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  2. Stevens Point Area Public School District - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .pointschools .net. Stevens Point Area Public School District is a public school district centered in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. It serves the city of Stevens Point, the villages of Junction City, Milladore, Plover and Whiting; and surrounding towns. [2] It includes one high school, one alternative high school, one 7-12 charter ...

  3. Stevens Point, Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    Website. stevenspoint.com. Stevens Point is a city in and the county seat of Portage County, Wisconsin, United States. [6] Its population was 25,666 as of the 2020 census. [7] It forms the core of the Stevens Point micropolitan statistical area, which had a population of 70,377 in 2020.

  4. Penn Hills School District - Wikipedia

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    Penn Hills School District (PHSD) is a mid-sized public school district located in Pittsburgh, serving Penn Hills, which is about 10 miles (16 km) east of Downtown Pittsburgh, and a small portion of Wilkins Township. According to 2000 federal census data, it served a resident population of 46,809. By 2010, the district's population declined to ...

  5. Kite experiment - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky, an artistic rendition of Franklin's kite experiment painted by Benjamin West, c. 1816. The kite experiment is a scientific experiment in which a kite with a pointed conductive wire attached to its apex is flown near thunder clouds to collect static electricity from the air and conduct it down the wet kite string to the ground.

  6. Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [ O.S. January 6, 1705] [Note 1] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. [1] Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding ...

  7. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Wikipedia

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    Summary Part One. Part One of the Autobiography is addressed to Franklin's son William, at that time (1771) Royal Governor of New Jersey.While in England at the estate of the Bishop of St Asaph in Twyford, the 65-year-old Franklin begins by describing his parents and grandparents, recounting his childhood, expressing his fondness for reading, and narrating his apprenticeship to his brother ...

  8. Stevens Point Area Senior High School - Wikipedia

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    It is part of the Stevens Point Area Public School District. SPASH serves the Stevens Point area, including Stevens Point, Plover, Whiting, and Park Ridge, as well as several towns and nearby Junction City and part of Milladore. The school mascot is a panther. The school opened in 1972, allowing the district high school to move from P. J ...

  9. Bryan Stevenson - Wikipedia

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    Bryan Stevenson. Bryan Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, law professor at New York University School of Law, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, he has challenged bias against the poor and minorities in the criminal justice system ...