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  • The Platonic Academy originated as Plato's school of philosophy ... Other national academies include the United States Military Academy; ...
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  • An academy (Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of higher learning ... Academy of Science; the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York; ...
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  • City. He trained at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York ... to become the superintendent of the Military Academy in January 1861, but ...
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  • Bulgarian State) (Sofia, BG: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Press, 1981 ... Despite his military supremacy over land, Simeon I was aware that ...
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  • 1876 began his studies in medicine at the Military-Medical Academy, from which ... doctorate degree from the Imperial Medical Academy and submitted his doctoral ...
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  • Spencer Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was a two-time Academy ... the list of 100. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Actor, winning ...
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  • norms that the threat or use of military force in contravention of ... right of collective defense when using military action and have also been ...
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  • and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1922. ... Superintendents of the United States Military Academy | years = 1945–1949 ...
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  • and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1847, ranking 15th ... contracted as a West Point cadet. Academy hospital records show that ...
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  • this introduction, he was educated in a military school run by the Benedictines ... Fourier had hoped to pursue a career in the military, but was turned ...
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  • The first verifiable formal use of a brass horn as a military signal ... later bandmaster of the United States Military Academy Band at West Point. ...
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  • drove a yoke of oxen 125 miles to an academy near Anderson, South Carolina ... established, Brown spoke out against the military draft as an over-reaching ...
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  • Xueliang graduated from Fengtian Military Academy, was made a Colonel ... * Whampoa Military Academy * Second Sino-Japanese War * Kuomintang ...
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  • general and statesman. Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of ... He attended his uncle's private academy in Philadelphia. Then he ...
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  • Category:Military [[Image:ROTCFTX1.jpg|thumb|right|200 px|Army ROTC ... of education which combined civilian and military studies in order to produce ...
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  • 1738 – October 5, 1805) was a British military commander and colonial governor ... as he was then known, studied at the military academy of Turin. He also became ...
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  • When the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres was founded in ... He took part in the creation of the Academy of Sciences as well as ...
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  • he opened a factory to supply the Russian military. He later developed and ... contributed to the destructive force of military weaponry. ...
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  • culture, Kaishu made a study of foreign military technology. When Commodore ... Japanese nation. In addition to his military activities, Katsu was a ...
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  • Following his military service, von Steinwehr followed his natural ... Napoleon. He attended the Brunswick Military Academy and was commissioned ...
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  • 16, 1978) was an American general and military governor best known for ... He held various civil and military engineering posts during the 1920s ...
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  • Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military ... Cass. He attended the Phillips Exeter Academy where he met and befriended ...
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  • community where he studied at Kilmarnock Academy. His father ran a quarry ... During the First World War he served as a military doctor for both ...
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  • Vespasian to allow him to reestablish his academy at Jamnia. This institution ... he could negotiate with Vespasian. This military commander, who would later ...
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  • route to secure positions in the government or military. ... before the dynasty's fall, offered military examinations briefly. For ...
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  • – July 6, 1976) was a Chinese Communist military leader and statesman. He ... In 1908, Zhu entered the Yunnan Military Academy in Kunming, and after ...
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  • Sloboda Ukraine. His parents were Russian military settlers. In 1866, after ... official center of art—the St.Petersburg Academy of Arts. The society developed ...
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  • a medieval Korean government official and military commander during the early ... he began to learn Confucian philosophy, military tactics and martial arts ...
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  • for UNICEF fundraising. Kaye received two Academy Awards, an honorary award ... to gain 4-F status and exemption from military service. However, these ...
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  • he declined to conduct research on the military application of atomic energy ... of Kronstadt, Russia and was a son of military engineer Leonid Petrovich ...
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  • gifted youth into entering a military academy, which he attended from ... a reminder of the horrors of the military academy, almost completely silenced ...
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  • impossible (clergy can only serve in the military in non-combatant roles) ... before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point. During ...
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  • August 12, 1982) was a highly acclaimed, Academy Award-winning American film ... #039;s career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance ...
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  • would play a crucial role in such future military engagements as the First ... 9, 1863 ending the longest siege in US military history. Control of the ...
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  • After many successful military campaigns against the Poles, Hetman ... in all areas of state-building: in the military, administration, finance ...
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  • In Athens there were three great public gymnasia: the Academy, the ... apparatus. The United States Military Academy at West Point built ...
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  • graduated from the Russian Imperial Military Academy and came to Korea as ... (김려춘; 金麗春) of the Russian Academy of Sciences discovered a ...
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  • training. He quickly lost interest in the military academy and came in contact with students there, including a friend from his school days. He was encouraged ...
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  • Sudanese. He graduated from the Royal Military Academy in Cairo in 1938 and ... was directly correlated to how much of a military threat it perceived from ...
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  • Military tactics also changed. Unlike the Spring and Autumn period ... This was also around the time the legendary military strategist Sun ...
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  • from that base launching numerous military campaigns against surrounding ... Institute of the Chinese Social Sciences Academy have uncovered evidence ...
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  • |name = United States Military Academy |image = [[Image:Cadet ... |type = Federal military academy |head_label = Superintendent ...
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  • Evolving out of the tradition of military bands, marching bands have ... Marching bands evolved out of military bands. As musicians became ...
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  • * Graduated from the United States Military Academy—Class of 1915 ... * 1911: Cadet, United States Military Academy * 1915: 14th Infantry Regiment ...
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  • In the same year Shevchenko was accepted as a student into the Academy ... On March 22, 1845, the Council of the Academy of Arts granted Shevchenko ...
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  • of the Decade" in the 1960s by the Academy of Country Music, was inducted ... After his discharge from the military in 1945, he began to play at ...
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  • 31, 1811) was a French navigator and military commander. He was also a ... from the marquis to obtain additional military resources for the colony; ...
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  • called Korean Strategy. Japan had gained military superiority over Korea and ... Japanese government offices, factories, military and police organizations ...
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  • defeats of rival Baekje and Goguryeo with military aid from Tang China, and ... Some of the aristocrats involved in the revolt were military leaders ...
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  • The Mexican government began a series of military operations in order ... American and Mexican settlements and military positions throughout the 1860s. ...
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  • Cocteau also got the youth exempted from military service. In admiration of ... of the Académie française and The Royal Academy of Belgium. ...
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  • age of eighteen, he entered Whampoa Military Academy and by 1927, was a colonel ... in 1925, and matriculated at Whampoa Military Academy. While at Whampoa he ...
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  • a film about Japanese women working in a military optics factory. Kurosawa ... Film Festival in 1951. It also won the Academy Award for best foreign-language ...
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  • his lapel, often sporting cologne), his military skill made him Robert E ... Class of 1854 at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York ...
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  • 24, 1832) was a French physicist and military engineer whose formulation ... #039;s army. Carnot attended the military academy at Metz, enrolling as ...
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  • in Charleston. He attended Fayetteville Academy in North Carolina, and at ... Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, (eds.), David S ...
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  • army officer who had served in Japan as a military attaché, and as a commander ... with great success, as an instructor in military matters. ...
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  • This, combined with the military difficulties with the Jurchen in ... suported by Ch'ok Chun-gyong, a military officer who had served with ...
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  • Orde Wingate, a renowned World War II military leader. Wingate's Zionism ... US chapter of the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA), and senior editor ...
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  • roots to United States politics and the military. His grandfather had fought ... before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1838 ...
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  • era, together with the United States Military Academy (West Point), the United ... many years, Army (the United States Military Academy) and Navy (the United ...
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  • During World War I, Terman worked for the military, conducting psychological ... in 1923, and was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and ...
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  • with José de San Martín--of the military forces that freed Chile ... His six-year rule saw the founding of the Military Academy and the ...
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  • Loyalty Oath, Black male suffrage, and Military Governors that were to be ... 1800 - 1878] The Latin Library at Ad Fontes Academy Category:Biography ...
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  • Kurt attended the Vienna Consular Academy, graduating in 1936. During ... Documents later came to light revealing that Waldheim's military ...
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  • Anecdotes of his youth abound. He spent three years at Cortland Academy ... first offered his invention to the U.S. military, but was turned down. He ...
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  • From March 1967 until July 1972, the U.S. military's Operation ... An attempt by the United States military to modify hurricanes in the ...
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  • A national hero after the Mexican-American War, he served as military ... development of the cadets of the U.S. Military Academy. ...
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  • British India (now Pakistan) to a British military family, John Younghusband ... Bristol. In 1881 he entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and in 1882 ...
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  • ) (July 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831) was a Prussian soldier, military ... German War School," the "Military Academy in Berlin," and ...
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  • from the Japanese Manchurian Military Academy at the top of his class ... the strong recommendation of his American military adviser, James Hausman. ...
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  • have captured his remarkable life and military career. The celebrated calvary ... Before entering the United States Military Academy, he taught school in ...
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  • acted out in sporting competitions, military tactics and training, and ... students who were being prepared for military service, boosting nationalistic ...
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  • his military education at the Baoding Military Academy in 1906. He began attending ... was made Commandant of the Whampoa Military Academy. The early years at ...
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  • The screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award. Luce returned to ... Thayer Award by the United States Military Academy at West Point. Ronald ...
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  • until he was elected to the Royal Academy at the age of 43. Although ... him a small allowance. Entering the Royal Academy Schools as a probationer ...
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  • surrounding it were designated a military cemetery June 15, 1864, ... Lee, a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Lee and ...
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  • of John Zephaniah Holwell, a one-time military surgeon and top East India ... * Military Captains—Clayton, Buchanan, Witherington. * Lieutenants—Bishop ...
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  • he was elected President of the American Academy of Religion, while simultaneously ... Smart became widely known outside the academy, at least in Britain ...
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  • 2, 1792 - May 6, 1840) was one of the military and political leaders during ... the requirements of continuing military operations (including recruitment ...
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  • (BAN, 34. 5. 30 circa the 1490s), Academy (RGB, MDA 5/182 dated to ... oral accounts of Yan Vyshatich and other military leaders. Nestor worked at ...
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  • The Iron Cross was a military decoration of the Kingdom of Prussia ... does not replace the traditional black military Iron Cross, which can be ...
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  • Walt Disney was nominated for a record 48 Academy Awards and seven ... " In 1932, Disney received a special Academy Award for the creation of ...
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  • He was nominated for Best Actor by the Academy for four straight years ... father sent Brando to the Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault, Minnesota ...
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  • on the principle of equality between military and civilian citizens. By ... original concept as the highest general military and civil order of merit ...
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  • " What seems clear is that he had military experience, was a natural ... Spartacus is credited as an excellent military tactician, and his ...
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  • Prussia, the son of Julius von Laue, a military official who was raised ... Laue entered his compulsory year of military service, after which he ...
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  • write, and the "Five Studies:" military strategy, civil law, revenue ... Successive Chinese dynasties were usually established through military ...
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  • (Sun Tzu's Military Method) is an ancient Chinese military treatise ... as instructional material at the US Military Academy at West Point, in the ...
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  • train and reorganize the current Goryeo military into a professional army ... Civil and military petty officials, merchants, members of aristocratic ...
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  • an elaborate ceremony, which included a military band and French Ambassador ... as becoming an associate of the National Academy of Design. ...
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  • for military service at Woolwich Royal Military Academy. He was commissioned as a Royal Artillery office and saw service in the West Indies and Malta ...
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  • coordinate scientific research with military objectives and played a ... direction of research in the U.S. towards military objectives and could informally ...
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  • bureaucracy and held posts in the Hanlin Academy; Zhou's mother, née ... Railways (礦路學堂) at Jiangnan Military Academy (江南陸師學堂 ...
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  • the Civil War. While he had an astute military mind he lacked the social ... in a class of fifty from the U.S. Military Academy in 1837, and was commissioned ...
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  • of the Centre of Research of The Hague Academy of International Law from ... Administrative Council at the Hague Academy of International Law. ...
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  • He went to school at the Eagleswood Military Academy in Perth Amboy ... *National Academy of Design in 1880 *American Water Color Society ...
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  • as a cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point. (Sherman ... State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy in Pineville, a position ...
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  • that his hero status derives from his military exploits, rather than from ... 1873), he was educated at the Royal Military Academy, in Woolwich, starting ...
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  • at the Physical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He received ... was elected a full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and awarded ...
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