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206785 | Laval | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laval | Laval
varsity sports program
## France.
- Arrondissement of Laval, an arrondissement in the Mayenne department in the Pays de la Loire region
- Laval, Mayenne, a commune in the Mayenne department
- Laval, Isère, a commune in the Isère department
- Laval-Atger, a commune in the Lozère department
- Laval-d'Aix, a c... | 28,700 |
206785 | Laval | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laval | Laval
in the Ardennes department
- Laval-Pradel, a commune in the Gard department
- Laval-Roquecezière, a commune in the Aveyron department
- Laval-Saint-Roman, a commune in the Gard department
- Laval-sur-Doulon, a commune in the Haute-Loire department
- Laval-sur-Luzège, a commune in the Corrèze department
- La... | 28,701 |
206785 | Laval | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Laval | Laval
partment
- Le Poët-Laval, a commune in the Drôme department
- Magnac-Laval, a commune in the Haute-Vienne department
- Mont-de-Laval, a commune in the Doubs department
- Saint-Genis-Laval, a commune in the Rhône department
- Saint-Germain-Laval, Loire, a commune in the Loire department
- Saint-Germain-Laval... | 28,702 |
206759 | Disney animators' strike | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disney%20animators'%20strike | Disney animators' strike
Disney animators' strike
The Disney animators' strike was a labor strike by the animators of Walt Disney Productions. The strike began on May 29, 1941, and lasted roughly five weeks. Though it resulted in the studio officially recognizing labor unions, it resulted in many departures and had a ... | 28,703 |
206759 | Disney animators' strike | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disney%20animators'%20strike | Disney animators' strike
SCG president Herbert Sorrell had secured contracts with every major cartoon studio except Disney and Leon Schlesinger Productions. Schlesinger gave in to the SCG's requests to sign a contract after his own employees went on strike, but upon signing reportedly asked, "What about Disney?"
Disne... | 28,704 |
206759 | Disney animators' strike | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disney%20animators'%20strike | Disney animators' strike
a rigid hierarchy system was enforced where employee benefits such as access to the restaurant, gymnasium, and steam room were limited to the studio's head writers and animators, who also received larger and more comfortable offices. Individual departments were segregated into buildings and hea... | 28,705 |
206759 | Disney animators' strike | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disney%20animators'%20strike | Disney animators' strike
including Art Babbitt, grew dissatisfied and joined the SCG. Babbitt was one of Disney's best-paid animators, though he was sympathetic to low-ranking employees and openly disliked Disney. Disney saw no problem with the structure, believing it was his studio to run and that his employees should... | 28,706 |
206759 | Disney animators' strike | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disney%20animators'%20strike | Disney animators' strike
to see Babbitt as having personally betrayed him by becoming a union leader. Disney fired Babbitt along with 16 other employees who were members of the SCG. The next day on May 29, more than 200 members of the studio staff went on strike, during the production of the 1941 film "Dumbo". Other st... | 28,707 |
206759 | Disney animators' strike | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disney%20animators'%20strike | Disney animators' strike
a goodwill tour of Latin America to produce animated films as part of the Good Neighbor policy, allowing tensions to cool in his absence. "Saludos Amigos" was released the following year in 1942, while "The Three Caballeros" was released in 1944.
# Aftermath and notable departures.
The strike... | 28,708 |
206759 | Disney animators' strike | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disney%20animators'%20strike | Disney animators' strike
Preston Blair, Ed Love, Walter Clinton, and Grant Simmons left for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. Frank Tashlin returned to Warner Bros. Cartoons, and was joined by Hawley Pratt, Bill Meléndez, Emery Hawkins, Basil Davidovich, Maurice Noble, Cornett Wood, Ted Bonnicksen, and Jack Bradb... | 28,709 |
206759 | Disney animators' strike | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disney%20animators'%20strike | Disney animators' strike
ers with contempt, arguing in a letter that the strike "cleaned house at our studio" and got rid of "the chip-on-the-shoulder boys and the world-owes-me-a-living lads". Testifying to the House Un-American Activities Committee, Disney alleged that communism had played a major role in the strike,... | 28,710 |
206776 | USS Boston (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Boston%20(1799) | USS Boston (1799)
USS Boston (1799)
The third USS "Boston" was a 32-gun wooden-hulled, three-masted frigate of the United States Navy. "Boston" was built by public subscription in Boston under the Act of 30 June 1798. "Boston" was active during the Quasi-War with France and the First Barbary War. On 12 October 1800, "... | 28,711 |
206776 | USS Boston (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Boston%20(1799) | USS Boston (1799)
the funded by the donations from the people of Boston, Massachusetts as part of the group of ships built by the states to supplement the Original six frigates of the United States Navy provided by the Naval Act of 1794.
The frigate has a displacement of 400 tons and had a length between perpendicular... | 28,712 |
206776 | USS Boston (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Boston%20(1799) | USS Boston (1799)
1800, she cruised along the American coast until September when she sailed to the Guadeloupe Station in the West Indies. In , on 12 October 1800, she engaged and captured the French corvette . "Boston" lost seven killed and eight wounded in the encounter. She towed her prize to Boston, arriving in Nov... | 28,713 |
206776 | USS Boston (1799) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Boston%20(1799) | USS Boston (1799)
n cruises Boston captured seven additional prizes (two in conjunction with ).
During the winter of 1801 "Boston" carried Minister Livingston to France and then joined the Mediterranean Squadron off Tripoli while under the command of Captain Daniel McNeill. She fought an action with six or seven Tripo... | 28,714 |
206778 | IBM 709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IBM%20709 | IBM 709
IBM 709
The IBM 709 was a computer system, initially announced by IBM in January 1957 and first installed during August 1958. The 709 was an improved version of its predecessor, the IBM 704, and was the third of the IBM 700/7000 series of scientific computers. The improvements included overlapped input/output,... | 28,715 |
206778 | IBM 709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IBM%20709 | IBM 709
IBM 704 programs on the IBM 709. This was the first commercially available emulator. Registers and most 704 instructions were emulated in 709 hardware. Complex 704 instructions such as floating point trap and input-output routines were emulated in 709 software.
The FORTRAN Assembly Program was first introduced... | 28,716 |
206778 | IBM 709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IBM%20709 | IBM 709
Registers.
The IBM 709 has a 38-bit accumulator, a 36-bit multiplier quotient register, and three 15-bit index registers whose contents are subtracted from the base address instead of being added to it. All three index registers can participate in an instruction: the 3-bit "tag" field in the instruction is a b... | 28,717 |
206778 | IBM 709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IBM%20709 | IBM 709
(instruction code), a 15-bit "decrement" field, a 3-bit "tag" field, and a 15-bit "address" field. They are conditional jump operations based on the values in the decrement registers specified in the "tag" field. Some also subtract the "decrement" field from the contents of the index registers. The implementati... | 28,718 |
206778 | IBM 709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IBM%20709 | IBM 709
bits, a 3-bit "tag" field, and a 15-bit "address" field.
Types C, D and E are used for specialized instructions.
- Fixed point numbers are stored in binary sign/magnitude format.
- Single precision floating point numbers have a magnitude sign, an 8-bit excess-128 exponent and a 29-bit significand
- Alphanum... | 28,719 |
206778 | IBM 709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IBM%20709 | IBM 709
magnetic core memory and apparently the first use of independent I/O channels. Whereas I/O on 704 is a programmed function of the central processor - data words are transferred to or from the I/O register, one at a time, using a "copy" instruction - the 709 uses the IBM-766 Data Synchronizer, which provides two... | 28,720 |
206778 | IBM 709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IBM%20709 | IBM 709
Up to two IBM 733 Magnetic Drum units, each with 8,192 words of memory, could be attached independently from the Data Synchronizers. The 709 could initially load programs (boot) from card, tape or drum.
The IBM 738 Magnetic Core Storage used on 709 was also a milestone of hybrid technology. Although the core a... | 28,721 |
206777 | USS Boston (1825) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Boston%20(1825) | USS Boston (1825)
USS Boston (1825)
The fourth USS "Boston" was an 18-gun sloop of war, launched on 15 October 1825 by the Boston Navy Yard and commissioned the following year, Master Commandant Beekman V. Hoffman in command.
"Boston" served on the Brazil Station 1826-1829 and the Mediterranean Station 1830-1832. She... | 28,722 |
206777 | USS Boston (1825) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Boston%20(1825) | USS Boston (1825)
avy Yard until joining the West Indies Squadron in 1836. Except for two short periods in ordinary at New York Navy Yard she served continuously for the next 10 years. "Boston" cruised on the West Indies (1836–39), East Indies (1841-43), and Brazil (1843–46) Stations, returning to the United States in ... | 28,723 |
206775 | USS Boston (1777) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Boston%20(1777) | USS Boston (1777)
USS Boston (1777)
The second USS "Boston" was a 24-gun frigate, launched 3 June 1776 by Stephen and Ralph Cross, Newburyport, Massachusetts, and completed the following year. In American service she captured a number of British vessels. The British captured "Boston" at the fall of Charleston, South C... | 28,724 |
206775 | USS Boston (1777) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Boston%20(1777) | USS Boston (1777)
"Boston" sailed in company with and the Massachusetts privateer "American Tartar" for a cruise in the North Atlantic. "American Tartar" parted from the two frigates shortly thereafter.
The two frigates captured three prizes including the 28-gun frigate (7 June). On 7–8 July, "Boston", "Hancock", and ... | 28,725 |
206775 | USS Boston (1777) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Boston%20(1777) | USS Boston (1777)
capturing one prize en route. She then cruised in European waters taking four prizes before returning to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 15 October. In 1779 she made two cruises (29 July – 6 September and 23 November – 23 December) in the North Atlantic capturing at least nine prizes. "Boston" then joined ... | 28,726 |
206775 | USS Boston (1777) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Boston%20(1777) | USS Boston (1777)
Arbuthnot sent to Boston recaptured the British sloop-of-war , which the American frigate had captured on 27 May. "Charlestown", under Captain Henry Francis Evans, and , brought "Atalanta" into Halifax. Then "Charlestown" sent in two American privateers that she had taken, "Flying Fish" and "Yankee He... | 28,727 |
206775 | USS Boston (1777) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Boston%20(1777) | USS Boston (1777)
Nova Scotia), or Île Royale, when it came under attack from two French frigates "Astrée", commanded by La Pérouse, and , commanded by Latouche Tréville, resulting in the Naval battle of Louisbourg. The French captured "Jack". "Charlestown" struck to the French frigates but they were unable to take pos... | 28,728 |
206775 | USS Boston (1777) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Boston%20(1777) | USS Boston (1777)
George of "Vulture" replaced Evans as captain of "Charlestown". He was posted on 29 November 1781 and remained her captain.
# Fate.
The Royal Navy sold "Charlestown" in 1783.
# See also.
- List of sailing frigates of the United States Navy
- List of ships captured in the 18th century
- Bibliogra... | 28,729 |
206775 | USS Boston (1777) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS%20Boston%20(1777) | USS Boston (1777)
tain.
# Fate.
The Royal Navy sold "Charlestown" in 1783.
# See also.
- List of sailing frigates of the United States Navy
- List of ships captured in the 18th century
- Bibliography of early American naval history
# Citations and references.
Citations
References
- Brown, Richard (F.G.S.) (18... | 28,730 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
Geraldine Page
Geraldine Sue Page (November 22, 1924June 13, 1987) was an American actress. She earned acclaim for her work on Broadway as well as in major Hollywood films and television productions, garnering an Academy Award (from eight nominations), two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, one B... | 28,731 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
on her association with Hagen and did not work in film for eight years. Page continued to appear in television and on stage and earned her first Tony Award nomination for her performance in "Sweet Bird of Youth" (1959–60), a role she reprised in the 1961 film adaptation, the latter of which earned her a ... | 28,732 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
Beguiled" (1971) opposite Clint Eastwood. In 1977, she provided the voice of Madam Medusa in Walt Disney's "The Rescuers", followed by a role in Woody Allen's "Interiors" (1978), which earned her a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
After being inducted into the American Theater Hall of ... | 28,733 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
run of "Blithe Spirit", for which she earned her fourth Tony Award nomination.
# Early life.
Page was born November 22, 1924 in Kirksville, Missouri, the second child of Edna Pearl (née Maize) and Leon Elwin Page who worked at Andrew Taylor Still College of Osteopathy and Surgery (combined with the Ame... | 28,734 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
Church in Chicago, where she had her first foray into acting within the church's theatre group, playing Jo March in a 1941 production of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women". After graduating from Chicago's Englewood Technical Prep Academy, she attended the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of C... | 28,735 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
would return to Chicago in the summers to perform in repertory theatre in Lake Zurich, Illinois, where she and several fellow actors had established their own independent theater company. While attempting to establish her career, she worked various odd jobs, including as a hat-check girl, theater usher, ... | 28,736 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
for a total of 23 performances at Blackfriars Repertory Theatre on Manhattan's Upper East Side. In February 1952, director José Quintero cast Page in a minor role in "Yerma", a theatrical interpretation of a poem by Federico García Lorca, staged at Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City's Greenwic... | 28,737 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Prior, she appeared in an uncredited role in "Taxi". Speaking to a Kirksville newspaper, she said: "Actually "Hondo" wasn't my first movie. I had one small, but satisfactory scene in a Dan Dailey picture called "Taxi", which was filmed i... | 28,738 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
in the 1954 production of "The Immoralist", written by Augustus Goetz and Ruth Goetz and based on the novel of the same name (1902) by André Gide. Page remained friends with Dean until his death the following year and kept several personal mementos from the play—including two drawings by him. After Page'... | 28,739 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
Newman, in which she originated the role of a larger-than-life, addicted, sexually voracious Hollywood legend trying to extinguish her fears about her career with a young hustler named Chance Wayne (played by Newman). For her performance, Page received her first nomination for the Tony Award for Best Act... | 28,740 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
another nomination the following year starring in Delbert Mann's "Dear Heart" as a self-sufficient but lonely postmistress visiting New York City for a convention, finding love with a greeting card salesman. In 1964, she starred in a Lee Strasberg-directed Broadway revival of Anton Chekhov's "Three Siste... | 28,741 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
"The Thanksgiving Visitor", both of which earned her two consecutive Emmy Awards for Best Actress. In 1967, Page appeared again onstage in Peter Shaffer's "Black Comedy/White Lies," a production which also included Michael Crawford and Lynn Redgrave, who were making their Broadway debuts. The same year, ... | 28,742 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
over-sentimentalized endeavor to pretend the lace-curtain millionaires are—or were—every bit as folksy as the old prize-fighters and the Irish brawlers in the saloon."
## Mid-career work.
Page starred opposite Ruth Gordon in the thriller "What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?" (1969), the third and final f... | 28,743 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
whom she murders one by one and robs them of their life savings in order to keep up her extravagant lifestyle. Writing for "The New York Times", Vincent Canby deemed the film "an amusingly baroque horror story told by a master misogynist," and praised Page's "affecting" performance.
Page subsequently ap... | 28,744 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
"Pete 'n' Tillie" (1972), for which she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She also appeared in three episodes of Rod Serling's "Night Gallery" between 1972 and 1973. In January 1973, she returned to Broadway playing Mary Todd Lincoln opposite Maya Angelou in the two-characte... | 28,745 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
Locust" (1975), an adaptation of the Nathanael West novel of the same name. In 1977, she appeared as a nun in the British comedy "Nasty Habits", and provided the voice role of Madame Medusa in the Walt Disney animated film "The Rescuers". During this time, she also appeared on television, guest-starring ... | 28,746 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
"Miss Page, looking a bit like a youthful Louise Nevelson with mink-lashed eyes, is marvelous — erratically kind, impossibly demanding, pathetic in her loneliness and desperate in her anger." The following year, in November 1979, Page was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
## Later work an... | 28,747 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
for her role, she received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
Also in 1983, Page invited the young actress Sabra Jones Strasberg to her dressing room to talk to Strasberg about how much she had liked her performance in "St. Joan" by Maxwell Anderson, in which Page had just seen ... | 28,748 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
Broadway, and Off-Broadway productions throughout the 1980s; this included roles in a revivals of "Inheritors" by Susan Glaspell and "Paradise Lost" by Clifford Odets in 1983, "Rain" by John Colton (based on the short story "Miss Thompson" by W. Somerset Maugham) the following year. Further revivals foll... | 28,749 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
Award nominations without a win, for which Page was tied with Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton (who themselves had also garnered seven nominations without winning). On television, Page had a supporting role in the miniseries "The Dollmaker" (1984), opposite Jane Fonda and Amanda Plummer. She appeared in ... | 28,750 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
of a lifetime."
In 1986, she appeared on Broadway in "The Circle" by W. Somerset Maugham; during this production, Page won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in "The Trip to Bountiful". During her acceptance speech, she thanked The Mirror Theater Ltd. Page wore her costume from "The ... | 28,751 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
the record for the most nominations without ever winning... I’d love to be champion, [but the loser] doesn’t have to get up there and make a fool of herself."
After winning the Academy Award, Page returned to finish her run performing in "The Circle" for Mirror Theater and appeared opposite Carroll Bake... | 28,752 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, though she did not win. A week after the Tony Awards ceremony, Page failed to appear for two performances of the play and was found dead in her Manhattan home. The show lasted several weeks more, with Page's understudy Patricia Conolly taking over ... | 28,753 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
upon completing the Broadway run of "The Three Sisters", Page discussed her method acting at length. When asked if she used emotional recall as a technique, she responded: "I would never shut it out. But I don't try to get one. My whole effort is to relax and keep the doors open so that there's room if o... | 28,754 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
life.
Page was married to violinist Alexander Schneider from 1954 to 1957. On September 8, 1963, she married actor Rip Torn, who was six years her junior, in Pinal, Arizona. They had three children: a daughter, actress Angelica Page, and twin sons, Anthony "Tony" and Jonathan "Jon" Torn.
Beginning in t... | 28,755 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
Page was questioned about her marriage by columnist Cindy Adams, to which she responded: "Of course Rip and I are still married. We've been married for years. We're staying married. What's the big fuss?" In spite of their separation, Page and Torn remained married until her death; her daughter described ... | 28,756 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
which had begun its run in March. At the end of the show's evening performance, the play's producer announced that Page had been found dead in her lower Manhattan townhouse. She was determined to have died of a heart attack.
Five days after her death, "an overflow crowd of colleagues, friends and fans,"... | 28,757 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
my wife") and said they had "never stopped being lovers, and ... never will." Page was cremated.
# Accolades.
Page earned a total of seven Academy Award nominations before winning her first Academy Award for Best Actress in 1985 for "The Trip to Bountiful". She was also a winner of two Golden Globe Awa... | 28,758 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
"Feud", which chronicles the rivalry between actresses Bette Davis and Joan Crawford on the set of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962).
She was also portrayed by her daughter, Angelica Page, in the stage production "Turning Page". A monologue play chronicling Page's life, it was also written by he... | 28,759 |
206714 | Geraldine Page | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geraldine%20Page | Geraldine Page
ng career," Angelica recalled. "As her only daughter I feel compelled to share her lessons and gifts with others who did and did not have the opportunity to know her magic intimately. She was a true rebel and trail blazer. A masterful woman who was ahead of her time and should not be forgotten anytime so... | 28,760 |
206795 | Rowland Institute for Science | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rowland%20Institute%20for%20Science | Rowland Institute for Science
Rowland Institute for Science
The Rowland Institute for Science was founded by Edwin H. Land, founder of Polaroid Corporation, as a nonprofit, privately endowed basic research organization in 1980. It is named for the first head of the American Physical Society, Henry Augustus Rowland. Th... | 28,761 |
206795 | Rowland Institute for Science | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rowland%20Institute%20for%20Science | Rowland Institute for Science
and is a few miles away from the main campus.
# Rowland Junior Fellows.
The flagship program at the Rowland Institute is the Junior Fellowship. The program serves as a postdoctoral research program for early career experimental scientists. Fellows receive funding for salary and research ... | 28,762 |
206795 | Rowland Institute for Science | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rowland%20Institute%20for%20Science | Rowland Institute for Science
the use of optical tweezers to study step dynamics of kinesin and RNA polymerase on DNA templates
- Colleen Cavanaugh - microbiologist recognized for her studies of hydrothermal vent ecosystems
- Donald A. Glaser - physicist, neurobiologist, and winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics ... | 28,763 |
206795 | Rowland Institute for Science | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rowland%20Institute%20for%20Science | Rowland Institute for Science
olleen Cavanaugh - microbiologist recognized for her studies of hydrothermal vent ecosystems
- Donald A. Glaser - physicist, neurobiologist, and winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the bubble chamber
- Jene Golovchenko - physicist noted for his work on materials for w... | 28,764 |
206748 | University of Adelaide | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=University%20of%20Adelaide | University of Adelaide
University of Adelaide
The University of Adelaide (informally Adelaide University) is a public university located in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1874, it is the third-oldest university in Australia. The university's main campus is located on North Terrace in the Adelaide city centr... | 28,765 |
206748 | University of Adelaide | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=University%20of%20Adelaide | University of Adelaide
The university operates several associated and independent research institutes and groups. These include the South Australian Centre for Economic Studies, the Hanson Institute for Medical Research, and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI).
The University of Adelaid... | 28,766 |
206748 | University of Adelaide | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=University%20of%20Adelaide | University of Adelaide
of the Sandstone universities, which mostly consist of colonial-era universities within Australia.
The university is associated with five Nobel laureates, constituting one-third of Australia's total Nobel laureates, and 109 Rhodes scholars. The university has had a considerable impact on the pub... | 28,767 |
206748 | University of Adelaide | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=University%20of%20Adelaide | University of Adelaide
of viticulture and oenology.
# History.
The University of Adelaide was established on 6 November 1874 after a £20,000 donation by grazier and copper miner Walter Watson Hughes, along with support and donations from Thomas Elder.
The first Chancellor was Sir Richard Hanson and the first vice-ch... | 28,768 |
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London, 1878) to admit women on equal terms with men (1881), though women studied alongside men from the commencement of classes in 1876, and were equally eligible for all academic prizes and honours. Its first female graduate was Edith Emily Dornwell, who was also the first person in Australia t... | 28,769 |
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Bonython Hall, was built in 1936 following a donation from the owner of "The Advertiser" newspaper, Sir John Langdon Bonython, who left £40,000 for a Great Hall for the University.
## Modern era.
On 2 July 2010, the University officially implemented its "Smoke-Free Policy". This move was the cu... | 28,770 |
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a smoke-free policy. The North Terrace campus has been smoke-free since July 2010, it was planned that the Waite and Roseworthy campuses would be smoke-free by 2011, and the University's residential facilities have also been made smoke-free.
In June 2018, University of Adelaide and University of... | 28,771 |
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the South Australian Museum and the "City East" campus of the University of South Australia. The Adelaide University Medical and Dental Schools were located across Frome Road, behind the old Royal Adelaide Hospital. The hospital moved and so have the schools.
The vast majority of students and st... | 28,772 |
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among Australian sandstone universities for having its main presence adjacent to the main business and shopping precinct.
Bonython Hall, (the great hall of the University), the Mitchell Building, the Elder Hall, the Napier building and the Ligertwood building, form the North Terrace street front... | 28,773 |
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campus amenities for students, with a focus on pedestrians and cyclists, providing better, safer pathways through the campus, and eliminating vehicle traffic where possible. At North Terrace, the Schulz building will be repurposed as an on-campus residential college, with accommodation, and recre... | 28,774 |
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University of Adelaide also has a physical presence in the form of the Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences Building.
## National Wine Centre.
Located in the Adelaide Park Lands at the eastern end of North Terrace, the Wine Centre offers some of the university's oenology courses. Opened in 2001... | 28,775 |
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end of North Terrace, Adelaide in the eastern parklands and adjacent to the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. The building, designed by Cox Grieve Gillett, uses building materials to reflect items used in making wine.
## Waite.
The Waite campus has a strong focus on agricultural science, plant breeding... | 28,776 |
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components of the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences. It is adjacent to the Urrbrae Agricultural High School.
It is situated in Adelaide's south-eastern foothills, in the suburb of Urrbrae on . A large amount of the land was donated in 1924 by the pastoralist Peter Waite. A large amount ... | 28,777 |
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Premier Mike Rann opened the multimillion-dollar Plant Genomics Centre at the Waite Campus. Then in 2010 Premier Rann opened The Plant Accelerator, a $30 million research facility – the largest and most advanced of its kind in the world.
Malcolm Oades was the director from November 1996 to 2001.... | 28,778 |
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became the University's Roseworthy Campus, part of the Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences. The merger would see teaching and research in oenology and viticulture transferred to the University's Waite Campus, along with the bulk of its work in plant breeding. Before the degree i... | 28,779 |
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Centre houses not only teaching facilities, including a surgical skills suite, but also a public veterinary clinic offering general practice as well as emergency and specialist veterinary services for pet animals. There are also specialised pathology laboratories in this centre for teaching, rese... | 28,780 |
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campus works in conjunction with the University's commercial partners. Commercial enterprises at Thebarton campus include businesses involved in materials engineering, biotechnology, environmental services, information technology, industrial design, laser/optics technology, health products, engin... | 28,781 |
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located at the Ngee Ann Academy (formerly known as Ngee Ann – Adelaide Education Centre (NAAEC)), is the University of Adelaide's first overseas centre. It is a joint venture with the Ngee Ann Kongsi foundation.
The educational facility combines under-graduate and post-graduate academic programs... | 28,782 |
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University of Adelaide professors on a regular basis.
# Organisation and governance.
The University is divided into five faculties, with various constituent schools:
- Faculty of Engineering, Computer & Mathematical Sciences: Australian School of Petroleum; School of Chemical Engineering; Scho... | 28,783 |
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of Music; School of Humanities; School of Education; and, School of Social Sciences
- Faculty of the Professions: School of Architecture, and Built Environment; Adelaide Business School; School of Economics; and, Adelaide Law School.
- Faculty of Sciences: School of Agriculture, Food, and Wine;... | 28,784 |
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Foundation Studies Programs, is conducted by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education: Wilto Yerlo in the Division of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Academic).
The University currently enrolls in excess of 27,300 students, including over 7,400 international students (2015)... | 28,785 |
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small size of the original campus. However, demand for residential college accommodation led to the establishment of private colleges affiliated to the University. St. Mark's College was founded by the Anglican Church (then called the Church of England) in 1925, Aquinas College in 1950 by the Cat... | 28,786 |
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activities and sporting opportunities for its members.
## Governance.
In 2018, Peter Rathjen commences his tenure as Vice Chancellor, taking over from Warren Bebbington. Rathjen is a Rhodes Scholar, a recipient of the R.A. Fisher Prize for genetics and the Morton Prize for biochemistry, and was... | 28,787 |
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of all Australian universities. It engages in extensive contract research and collaborative work in conjunction with local and international companies, as well as federal, state and local governments. This activity is managed by the university's commercial development company, Adelaide Research &... | 28,788 |
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which is supported by the Waite and National Wine Centre campuses producing oenology and agriculture/viticulture graduates.
In addition, the university participates in the Auto-ID Labs, a network of seven research universities in the field of networked radio-frequency identification (RFID) and e... | 28,789 |
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a bequest made by Jessie Frances Raven, in memory of her father, for "the promotion, advancement, teaching and diffusion of the study of philosophy…". The University also presents the James Crawford Biennial Lecture Series on International Law, named for James Richard Crawford SC, a graduate of t... | 28,790 |
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the most research-intensive universities in Australia, securing over $180 million in research funding annually. Its researchers are active in both basic and commercially oriented research across a broad range of fields including agriculture, psychology, health sciences, and engineering.
Research... | 28,791 |
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AC21 International Forum in June 2012.
The Centre for Automotive Safety Research (CASR), based at the University of Adelaide, was founded in 1973 as the "Road Accident Research Unit" and focuses on road safety and injury control.
## Rankings.
The University of Adelaide consistently features in... | 28,792 |
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are reliably ranked in the top 75 of their respective worldwide ranking.
# Student life.
## Associations.
As of 1 July 2006, membership of the Adelaide University Union (AUU) has been voluntary for all students, following the passing of voluntary student unionism (VSU) legislation by the Feder... | 28,793 |
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Association (WISA).
The Adelaide University Union was responsible for organising the annual Prosh (University of Adelaide) events.
## Media.
The University of Adelaide has three print news publications; these are:
- "On Dit", the student magazine,
- "Adelaidean", the University's newspaper,
... | 28,794 |
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through the University of Adelaide Theatre Guild and the Law School Revue.
## Sports.
Most University sport is organised by the Adelaide University Sports Association (AUSA). The Sports Association was founded in 1896 by the Adelaide University Boat, Tennis and Lacrosse Clubs. The Association d... | 28,795 |
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university playing fields.
# Notable people.
The history of the University of Adelaide includes a large number of distinguished alumni and staff, including domestic and international heads of state; Nobel laureates; business and political leaders; pioneers in science, mathematics, and medicine;... | 28,796 |
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and one Prime Minister (Julia Gillard, the first female Prime Minister of Australia) have all graduated or attended the University of Adelaide.
Robin Warren, who alongside Barry Marshall, discovered that peptic ulcers were largely caused by the infection "Helicobacter pylori", graduated from the... | 28,797 |
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Coventry (who helped discover the immune cycle), Maciej Henneberg (physical anthropologist, Howard Florey (pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the development of penicillin), J.M... | 28,798 |
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ader of an Australian political party), Margaret White (first female judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland), Roma Mitchell (first female Queen's Counsel in Australia (1962), Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia and the first female superior court judge in the British Commonwealth (1... | 28,799 |
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