worldwide by the same publication in 2018, is the largest in the world, topping 700 students in Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen. The school also trains about 10,000 students through CEIBS’ short-term executive programs each year. Establishing its first campus in 1994 in Shanghai’s Pudong district made CEIBS the first business school in mainland China with its own campus, designed by
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Günther Josten


, a secondary school founded under the recently established Nazi state, on 16 August 1935. The goal of the Napola schools was to raise a new generation for the political, military and administrative leadership of the Third Reich. On 25 May 1938, Josten made his first rubber powered flight on a DFS 35 glider aircraft with the National Socialist Flyers Corps of Naumburg. World War II in Europe began on Friday, 1 September 1939, when German forces invaded Poland. Following the start of hostilities, Josten immediately volunteered for military service
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Alema Leota


their conversion to Mormonism. He attended Kahuku High School, but ultimately graduated from 'Iolani School. Leota was drafted into the United States military during the final draft conducted after the end of World War II. He served for three years in the 82nd Airborne Division, based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and completed over 40 parachute missions. He first made headlines in Hawaii in 1952 when Leota and his brother, Reid Leota, were arrested in Honolulu on charges of murdering a man at a pool hall on Smith Street
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The Reading School of International Business


was first identified in 1978 by the Japanese economist Kiyoshi Kojima (1920–2010), when he criticized the explanation of the post-war growth of multinational enterprises made by scholars at the University of Reading. Kojima argued that Western multinationals were monopolies that distorted the international allocation of resources rather than improved it. The Reading School, by contrast, emphasized the efficiency gains that multinational enterprises can generate in a world of imperfect markets. They argued that multinationals shared technologies between parent firms and subsidiaries, and between one subsidiary and another, thereby
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Kaska language


Kaska is made up of eight dialects. All of which have similar pronunciations and expressional terms. The town of Watson Lake was established around the period of the second World War when the Alaska Highway was first build in 1942. A major consequence of colonization was Kaska language loss. Another major cause of Kaska language loss was due to the residential school. The effect that these schools had on the Kaska language have caused a language gap between two generations resulting in few young speakers. Kaska makes use of the vowels /a/, /e/
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Sylvia Gore


Prescot Cables and encouraged her to take up the game. The headteacher of her school vetoed any participation in the school team but she joined Manchester Corinthians in her early teens. With Corinthians, Gore played in charity matches all over the world at a time when the Football Association (FA) had banned female players from its pitches. She said: In 1972, Gore paid around £2,000 to progress through a series of trials for the first England team. She was accepted onto the team and made history by scoring the team
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John Johnson (inventor)


John Johnson (May 28, 1813 – May 3, 1871) was an instrument maker of dental supplies. He was a nineteenth-century pioneer photographer and an inventor. He made with Alexander S. Wolcott the world's first commercial portrait studio. Johnson was born in Saco, Maine on May 28, 1813. His father was William Short Johnson. Johnson lived his childhood and got his initial schooling in Pembroke, New Hampshire. After high school when a young man he worked for a watchmaker in New York City for a
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Congregation of Holy Cross


two villages of the Jinja Diocese, a primary school and secondary were opened: Holy Cross Primary and Holy Cross Lakeview Secondary respectively. In 1998, Lakeview made world news when United States President Bill Clinton landed in a helicopter on the school's compound for discussions with Ugandan President Museveni. A third parish opened in 1994 at Kyrausozi. In the new millennium the first [East] African district superior of Holy Cross was named in 2003. This was a step towards congregational and district maturity as the past nine superiors had been Americans
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Junri Namigata


Namigata was born in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture and started playing tennis when she was six years old. She completed elementary school at a school in Koshigaya and won a regional tournament when in the third grade. She attended Fujimura Girls' Junior High School and Horikoshi High School in Tokyo. In September 1997, when still in junior high school, she made her first appearance in an ITF doubles tournament. When she was in her first year of high school she reached the round of 16 at the All Japan Tennis Championship and won
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John Capper


In 1911, one of Dunne's new aeroplanes was exhibited at the Olympia Aero Show, with a placard stating it was "Built to the order of Col. J. E. Capper, R.E." In 1910 Capper was transferred to command of the Royal School of Military Engineering at Chatham, marking the end of his aeronautical career. Capper remained at Chatham until September 1914 when the lack of experienced officers forced his transfer to France in the early months of the First World War. As a brigadier-general, Capper was first made
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Hector Clayton


being educated at Sydney Grammar School, Clayton undertook studies at the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (1907) and a Bachelor of Laws (1910). After qualifying as a solicitor in 1911, Clayton was made a partner in his father's firm, "John H.Clayton and Son" from 1911 until 1920. When the First World War broke out in 1914, Clayton immediately signed up to the First Australian Imperial Force with a commission and was posted to the 4th Battalion, AIF. He embarked for
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Lansdowne Primary School


Lansdowne Primary School () is a Victorian primary school that opened The school was designed by architects Veall & Sant and opened in January 1898. During the First World War the school was commandeered and used as a military hospital, before reopening as a school again in 1918. The school was badly damaged by incendiary bombs during the Second World War, when a bombing raid hit Cardiff in January 1941. In the last 20 years the school has seen the fabric of the building being renovated with new double glazing on the first floor
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Finch Hatton War Memorial


by Melrose and Fenwick of Mackay and honours the 16 local men who fell in the First World War. Later additions honour the 7 who fell in the Second World War. The erection of the memorial was made possible through the combined efforts of two towns, Finch Hatton and Netherdale. The initial development of Finch Hatton was in the mid 1900s as the terminus of the Pioneer Valley railway line. The town further developed when the Cattle Creek sugar mill opened in 1906. A supporting infrastructure of schools, theatres and halls was established
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Charles Servizio


Charles Servizio (born September 5, 1950, in Lynn, Massachusetts) is a retired teacher best known for setting a world record in push-ups in April 25, 1993: 46,001 pushups in 24 hours. Servizio's high-school wrestling coach assigned pushups as punishment for poor performance in tournaments. He was 38 when he made his first attempt to break the Guinness Book of World Records 24-hour push-up record. The attempt was unsuccessful – he quit at 30,000 pushups and fell short of the standing record by over
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Frances Wisebart Jacobs


free Golden Gate kindergarten when she attended and spoke at the San Francisco National Conference of Charities and Correction. Golden Gate became a model for Denver's first free kindergarten at the Stanley Public School established by the Free Kindergarten Association that Jacobs founded in 1885. It was Frances's belief that "God never made a pauper in the world, children come into the world and conditions and surroundings make them either princes or paupers." In 1887, she joined Father William O'Brien, Reverend Myron Reed, Dean H. Martin Hart and another
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Charles Corfe (headmaster)


He later occupied relieving positions at schools in Australasia, including at Christ's College during the First World War. He played first-class cricket for Canterbury from 1871 to 1884. In 1875 against Otago he scored 88 in a little over two hours from "some really fine cricket, playing the bail balls from all the bowlers well down, and hitting well when a chance offered". It was the highest first-class individual score in New Zealand until George Watson of Canterbury made the first century in 1881. He married
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John G. Thomas


the world. Thomas writes scripts for distributors and production companies as a script doctor. Thomas' writing work extends from The Los Angeles Times and The Hollywood Reporter, to VOA and NPR. Thomas published his first book "Making the Tin Man: "How I Made My First Feature Film"." This first-hand account records the trials and tribulations Thomas experienced when making his first feature film. Thomas teaches filmmaking techniques at several colleges, universities, and local high schools. Most recently, Thomas acquired his master's
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Haggagovic


media organisations, visible and audible in the countries he visits. Haggagovic has the most popular TV travel show in Egypt and Middle East Safari Haggagovic which is watched by millions worldwide on TV and online pages, and in 2017 Season 5 Haggagovic World was aired weekly on ONTV (Egypt) and it made a big success. When he was four years old he refused to go to the first day of school, as he was crying loud that he wanted to travel to Japan. When he was asked on a TV show for
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Anshuman Rath


. He started playing cricket at the age of four with Tarang, when his father introduced him to the sport. He attended West Island School. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut for Hong Kong on 8 November 2014 against Papua New Guinea in Australia. He made his Twenty20 International debut for Hong Kong against Nepal at the 2015 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament on 15 July 2015. He made his first-class debut for Hong Kong against the United Arab Emirates in the 2015–17 ICC Intercontinental Cup tournament on 11
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Rossall School


numbers of Old Rossallians lost their lives in combat, 297 in World War I alone - the majority of whom are now commemorated in the extension memorial chapel. Rossall has a memorial plaque at St Georges Chapel by the Menin Gate in honour of its fallen, alongside schools such as Rugby, Eton and Harrow. 1,617 ORs fought in World War I, 300 of whom received war honours. Before the outbreak of the Second World War Rossall had made plans to accommodate Westminster School however these plans were scrapped when the government requisitioned the
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Buddhist Yip Kei Nam Memorial College


. This item was written in a piece of paper when the school was formed. The last sentence in the lines made clear that no one should try to explain the words. The founders stated that the code is as important as every other school rule. In spite of the fact that the code itself does not represent any specific school rule, the founders wanted everyone to see the code as the dream of a perfect world, a world where fairness exists and peace can be maintained. In the 2005 Joint School Interview,
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Chloe Smith (musician)


, North Carolina. Smith graduated from Henry W. Grady High School. She found high school to be a positive experience which made her more aware of the wide range of racial, financial and cultural diversity in the world. After graduation, Smith traveled for a year, returning when she felt she had spent too much time away from her sister Leah, who was traveling independently. Smith, then 21, together with her sister Leah, decided to record their first album, "Leah and Chloe", one afternoon in the
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Bojan Bjelić


any free time. He is currently in his fourth year in the Faculty of Financial Management and Insurance at the Singidunum University. He finished music school at Vojislav Vučković music school under professor Milojko Pajević. Bojan Bjelić made his official debut into the music world when he performed at Sunčane Skale in 2003 with the song, "Ženske laži". This also marked the beginning of Bjelić's cooperation with Serbian pop group, Zana. After placing 9th place at Sunčane Skale that year, he began recording his first album, Mesec od
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Platteville, Wisconsin


Platteville's founders. The walls are two feet thick and made of dolomite Galena limestone. Platteville has the world's largest M, a claim that its Chamber of Commerce states is unchallenged. The M is a monogram for the former Wisconsin Mining School (now the University of Wisconsin–Platteville). The first M was first constructed in 1936 when two men, Raymond Medley and Alvin Knoerr climbed the Platte Mound and trudged through 2 feet of snow to form a huge letter M. Actual construction of the stone M began in the
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Bethel College (Kansas)


the same evenings; they alternated each evening. Five men, including the president, made up the first faculty. They taught classes in the Bible, church history, German, English, mathematics, science, and music. Bethel College was a bilingual college until early 1918, when the U.S. entered World War I. German was removed from the curriculum, but later reinstated: as of the 2011–2012 school year, two years of German were offered. The Administration Building was the main campus structure until 1925 when the Science Hall was
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Nigel Paul (cricketer)


He was one of the tallest first-class cricketers of the time, standing over two metres high, which he made use of when batting to hit the ball hard, and score at a fast rate which was unusual for the times. His height helped when he was bowling, generating pace which forced the batsman onto the back foot. Paul is a leading figure within the Old Cranleighan Cricket Club, a cricket club for former pupils of Cranleigh School. Following the Second World War, the club was virtually defunct, but
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Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi


a good player of chess. It was one such evening in Jaipur when the young school-going Zia Fatehabadi was not given by the invited singer a copy of Iqbal’s ghazal that had been liked and wanted by him; this particular incident probably exasperated Zia’s urge to write and made him a poet. Even when Zia Fatehabadi was a college student his was a respected name in the Urdu world. After the publication of his first book,"Tullu", which had received some disheartening criticism, he had thought of giving up writing
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History of aviation in New Zealand


The history of aviation in New Zealand began in the late 19th century when balloon flights began. In the first decade of the 20th century, several New Zealanders began developing heavier-than-air craft with the first confirmed powered flight in New Zealand being made by Vivian Walsh in 1911. The First World War spurred the development of aviation in New Zealand. A flying school was established and several hundred New Zealanders went on to serve in British flying services in Europe. After the war, the civil aviation industry began to take
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Rice University


defunct Southwest Conference, all nine championships while a member of the Western Athletic Conference, and five more championships in its first five years as a member of Conference USA. Additionally, Rice's baseball team has finished third in both the 2006 and 2007 College World Series tournaments. Rice now has made six trips to Omaha for the CWS. In 2004, Rice became the first school ever to have three players selected in the first eight picks of the MLB draft when Philip Humber, Jeff Niemann, and Wade Townsend were selected third
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University of Utah


1970s. The University of Utah has the only accredited allopathic medical school in the State of Utah. The medical school has made several notable contributions to medicine, such as establishing the first Cerebrovascular Disease Unit west of the Mississippi River in 1970 and administering the world's first permanent artificial heart, the Jarvik-7, to Barney Clark in 1982. The University of Utah College of Pharmacy is 4th in the nation for NIH research grants. The department of Pharmacology and Toxicology within the School of Pharmacy is world-renowned for research in epilepsy
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Tacloban


city by virtue of Republic Act No. 760. The arrival of Colonel Murray in 1901 made him the first military governor of Leyte. His first official act was the opening of Tacloban port to world commerce. Before World War II, Tacloban was the commercial, education, social and cultural center of the Province of Leyte. Copra and abaca were exported in large quantities. The leading institutions were: Leyte Normal School, Leyte High School, Leyte Trade School, Holy Infant Academy and Tacloban Catholic Institute. In November 1912,
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Metropolitan School of Panama


development. Within the first three years, the MET made earned status as an International Baccalaureate (IB) World School. In its fourth year, the MET becomes the first and only school in Panama and Central America to offer the IB Continuum, authorized to offer the IB Primary Years Program (PYP), Middle Years Program (MYP) and Diploma Program (DP). The IB is a world acclaimed academic program with innovative teaching methodologies that allows the development of intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills necessary to learn
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Lee Elementary School of Technology / World Studies


Lee Elementary School of Technology/ World Studies was a historic elementary school in Tampa, Florida. It was established as Michigan Avenue Grammar School in 1906. It became Robert E. Lee Elementary School in 1943 when Michigan Avenue was renamed Columbus Drive (Tampa). The school was located at 305 East Columbus Drive and was the first brick school building constructed in Hillsborough County, Florida. In 2004, it became Lee Elementary School of Technology/World Studies. The school's colors are royal blue and gold and its mascot is Robert E.
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Law school rankings in the United States


in "U.S. News & World Report" T14 rankings except University of Virginia School of Law and Northwestern University School of Law made the QS top 50. The UCLA School of Law was the only other U.S. school ranked in the top 50. In 2017, ARWU released its rankings of World universities by Subject Law. Taking into account only the academic strength of the institution, it ranked Harvard Law School the first, NYU Law School the second, Columbia Law the third, Chicago the fourth, Yale the fifth and Georgetown the
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World Bank


. Among other allegations, Klein says the Group's credibility was damaged "when it forced school fees on students in Ghana in exchange for a loan; when it demanded that Tanzania privatise its water system; when it made telecom privatisation a condition of aid for Hurricane Mitch; when it demanded labour 'flexibility' in Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami; when it pushed for eliminating food subsidies in post-invasion Iraq". The World Bank requires sovereign immunity from countries it deals with. Sovereign immunity waives a
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Hetal Dave


Hetal Dave is India's first and only professional female sumo wrestler. In 2008, the woman from Mumbai made it into the Limca Book of Records. She participated in the 2009 World Games held in Taiwan, but went out in the first round. Her father and brother were very supportive of her interests in pursuing the sport. She is a commerce graduate and also trains students in wrestling and judo in different schools. Dave is a Judo trainer and she started her Judo lessons when she was around 6. Dave has no
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Camilla Wicks


a child prodigy, making her solo debut at age 7 with Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 4 at the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium. At 8, she performed Bruch's First Concerto and a year later Paganini's First Concerto. She went to study with Louis Persinger at the Juilliard School in New York City. In 1942, Persinger accompanied Wicks when she made her solo debut at age 13 with the New York Philharmonic. In the next decade, she performed regularly with many of the world's finest conductors (Walter,
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Royal Air Force, Bermuda (1939–45)


continue the journey by ship, he made an impulsive decision to complete it by a direct flight from Bermuda to England, marking the first trans-Atlantic air crossing by a national leader. The first Bermudian killed in the Second World War was Flying Officer Grant Ede, an RAF Gladiator pilot who took part in the 1940 Battle of Norway, before dying along with almost everyone else aboard when it was sunk during the evacuation from Norway. In 1940, the Bermuda Flying School was established on Darrell's Island with the goal of
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Georges Madon


Georges Félix Madon (July 28, 1892 – November 11, 1924) was the fourth ranked French ace pilot of the First World War. His lengthy career and wide variety of aviation experiences were remarkable. Madon was born in Bizerte, Tunisia and was athletic from an early age. He was short but had exceptional strength and posture. He boxed and played football. Madon first became interested in aviation at the age of 15, when he made an unsuccessful attempt to build his own craft. He had quit school to get
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Stephen Rhodes (racing driver)


Stephen Rhodes (born March 27, 1984) is an American stock car racing driver. A former competitor in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, he is seeking to return to competition in the sport. When he made his debut in 2003, he became the first openly gay driver to compete in a NASCAR national touring series event. Rhodes was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina, where he attended Rosewood High School. Rhodes is openly gay. He came out at age seventeen, one year before he made his NASCAR Truck
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Jason Lowe


debut for the England under-20 team in 2011, captained his country at the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup, and made his under-21 debut that same year. Lowe was born in Wigan, Greater Manchester and raised in nearby Leigh. He attended St. Thomas C.E. Primary School in Leigh. Lowe joined Blackburn Rovers' Academy as an under-12 and had progressed to the Reserves when he signed his first professional contract on 4 September 2009. On 8 January 2011, he made his senior debut in the 1–0 win over Queens Park Rangers in the
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2004 Boston Red Sox season


Sox World Series win made Boston the first city to have Super Bowl and World Series champions in the same year in 25 years, when the Pittsburgh Steelers won Super Bowl XIII, followed by the Pirates winning the 1979 World Series. The Patriots winning Super Bowl XXXIX in the ensuing offseason made Boston the first city to have two Super Bowls and one World Series championship over a span of 12 months since Pittsburgh in 1979–1980. After the Bruins won the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals, which made Boston the first city to win championships in
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David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science


The David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science is a professional school within the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. In 2014 QS World University Rankings ranked the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science 24th in the world, 10th in North America and 2nd in Canada in Computer Science in 2014. U.S. News & World Report ranked the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science 18th in world, 10th in North America and first in Canada. In 1965, when Mathematics was still a department within the Faculty of Arts, four
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Père Jacques


-Jésus in Avon, Seine-et-Marne, that same year, of which he served as headmaster. The friar served at the school until the outbreak of World War II, when he was conscripted for service in the French Army. When France surrendered to Germany the following June, he was released from military service. He returned to the school but became an active member of the French Resistance. As headmaster, Father Jacques utilized the best tool available to him. He made the boys’ school a refuge for
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Viewforth High School


Viewforth High School is a secondary school which caters for pupils from East Kirkcaldy, Scotland. It opened in 1908 on Loughborough Road and remains open in its new location on Windmill Road. The original school building was made a C listed building in 1998. Viewforth opened on 21 September 1908 with 176 boys and 194 girls enrolled in the school. The first head teacher was Gregor McGregor. The first female teachers began working at the school during the First World War because of the reduction in staff caused by the number of male staff
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Hamline University


the Mounds-Midway School of Nursing joined the school, and the newly enlarged institution took the name of the Hamline University School of Nursing. A flood of veterans entered or returned to college after World War II under the G.I. Bill of Rights. The first reached the campus in the fall of 1946, when registrations passed 1,000 for the first time. Enrollment reached a new high in 1949 when 1,452 students, including 289 in the nursing school. The nursing school, which had been an integral part of Hamline since 1940 and
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Peggy Sue Got Married


break up with Charlie, she thinks it might be best since she knows how it will end. Peggy Sue makes friends with Richard Norvik to figure out what is going on with her. Charlie gets jealous when she ignores him at lunch, having made arrangements to meet Richard after school to discuss time travel. When she tells him her secret, at first he thinks it is a joke, but soon realizes that what she says about him and the world could come only from someone who had knowledge about the future. Peggy
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Eastern Michigan University


Normal College when it developed the first four-year curriculum for a normal college in the nation. Normal began the 20th century as Michigan's premier teacher-preparatory school and had become the first teacher-training school in the United States to have a four-year degree program. The school continued through World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II, and expanded further. With the additions of departments and the large educational enrollment after WWII, the school became Eastern Michigan College in 1956. In 1959 the
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Amrita Virk


Amrita Virk () is a Panjabi singer from Indian Panjab. She entered the world of Punjabi music in 1998, releasing her first album, "Kalli Beh Ke Ro Laini Aan". Virk was born on 11 June 1975. She started singing at very early age like in school functions. She statsed professional singing in 1997 when the industry was dominated by male singers. In July 1998, She released her first album, "Kalli Beh Ke Ro Laini Aan", which made her a recognised singer in the industry.
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Josh Fields (pitcher)


made school history when he struck out the first eight batters he faced against Winthrop on May 18. In 2006, he appeared in 35 games with a 3–2 record and 1.80 ERA with 56 strikeouts against only 11 walks. He also had 15 saves. In the 2006 College World Series he pitched two scoreless innings. He was named a second-team All-American, first-time All-SEC and was a finalist for NCBWA Stopper of the Year. In his junior season in 2007, Fields appeared in 26 games
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Artur Dubravčić


Artur Dubravčić (15 September 1894 – 13 March 1969) was a Croatian footballer. When Dubravčić was still in high school in Karlovac, he was one of the founders and first players of the ŠK Olimpija Karlovac football club, which was established in 1908. During World War I he moved to Zagreb and joined local side Concordia, where he spent most of his professional career. Dubravčić made history by being the first captain of Yugoslavia national football team in the team's inaugural match, a 7–0 defeat versus Czechoslovakia on 28 August
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Bourne Grammar School


Efforts were made to reinstate it once the First World War was over, and in 1920, it opened in the building of the former National School, in North Street. In 1921, once its longer-term premises in South Road were usable, it moved there. At this stage, it was run by trustees under the name of the 'Harrington and Trollope Secondary School', after Robert Harrington and William Trollope, two local seventeenth-century philanthropists whose bequests had been made for the poor and the school of Bourne
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University of Louisville School of Medicine


Kentucky's first heart transplant, the world's first heart transplant following the use of a Thoratec left ventricular assist device, the world's first endoscopic saphenous vein harvest and the first ventricular remodeling in the region. The James Graham Brown Cancer Center, an affiliate of Kentucky One Health and University of Louisville School of Medicine, has made several discoveries which has brought the center international attention. These discoveries include: Brown Cancer Center scientists have developed three novel cancer treatments that are in early phase trials. Additionally, at least twenty-
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Toowong State School


1950s when tennis courts were constructed. During World War I two additions were made to the school. A cedar honour board commemorating 115 former pupils and teachers who served during World War I was unveiled at the school in 1917 by EH Macartney MLA. For the total cost of £30, Messrs Patterson constructed the board and H Barker completed the writing. Now housed in the library (the 1880 Ferguson building), the honour board was the site of wreath laying at ANZAC Day commemorations. Secondly, the growth of Toowong State
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Politics of Harry Potter


When an interviewer suggested her books portrayed a conservative world, Rowling replied, "So I'm told repeatedly. The two groups of people who are constantly thanking me are Wiccans and boarding schools. And really, don't thank me. I'm not with either of them. New ageism leaves me completely cold, and [my daughter] would never go to boarding school. I went to a comprehensive." Rowling says she gets frustrated with the "conservative world thing". She made Hogwarts a boarding school so that
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Manting Chan


mother, from Fuzhou, Fujian, China]]. As a young child, Manting had her sights on what she wanted to become. It was either to be the first Asian-woman President of the United States or a singer. The event that changed her life was when Disney released "Aladdin". It was the renowned song ""A Whole New World"" that made her choose the latter. She would sing the song and watch the movie everyday for the entire school year. Manting entered the Metropolitan
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Tonga


rugby captain Fe'ao Vunipola. Rugby is popular among the nation's schools, and students from schools such as Tonga College and Tupou College are regularly offered scholarships in New Zealand, Australia and Japan. Rugby league has gained some success. Tonga made their first appearance at a Rugby League World Cup in the 1995 edition where they went out in the first stage but narrowly lost to New Zealand. They have since appeared in each subsequent Rugby League World Cup tournament. In the 2008 Rugby League World Cup Tonga recorded wins against Ireland and
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Mollie Sugden


it was to make people laugh". Shortly after she left school, World War II broke out, and Sugden worked in a munitions factory in Keighley making shells for the Royal Navy. She was later made redundant, and attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. When Sugden graduated from the Guildhall School of Drama, she worked in repertory for eight years with a company that included Eric Sykes and Roy Dotrice. She also had work in radio and made her television debut in a live half-hour comedy
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