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Hace 11 horas · Shrewsbury School is a public school (English fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13 –18) in Shrewsbury.It was founded in 1552 by Edward VI by Royal Charter, to reconstitute the town's collegiate foundations of the 6th and 10th centuries which were disestablished in the reformation. Shrewsbury School is one of the seven public schools addressed in the Public Schools Act 1868 and one ...
Hace 11 horas · The following is a list of indoor arenas which are currently the home of a basketball team. They are ordered by capacity, which is the maximum number of spectators the arena can accommodate for basketball.It does not contain arenas which have hosted individual games in a basketball tournament if the venue currently has no permanent basketball tenant, but does include arenas that are regular ...
Hace 11 horas · Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (/ ˌ d ɛ z ɪ ˈ d ɪər i ə s ɪ ˈ r æ z m ə s /; Dutch: [ˌdeːziˈdeːriʏs eˈrɑsmʏs]; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus; 28 October c.1466 – 12 July 1536) was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.Through his vast number of translations, books, essays, prayers and letters, he is considered ...
Hace 1 día · Bede (/ b iː d /; Old English: Bēda; 672/3 – 26 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Latin: Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk, author and scholar.He was one of the greatest teachers and writers during the Early Middle Ages, and his most famous work, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, gained him the title "The Father of English ...
Hace 11 horas · Gary, Indiana, was founded in 1906 by the U.S. Steel as the home for its new plant, Gary Works.The city was named after lawyer Elbert Henry Gary, who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation.. Gary was the site of civil unrest in the steel strike of 1919.On October 4, 1919, a riot broke out on Broadway, the main north-south street through downtown Gary, between steel ...
Hace 11 horas · The flatter eastern side of the Americas is dominated by large river basins, such as the Amazon, St. Lawrence River–Great Lakes basin, Mississippi, and La Plata. Since the Americas extend 14,000 km (8,700 mi) from north to south, the climate and ecology vary widely, from the arctic tundra of Northern Canada , Greenland , and Alaska , to the tropical rainforests in Central America and South ...
