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Academy: Encyclopedia - Academy

An academy is an institution for the study of (usually) higher learning. The name Academy rose from Plato's Athenian school of philosophy, founded in approximately 385 BC. The term is also used for various other institutions in modern times (see below). Academy - The original Academy. Before the Akademeia was a school, however, even before Cimon enclosed its precincts with a wall (Plutarch Life of Cimon xiii:7), it contained a sacred grove of olive trees outside the city w ...

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Academy - Reference

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Academy: Encyclopedia - Academy of Sciences Academy of Sciences can refer to a national academy or another learned society dedicated to sciences. Examples include: Brazil - Brazilian Academy of Sciences Bulgaria - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences People's Republic of China - Chinese Academy of Sciences Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Czech Republik - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic France - French Academy of Sciences Georgia - Abkhazian Regional Academy of Sciences Germany - ...

Academy: Encyclopedia II - Academy - The original Academy

Before the Akademeia was a school, however, even before Cimon enclosed its precincts with a wall (Plutarch Life of Cimon xiii:7), it contained a sacred grove of olive trees outside the city walls of ancient Athens (Thucydides ii:34). The archaic name for the site was Hekademeia, which by classical times evolved into Akademeia and was explained, at least as early as the beginning of the 6th century BC, by linking it to an ...

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Bezalel Academy - External link

Academy: Encyclopedia - Academy Honorary Award

The Academy Honorary Award is given irregularly by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards. In the early years of the academy, it was often used to reward significant achievements of the year that did not fit in existing categories. This subsequently led to several new categories. In recent years the academy has awarded ...

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Academy: Encyclopedia - Academy England

In England an Academy is a recently created type of secondary school. Academies are independent schools although they are publicly funded and run, and as such are outside the control of the Local Authorities in which they are situated. This type of school was known as a City Academy for the first few years but the term was changed to "Academy" by an amendment in the Education Act 2002. City Academies were created by the Education Act 1996 and first announced as a reality in a speech by David Blunkett, then Secretary of S ...

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Academy: Encyclopedia - Carling Academy Brixton

The Carling Academy Brixton is a large music venue in Brixton, South London with a capacity of 4,921. It was built in 1929 and opened as one of four Astoria cinemas. In 1972 the Astoria closed and the building was used as an equipment store by the Rank Organisation. It re-opened as a music venue in 1983 and was called the Brixton Academy, a name that it kept until mid 2004 when it was renamed as the Carling Academy. It is currently run by the Acade ...

Academy: Encyclopedia - Academy Award

The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and arguably the world. The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization which as of 2003 had a voting membership of 5,816. Actors (with a membership of 1,311) make up the largest voting bloc. The most recent awards were the 77th Academy Awards. Academy Award - Oscar Statuette. The official name of the Oscarreretre statuette is the "A ...

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Academy: Encyclopedia - Academy Award for Sound

The Academy Award for Sound Mixing is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most aesthetic sound mixing or recording, and is generally awarded to the production sound mixers and re-recording mixers of the winning film. Compare this award to the Academy Award for Sound Editing. Academy Award for Sound - 1930s. 1930 The Big House, Douglas Shearer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio 1931 Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department 1932 Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department ...

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Academy: Encyclopedia - Academy for Gifted Children

The Academy for Gifted Children is an elementary and high school in Oak Ridges (part of Richmond Hill), Ontario, Canada (12 Bond Crescent). Entrance is by a competitive examination. The school has been designed to support intellectually gifted children, and it allows children from grades 1 to 13 to enter. The Academy for Gifted Children is also called P.A.C.E., which stands for Programming for Academic and Creative Excellence. The Academy for Gifted Children has made a modification to the usual system that Canadian publi ...

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Academy: Encyclopedia - Academy of Ancient Music

The original Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) was founded in London, England in 1726 for the purpose of studying and performing "old" music -- defined initially as anything composed at least a century earlier but soon grew to include more contemporary composers, most notably Handel. In 1973, the Academy of Ancient Music was revived by the British conductor and harpsichordist Christopher Hogwood for the purpose of playing 18th and early 19th century music on period instruments. For choral works, it is joined either by The Academy of Ancient Mus ...

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Academy: Encyclopedia - American Hebrew Academy

The American Hebrew Academy (AHA) opened on September 10, 2001 in Greensboro, North Carolina, as America's first and only liberal, coeducational, pluralistic Jewish boarding school. Modeled after the best college preparatory schools in the nation, AHA prepares each of its students in many aspects. The 100 acre (0.4 km²) wooded campus was the last project designed by the late Aaron Green, protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright. Every building on campus is built with beautiful Jerusalem stone and was specific ...

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Academy: Encyclopedia - American Academy of Pediatrics

The American Academy of Pediatrics ("AAP") is an organization of pediatricians. Its motto is: "Dedicated to the Health of All Children." The AAP and its member pediatricians dedicate their efforts and resources to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults. Most American pediatricians are members of this physician-focused organization. The AAP is an organizational member of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, which advocates gun control. American Acade ...

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Academy: Encyclopedia - Academy Award for Directing

The Academy Award for Directing is an accolade given to the person that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feels was best director of the past year. The expression of approval is given, along with an Oscar Statuette and a chance for the director to speak, at an annual Academy Awards ceremony. All but twenty of the seventy-seven Oscars for best director (before 2006) were for films that also won the award for best picture. The Academy has selected one director from five nominees each year for the past seven decades ...

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Academy: Encyclopedia - Academy Award for Best Actress

The Academy Award for Best Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole. Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Actress in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony he ...

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Academy: Encyclopedia - Academy of the Arabic Language

The Academy of the Arabic Language (مجمع اللغة العربية) is an academy in Cairo founded in 1934 in order to develop and regulate the Arabic language in Egypt and the Arab World. See also. List of language regulators ...

Academy: Encyclopedia - Academy Award for Film Editing

The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. Academy Award for Film Editing - 1930s. 1934 Eskimo - Conrad A. Nervig Cleopatra - Anne Bauchens One Night of Love - Gene Milford 1935 A Midsummer Night's Dream - Ralph Dawson David Copperfield - Robert J. Kern The Informer - George Hively Les Misérables - Barbara McLean L ...

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Academy: Encyclopedia - Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese: 中国科学院; pinyin: Zhōngguó Kēxuéyuàn), formerly known as Academia Sinica (not to be confused with the Academia Sinica currently headquartered in Taipei), is the national academy for the natural sciences of the People's Republic of China. It is an institution of the State Council of China. It is headquartered in Beijing, with institutes all over China. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) currently has five sections (Mathematics and Physics, Chemistry, Earth Science, ...