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  2. School segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1960, U.S. marshals were needed to escort Ruby Bridges to and from school in New Orleans, Louisiana, as she broke the State of Louisiana's segregation rules. School segregation in the United States was the segregation of students based on their ethnicity. While not prohibited from having schools, various minorities were barred from most ...

  3. Northern Warfare Training Center - Wikipedia

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    At the end of World War II, the mission of the Mountain Training Center at Camp Hale was moved to Camp Carson, Colorado. Camp Carson was the only U.S. Army Center for this type of training until 1948, when the decision was made to organize a school for arctic operations at Big Delta, Alaska later named Fort Greely.

  4. State schools, US (for people with disabilities) - Wikipedia

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    In that same year, Hervey Wilbur founded a private school in his home in New York. Both schools taught according to the teachings of Édouard Séguin. These early training schools sought to educate students and provide schooling, assistance with self-care tasks and physical training. [1] The first state-funded school was the New York Asylum for ...

  5. United States Army Air Assault School - Wikipedia

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    The best-known course offered at TSAAS is Air Assault School, which qualifies soldiers to conduct airmobile and air assault helicopter operations, including aircraft orientation; helicopter insertion; pathfinder operations; sling load operations; rappelling from buildings, cliffs and helicopters; and fast-rope techniques.

  6. U.S. Bank Tower (Los Angeles) - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Bank Tower, known locally as the Library Tower and formerly as the First Interstate Bank World Center, is a 1,018-foot (310.3 m) skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, California.

  7. Defence School of Aeronautical Engineering - Wikipedia

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    The Defence School of Aeronautical Engineering (DSAE) is a Defence Training Establishment (DTEs) of the British Ministry of Defence.It was formed on 1 April 2004 and provides training for aircraft engineering officers and tradesmen across the three British armed forces.

  8. Card scheme - Wikipedia

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    Card schemes are payment networks linked to payment cards, such as debit or credit cards, of which a bank or any other eligible financial institution can become a member. By becoming a member of gets the possibility to issue cards or acquire merchants operating on the network of that card scheme.

  9. High Altitude Warfare School - Wikipedia

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    The school was established in December 1948 by General K S Thimayya, then holding the rank of Brigadier. It was initially known as the 19 Infantry Division Ski School. During the winter of 1949–1950, the school was redesignated as a Command Establishment and renamed as the Winter Warfare School. On 8 April 1962, it was upgraded to a Category ...