Daisaku Ikeda (池田 大作, born January 2, 1928) is the president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), a Buddhist association of more than 12 million members in more than 190 countries and territories, and founder of several educational, cultural and research institutions. Born of poor origins, his family endured the hardships of the war, as many did. In his youth, he lost an older brother to World War II, which developed in him a strong opposition to war. In his late teens, he learned of Nichiren Shoshu Bud ...

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Barack Obama was born at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii to Harvard University-educated economist Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a native of Kenya, and S. Ann Dunham, of Wichita, Kansas. At the time of Obama's birth, both his parents were students at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Of his years in Hawaii, Obama has written, "The irony is that my decision to work in politics, and to pursue such a career in a big Mainland city, in some sense grows out of my Hawaiian upbringing, and the idea ...

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The name Harvard College dates to 1638. In that year, the two-year-old school, which had yet to graduate its first students, was named in honor of the recently deceased John Harvard, a minister from nearby Charlestown, who in his will had bequeathed to it his library and a sum of money. In the understanding of its members at the time, the name "Harvard College" probably referred to the first (as they foresaw it) of a number of colleges which would someday make up a university along the lines of Oxford or Cambridge. The American usage ...

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After studying piano at an Aspen music camp, Rice enrolled at the University of Denver, where her father both served as an assistant dean and taught a class called "The Black Experience in America." [4] At age 15, Rice began classes with the goal of becoming a concert pianist. Her plans changed when she noticed that she played not well enough for an international career due to a lack of talent and sufficient practice according to her own statements [5] .When she attended a course on international politics taught by Josef Korbel, the f ...

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The first classes taught on Big History were experimental by John Mears in the late 1980s at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas) and David Christian at Macquarie University (Australia) and more recently at San Diego State University. Since then a number of other universities have offered similar courses. The first book on Big History was written by Fred Spier in 1996 called The Structure of Big History: From the Big Bang until Today which offers an ambitious defense of the project and constructs a unif ...

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The following tuition fees are in effect at Kwantlen as of December 2005: [5] $109.50 per credit for Canadian citizens and permanent residents; $340 per credit for international students 1 percent of overall tuition as Library Fee $1 per credit (not exceeding 12 credits) as Building Fee Additionally, the following fees are charged by the Kwantlen University College Student Association: $3 per cred ...

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Agouza | Abbassia | Ain Shams | Bulaq | Dokki | Downtown Cairo | El-Manial | El-Marg | El-Quba | El-Tagamu El Khames | Embaba | Garden City | Giza | Haram | Heliopolis | Islamic Cairo | Kerdasa | Maadi | Mataria | Mohandessin | Muqatam | Nasr City | Old Cairo | Rhoda | Shoubra | Shubra El Khiema | Zaitun | Zamalek ...

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Apples have long been considered healthy, as indicated by the proverb an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Research suggests that apples may reduce the risk of colon cancer, prostate cancer and lung cancer. They may also help with heart disease, weight loss and controlling cholesterol. A group of chemicals in apples could protect the brain from the type of damage that triggers such neurodegenerative diseases as Alzheimer's and Parkinsonism. Chang Y. "Cy" Lee of Cornell University found that the apple phenolics, which are natur ...

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Cosmetics testing is particularly controversial. It is banned in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the UK [78] (pdf), and in 2002, after 13 years of negotiations, the European Union agreed to ban cosmetic testing on animals in 2009, with a ban on products still tested on animals being introduced by 2014. News reports say France is the main reason behind the delays, with the French cosmetics industry allegedly exerting pressure on the government. [79] Cosmetic testing on animals includes: testing a finished product such as lip ...

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In recent years, young people have begun to use the term "preppy" as slang to describe those who appear clean-cut or seem slightly better off financially than others in a given middle class environment. In some regions, this usage has virtually replaced the traditional meaning of the word. Used in this manner, "preppy" is applied entirely contrary to the term's mainstream meaning stated above, as the slang version most often describes 'nouveau riche', publically-educated people absorbed in the middle class hypermaterialistic pop culture purs ...

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Turku has a long educational history — the first school in the city, the Cathedral School, was founded along with the Cathedral of Turku in the late 13th century. The first university in Finland, the "Academy of Åbo" (now University of Helsinki), was established in the city in 1640. In 1820, the first school in Finland, conforming to the Bell-Lancaster method, was founded in Turku with the aim of making primary education m ...

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Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (Potsdam December 10, 1804 - Berlin February 18, 1851), was not only a great German mathematician but also considered by many as the most inspiring teacher of his time (Bell, p. 330). He was born of Jewish parentage in 1804. He studied at Berlin University, where he obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1825, his thesis being an analytical discussion of the theory of fractions. In 1827 he became extraordinary and in 1829 ordinary professor of mathematics at Königsberg University, and this chai ...

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Such is the case with post-secondary institutions in most national capitals, Ottawa's Carleton University is a training ground for top CSIS intelligence operatives. The university itself is set amidst a natural forest and riverfront landscape that plays host to training operations - both simulations as well as real-world training missions - introducing Canadian and international students to the unpredictability and instability of the global intelligence community. Some students who have attended Carleton University have continued on to prominent positions in intelligence agencies such as the CIA, the Israeli ...

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Adolph Friedrich Rupp (September 2, 1901 - December 10, 1977) was one of the most successful coaches in the history of American college basketball. Rupp is the second winningest men's college coach, winning 876 games in 41 years of coaching, and set a remarkable standard of excellence. He was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame on April 13, 1969. Born in Halstead, Kansas, he played college basketball for the University of Kansas under the great coach Dr. Forrest "Phog" Allen from 1919 to 1923. Rupp went on ...

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The requirements for applicants are high. Rhodes' legacy specified four standards by which applicants were to be judged: literary and scholastic attainments; energy to use one's talents to the full, as exemplified by fondness for and success in sports; truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship; moral force of character and instincts to lead, and to ...

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Alice Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American suffragist leader. Along with Lucy Burns and others, she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in granting the right to vote to women in the U.S. federal election in 1920. Alice Paul was born into a Quaker family in Moorestown, New Jersey. She attended Swarthmore College (BA, 1905), the New York School of Philanthropy (social work), and the University of Pennsylvania (MA, sociology). In 1907, Paul moved to England where she attended the Univer ...

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Meaning Behind Dreams including the meaning of dreams about: Eagles, Earrings, Ears, Earthquake, Earwig, Eating, Ebony, Echo, Eclipse, Ecstasy, Education, Eel, Eggs, Elbows, Elderberries, Election, Electricity, Elephant, Elevator, Elixir of Life, Elopement, Eloquent, Embalming, Embankment.

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