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pbk.org. The Phi Beta Kappa Society ( ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States. [1] [2] It was founded at the College of William and Mary in Virginia in December 1776. [3] Phi Beta Kappa aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal arts and sciences, and to induct outstanding students of arts and sciences at ...
The titles of Grandmaster, International Master, FIDE Master and Candidate Master are available to all over-the-board chess players. The requirements for each title have varied over time, but generally require having demonstrated a prescribed level of achievement in tournaments at classical time controls under FIDE-approved conditions.
The Romantic Novel of the Year Award is an award for romance novels since 1960, presented by Romantic Novelists' Association, and since 2003, the novellas, also won the Love Story of the Year (now RoNA Rose Award). In 2018, awards were given to men under their own names for the first time in the organisation's 58-year history.
According to the Ascended Master Teachings, a "Master of Light", "Healer" or "Spiritual Master" is a divine human being who has taken the Fifth Initiation and is thereby capable of dwelling in a 5th dimension. The teachings hold that an "ascended master" is a human being who has taken the Sixth Initiation, also referred to as Ascension, [2] and ...
The Sagamore of the Wabash is an award of the U.S. state of Indiana created in the 1940s by Governor Ralph F. Gates when the Governor of Kentucky bestowed on him the Kentucky Colonel award and Governor Gates decided that the Hoosier State should have a similar recognition. The term "sagamore" was used by the Algonquian -speaking American Indian ...
In the United States, an international medical graduate (IMG) is a graduate from a medical school located outside the United States and Canada. Graduates of Canadian M.D. programs are not considered IMGs in the United States. [13] [14] IMGs may be either United States citizens or non-citizens who were educated in a school outside U.S. or Canada.
On June 30, 2019, the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift entered into a dispute with her former record label, Big Machine Records, its founder Scott Borchetta, and its new owner Scooter Braun, over the ownership of the masters of her first six studio albums. [note 1] It was a highly publicized dispute drawing widespread media coverage and ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt [a] (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He was a member of the Democratic Party and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms.