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Acacia ligulata Acacia ligulata, commonly known as umbrella wattle, umbrella bush, dune wattle, sandhill wattle or small cooba, is a shrub in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Australia, it is one of the most widely distributed plants in the country, distributed even more widely than mulga, although not as common.
Acacia papyrocarpa Acacia papyrocarpa, commonly known as western myall, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Australia, it occurs on limestone plains in southern Australia from Paynes Find in Western Australia eastwards into South Australia.
Acacia phlebophylla Acacia phlebophylla, an Acacia also known by the names Buffalo Sallow Wattle and Mountain Buffalo Wattle, is a straggling shrub to small, twisted tree reaching up to 5 meters in height. It has large, elliptic, flat, commonly asymmetrical phyllodes 4-14 cm long, 1.
Acacia pruinocarpa Acacia pruinocarpa, commonly known as black gidgee, gidgee or tawu, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Australia, it occurs throughout the arid centre, from Carnarvon, Western Australia, east to Tanami, Northern Territory and Mann Range, South Australia.
Acacia Park Cemetery, Mendota Heights Acacia Park Cemetery is located in Mendota Heights, Minnesota at 2151 Pilot Knob Road. It consists of 79 acres of land overlooking the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, with 163 deceased buried here.
Acacia sclerosperma Acacia sclerosperma, commonly known as limestone wattle or silver bark wattle, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Western Australia, it occurs on floodplains and along water-courses throughout the arid north-west corner of the State.
Acacia senegal Acacia senegal is a small deciduous acacia tree known by the common names rudraksha, gum acacia, gum arabic tree, or gum senegal tree. It is native to semi-desert regions of Subsaharan Africa as well as Oman, Pakistan, and northwestern India.
Acacia tetragonophylla Acacia tetragonophylla, commonly known as curara, kurara or dead finish, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Australia, it occurs on floodplains and along watercourses in arid and semi-arid areas throughout Western Australia, South Australia, southern Northern Territory, and east to near Charleville, Queensland and Brewarrina, New South Wales.
Acacia tortilis Umbrella Thorn Acacia (Acacia tortilis) is a medium to large canoped tree native primarily to the savannahs of Africa (especially Sudan), but also occurring in the Middle East. In extremely arid conditions, it may occur as a small, wiry bush.
Acacia translucens Acacia translucens, commonly known as poverty bush, is a shrub that grows on arid spinifex plains in northern Australia. It is distributed throughout the inland Pilbara and Kimberley regions of Western Australia, and east into the Victoria River region of the Northern Territory.
Acacia Technologies Acacia Technologies was also the name of division within Computer Associates that effectively closed down in 2002 when its assets were sold to SSA Global Technologies. Its products were primarily targeted at the AS/400 and included the Quick Response Engine.
Acacia Theatre Company Acacia Theatre Company is a Wisconsin-based interdenominational group of dramatic artists who share a desire to integrate art and faith by presenting theatre from a Christian world-view. Acacia is a Christian theater ministry that is not affiliated with any specific denomination or church.
Acacia victoriae Acacia victoriae is a species of tree in the family Fabaceae. It has numerous common names, including prickly acacia, bardi bush, bramble wattle, elegant wattle, prickly wattle, gundabluie, gundabluey and narran.
Acacia xiphophylla Acacia xiphophylla, commonly known as snakewood or snake-wood, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Western Australia, it occurs on saline semi-arid land in the Gascoyne River and Ashburton catchments east and north of Carnarvon.
Acacio Gabriel Viegas Acacio Gabriel Viegas (1856-1933) was a medical practitioner who was credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Bombay, India in 1896. His timely discovery helped saved many lives in the city and was credited with the inoculation of 18,000 residents.
Acacis jacquemontii Acacis jacquemontii, als called (hindi: बंवळी, कीकर), a plant of Thar desert, is an erect shrub usually 6 feet to 10 feet high, and mostly shoots coming from below ground. It commonly grows on dry sandy soils.
Acacius of Byzantium Saint Acacius, also known as Agathus (died 303) was a Cappadocian by birth. He was a centurion in the imperial army, was arrested for his faith on charges by Tribune Firmus in Perinthus, Thrace, tortured and then brought to Byzantium (Constantinople), where he was scourged and beheaded, being made a martyr because he would not give up his Christian Faith in AD 303.
Acacius of Caesarea Acacius of Caesarea in Greek Aκακιος Mονoφθαλμος (died 366) was a Christian bishop, the pupil and successor in the Palestinian see of Caesarea of Eusebius AD 340, whose life he wrote. (Socrates, Historia Ecclesiastica, 2.
Académica (Espargos) Académica (Capeverdean Crioulo, also in the Sal Crioulo language, ALUPEC or ALUPEK, Akadémika) is a football (soccer) club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the Sal Island South Zone League in Cape Verde. It is based in the city of Espargos in the island of Sal.
Académica (Mindelo) Académica (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Akadémika, São Vicente Crioulo: Académica or Akadémika) is a football (soccer) club that had played in the Premier division and the São Vicente Island League in Cape Verde. It is based in the city of Mindelo in the island of São Vicente and plays in the stadium with a capacity of 5,000 It is one of the first team ever to win a cup before independence in 1953, a year later, there were no competition until 1956?.
Académica da Calheta Académica da Calheta (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Akadémika da Kadjeta, São Vicente Crioulo: Akadémica d' Kalheta) is a football (soccer) club that plays in the Boa Vista Island League in Cape Verde. The team is based in the island of Maio.
Académica Operária Associação Académica e Operária (first part, Portuguese meaning: "academy", Capeverdean Crioulo: Asosiason Akadémika y Operária/Uperária) is a football (soccer) club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the Boa Vista Island South Zone Division in Cape Verde. It is based in the island capital of Sal Rei in the island of Boa Vista.
Académico do Aeroporto Académico do Aeroporto (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Akadémiku du Aeropurtu) is a football (soccer) club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the Sal Island League in Cape Verde. It is based in the city of Espargos in the island of Sal.
Académico Sal Rei Académico Sal Rei (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Akadémiku Sal Rei or Akadémiku du Sal) is a football (soccer) club that had played in the Premier division and plays in the Boa Vista Island South Zone League in Cape Verde. It is based in the city of Sal Rei in the island of Boa Vista.
Académico/83 Académico/83 (Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Akadémiku/83, São Vicente Crioulo: Akadémik'/83) is a football (soccer) club that plays in the Maio Island League in Cape Verde. The club was founded in 1983.
Académie Colarossi The Académie Colarossi is an art school founded by the Italian sculptor, Filippo Colarossi. Located at 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in Paris, France, it was established in the nineteenth century as an alternative to the government sanctioned École des Beaux Arts that had, in the eyes of many promising young artists at the time, become far too conservative.
Académie d'architecture The Académie royale d'architecture (Royal Academy of Architecture) was a French learned society founded on December 30, 1671 by Louis XIV, king of France under the impulsion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert. Its first director was the architect and theorist François Blondel (1618-1686).
Académie de la Carpette anglaise The Académie de la Carpette anglaise, which may be translated as the "English Doormat Academy" (the word carpette means both "rug" and "fawner"), awards an annual prize to "members of the French élite who distinguish themselves by relentlessly promoting the domination of English over French in France and in European institutions." Whether admired or despised for its tongue-in-cheek rhetoric, the Academy has captured the attention of many in the French-speaking world who genuinely fear that the growing pervasiveness of English will lead to the decline and ultimate demise of French.
Académie de la Grande Chaumière The Académie de la Grande Chaumière (academy of the large thatched cottage) is an art school located at 14 rue de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, France. It offers full courses, but also a unique "one-sketch admission" service, for which one pays to draw nude models.
Académie des Jeux Floraux Académie des Jeux floraux (French, institute of the floralia) is a literary institution founded in Toulouse, France, in the middle ages. It is named after the floralia, festivities celebrated in Rome in honor of the goddess Chloris.
Académie française L'Académie française, or the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII.
Académie Goncourt The Académie Goncourt is a literary organization based in Paris, France that was founded in 1900 in accordance with the wishes of French writer and publisher Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896), and in opposition to the then existing policies towards writers by the Académie française.
Académie Internationale d'Héraldique L'Académie Internationale d'Héraldique (known in English as the International Academy Of Heraldry) is a prestigious body that was founded in Paris in 1949 to bring together experts in heraldry representing the various areas of the world. Admission is by election, and the number of active academicians is limited to 75.
Académie Nationale de Médecine Académie Nationale de Médecine, or National Academy of Medicine was created in 1820 by king Louis XVIII at the urging of baron Antoine Portal. At its inception, the institution was known as the Royal Academy of Medicine (or Académie Royale de Médecine).
Académie Royale de Musique Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique (was also known as the Théâtre Impérial de l´Opéra, Le Rue Peletier, or simply, Le Peletier, but more familiarly as the Paris Opéra) was the name of the theatre which housed the Parisian opera and ballet companies from 1821 to 1873. It was designed by the architect Debret, and its construction was completed in only one year, replacing the previous theatre which had occupied its space.
Academia Academia is a collective term for the scientific and cultural community engaged in higher education and peer-reviewed research, taken as a whole. The word comes from the akademeia just outside ancient Athens, where the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning.
Academia Belgica The Academia Belgica was founded in 1939 when the Belgian princess Marie-José married the Italian crown prince Umberto. The goal of the Academy is to promote the cultural, scientific and artistic cooperation between Italy and Belgium.
Academia Británica Cuscatleca Academia Británica Cuscatleca is a selective, mixed bi-lingual and bi-cultural school from Pre-Kinder to Grade 12 situated in Santa Tecla, El Salvador. The school has some 1,340 students in the Primary and Secondary Schools.
Academia CaĹŁavencu Academia CaĹŁavencu ("The CaĹŁavencu Academy") is a Romanian satirical magazine founded in 1991, and made famous by its investigative journalism. Academia CaĹŁavencu also owns Radio Guerilla, an FM radio station broadcasting in Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca; Tabu, a women's magazine, Superbebe, a magazine for new parents, Aventuri la pescuit, a magazine for fishermen, B-24-FUN, a free magazine for teenagers, and Cotidianul, a daily newspaper.
Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España The Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Spanish for 'Spanish Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences', AACCE) is a Spanish professional organisation dedicated to the promotion and development of Spanish cinema. Founded in 1986, it is responsible for the annual Goya Awards, Spain's principal film awards.
Academia del Perpetuo Socorro Academia del Perpetuo Socorro ("Academy of Our Lady of Perpetual Help") was founded in 1921 as a Catholic parochial school pertaining to the Perpetuo Socorro Parish at the Archidiocese of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The school is located in Miramar, a suburb of San Juan.
Academia El Tango Argentino Academia El Tango Argentino (English language:The Argentine Tango Academy) is a 1942 Argentine musical romantic drama film directed and written by Julio Irigoyen and written by Julio Porter. Starring Warly Ceriani and Domingo Conte .
Academia Chilena de la Lengua The Academia Chilena de la Lengua (Spanish for Chilean Academy of Language) it gathers a group of academics and experts on the use of the Spanish language in Chile. It's a member of the Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española.
Academia Juárez Begun in 1897, Academia Juarez (or Juarez Stake Academy) is run under the direction of Church Educational System of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and is an accredited high school in both the United States and Mexico. Academia Juarez is well-known throughout the state of Chihuahua for its excellent bi-lingual curriculum.
Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua The Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua (Spanish; English: Highest Academy of the Quechua Language, Quechua: Qheswa simi hamut'ana kuraq suntur) AMLQ in Cusco is a private institution, founded in 1990, concerned with the 'purity' of the Quechua language.
Academia Militar de Agulhas Negras The Military Academy of the Agulhas Negras (AMAN) is the biggest among several schools of formation of combatant officers of Brazilian Army. It had origin in 1792, with the creation of the Real Academy of Artillery, Blockhouse and Drawing - first military school of Americas - in the city of Rio de Janeiro, for the Conde de Resende, that one that gave its name to the city where today the AMAN if finds.
Academia Nuts Academia Nuts is a daily comic strip by Huw Williams that was published in the Purdue Exponent. Set at Purdue University, the strip centers around graduate students Ed and Kathy, and pokes fun at Purdue institutions and college life generally.
Academia operosorum Labacensis Academia operosorum (Academy of hard-working fellows) - a forerunner of the modern Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts - was founded in 1693 in Ljubljana as an association of 23 scientists, most of whom were of Slovenian descent.
Academia pro Interlingua The Academia pro Interlingua was an organization dedicated to the promotion of international auxiliary languages, and is associated in particular with Prof. Giuseppe Peano's language Latino sine flexione (Latin without flexions).
Academia Pomeroy Covered Bridge The Pomeroy Academia Covered Bridge at 278 feet [portal to portal] is the longest remaining covered bridge in Pennsylvania. Built in 1902, it is a single lane, double span bridge which crosses the Tuscarora Creek between Spruce Hill and Beale Townships, Juniata County, PA.
Academia Secretorum Naturae One of the earliest scientific societies, the Academia Secretorum Naturae was founded in Naples 1560 by Giambattista della Porta, a noted polymath. In Italian it was called Accademia dei Segreti, the Academy of the Mysteries of Nature, and the members termed themselves the otiosi (men of leisure).
Academia Semillas del Pueblo Academia Semillas del Pueblo (Spanish: Seeds of the People Academy) is a public charter school of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). It offers instruction in grades Kindergarten through eighth, and is located in the East Los Angeles community of El Sereno.
Academic administration An academic administration is a branch of university or college employees responsible for the maintenance and supervision of the institution and separate from the faculty or academics, although some personnel may have joint responsibilities. Some type of separate administrative structure exists at almost all academic institutions, as fewer and fewer schools are governed by employees who are also involved in academic or scholarly work.
Academic Assembly Academic Assembly is a common name for the legislative branch of many United States university student governments. Universities that call their legislative councils "Academic Assembly" include Michigan State University, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Bath, Seattle University, and California State University, Monterey Bay.
Academic boycotts of Israel The academic boycotts of Israel refer to a series of proposals to boycott Israeli universities and academics, which have been put forward first by a group of academics via an open letter in 2002, and later members of two teaching unions in the UK, one Irish group, and a Palestinian NGO. The goal of proposed academic boycotts is to use international pressure to force a change in Israel's policies towards the Palestinian territories and its inhabitants.
Academic boycotts of South Africa The Academic boycotts of South Africa were a series of boycotts of South African academic institutions and scholars initiated in the 1960s, at the request of the African National Congress, with the goal of using such international pressure to force the end South Africa's system of apartheid. The academic boycotts were part of a larger international campaign of "isolation" that eventually included political, economic, cultural and sports boycotts.
Academic Bill of Rights The Academic Bill of Rights (ABOR) is a document created and distributed by Students for Academic Freedom, a conservative-leaning public advocacy group spun off from the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, a think tank founded by talk-show pundit and right-wing activist David Horowitz. The document was created as a foundational part of SAF's mission, to "end the political abuse of the university and to restore integrity to the academic mission as a disinterested pursuit of knowledge.
Academic conference An academic conference is a conference for researchers (not always academics) to present and discuss their work. Together with academic or scientific journals, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of information between researchers.
Academic Citizenship Academic citizenship is a special case of the more general condition of being a citizen. Specifically, academic citizenship refers to the rights and responsibilities of someone who is a member of an academic community, owing allegiance to that community and being entitled to protection from it.
Academic Competition (WSFCS) Academic Competition (more commonly called by students ACE or simply AC) is a program sponsored by the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School District. Academic Competition features high school students from the 10 schools across the county in weekly competition.
Academic Competition Federation The Academic Competition Federation (ACF) is a decentralized, unincorporated, non-profit organization that produces a fall and spring quizbowl tournament at eight or so regional locations throughout the United States, and hosts a national quizbowl championship, the winner of which is awarded the Meredith Cup.
Academic Council of the United Nations System The Academic Council of the United Nations System, also known as ACUNS, was founded in June 1987 at a conference at Dartmouth College, with the purpose to create a new organization to stimulate and support research and teaching on the role of the United Nations. Since its creation, ACUNS has grown significantly into an organization of 900 individual and institutional members based in over fifty countries from a wide variety of professional backgrounds, all with differents interests but sharing a common commitment to the values expressed in the United Nations Charter.
Academic Crisis The "Academic Crisis" is the name given to a Portuguese governmental policy instigated in 1962 by the Portuguese dictatorial regime entailing the boycott and closure of several student associations and organizations, including the National Secretariat of Portuguese Students. Most members of this organization were intellectual communist militants that were persecuted and forbbiden to continue their university studies.
Academic databases and search engines This page contains a partial list of representative major databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, or in repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles.
Academic detailing Academic Detailing or counter-detailing is an attempt to counteract the detailing done by pharmaceutical representatives to convince doctors to prescribe the latest designer drug treatments. According to the University of Vermont College of Medicine, which offers coursework on academic detailing, the goal is "to promote high-quality, evidence-based, patient-centered, cost-effective pharmaceutical treatment decisions.
Academic dress Academic dress or academical dress (also known in the United States as academic regalia) is traditional clothing worn specifically in academic settings. It is more commonly seen nowadays only at graduation ceremonies, but in former times academic dress was, and to a lesser extent in many ancient universities still is, worn on a daily basis.
Academic dress of Durham University The academic dress of Durham University is fairly similar to that of Oxford. Most Durham colleges insist on undergraduate gowns being worn on formal occasions - primarily matriculation and formal halls (dinners) - exceptions are Van Mildert, Collingwood, St Aidans, and The College of St Hild and St Bede (matriculation only).
Academic dress of the University of Bristol The academic dress prescribed by the University of Bristol is a mixture of that prescribed by Cambridge and Oxford. Bristol has chosen, for graduates, to mainly specify Oxford-style gowns and Cambridge-style hoods.
Academic dress of the University of London Academic dress of the University of London describes the robes, gowns and hoods which are prescribed by the university for its graduates and undergraduates. The University of London received its royal charter in 1836 and by 1844 a rudimentary code for academic dress had been established.
Academic dress of the University of Nottingham In addition to the dress listed below, further colour and splendour is brought to occasions where formal academic dress is worn by the gold trimmed gowns and hats of the senior University officers (the Chancellor, the Pro-Chancellors, the Vice-Chancellor and the Pro-Vice-Chancellors.)
Academic dress of the University of St Andrews Academic dress at the University of St Andrews is an important part of university life. The University of St Andrews was founded between 1410 and 1413, being the oldest of the ancient universities of Scotland and the third oldest university in the English-speaking world.
Academic dress of the University of Wales The University of Wales was chartered in 1893, and consisted of three colleges that had existed for some time before - at Aberystwyth (founded 1872), Bangor (founded 1884) and Cardiff (founded 1883); they had awarded external degrees of the university of London. These were joined by other colleges - Swansea in 1920; the School of Medicine in 1931 being the principal ones.
Academic fencing Academic fencing or Mensur fencing is the traditional kind of fencing practiced by some student corporations (Studentenverbindungen) in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and recently to a minor extent in Latvia and Flanders as well.
Academic freedom Academic freedom is the freedom of teachers, students, and academic institutions to pursue knowledge wherever it may lead, without undue or unreasonable interference. At the minimum, academic freedom involves the freedom to engage in the entire range of activities involved in the production of knowledge, including choosing a research focus, determining what to teach in the classroom, presenting research findings to colleagues, and publishing research findings.
Academic Challenge (national) Academic Challenge is a game show-style television program held by several universities throughout the United States. Each university hosts a group of regional teams (usually 8 or 16 teams) in a single-elimination tournament.
Academic Challenge (Ohio) Academic Challenge is a high school version of quizbowl that was aired on WEWS in Cleveland, Ohio from 1964 to 1999 and has been aired again from 2003 to the present, produced by Phyllis Sossi and Steve Kurrent. It was based on It's Academic in Washington, D.
Academic journal An academic journal is a regularly-published, peer-reviewed publication that publishes scholarship relating to an academic discipline. The purpose of such a journal is to provide a place for the introduction and scrutiny of new research, and often a forum for the critique of existing research, whether as journal articles or as books.
Academic Karelia Society The Academic Karelia Society (AKS) (Akateeminen Karjala-Seura) was a Finnish elitist nationalist organization aiming at the growth and improvement of newly independent Finland, founded by academics and students of the University of Finland in 1922. Its members retained influential positions in the academic life of the era.
Academic library An academic library is a library in a higher educational institution, such as a college or a university — libraries in secondary and primary schools are called school libraries. There are two complementary purposes: to support the teaching at the college or university, and to support the research of the university faculty and students.
Academic Magnet High School Academic Magnet High School (AMHS) is a high school (grades 9-12) in North Charleston, South Carolina. The school requires students to join through an admissions process based on middle school grades and a written essay that is completed with guidelines given by the school.
Academic procession An Academic procession is a traditional ceremony in which university dignitaries march together wearing traditional academic costume. An academic procession forms a usual part of college and university graduation exercises.
Academic Performance Index The Academic Performance Index (API) is a measurement in California of academic performance and progress of individual schools in California. It is one of the main components of the Public Schools Accountability Act passed by the California legislature in 1999.
Academic Progress Rate The Academic Progress Rate (also known as APR) is a metric established by the NCAA to measure the success or failure of collegiate athletic teams in moving student-athletes towards graduation. It was instituted in February of 2005.
Academic scandal An academic scandal is widely-publicized incident or story that exposes, or purports to expose, the unethical, fraudulent, or erroneous work of a professor, researcher, or senior administrator, or which otherwise brings academia (or a particular institution or branch of academia) into disrepute. Academic scandal is related to journalistic fraud.
Academic scarf In many British colleges and universities, sets of two or more colours have traditionally been used as part of the distinctive visual identity of the institution. These colours are used in clothing and symbols of all kinds, from ties to trophies, but notably in the long woollen winter scarves that students often wear to show their pride in their Institution.
Academic stole An academic stole is a vestment used by Australian universities as the regalia for diplomas, graduate diplomas, post graduate diplomas and graduate certificates. Some universities, such as Deakin University, reserve the use of the stole for undergraduate regalia lower than that of the baccalaureate level, and use a hood for post-graduate courses.
Academic support Academic Support is an elective class taught at the high school level in the United States to improve the skills of struggling students. The idea of academic support is to replace classes that have little academic value, (such as wood shop, world religion, or web page design etc.
Academic Senate The Academic Senate (in Latin Senatus Academicus) is the supreme academic body for an ancient university in Scotland and its members are the Deans of Faculties, all the Professors of each university, along with certain senior Readers, and a number of Senior Lecturers and Lecturers, and students representatives.
Academic Society of Iranians in Japan Academic Soceity of Iranians in Japan, abbreviated as ASIJ, is a non-governmental, independent and friendly group of Iranian students and researchers residing in Japan that has been formed apart from political affiliations and with the following objectives:
Academic term An academic term is a division of an academic year, the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. These divisions may be called 'terms', 'semesters', 'quarters', or 'trimesters', depending on the institution and the country.
Academic Talent Program The Academic Talent Program (ATP) is a program in some schools in Western Australia in the subjects of English, society and environment, mathematics and science. This program is specially for lower school (years 8, 9 and 10) secondary students who excel academically.
Academie du Vin L'Academie du Vin, established in Paris in 1973 by Steven Spurrier, was France's first private wine school. Its original mission was to teach wine appreciation to ex-patriate British and Americans living in that city and instruction was in English.
Academies (Shuyuan) The Shūyuàn (书院), usually known in English as Academies or Academies of Classical Learning, were a type of school in ancient China. Unlike national academy and district schools, shuyuan were usually private establishments built away from cities or towns, providing a quiet environment where scholars could engage in studies and contemplation without restrictions and worldly distractions.
Academies@Englewood The Academies@Englewood also known as A@E or Academies @ Englewood is a four-year comprehensive magnet public high school program started by Dr. John Greico (founder of the Bergen County Academies) in an effort to diversify the Dwight Morrow High School campus, to raise the standard of public education for Englewood residents, and to attract residents of Englewood and Englewood Cliffs back to the public school system.
Academy (England) Since 2000, "Academy" in England can mean a type of secondary school which is independent but publicly funded and publicly run. As such, Academies are outside the control of the Local Authorities in which they are situated.
Academy 23 Academy 23 was the name given to the new experimental music project created by Andy Martin and Dave Fanning immediately after disbanding their former group The Apostles. Founded in London in 1989, the band released music primarily on audio cassette, as part of the cassette culture movement.
Academy at Ivy Ridge Academy at Ivy Ridge is an independently owned and operated boarding school in Ogdensburg, New York, formerly affiliated with World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools WWASPS. In November 2005, Ivy Ridge withdrew from WWASPS because the negative media attention that WWASPS was receiving.
Academy Achievement Award The Academy Achievement Award is an award presented by the Canadian Gemini Awards to an individual for their "exceptional, outstanding or ongoing contribution or service to the Canadian television industry." It is presented at the discretion of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television ( not nessesarily every year, however, since its inception there has never been a year without it).
Academy Award for Best Actor The Academy Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to male actors 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.
Academy Award for Best Actress The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the awards given to "actresses", or female actors, 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.

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