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  2. Murder of Giulio Regeni - Wikipedia

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    Murder of Giulio Regeni. Giulio Regeni ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒuːljo reˈdʒɛːni]; 15 January 1988 [1] – 25 January 2016) was an Italian University of Cambridge graduate who was abducted and tortured to death in Egypt. [3] [4] Regeni was a PhD student at Girton College, Cambridge, [5] researching Egypt's independent trade unions ...

  3. Blackboard - Wikipedia

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    Uses. Reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made. A blackboard or a chalkboard is a reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made with sticks of calcium sulphate or calcium carbonate, known, when used for this purpose, as chalk. Blackboards were originally made of smooth, thin sheets of black or dark grey slate stone.

  4. 1999 Iranian student protests - Wikipedia

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    1,000–1,500 arrests. Unknown. The Iranian student protests of July 1999 (also known as 18th of Tir and Kuye Daneshgah Disaster ( Persian: فاجعه کوی دانشگاه) in Iran) (7–13 July) [1] were, before the 2009 Iranian election protests, the most widespread and violent public protests to occur in Iran since the early years of the ...

  5. Arthur Korn (architect) - Wikipedia

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    After the Nazi rise to power he was forbidden to practice as an architect in Germany on account of being Jewish. He moved first to Yugoslavia , then, in 1938, to London. There he joined the Modern Architectural Research (MARS) Group where, as chair of the town planning subcommittee, he was involved in drawing up the modernist MARS plan for post ...

  6. Serial Experiments Lain - Wikipedia

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    A high school girl commits suicide by jumping off a rooftop late at night. A week later, students are getting emails from the girl, named Chisa Yomoda, which claim that she only gave up her body, but is actually still alive inside the virtual world (known as the Wired), saying that there is a God that exists there.

  7. Margaret Hayes - Wikipedia

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    While a student at Forest Park High School, she joined the Emerson Cook Stock Company to gain more acting experience. She entered Johns Hopkins University to become a nurse, but stuck to her dramatic ambitions. At the school, she joined "The Barnstormers", a theatrical organization, becoming the first female member of that group.

  8. Distance education - Wikipedia

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    Some students attempt to participate in distance education without proper training with the tools needed to be successful in the program. Students must be provided with training opportunities (if needed) on each tool that is used throughout the program. The lack of advanced technology skills can lead to an unsuccessful experience.

  9. Edward S. Morse - Wikipedia

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    Helen Muir-Wood has given an account of the history of the classification of the brachiopods that places Morse's work in its historical context. Illustration by Morse for John Mead Gould's How to camp out. From 1871 to 1874, Morse was appointed to the chair of comparative anatomy and zoology at Bowdoin College.