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512242 | Searoad Ferries | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Searoad%20Ferries | Searoad Ferries
Searoad Ferries
Searoad Ferries (formerly known as Peninsula Searoad Transport) is an Australian company that operates a roll-on/roll-off vehicle and passenger ferry service between the heads of Port Phillip, near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The route operates between terminals at Queenscliff on t... | 12,100 |
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for passengers. The alternative drive from Queenscliff to Sorrento via road is approximately three hours during non-peak traffic conditions.
# History.
Three sea pilots, Paul Ringe, Keith Finnemore and Maurie Cobal founded Peninsula Searoad Transport Pty Ltd (PST) in 1983. They believed that a vehicul... | 12,101 |
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planning, on 19 June 1987 the "Peninsula Princess" was launched in Carrington, New South Wales. She underwent sea trials before moving to Port Phillip Bay. Her crew boarded her in Geelong, Victoria to get a feel for the vessel. She had to wait there for the Queenscliff berth to be completed.
The first ... | 12,102 |
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damage done to the transom. Commercial operations started on the weekend commencing 19 September 1987.
A few weeks later, during low tide at Queenscliff the crew encountered problems because of the depth of the water and the strong winds. As one of the deckhands attempted to take control by winching th... | 12,103 |
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again.
After the new ferry was introduced, the "Peninsula Princess" was frequently docked at the former Queenscliff ferry berth. In 2004 the ferry was sighted docked in the Tamar River in Launceston, Tasmania.
## MV "Queenscliff".
By the early 1990s traffic using the ferry had increased, and an incre... | 12,104 |
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Appeals Tribunal to resolve the issues. The new ferry cost $5 million, and was put into service on 22 December 1993.
On 12 October 2005 the Australian Defence Force staged an anti-terrorism exercise on the MV "Queenscliff". Two Black Hawk helicopters were used to fast rope members of the Tactical Assau... | 12,105 |
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ond ferry, enabling a doubling in the service frequency.
The "MV Sorrento" was built in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia at a cost of $12 million, and was similar in size and appearance to the existing ferry. Minor differences between the two include an elevator from the car deck to the top deck, a new ... | 12,106 |
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6th Golden Raspberry Awards
The 6th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 23, 1986, at the Morgan-Wixon Theatre in Santa Monica, California, to recognize the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1985. Though "" won Worst Picture, "Rocky IV" (also starring Sylvester Stallone) receiv... | 12,107 |
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ds
The 6th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 23, 1986, at the Morgan-Wixon Theatre in Santa Monica, California, to recognize the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1985. Though "" won Worst Picture, "Rocky IV" (also starring Sylvester Stallone) received the greatest number of... | 12,108 |
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Patrick Geddes
Sir Patrick Geddes (2 October 1854 – 17 April 1932) was a Scottish biologist, sociologist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner. He is known for his innovative thinking in the fields of urban planning and sociology.
He introduced the concept of "region" to architecture ... | 12,109 |
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Aberdeenshire, and educated at Perth Academy.
He studied at the Royal College of Mines in London under Thomas Henry Huxley between 1874 and 1877, never finishing any degree and he then spent the year 1877-1878 as a demonstrator in the Department of Physiology in University College London where he met Ch... | 12,110 |
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been killed in action in France.
In 1890 he assisted Dr John Wilson in laying out a teaching garden at Morgan Academy in Dundee.
In 1895 Geddes published an edition of "The Evergreen" magazine, with articles on nature, biology and poetics. Artists Robert Burns and John Duncan provided illustrations for... | 12,111 |
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a sociologist, it was his commitment to close social observation and ability to turn these into practical solutions for city design and improvement that earned him a "revered place amongst the founding fathers of the British town planning movement". He was a major influence on the American urban theorist... | 12,112 |
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developments that led to the concept of regional planning.
He adopted Spencer's theory that the concept of biological evolution could be applied to explain the evolution of society, and drew on Le Play's analysis of the key units of society as constituting "Lieu, Travail, Famille" ("Place, Work, Family"... | 12,113 |
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Play's circular theory of geographical locations presenting environmental limitations and opportunities that in turn determine the nature of work. His central argument was that physical geography, market economics and anthropology were related, yielding a “single chord of social life [of] all three combi... | 12,114 |
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patterns, "an inseparably interwoven structure", akin to a flower. He criticised the tendency of modern scientific thinking to specialisation. In his "Report to the H.H. the Maharaja of Kapurthala" in 1917 he wrote:
"Each of the various specialists remains too closely concentrated upon his single specia... | 12,115 |
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and simple shrines to palaces magnificent and temples sublime."
Against a backdrop of extraordinary development of new technologies, industrialisation and urbanism, Geddes witnessed the substantial social consequences of crime, illness and poverty that developed as a result of modernisation. From Geddes... | 12,116 |
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conservative surgery" rather than the "heroic, all of a piece schemes" popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He continued to use and advocate for this approach throughout his career.
Very early on in his career Geddes demonstrated the practicality of his ideas and approach. In 1886 Ge... | 12,117 |
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Geddes believed that this approach was both more economical and more humane.
In this way Geddes consciously worked against the tradition of the "gridiron plan", resurgent in colonial town design in the 19th century:
“The heritage of the gridiron plans goes back at least to the Roman camps. The basis fo... | 12,118 |
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chequered history of sanitation".
Geddes criticised this tradition as much for its "dreary conventionality" as for its failure to address in the long term the very problems it purport to solve. According to Geddes' analysis, this approach was not only "unsparing to the old homes and to the neighbourhood... | 12,119 |
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folk. In 1892, to allow the general public an opportunity to observe these relationships, Geddes opened a “sociological laboratory” called the Outlook Tower that documented and visualized the regional landscape. In keeping with scientific process and using new technologies, Geddes developed an Index Muse... | 12,120 |
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as indispensable to urban planning: his motto was "diagnosis before treatment". Such a survey should include, at a minimum, the geology, the geography, the climate, the economic life, and the social institutions of the city and region. His early work surveying the city of Edinburgh became a model for lat... | 12,121 |
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what it is, and recognising alike its advantages, its difficulties and its defects":
"This school strives to adapt itself to meet the wants and needs, the ideas and ideals of the place and persons concerned. It seeks to undo as little as possible, while planning to increase the well-being of the people ... | 12,122 |
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outside".
## The regional plan.
In 1909, Geddes assisted in the early planning of the southern aspect of the Zoological Gardens in Edinburgh. This work was formative in his development of a regional planning model called the "Valley Section".This model illustrated the complex interactions among biogeog... | 12,123 |
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be responsive to these conditions.
# Civic Pageant.
Geddes developed a means for engaging with the populace of a city through a civic pageant.One such was the "Masque of Learning", a pageant he organised in the Poole's Synod Hall, Edinburgh in 1912. He also organised a pageant in Indore, India when he ... | 12,124 |
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The materials for the first exhibit were sent to India on a ship that was sunk near Madras by the German ship Emden, however new materials were collected and an exhibit prepared for the Senate hall of Madras University by 1915.
According to some reports, this was near the time of the meeting of the Indi... | 12,125 |
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of "exhaustive town planning reports" on at least eighteen Indian cities, a selection of which has been collected together in Jacqueline Tyrwhitt’s "Patrick Geddes in India" (1947).
Through these reports, Geddes was concerned to create a "working system in India", righting the wrongs of the past by maki... | 12,126 |
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Gandhi’s attempt to conserve the past by reverting to the spinning wheel, at a moment when the fundamental poverty of the masses in India called for the most resourceful application of the machine both to agricultural and industrial life."
His principles for town planning in Bombay demonstrate his views... | 12,127 |
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plan carried out in stages.
- Purchasing land suitable for building.
- Promoting trade and commerce.
- Preserving historic buildings and buildings of religious significance.
- Developing a city worthy of civic pride, not an imitation of European cities.
- Promoting the happiness, health and comfort ... | 12,128 |
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(see, e.g. Dharavi redevelopment program):
"Town Planning is not mere place-planning, nor even work planning. If it is to be successful it must be folk planning. This means that its task is not to coerce people into new places against their associations, wishes, and interest, as we find bad schemes tryi... | 12,129 |
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the architect Frank Mears, on a number of projects in Palestine. In 1919, he was engaged to prepare a scheme for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at the instigation of the psychoanalyst, Dr. David Eder, who headed the Zionist Organisation's London Branch. He also submitted a report on "Jerusalem Actual... | 12,130 |
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famous admirer was the American urban theorist Lewis Mumford who claimed that "Geddes was a global thinker in practice, a whole generation or more before the Western democracies fought a global war".
Geddes also influenced several British urban planners (notably Raymond Unwin and Frank Mears), the India... | 12,131 |
512240 | Patrick Geddes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patrick%20Geddes | Patrick Geddes
Institute for Urban Research at the University of Dundee continue to develop Geddesian approaches to questions of city and regional planning and questions of social and psychical well-being in the built environment. In late 2015 the University staged an exhibition of Geddes' work in the Lamb Gallery, dra... | 12,132 |
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J.A. Thomson, W. Scott, London.
- "The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal" (1895/96), Patrick Geddes and Colleagues, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh.
- "City Development, A Report to the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust" (1904), Rutgers University Press.
- "The Masque of Learning" (1912)
- "Cities in Evolution" (1915) W... | 12,133 |
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with Geddes on his projects in Edinburgh's Old Town.
- Old North (Tel Aviv)
- List of urban theorists
# Bibliography.
- Amelia Defries, "The Interpreter Geddes: The Man and His Gospel" (1927)
- Philip Boardman, "Patrick Geddes: Maker of the Future" (1944)
- Jacqueline Tyrwhitt (ed.), "Patrick Gedde... | 12,134 |
512240 | Patrick Geddes | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patrick%20Geddes | Patrick Geddes
Geddes and Town Planning: A Critical View" (2011), Routledge
- Volker M. Welter and James Lawson (eds.), "The City After Patrick Geddes" (2000)
- Volker M. Welter, "Biopolis, Patrick Geddes and the City of Life" (2002)
- Catherine Weill-Rochant, "L'Atlas de Tel-Aviv" (2008)
- 'Evaluer la pérennité ur... | 12,135 |
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aires européennes, 2010 (693 p., plans historiques, photos, figures)
# External links.
- The online Journal of Civics & Generalism, is an international collaborative project with extensive essays and graphic material inspired by the work of Patrick Geddes in a modern context
- Geddes as a pioneer land... | 12,136 |
512185 | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=University%20of%20Wisconsin–Milwaukee | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (also known as UW–Milwaukee, UWM or Milwaukee) is a public urban research university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It is the largest university in the Milwaukee metropolitan area and a member of ... | 12,137 |
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school year, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee had an enrollment of 27,156, with 1,604 faculty members, offering 191 degree programs, including 94 bachelor's, 64 master's and 33 doctorate degrees.
The university is categorized as an R1: Doctoral Universities – Highest research act... | 12,138 |
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titles and made 40 NCAA tournament appearances .
# History.
## Early history.
In 1885, the Wisconsin State Normal School opened for classes at 18th and Wells in downtown Milwaukee. Over the next 42 years, the Milwaukee State Normal School saw seven different presidents, the addition... | 12,139 |
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The college became one of the nation's top teacher's training colleges in the 1940s. In 1951, the Legislature empowered all state colleges to offer liberal arts programs. The Milwaukee State Teachers College subsequently became Wisconsin State College–Milwaukee, but was still casually ... | 12,140 |
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university that offered graduate programs in Wisconsin's largest city. In 1956, Wisconsin State College-Milwaukee merged with the University of Wisconsin–Extension's Milwaukee division (a graduate branch of the University of Wisconsin–Madison) to form the University of Wisconsin–Milwau... | 12,141 |
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women's institution, Milwaukee-Downer College, was purchased by the state to expand the UWM campus; Milwaukee-Downer College had previously merged with Lawrence College to form the present Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. The university had already purchased the former campu... | 12,142 |
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to form a united University of Wisconsin System under a single board of regents. In 1988, the UW System designated eight Centers of Excellence at UWM. In 1994, UWM was designated a Research II University (now a Doctoral/Research University-Extensive) by the Carnegie Foundation.
UWM ha... | 12,143 |
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was ranked as the ninth best "Saviors of Our Cities" by the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE), because of its strong positive contribution of careful strategic planning and thoughtful use of resources that have dramatically strengthened the economy and quality of life of Mi... | 12,144 |
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consists of 14 colleges and schools, and 70 academic centers, institutes and laboratory facilities. It offers a total of 191 degree programs, including 94 bachelor's, 64 master's and 33 doctorate degrees. The School of Freshwater Sciences is the only graduate school of freshwater scien... | 12,145 |
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of Institutions of Higher Education. Per "US News & World Report" 2011, the University is ranked 121st nationally by America's Best High School guidance counselors as offering the best undergraduate education to their students
## Rankings.
Based on the statistical analysis by H.J. Ne... | 12,146 |
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University ranks 179th in the US by research expenditure in 2009.
The university ranks 98th in the world in the Professional Ranking of World Universities conducted by the École des Mines de Paris in 2011 It ranked 497th on "U.S. News & World Report" Best Global Universities in 2017, ... | 12,147 |
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200th worldwide and 96th in North America.
The School of Information Studies ranks 15th nationally in the "US News & World Report" ranking with its Archives and Preservation program ranking 9th. The "U.S. News & World Report" also ranks the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare 52nd na... | 12,148 |
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computer science program ranked 110th in their respective categories. The National Research Council (NRC) ranked the school 73rd nationally, with Industrial Engineering 34th, Materials science 60th, Civil Engineering 69th, Mechanical Engineering 87th, and Electronic Engineering 96th. T... | 12,149 |
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19th in the U.S. and 24th in the world by a study published in Communications for the Association for Information Systems. Also, the Organizations and Strategic Management program is ranked 32nd worldwide by a joint study conducted by Texas A&M University and the University of Florida.... | 12,150 |
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than 5.2 million cataloged items, many of which are available electronically through electronic reserve, web-based online catalog, searchable databases and indexes. The building was first constructed in 1967 and then expanded with the addition of the East Wing in 1974 and conference ce... | 12,151 |
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of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. The Golda Meir Library is also home to the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL), which "consists of well over one million items, and includes maps, atlases, books, journals, pamphlets, photographs, slides, Landsat images, and digital spatia... | 12,152 |
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and opportunities to engage in undergraduate research.
# Research.
The university is categorized as an RU/H Research University (highest research activity) in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. In the year 2015, the university had a total research expend... | 12,153 |
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corporations.
## Research Growth Initiative.
Research Growth Initiative (RGI) is a program designed to expand UWM's research enterprise through investment in projects with anticipated return on investment through extramural funding. The application process is competitive and rigorous... | 12,154 |
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to public bus transportation in Milwaukee. The campus is divided into central, north, west, and northwest quads. In addition to the campus proper, UWM incorporates a large number of other sites throughout the Milwaukee metropolitan area.
## Central Quad.
The north end of the Central ... | 12,155 |
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center facility were completed in 1987. In 1979, the Library was named for Golda Meir, the fourth Prime Minister of Israel, who attended Milwaukee State Normal School, a UWM predecessor institution.
The south end of the Central Quad is anchored by the UWM Student Union, the center of ... | 12,156 |
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level of the 480 vehicle Union parking structure. Overtowering the Ernest Spaights Plaza to the west is Bolton Hall which houses the Departments of Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Economics, Urban Studies, and Geography, as well as many student support centers including the... | 12,157 |
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Hall in honor of Sheldon B. Lubar, a prominent Milwaukee businessman, civic leader and philanthropist. Lubar is founder and chairman of Lubar & Company, Inc., a private investment firm. His commitment to UWM and higher education spans more than three decades including service as a past... | 12,158 |
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Company. It was designed to provide maximum energy efficiency for the most highly utilized academic building on the UWM campus. In addition to providing nearly 200 offices, there are three lecture halls, with a total of 785 seats; seven arc-shaped classrooms; ten U-shaped classrooms; a... | 12,159 |
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include Mitchell Hall, sometimes known as "Old Main," which was the home of the original Milwaukee State Teachers College; Garland and Pearse Halls (which formerly housed Milwaukee-Downer Seminary); Curtin Hall; etc.
## North Quad.
The north side of the North Quad contains the Downer... | 12,160 |
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11-story Enderis Hall, which houses the College of Health Sciences, School of Education, and the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare.
The east side of the North Quad is a group of old red buildings, including Holton Hall, Merrill Hall, Johnston Hall, Sabin Hall, and others. These old... | 12,161 |
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science departments. The College of Engineering and Applied Science is housed in the EMS building. The Physics Building is to the south, and the Chemistry Building and Lapham Hall (housing the Biology and Geosciences Departments, as well as the Thomas A. Greene Memorial Museum) are to ... | 12,162 |
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glass walls facing onto the central courtyard afford a view of that area from almost every room in the building. Inside, the air ducts, light fixtures and structural system have been left exposed, providing a unique architectural teaching environment. The building includes student desi... | 12,163 |
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teams. Built in 1973, the 2,000-capacity stadium is tucked between buildings in the middle of the West Quad, making it a unique stadium among American sports venues. Engelmann Stadium is home to the longest-running in-season tournament in NCAA Division I men's soccer, the Panther Invit... | 12,164 |
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child care center, and numerous departments' offices. The uses of the remaining portions of the complex are yet to be determined. The former east wing is currently called Building A, west wing as Building B, Clinical Building as Building C, and the Medical Arts Building as Building D. ... | 12,165 |
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NCAA sports in the 1990–91 season, the Panthers competed in Division I, Division II, Division III and the NAIA.
## Men's Basketball.
Under the tutelage of Bruce Pearl, the Panthers won their first ever Horizon League Tournament in 2003, leading to their first appearance in the NCAA M... | 12,166 |
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it was considered a small program throughout its existence, it produced six players who went on to play in the National Football League including Houston Oilers All-Pro safety Mike Reinfeldt. Other notable Milwaukee football alums include Bill Carollo, the Panthers' starting quarterbac... | 12,167 |
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The Panthers held on to the Golden Keg (the games' trophy) for the duration of the series until Marquette disbanded its program in 2011. In 2012, they finished the season ranked #7 nationally by the Intercollegiate Club Football Federation.
## Other sports.
The men's baseball and wom... | 12,168 |
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through the end of the 2006 season.
The club bowling team has also seen success since its creation in 2000, winning the Wisconsin Collegiate Bowling Conference in 2011 and 2013 and finished 2011 as the 27th ranked team in the nation
The men's club lacrosse team, founded in 2010, won ... | 12,169 |
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campus. It is a four-tower complex with a capacity of 2,700 students, arranged in three- and four-room suites. The North, South, and West towers were built in 1970, with the East tower opening in 2000. All East tower suites have full-size kitchens and a dining area. Sandburg Hall went ... | 12,170 |
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has space for recreational activities, including grass space, a patio, tennis courts, basketball courts, and sand volleyball.
Purin Hall is on the corner of Downer and Kenwood. It is a small building housing approximately 50 students in apartment-style suites.
Kenilworth Square is lo... | 12,171 |
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There are a 24-hour University Housing shuttle, MCTS, and BOSS (Be On the Safe Side, the university shuttle service) running between the residence hall and the main campus. First year students can also attend some classes within the residence hall.
Cambridge Commons is the newest resi... | 12,172 |
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certified building, with two green roofs, solar panels, and a green courtyard that reduces rain runoff using a 20,000 gallon holding tank.
All of housing with the exception of Kenilworth Square students are serviced by the Student Housing Administrative Council (SHAC) which is Milwauk... | 12,173 |
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Journalism students also run "Frontpage Milwaukee", another online newspaper.
Journalism & Mass Communication students run PantherVision, a weekly, award-winning news program distributed via the Higher Education Cable Consortium to approximately 300,000 households in southeastern Wisc... | 12,174 |
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organizations.
There are over 300 student organizations on campus. The governing body is the Student Association of UWM, which under Wisconsin's "shared governance" system (statute 36.09(5)) interacts with the University administration and the student body to insure students rights an... | 12,175 |
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and sorority houses remains extremely limited due to Milwaukee's housing ordinance that restricts occupancy to no more than three unrelated individuals.
## Pantherfest.
At the beginning of each academic year, the university stages a "Pantherfest" at the American Family Insurance Amph... | 12,176 |
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Past performers have included Lupe Fiasco, Dashboard Confessional, Kid Cudi, O.A.R., Common, Juicy J, and Twenty-One Pilots. This year's performers have been announced as Misterwives, Kyle, and Kiiara. Pantherfest includes a street festival hosted on campus featuring free food and acti... | 12,177 |
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performances are held in the Bader Concert Hall located in the Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts or the Recital Hall adjacent to the Arts Center courtyard. Theatrical performances are held in the Mainstage Theater or Studio Theater located in the Theater Building next to Spa... | 12,178 |
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regular hang-out, "Arnold's Drive-In." To match the time period of the show, "Happy Days" used the red-and-white colors and the Cardinals mascot, which was in use by UWM during this period.
In "", the twenty-fourth season of MTV's reality television series "The Real World", Ryan Knigh... | 12,179 |
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notification system. BOSS operates from 6 pm to until 2am Sunday thru Thursday and until 4am on the weekends during the spring and fall semesters. Summer hours are 7pm–12am, 7 days a week. Their van service will even drop people off right at their front door if they live in their area ... | 12,180 |
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survey about LGBT-friendly policies, programs and practices.
## Smoke-Free Campus.
In June 2018, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee became the 3rd university of the University of Wisconsin System to become a smoke-free campus. This policy states that "UWM is committed to maintaining a... | 12,181 |
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ee Campus.
In June 2018, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee became the 3rd university of the University of Wisconsin System to become a smoke-free campus. This policy states that "UWM is committed to maintaining a safe campus environment and to ensuring that it acts to the extent possi... | 12,182 |
512246 | Pinus wallichiana | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pinus%20wallichiana | Pinus wallichiana
Pinus wallichiana
Pinus wallichiana is a coniferous evergreen tree native to the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains, from eastern Afghanistan east across northern Pakistan and north west India to Yunnan in southwest China. It grows in mountain valleys at altitudes of 1800–4300 m (rarely as ... | 12,183 |
512246 | Pinus wallichiana | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pinus%20wallichiana | Pinus wallichiana
also known by the invalid botanic names "Pinus griffithii" McClelland or ""Pinus excelsa"" Wall., "Pinus chylla" Lodd. when the tree became available through the European nursery trade in 1836, nine years after the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich (1784~1856) first introduced seeds to England.
The l... | 12,184 |
512246 | Pinus wallichiana | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pinus%20wallichiana | Pinus wallichiana
primary species or in mixed forests with deodar, birch, spruce, and fir. In some places it reaches the tree line.
# Description.
## Plant.
Pine is a coniferous evergreen softwood tree of the family Pinaceae, growing up to 12 to 24 m. Its Trunk is deeply furrowed and reaches up to a diameter of 1 m ... | 12,185 |
512246 | Pinus wallichiana | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pinus%20wallichiana | Pinus wallichiana
resin.
## Reproduction.
Pine is a nonflowering plant and its reproductive organs are called cones. Male and female cones are present in the same plant. Male cones, bearing the pollen grain are of a scaly arrangement. Each scale bears two pollen sacs.
# Uses.
The wood is moderately hard, durable an... | 12,186 |
512246 | Pinus wallichiana | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pinus%20wallichiana | Pinus wallichiana
tolerating this better than some other conifers.
This plant and the slow-growing cultivar ‘Nana’ have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
### .
The turpentine obtained from the resin of all pine trees is antiseptic, diuretic, rubefacient and vermifuge. It is a valuable r... | 12,187 |
512246 | Pinus wallichiana | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pinus%20wallichiana | Pinus wallichiana
rnally and as a rub and steam bath in the treatment of rheumatic affections. It is also very beneficial to the respiratory system and so is useful in treating diseases of the mucous membranes and respiratory complaints such as coughs, colds, influenza and TB. Externally it is a very beneficial treatme... | 12,188 |
512261 | PTH | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PTH | PTH
PTH
PTH may refer to:
- Parathyroid hormone
- Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, a US township
- Phantom time hypothesis, a proposed theory that a calendar change explains the lack of archaeology coinciding with the Early Middle Ages
- Phenolphthalein, an indicator used in chemical reactions to indicate the pr... | 12,189 |
512261 | PTH | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PTH | PTH
ate the presence of a base
- Port Huron (Amtrak station), Michigan, United States, station code PTH
- Protest the Hero, a Canadian progressive metal band from Whitby, Ontario
- Perth railway station, Scotland, station code PTH
- GNU Portable Threads, a thread library
- phenylthiohydantoin, a type of amino acid... | 12,190 |
512045 | Index of feminism articles | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Index%20of%20feminism%20articles | Index of feminism articles
Index of feminism articles
This is an index of articles related to the issue of feminism, women's liberation, the women's movement, and women's rights.
# A.
Act, Pornography Victims Compensation
- Activists, women's rights, list of
- Advertising, sex in
- Aid societies, ladies' or soldi... | 12,191 |
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women's political rights in
- BDSM, feminist views on
- Binary, gender
- Black feminism
- Bonding, female
- Bride burning
- Bride kidnapping
- Burning, bride
# C.
Canada, women's rights in
- Car, passenger, women-only
- Chauvinism, female (compare Male chauvinism)
- Chicana femini... | 12,192 |
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women's suffrage in majority-Muslim
- Crime, gender and
- Criminology, school of, feminist
- Cult of Domesticity
- Culture, feminism in
- Cultural feminism
- Cyberfeminism
# D.
Day, International Women's
- Dekh Le
- Difference feminism
- Differences, gender
- Discrimination
- Dis... | 12,193 |
512045 | Index of feminism articles | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Index%20of%20feminism%20articles | Index of feminism articles
Equal Rights Amendment
- ERA
- Equality, feminism and
- Equality feminism
- Equality, gender
- Equity feminism
- Erotophilia
- Erotophobia
- Existentialism, feminist
# F.
Family, matrifocal
- Female bonding (compare Male bonding)
- Female chauvinism (compare Male chauvinism)
- Fe... | 12,194 |
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Egypt
- Feminism in France
- Feminism in India
- Feminism in international relations
- Feminism in Japan
- Feminism in Nepal
- Feminism in Poland
- Feminist anthropology
- Feminist archaeology
- Feminist art movement
- Feminist art movement in the United States
- Feminist economics... | 12,195 |
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and ideologies
- Feminist philosophy
- Feminist political ecology
- Feminist revisionist mythology
- Feminist rhetoricians, list of
- Feminist school of criminology
- Feminist science fiction
- Feminist Sex Wars
- Feminist sexology
- Feminist sociology
- Feminist Studies
- Feminist... | 12,196 |
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science, feminist
- Fiction, science, women in
- First-wave feminism
- First women's suffrage in majority-Muslim countries, timeline of
- Fourth-wave feminism in Spain
- First World War, women in the
- France, feminism in
- Francoist Spain and the democratic transition period, feminism... | 12,197 |
512045 | Index of feminism articles | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Index%20of%20feminism%20articles | Index of feminism articles
job title
- Gender studies
- Gendercide
- Gendered division of labour
- Geography, feminist
- Geology, women in
- Girl Power
- Girls, women, and information technology
- Girly girl
- Glass ceiling
- Global feminism
- Grrrl, riot
- Gynarchy
- Gynocentrism (compare Androcentrism)
... | 12,198 |
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History of feminism
- History of women in the military
- History of women in the United States
- History, women's
- History Month, Women's
- Husband-selling
# I.
Identity, gender
- Ideologies, feminist movements and
- Income disparity
- Income disparity in the United States, male-fe... | 12,199 |
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