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Plymouth State University
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The school was founded as Plymouth Normal School in 1871. Since that time it has evolved to a college, a state college. PSU is part of the University System of New Hampshire and it was founded as a teachers college, and it still retains a teaching program/major to this day. Since that time, however, it has diversified its academic profile, adding many new majors, the school has become known in recent years for its meteorology program, and is also strong in business, visual and performing arts, interdisciplinary studies, and psychology. Plymouth State is one of 311 institutions of higher learning nationwide included on the Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement Classification, according to Carnegie, PSU was honored for excellent alignment of mission, culture, leadership, resources, and practices that support dynamic and noteworthy community engagement. Community service has long been a mainstay of the Plymouth State experience, the university’s motto, Ut prosim, underscores the values upon which the Plymouth State University mission is built. During the 2009–10 academic year, PSU students contributed approximately 220,000 hours to service. Langdon Woods, PSUs most recent residence hall, was one of the first collegiate residence halls in the U. S. Robert Frost, Americas Poet Laureate, lived and taught at Plymouth from 1911 to 1912. The universitys campus newspaper, The Clock, was the first college newspaper in the nation to have a Sudoku puzzle, Plymouth State gained national attention in 1985 when Sports Illustrated featured PSU student and football player Joe Dudek as their favorite to win the Heisman Trophy. Dudek, a back for the Panthers, earned the attention for breaking Walter Paytons mark for career touchdowns. Samuel Read Hall Building In spring 1923, Plymouth Normal School opened Samuel Read Hall Dormitory, today, Hyde Hall is home to academic programs, including the College of Business Administration and the Departments of Criminal Justice, Languages and Linguistics, Mathematics, and Psychology. Boyd Science Center Boyd Science Center is the heart of scientific research, the building, named for longtime science professor Robert L. Boyd. Enterprise Center at Plymouth The Enterprise Center at Plymouth opened in 2013 as a collaboration between the university and the Grafton County Economic Development Council. Located on the banks of the Pemigewasset River at the point where the two sides of campus meet, the ECP represents the strong bond Plymouth State has formed with the community, Mary Lyon Hall Built in 1916 and renovated in 2006. In 2012, Mary Lyon was added to the New Hampshire Register of Historic Places, hartman Union Building The center of student life on campus, known as the HUB, is a multifunction building. It hosts functions and events, has administrative offices related to student activities, and contains a center, courtroom, computer clusters, workout facilities. The Silver Center for the Arts supports PSU students of the performing arts, the Silver Center is also the home of the New Hampshire Music Festival, which performs classical and pops concerts in the Hanaway Theater and chamber music concerts in Smith Recital Hall. The festival begins the week after the July 4th holiday and runs through the middle of August, Draper and Maynard Building In the early twentieth century, the Draper & Maynard Building was home to premier sporting goods manufacturer Draper & Maynard Sporting Goods Company
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Rounds Hall and Clock Tower, 2013
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Ellen Reed House, home of the English Department faculty
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Exeter College of Art and Design
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Exeter College of Art and Design was an art college based in Exeter, Devon. Founded in 1854, it amalgamated with what would become Plymouth University in 1989, the main building was located at Earl Richards Road North Exeter from the 1970s with some facilities based at Barts until the early 1980s. Graphics was based on Gandy Street in the old School of Art buildings until it relocated to the site in 1984. The Printmaking department was located at The Mint. The Art College offered higher education courses including Foundation, BA, disciplines were, Fine Art Ceramics, Graphics, Painting, Printmaking, Photography, Sculpture and 4D. The Priory Press was introduced by Alan Richards and Bernard Beard in association with The Bartholomew Print Workshop in the 1960s, the School of Art was founded in Exeter in 1854 as part of the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and promoted by Edward Bowring Stephens a local sculptor. In 1858 decorative designer Kent Kingdon offered a £5 prize for a decorative design, in 1951 The Exeter School of Art was renamed as the Exeter Central College of Art. Fishwick is now regarded as an important, if underrated figure in post-war British painting, in 1966 students print work was featured in an exhibition entitled An Approach to Printmaking in Exeter at The Whitechapel Gallery, London. In 1973 the College was renamed again as Exeter College of Art and Design, in 1976 painting tutor John Butler set up The Spacex which became a registered educational charity in 1990. The college amalgamated with Polytechnic South West based in Plymouth in 1989, in 2011 planning permission was granted to demolish and redevelop the site to provide 39 dwellings with parking and landscaping. Elaine M. Goodwin author and mosaic artist, diana Jane Howse visual arts specialist and wife of David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood. Iain McKell fashion, portrait and social documentary photographer, chris Pig printmaker Kev F. Sutherland comedian and comic strip creator. Frederick John Widgery landscape artist and mayor of Exeter, historical photos of the college Spacex Gallery website Exhibition catalogue written by Lesley Kerman 2012 Artwork Installation by Sarah Bennett in the abandoned Art College building
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The old School of Art building, now the Phoenix arts centre
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Exeter College of Art and Design Earl Richards Road North site 1980's
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Seale-Hayne College
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Seale-Hayne College was an agricultural college in Devon, England, which operated from 1919 to 2005. It was the agricultural college in the United Kingdom whose buildings were purpose designed. It was located 3 miles from Newton Abbot, the college was established in accordance with the will of Charles Seale-Hayne, a Liberal politician who was a Devon land-owner. The college was built between 1912 and 1914, but its opening was delayed by the start of the First World War. During the war it served as a centre for Land Girls. The first students arrived in 1920, during the Second World War the college was used for the training of the Womens Land Army. After the war the college was expanded, and by 1986 there were over 1,000 students. In 1989 the college merged with Plymouth Polytechnic, in 2005 the university closed the college and staff and students were transferred to Plymouth
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Seale-Hayne College
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Sports hall
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Public university
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A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. Whether a national university is considered public varies from one country to another, in Egypt, Al-Azhar University opened in 975 AD as the second oldest university in the world. In Nigeria Public Universities can be established by both the Federal Government and by State Governments, students are enrolled after completing the 8-4-4 system of education and attaining a mark of C+ or above. They are also eligible for a low interest loan from the Higher Education Loan Board and they are expected to pay back the loan after completing higher education. South Africa has 23 public tertiary institutions, either categorised as a traditional university or a comprehensive university. Almost entire national universities in Brunei are public universities and these are major universities in Brunei, University of Brunei Darussalam Brunei Technological University Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University There are 40 public universities in Bangladesh. The University Grant Commission is the body for all the public universities in Bangladesh. The universities do not deal directly with the government, but with the University Grants Commission, recently many private universities are established under the Private University Act of 1992. In mainland China, nearly all universities and research institutions are public and currently, the public universities are usually run by the provincial governments, there are also circumstances where the municipal governments administer the universities. Some public universities are national, which are administered by the central government. Private undergraduate colleges do exist, which are vocational colleges sponsored by private enterprises. The majority of universities are not entitled to award bachelors degrees. Public universities usually enjoy higher reputation domestically, eight institutions are funded by the University Grants Committee. The Academy for Performing Arts also receives funding from the government, the Open University of Hong Kong is also a public university, but it is largely self-financed. The Shue Yan University is the private institution with the status of a university. There are public and private institutes in Indonesia. The government provide public universities, institutes, high schools and academies in each province, the private educational institution usually provided by religious organizations, public organizations, and some big companies. In India, most universities and nearly all research institutions are public, There are some private undergraduate colleges, mostly engineering schools, but a majority of these are affiliated to public universities
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Cairo University, the prime indigenous model for Egyptian state universities
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Old Merensky Library at
University of Pretoria, South Africa
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Sebelas Maret University, one of Indonesia's prominent public universities.
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Chulalongkorn University main auditorium in Thailand
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Financial endowment
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A financial endowment is a donation of money or property to a nonprofit organization for the ongoing support of that organization. An endowment may come with stipulations regarding its usage, the total value of an institutions investments is often referred to as the institutions endowment and is typically organized as a public charity, private foundation, or trust. Among the institutions that commonly manage endowments are academic institutions, cultural institutions, service organizations, the earliest endowed chairs were those established by the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius in Athens in AD176. Aurelius created one endowed chair for each of the schools of philosophy, Platonism, Aristotelianism, Stoicism. Later, similar endowments were set up in other major cities of the Empire. Today, the University of Glasgow has fifteen Regius Professorships, private individuals soon adopted the practice of endowing professorships. Isaac Newton held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge beginning in 1669, unrestricted endowment can be used in any way the recipient chooses to carry out its mission. Term endowment funds stipulate that all or part of the principal may be expended only after the expiration of a period of time or occurrence of a specified event. Quasi endowment funds must retain the purpose and intent as specified by the donor or source of the original funds, Endowment revenue can be restricted by donors to serve many purposes. Endowed professorships or scholarships restricted to a subject are common. Ignoring the restriction is called invading the endowment, but change of circumstance or financial duress like bankruptcy can preclude carrying out the donors intent. A court can alter the use of restricted endowment under a doctrine called cy-près meaning to find an alternative as near as possible to the donors intent, the restricted/unrestricted distinction focuses on the use of the funds, see quasi-endowment below for a distinction about whether principal can be spent. Academic institutions, such as colleges and universities, will control a endowment fund that finances a portion of the operating or capital requirements of the institution. In addition to an endowment fund, each university may also control a number of restricted endowments that are intended to fund specific areas within the institution. The most common examples are endowed professorships, and endowed scholarships or fellowships, in the United States, the endowment is often integral to the financial health of educational institutions. Alumni or friends of institutions sometimes contribute capital to the endowment, the endowment funding culture is strong in the United States and Canada but less pronounced overseas, with the exceptions of Cambridge and Oxford universities. Endowment funds have also created to support secondary and elementary school districts in several states in the United States. An endowed professorship is a position permanently paid for with the revenue from an endowment fund set up for that purpose
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Basic investment types
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Postgraduate education
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In North America, this level is generally referred to as graduate school. The organization and structure of education varies in different countries. This article outlines the types of courses and of teaching and examination methods. There are two types of degrees studied for at the postgraduate level, academic and vocational degrees. The term degree in this means the moving from one stage or level to another. University studies took six years for a degree and up to twelve additional years for a masters degree or doctorate. The first six years taught the faculty of the arts, which was the study of the seven liberal arts, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music theory, grammar, logic, the main emphasis was on logic. Once a Bachelor of Arts degree had been obtained, the student could choose one of three faculties—law, medicine, or theology—in which to pursue masters or doctors degrees. Because theology was thought to be the highest of the subjects, the main significance of the higher, postgraduate degrees was that they licensed the holder to teach. In most countries, the hierarchy of postgraduate degrees is as follows, in Scottish Universities, the Master of Philosophy degree tends to be by research or higher masters degree and the Master of Letters degree tends to be the taught or lower masters degree. In many fields such as social work, or library science in North America. Professional degrees such as the Master of Architecture degree can last to three and a years to satisfy professional requirement to be an architect. Professional degrees such as the Master of Business Administration degree can last up to two years to satisfy the requirement to become a business leader. These are often divided into academic and professional doctorates. An academic doctorate can be awarded as a Doctor of Philosophy degree or as a Doctor of Science degree, a doctorate is the terminal degree in most fields. In the United States, there is distinction between a Doctor of Philosophy degree and a Doctor of Science degree. In the second half of the 19th century, however, US universities began to follow the European model by awarding doctorates, in the UK, an equivalent formation to doctorate is the NVQ5 or QCF8. Most universities award degrees, usually at the postgraduate level
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The enrollment of some students in the
University of Bologna.
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Plymouth
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Plymouths early history extends to the Bronze Age, when a first settlement emerged at Mount Batten. This settlement continued as a trading post for the Roman Empire, until it was surpassed by the prosperous village of Sutton founded in the ninth century. In 1620, the Pilgrim Fathers departed Plymouth for the New World, during the English Civil War the town was held by the Parliamentarians and was besieged between 1642 and 1646. The combined town took the name of Plymouth which, in 1928, the citys naval importance later led to its targeting and partial destruction during World War II, an act known as the Plymouth Blitz. After the war the city centre was rebuilt and subsequent expansion led to the incorporation of Plympton. The city is home to 262,700 people, making it the 30th most populous area in the United Kingdom. It is governed locally by Plymouth City Council and is represented nationally by three MPs, Plymouths economy remains strongly influenced by shipbuilding and seafaring including ferry links to Brittany and Spain, but has tended toward a service-based economy since the 1990s. It has the largest operational base in Western Europe – HMNB Devonport and is home to Plymouth University. An unidentified settlement named TAMARI OSTIA is listed in Ptolemys Geographia and is presumed to be located in the area of the modern city, at the time this village was called Sutton, meaning south town in Old English. The name Plym Mouth, meaning mouth of the River Plym was first mentioned in a Pipe Roll of 1211, the name Plymouth first officially replaced Sutton in a charter of King Henry VI in 1440. See Plympton for the derivation of the name Plym, during the Hundred Years War a French attack burned a manor house and took some prisoners, but failed to get into the town. In 1403 the town was burned by Breton raiders, on 12 November,1439, the English Parliament made Plymouth the first town incorporated. The castle served to protect Sutton Pool, which is where the fleet was based in Plymouth prior to the establishment of Plymouth Dockyard. In 1512 an Act of Parliament was passed for further fortifying Plymouth, defences on St Nicholas Island also date from this time, and a string of six artillery blockhouses were built, including one on Fishers Nose at the south-eastern corner of the Hoe. This location was further strengthened by the building of a fort in 1596, during the 16th century locally produced wool was the major export commodity. According to legend, Drake insisted on completing his game of bowls on the Hoe before engaging the Spanish Armada in 1588. In 1620 the Pilgrim Fathers set sail for the New World from Plymouth, during the English Civil War Plymouth sided with the Parliamentarians and was besieged for almost four years by the Royalists. The last major attack by the Royalist was by Sir Richard Grenville leading thousands of soldiers towards Plymouth, the civil war ended as a Parliamentary win, but monarchy was restored by King Charles II in 1660, who imprisoned many of the Parliamentary heroes on Drakes Island
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Plymouth Hoe viewed from
Mount Batten
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Prysten House, Finewell Street, 1498, is the oldest surviving house in Plymouth, and built from local Plymouth Limestone and
Dartmoor granite
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John Foulston 's Town Hall, Column and Library in
Devonport
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Longitude lines are perpendicular and latitude lines are parallel to the equator.
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Association of Commonwealth Universities
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The Association of Commonwealth Universities represents 535 universities from 37 Commonwealth countries. It is the worlds first and oldest international university network, established in 1913, a UK-registered charity, the ACU has over 500 member institutions in developed and developing countries across the Commonwealth. Drawing on the experience and expertise, the ACU seeks to address issues in international higher education through a range of projects, networks. The Association of Commonwealth Universities is governed by its member institutions through an elected Council, as the ACU is a UK-registered charity, Council members also act as its Trustees. The ACU Council comprises up to 23 members,20 elected Council members, in 1912, the University of London took the initiative to assemble 53 representatives of universities in London to hold a Congress of Universities of the Empire. They decided they needed a bureau of information and its affairs would be handled by a committee representing universities at home and abroad. In 1913 the office opened as the Universities Bureau of the British Empire, in 1948 the name was changed to Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth, and in 1963 it changed to its current name. Dr Anastasios Christodoulou was the Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities from 1980 to 1996, in 1986, Queen Elizabeth II became patron of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. Currently 37 countries from the Commonwealth are represented in the Association
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Logo of the ACU
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South West England
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South West England is one of nine official regions of England. It is the largest in area, covering 9,200 square miles, five million people live in South West England. The region includes the West Country and much of the ancient kingdom of Wessex, other major urban centres include Plymouth, Swindon, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Exeter, Bath, Torbay, and the South East Dorset conurbation. There are eight cities, Salisbury, Bath, Wells, Bristol, Gloucester, Exeter, Plymouth and it includes two entire national parks, Dartmoor and Exmoor, and four World Heritage Sites, including Stonehenge and the Jurassic Coast. The northern part of Gloucestershire, near Chipping Campden, is as close to the Scottish border as it is to the tip of Cornwall, the region has by far the longest coastline in England and many seaside fishing towns. The region is at the first-level of NUTS for Eurostat purposes, key data and facts about the region are produced by the South West Observatory. Following the abolition of the South West Regional Assembly and Government Office, the region is known for its rich folklore, including the legend of King Arthur and Glastonbury Tor, as well as its traditions and customs. Cornwall has its own language, Cornish, and some regard it as a Celtic nation, the South West of England is known for Cheddar cheese, which originated in the Somerset village of Cheddar, Devon cream teas, crabs, Cornish pasties, and cider. It is also home to the Eden Project, Aardman Animations, the Glastonbury Festival, most of the region is located on the South West Peninsula, between the English Channel and Bristol Channel. It has the longest coastline of all the English regions, totalling over 700 miles, much of the coast is now protected from further substantial development because of its environmental importance, which contributes to the region’s attractiveness to tourists and residents. Geologically the region is divided into the largely igneous and metamorphic west and sedimentary east, Cornwall and West Devons landscape is of rocky coastline and high moorland, notably at Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor. These are due to the granite and slate that underlie the area, the highest point of the region is High Willhays, at 2,038 feet, on Dartmoor. In North Devon the slates of the west and limestones of the east meet at Exmoor National Park, the variety of rocks of similar ages seen here have led to the countys name being lent to that of the Devonian period. The east of the region is characterised by wide, flat clay vales and chalk, the vales, with good irrigation, are home to the regions dairy agriculture. The Blackmore Vale was Thomas Hardys Vale of the Little Dairies, another and these downs are the principal area of arable agriculture in the region. Limestone is also found in the region, at the Cotswolds, Quantock Hills and Mendip Hills, all of the principal rock types can be seen on the Jurassic Coast of Dorset and East Devon, where they document the entire Mesozoic era from west to east. The climate of South West England is classed as oceanic according to the Köppen climate classification, the oceanic climate typically experiences cool winters with warmer summers and precipitation all year round, with more experienced in winter. Annual rainfall is about 1,000 millimetres and up to 2,000 millimetres on higher ground, summer maxima averages range from 18 °C to 22 °C and winter minimum averages range from 1 °C to 4 °C across the south-west
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High Willhays on
Dartmoor, Devon, the region's highest point.
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South West England region in England
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Pulteney Bridge in Bath, Somerset: the entire city is a World Heritage Site.
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M5 looking north towards
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Open University
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The Open University is a public distance learning and research university, and one of the biggest universities in the UK for undergraduate education. The majority of the OUs undergraduate students are based throughout the United Kingdom and principally study off-campus, the OU was established in 1969 and the first students enrolled in January 1971. The University administration is based at Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, in Buckinghamshire and it also has offices and regional examination centres in many other European countries. The university awards undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, as well as qualifications such as diplomas. Since it was founded, more than 1.5 million students have studied its courses and it was rated top university in England and Wales for student satisfaction in the 2005,2006 and 2012 United Kingdom government national student satisfaction survey, and second in the 2007 survey. The Open University was founded by the Labour government under Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Wilson was a strong advocate, using the vision of Michael Young. Wilson envisioned The Open University as a marker in the Labour Partys commitment to modernising British society. He believed that it would build a more competitive economy while also promoting greater equality of opportunity. By the time the actual, much higher costs became apparent, the majority of staff are part-time Associate Lecturers and, as of the 2009–10 academic year, almost 8,000 work for the OU. Salaries are the OUs main cost - over £275 million for the 2009–2010 academic year, in 2010 the OU became one of the Sunday Times′ Best Places to Work in the Public Sector. Open University Employees Credit Union Limited is a savings and loans co-operative established by the University for staff in 1994, a member of the Association of British Credit Unions Limited, it is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the PRA. Ultimately, like the banks and building societies, members’ savings are protected against business failure by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, in 1982 the OU announced the establishment of a business school supported by the Foundation for Management Education and the British Institute of Management. In 1983 the Open University Business School was founded with 1,600 students enrolled onto the first two courses – The Effective Manager and Personnel Selection and Interviewing, the Open University Business school is accredited by the international accrediting bodies AACSB, AMBA, amd EQUIS. It is the only triple-accredited business school that specialises in flexible learning, the OU uses a variety of methods for teaching, including written and audio materials, the Internet, disc-based software and television programmes on DVD. Course-based television broadcasts by the BBC, which started on 3 January 1971, materials comprise originally authored work by in-house and external academic contributors, and from third-party materials licensed for use by OU students. For most modules, students are supported by tutors who provide feedback on their work and are available to them at face-to-face tutorials, by telephone. Some modules have mandatory day schools and these are day-long sessions which a student must attend in order to pass the module. Nevertheless, it is possible to be excused on the basis of ill-health, over the past ten years the university has adopted a policy of separating residential modules from distance-full-time taught modules
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Wilson building in the main campus, Milton Keynes
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The Open University
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A local Open University centre in
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Robert Hook building at Open University Campus in Milton Keynes
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Rolle College
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Rolle College was a teacher training college in Exmouth, Devon, England, which formed the Exmouth campus of the University of Plymouth until its closure in 2009. The university moved its taught courses from the site to new facilities at its main Plymouth campus, the college opened in 1949, and initially graduates were awarded a Certificate in Education by the University of Exeter. In 1988, Rolle College became part of Plymouth Polytechnic, the last three Students Union Presidents of Rolle College were Katie Shaw, Fiona House and Michael Austin. The Exmouth campus was closed in 2009, when Plymouth University relocated the college, Rolle played a significant part in the life of Exmouth, both economically and socially. The decision to relocate the campus was controversial with past and present students, staff, anti-closure demonstrations and campaigns lasted until the relocation
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The former Exmouth Campus of the University of Plymouth
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Devon County Council
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Devon County Council is the county council administering the English county of Devon. Based in the city of Exeter, the covers the non-metropolitan county area of Devon. Members of the council are elected every four years to represent the electorate of each county division, the population of the area administered by the council is estimated at 765,302, making it the largest local authority in South West England. Devon is an area with local government, meaning that the county is divided into non-metropolitan districts carrying out less strategic functions. In Devon there are eight districts, each with its own district, borough. Before 1888, the towns and rural areas in Devon were governed by magistrates through the Devon Court of Quarter Sessions. The magistrates were based at Rougemont Castle, Exeter, and were not elected by the people, in 1888, the Local Government Act 1888 was passed, which paved the way for democracy at the county level throughout England and Wales. On 16 January 1889, the first County Council elections were held, in 1907, women became eligible for election and the first female councillor was elected in 1931. From the beginning in 1889, the county boroughs of Exeter, Devonport, Devonport was afterwards absorbed by the City of Plymouth. Torbay received county borough status and left the area of Devon County Council in 1968, in 1971, Devon County Council signed a Twinning Charter with the Conseil General of Calvados to develop links with the French department of Calvados. At first, meetings were held in a courtroom in Rougemont Castle until County Hall was built, the houses are now incorporated in the councils campus, Coaver houses the main social club. Construction began on County Hall in 1954, it was designed by Donald McMorran and was finished in 1964, in 1998 the buildings gained Grade II* status. Commenting on Devon and other authorities who had similar data protection breaches. The reality is that they are caused by councils treating sensitive personal data in the same way they would deal with more general correspondence. Far too often in cases, the councils do not appear to have acknowledged that the data they are handling is about real people. In Devon, most county councillors who are elected have been nominated by one of Englands major political parties, at present the majority of councillors in the chamber are Conservatives, who hold 38 of the 62 seats. The council currently operates the local government Cabinet system which was introduced by the Local Government Act 2000, in practice, the Leader is chosen from among the majority Conservative group. After being elected, the Leader chooses the cabinet members, currently nine
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Devon County Council
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Coat of arms
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Air-raid shelter
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Air-raid shelters, also known as bomb shelters, are structures for the protection of non-combatants as well as combatants against enemy attacks from the air. They are similar to bunkers in many regards, although they are not designed to defend against ground attack, prior to World War II, in May 1924, an Air Raid Precautions Committee was set up in the United Kingdom. In February 1936 the Home Secretary appointed a technical Committee on Structural Precautions against Air Attack and this proposal was eventually implemented in January 1939. During the Munich crisis, local authorities dug trenches to provide shelter, after the crisis, the British Government decided to make these a permanent feature, with a standard design of precast concrete trench lining. Unfortunately these turned out to very poorly. They also decided to free to poorer households the Anderson shelter. Air raid shelters were built specifically to serve as protection against enemy air raids, a commonly used home shelter known as the Anderson shelter would be built in a garden and equipped with beds as a refuge from air raids. For this reason, air-raid precautions during World War II in Germany could be more readily implemented by the authorities than was possible in the UK. However, the inadequacies of cellars and basements became apparent in the firestorms during the attacks on the larger German inner cities, especially Hamburg. Some occupants perished from heat stroke or carbon monoxide poisoning, in contrast to other shelters, these buildings were considered completely bomb-proof. They also had the advantage of being built upward, which was cheaper than downward excavation. There were no equivalents of hochbunkers in the cities of the Allied countries, hochbunkers usually consisted of large concrete blocks above ground with walls between 1 m and 1.5 m thick and with huge lintels above doorways and openings. They often had a constant interior temperature of 7 to 10 °C and they were designated to protect people, administrative centres, important archives, and works of art. Some of the circular towers contained helical floors that gradually curved their way upward within the circular walls, many of these structures may still be seen to this day. They have been converted into offices, storage space, and some have even adapted for hotels, hospitals and schools. In Schöneberg, a block of flats was built over the Pallasstrasse air-raid shelter after World War II, during the Cold War, NATO used the shelter for food storage. The cost of demolishing these edifices after the war would have been enormous and these towers had anti-aircraft batteries on platforms on their roofs. The attempted demolition caused no more than a crack in one of the walls of the tower, after efforts were abandoned
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Air-raid shelter in Tateyama,
Nagasaki, Nagasaki.
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Kleines Berlin (Little Berlin in German) is the complex of underground air-raid tunnels dating to
World War II, which still exists in
Trieste,
Italy.
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Single-person air raid shelter in Germany on display in an aviation museum
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The Hochbunker in
Trier
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Plymouth Blitz
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The Plymouth Blitz was a series of bombing raids carried out by the Nazi German Luftwaffe on the English city of Plymouth in the Second World War. The bombings launched on numerous British cities were known as the Blitz, the royal dockyards at HMNB Devonport were the main target in order to facilitate Nazi German efforts during the Battle of the Atlantic. Despite this, civilian casualties were high and the dockyards continued in operation. The first bombs fell on the city on Saturday 6 July 1940 at Swilly, in early 1941, five raids reduced much of the city to rubble. Attacks continued as late as May 1944 with two air raids in that month. During the 59 bombing attacks,1,172 civilians were killed and 4,448 injured, the resident population fell from 220,000 at the outbreak of war to, at one point, only 127,000. In 1941 most of the children were evacuated and on any night that a raid was expected thousands of people were taken by lorry into the countryside, in March 1941, St Andrews Parish Church was bombed and badly damaged. Amidst the smoking ruins a headmistress nailed over the door a wooden sign saying simply Resurgam, indicating the wartime spirit and that entrance to St Andrews is still referred to as the Resurgam door and a carved granite plaque is now permanently fixed there. Charles Church, destroyed by incendiaries on the nights of 20–21 March 1941, has preserved in its ruined state as a memorial to civilian victims of the Blitz. The Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association on the Hoe was also damaged on the evening of 20 March 1941. The bombardment is described in the obituary of Stanley Wells Kemp who was the director of the Association at the time, the seminal work by Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley on the ionic basis of nerve conduction resumed there in June 1947. On the evening of 22 April 1941 during an attack on the central area, during the Blitz the two main shopping centres and nearly every civic building were destroyed, along with 26 schools, eight cinemas and 41 churches. In total,3,754 houses were destroyed with a further 18,398 seriously damaged, masters, Warren Plymouth in the Blitz
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Union Street before World War II showing trams
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The "Resurgam" door of St Andrew's Church
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University of Bradford
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The University of Bradford is a public, plate glass university located in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The university received its Royal Charter in 1966, making it the 40th university to be created in Britain, there are two campuses, the main campus located on Richmond Road and the School of Management, at Emm Lane. The student population includes 8,395 undergraduate and 2,815 postgraduate students, mature students make up around a third of the undergraduate community. 22% of students are foreign, and come from over 110 different countries, there were 14,406 applications to the university through UCAS in 2010, of which 3,421 were accepted. It was the first British university to establish a Department of Peace Studies in 1973, the division has a reputation as a centre of excellence in peace research, international relations, security studies, conflict resolution and development and peace studies. The universitys origins date back to the Mechanics Institute, founded in 1832, in 1882, the institute became the Bradford Technical College. In 1957, the Bradford Institute of Technology, was formed as a College of Advanced Technology to take on the running of higher education courses, construction of the Richmond Building, the largest building on campus, began in 1963. The Horton Building and Chesham building were added, on the opposite side of Richmond Road. The Charter of Incorporation was granted in 1966, to create the University of Bradford, expansion of the main campus continued in the 1970s and onwards, with the addition of the Library and Computer Centre, Communal Building, Pemberton Building and Ashfield Building. An extension to the Library and Computer Centre was completed in the mid-1990s, in 1996, the university joined with the former Bradford and Airedale College of Health, which then became the School of Health Studies within the university. The Department of Physics was closed in the 1980s, the Department of Mathematics has since been reopened within the School of Computing, Informatics and Media. In 1987, the university one of the twelve founding members of the Northern Consortium. In September 2009, it was announced that the University was to merge with Leeds College of Music and it was later announced that this merger would not go ahead due to financial constraints. LCMs degrees are now validated by the University of Hull, the university is currently undergoing a £84 million redevelopment programme, including Student Central, which is now home to the brand new student union, social and study zones and bars. The School of Health Studies was recently moved from the Trinity Road Campus to the universitys City Campus in summer 2011, after major refurbishment, in 2005, a £84 million redevelopment of the campus was announced, and a project to create the worlds first Ecoversity was formed. The university aimed to reduce its footprint by reducing waste. As part of this, Bradford became a Fairtrade University in December 2006, as of 2008, several of the redevelopment projects have been completed. Redevelopment of the facilities was completed in summer 2009
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Richmond Building, University of Bradford
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Chesham Building in the University of Bradford
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University of Southampton
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The University of Southampton is a public research university located in Southampton, England. The origins of the university back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 following a legacy to the Corporation of Southampton by Henry Robinson Hartley. In 1902, the Institution developed into the Hartley University College awarding degrees from the University of London, on 29 April 1952, the institution was granted a Royal Charter to give the University of Southampton full university status, allowing it to award its own degrees. The university has seven teaching campuses, in addition, the university operates a School of Art based in nearby Winchester and an international branch in Malaysia offering courses in Engineering. Each campus is equipped with its own library facilities, the University of Southampton currently has 17,485 undergraduate and 7,390 postgraduate students, making it the largest university by higher education students in the South East region. The university owns and operates a sports ground at nearby Wide Lane for use by students, besides being recognised as one of the leading research universities in the UK, Southampton has also achieved consistently high scores for its teaching and learning activities. It additionally has one of the highest proportions of income derived from activities in Britain. As of 2015, Southampton is one of the few universities to achieve a top 20 UK position in the most established national and international rankings, in the 2016 edition of U. S. News & World Report, Southampton is placed in the top 10 of British Universities. Southampton is a member of the European University Association, the Association of Commonwealth Universities and is an institution of the Worldwide Universities Network. The university consistently ranks in the top 5 in Engineering programs in England, the University of Southampton has its origin as the Hartley Institution which was formed in 1862 from a benefaction by Henry Robinson Hartley. Hartley had inherited a fortune from two generations of successful wine merchants, at his death in 1850, he left a bequest of £103,000 to the Southampton Corporation for the study and advancement of the sciences in his property on Southamptons High Street, in the city centre. Hartley was a straggler, who had little liking of the new age docks. He did not desire to create a college for many but a centre for Southamptons intellectual elite. After lengthy legal challenges to the Bequest, and a debate as to how best interpret the language of his Will. On 15 October 1862, the Hartley Institute was opened by the Prime Minister Lord Palmerston in a civic occasion which exceeded in splendor anything that anyone in the town could remember. After initial years of struggle, the Hartley Institute became the Hartley College in 1883. This move was followed by increasing numbers of students, teaching staff, in 1902, the Hartley College became the Hartley University college, a degree awarding branch of the University of London. This was after inspection of the teaching and finances by the University College Grants Committee, an increase in student numbers in the following years motivated fund raising efforts to move the college to greenfield land around Back Lane in the Highfield area of Southampton
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The arrival of Prime Minister
Lord Palmerston for the opening of the Hartley Institute on 15 October 1862
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Front of the Hartley Library, constructed in the 1930s after the move to Highfield Campus, with the support of private donors.
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Toast rack, a 1929 Dennis GL that has been owned by the University of Southampton Engineering Society since 1958.
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The Gardens on the west half of Highfield Campus were landscaped by
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Royal Statistical Society
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The Royal Statistical Society is a British learned society for statistics, a professional body for statisticians, and a charity which promotes statistics for the public good. The society was founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London, at that time there were many provincial statistics societies throughout Britain, but most have not survived. The Manchester Statistical Society is a notable exception, the associations were formed with the object of gathering information about society. The idea of statistics referred more to knowledge rather than a series of methods. The original logo had the motto Aliis Exterendum but this separation was found to be a hindrance and it was many decades before mathematics was regarded as part of the statistical project. Instrumental in founding the LSS were Richard Jones, Charles Babbage, Adolphe Quetelet, William Whewell, among its famous members was Florence Nightingale, who was the societys first female member in 1858. Stella Cunliffe was the first female president, other notable RSS presidents have included William Beveridge, Ronald Fisher, Harold Wilson, and David Cox. The LSS became the RSS by Royal Charter in 1887, today the society has 7,200 members around the world, of whom some 1,500 are professionally qualified, with the status of Chartered Statistician. In January 2009, the RSS received Licensed Body status from the UK Science Council to award Chartered Scientist status, since February 2009 the society has awarded Chartered Scientist status to suitably qualified members. Unusually among professional societies, all members of the RSS are known as Fellows—fellowship is nowadays not usually used as a mark of distinction. However, before the 1993 merger with the Institute of Statisticians, the RSS has premises in Errol Street, EC1, in the London Borough of Islington close to the boundary with the City of London, between Old Street and Barbican stations. The society has various groups in the UK, together with a wide range of topic-related sections. Each of these sections and groups organizes lectures and seminars on statistical topics, the society was particularly engaged with the passage of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007, having long argued for legislation on statistics. The RSS organises an annual conference, among the societys awards are the Guy Medals in gold, silver and bronze, in honour of William Guy. The RSS team reached the finals of University Challenge, The Professionals 2006, in September 2013, the society established StatsLife, an online magazine website that features news, interviews and opinion from the world of statistics and data
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Later logo
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The early logo of the Statistical Society of London with the motto Aliis exterendum
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Significance magazine
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Exmouth
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Exmouth /ˈɛksməθ/ is a port town, civil parish and seaside resort in East Devon, England, sited on the east bank of the mouth of the River Exe. In 2011, it had a population of 34,432 making Exmouth the 5th most populous settlement in Devon, byzantine coins dating back to c. 498–518, with the mark of Anastasius I, were retrieved on the beach in 1970, more recent human occupation of Exmouth Point can be traced back to the 11th century, when it was known as Lydwicnaesse, the point of the Bretons. The town appears on the century Peutinger Map one of only 15 British towns, the two ecclesiastical parishes, Littleham and Withycombe Raleigh, that make up the town of Exmouth today can be traced to pre-Saxon times. The name of the town derives from its location at the mouth of the River Exe estuary, in 1240 an area known as Pratteshuthe was sold to the mayor and citizens of Exeter. This was the site of the ferry dock and over time the name evolved first into Pratteshide. The original site is marked by an area outside the Glenorchy United Reformed Church close to the Magnolia Shopping Centre. The roads in and out of the area were in a poor state, a more permanent dock was built in 1825, replacing a series of apparently seasonal docks first noted on maps from 1576 as The Docke. New docks designed by Eugenius Birch were opened in 1868, the area adjacent to the docks once housed a thriving community of some 125 chalets built on the shoreline. These have been replaced by a marina complex known as Exmouth Quay. Human habitation was restricted by the exposed position on the estuary – civilisation took a hold in a greater. The town began to develop in the 13th century, morin Uppehille owned the land, granting part of it to John the Miller who in turn built a windmill, and earned his living on the exposed point, aided by the prevailing south-west winds. The windmill, the dock and a small settlement of farms began to develop into Exmouth. Sir Walter Raleigh sailed on many of his voyages from Exmouth Harbour, the town established itself during the 18th century and is regarded as the oldest holiday resort in Devon. Visitors prevented from visiting Europe by the turmoil in France were attracted by the views. Exmouth was renowned as a destination for the wealthy to recover their health, notable visitors in this time included Lady Byron and her daughter Ada Lovelace. Exmouth was also the residence of Lady Nelson, the wife of Lord Nelson. She is buried in Littleham Churchyard, high class tourism remained steady for a number of years
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Exmouth seafront
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Exmouth Campus,
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The seafront, looking west towards
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Peninsula Medical School
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Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry is a Medical and Dental school in England, run in partnership with the University of Exeter, the University of Plymouth and the NHS in Devon and Cornwall. In January 2013 the school began disaggregation to form Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, the school has campuses at the University of Plymouth, the University of Exeter, the John Bull Building, the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and the Royal Cornwall Hospital. The bid was led by Professor Sir John Tooke, who was then working in a joint appointment between the University of Exeter and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. According to the tables in the media, PCMD has not only consistently outperformed the other new institutions. The inaugural Deans of the new Exeter and Plymouth medical schools were Professor Steve Thornton, students who had already started their studies at Peninsula Medical School continued as such and graduated with joint degrees of the two universities, as every previous graduate had. Students entering either UEMS or PUPSMD study for independent University of Exeter or Plymouth University degrees, the first intake of 130 undergraduate students commenced their studies on 30 September 2002. From September 2003, the annual intake rose to 167, in January 2006 Peninsula Medical School was awarded funding for a further expansion, and the UK and overseas places increased. The Schools intake rose to 214 from September 2006 and 230 from September 2010, for the first two years of the undergraduate programme students were based at either the University of Exeter or the University of Plymouth. The learning emphasis is placed upon biomedical sciences, taught within the context of relevant clinical problems, from the first week of the programme students learn in various community-based clinical environments. During year five students were attached to clinical apprenticeships with general practitioners and consultants throughout Devon, Research within the college focused on four main themes, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risk and Ageing, Neuroscience, Health Services Research and Environment and Human Health. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise Peninsula Medical School submitted in two Units of Assessment, Other Hospital Based Clinical Subjects and Health Services Research, in Other Hospital Based Clinical Subjects, 65% of their submission was judged to be of international or world class quality. This ranked Peninsula Medical Schools research 11th of 27 submissions from other UK Medical Schools, PDS was established on 26 January 2006 following a successful bid to the Government, as part of a national expansion of dental student numbers in the UK. It is the first dental school to open in the U. K for three decades, the Peninsula Dental School was a member of the Dental Schools Council. Its inaugural dean was Professor Liz Kay, the Peninsula Dental School trained 64 dentists a year and offered a joint Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree through the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth. The programme was four years, designed for science graduates or health care professionals, for the first two years of the dental programme students were based mainly at the University of Plymouth. The learning emphasis was placed upon core clinical and communication skills, the programmes were provided by the University of Plymouths Faculty of Health and Social Work and Schools of the University of Exeter. The Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry was represented on the Board of PPHI, the programmes were provided by the collaborating institutions but students could take modules from more than one institution. The Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry was represented on the Board of PAHC, the official website of the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry
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Civil engineering
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Civil engineering is traditionally broken into a number of sub-disciplines. It is the second-oldest engineering discipline after military engineering, and it is defined to distinguish non-military engineering from military engineering, Civil engineering takes place in the public sector from municipal through to national governments, and in the private sector from individual homeowners through to international companies. Engineering has been an aspect of life since the beginnings of human existence, during this time, transportation became increasingly important leading to the development of the wheel and sailing. The construction of pyramids in Egypt were some of the first instances of large structure constructions, the Romans developed civil structures throughout their empire, including especially aqueducts, insulae, harbors, bridges, dams and roads. In the 18th century, the civil engineering was coined to incorporate all things civilian as opposed to military engineering. The first self-proclaimed civil engineer was John Smeaton, who constructed the Eddystone Lighthouse, in 1771 Smeaton and some of his colleagues formed the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers, a group of leaders of the profession who met informally over dinner. Though there was evidence of some meetings, it was little more than a social society. In 1818 the Institution of Civil Engineers was founded in London, the institution received a Royal Charter in 1828, formally recognising civil engineering as a profession. The first private college to teach engineering in the United States was Norwich University. The first degree in engineering in the United States was awarded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1835. The first such degree to be awarded to a woman was granted by Cornell University to Nora Stanton Blatch in 1905, throughout ancient and medieval history most architectural design and construction was carried out by artisans, such as stonemasons and carpenters, rising to the role of master builder. Knowledge was retained in guilds and seldom supplanted by advances, structures, roads and infrastructure that existed were repetitive, and increases in scale were incremental. Brahmagupta, an Indian mathematician, used arithmetic in the 7th century AD, based on Hindu-Arabic numerals, Civil engineers typically possess an academic degree in civil engineering. The length of study is three to five years, and the degree is designated as a bachelor of engineering. The curriculum generally includes classes in physics, mathematics, project management, design, after taking basic courses in most sub-disciplines of civil engineering, they move onto specialize in one or more sub-disciplines at advanced levels. In most countries, a degree in engineering represents the first step towards professional certification. After completing a degree program, the engineer must satisfy a range of requirements before being certified. Once certified, the engineer is designated as a engineer, a chartered engineer
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A multi-level stack interchange, buildings, houses, and park in
Shanghai, China.
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Philadelphia City Hall in the United States is still the world's tallest masonry load bearing structure.
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Leonhard Euler developed the theory explaining the
buckling of columns
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John Smeaton, the "father of civil engineering"
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Coastal engineering
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Coastal engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerning the specific demands posed by constructing at or near the coast, as well as the development of the coast itself. The areas of interest in engineering include the coasts of the oceans, seas, marginal seas, estuaries. The coastal environment produces challenges specific for this branch of engineering, waves, storm surges, tides, tsunamis, sea level changes, sea water, also, bathymetry and morphological changes are of direct interest. In case of studies of sediment transport and morphological changes, relevant properties of the sea bed sediments, water and ecosystem properties are needed. The occurrence of wave phenomena – like sea waves, swell, tides and tsunamis – require engineering knowledge of their physics, as well as models, the practices in present-day coastal engineering are more-and-more based on models verified and validated by experimental data. Apart from the wave transformations themselves, for the coming from deep water into the shallow coastal waters and surf zone. Threaten the stability of a dike
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Wave attack on
Ilfracombe 's
sea walls during a storm.
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Beach nourishment at the
Dutch coast.
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South Devon College
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South Devon College is a large sized further education college that provides a wide variety of courses on one of its 9 different campuses within Torbay and the surrounding area. The college is part of The University of Plymouth Colleges network, in November 2008 South Devon College achieved an overall grade 1 - Outstanding - in an inspection by OFSTED. South Devon College was also ranked the Number one Further Education, there are three campuses in Paignton. The Vantage Point Campus, is the colleges Main Campus, the Vantage point Campus includes a main, three-story building and separate buildings for automotive repair and construction. The University Centre is a showcase for Higher Education studies throughout the region, rooms also have the facility to record lectures. The campus is located at Long Road, Paignton, TQ4 7EJ, South Devon High School is based at South Devon College, Paignton Campus. The campus is located at Vantage Point, Long Road, Paignton, there are four campuses in Newton Abbot which are, The Apprenticeship, Careers and Training Centre which is open to members of the public, and provides free guidance to help you in your career. The Centre also offers an Education and Training Skills Academy and a Hair, the Hair and Beauty Skills Academy includes a hairdressing and nail salon. They offer hair and nail treatments to members of the public and they also deliver Automotive courses from Entry Level to Level 3, as well as apprenticeships. The campus is located at Bradley Lane, Newton Abbot, TQ12 1LZ, South Devon College Professional Centre Unit 1,24 Battle Road, Heathfield, Newton Abbot, TQ12 6RY. The Brunel Centre is a fully equipped training kitchen which has been purpose-built to deliver courses in the hospitality, courses covering the construction trades are also run in workshops here. The campus is located at Brunel Industrial Estate, Collett Way, Torquay has one main campus that focuses on Adult and Community Learning. The Adult Training and Development Centre is used for Adult Learning courses throughout the evening, courses include, computing and photography, craft, exercise and well-being and general interest. The campus is situated at 124 Newton Road, Torquay, TQ2 7AD, Kingswear has one campus which is based on the banks of the River Dart. South Devon College Marine Academy is a centre of excellence for marine training, the Academy boasts 2 38ft yachts,5 rigid hulled inflatable boats,2 displacement boats, workshops and research and development facilities. The location of this campus is Noss on Dart Marina, Bridge Rd, Kingswear, South Devon College website South Devon College Official Facebook Feed South Devon College Official Twitter Page
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Henning Larsen
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Henning Larsen, Hon. FAIA was a Danish architect. He is internationally known for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadh, Larsen studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, from which he graduated in 1952. He continued studies subsequently at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and his mentors included Arne Jacobsen and Jørn Utzon. Larsen founded a firm that bears his name, Henning Larsen Architects. From 1968 to 1995, he was a professor of architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, in 1985, he established the SKALA architecture gallery and the parallel SKALA architecture journal, both entities of which continued until 1994. F. En frise over Henning Larsen som menneske og arkitekt, Politikens Forlag 2000, ISBN 87-567-6551-7 Henning Larsen, kulturhistorisk testamente om Operaen, Peoples Press 2009. ISBN 978-87-7055-783-2 Henning Larsen at the archINFORM database, Henning Larsen Architects Sketches by Henning Larsen University Campus In Kolding
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Henning Larsen, 2012
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The campus center in Dragvoll
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Building Design Partnership
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BDP, formerly known as Building Design Partnership, is a firm of architects and engineers employing over 900 staff in the UK and internationally. The associates were made full equity partners in 1964, BDP was the end result of a series of experiments in profit sharing and multidisciplinary working begun by Grenfell-Baines in 1941 with the Grenfell Baines Group. A1962 policy statement committed BDP to “the principle of equal status for all professions”, the firm expanded rapidly over the following decades and had 30 partners and 700 staff by the time of Grenfell-Baines’s retirement in 1974. BDP’s principal offices, inherited from Grenfell Baines & Hargreaves, were in London, Manchester, by 1970, there were branch offices in Belfast, Glasgow and Guildford plus international offices in Memphis, Rome and Johannesburg. BDP ceased to be a partnership in 1997 and became a limited company, as of 2016 BDP was reported to be the UKs third largest architecture firm, with 950 employees. In March 2016, the Japanese engineering firm Nippon Koei bought all of the stock of BDP for a sale price of £102.2 million. Khandekar Website
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University of Surrey, Guildford (1965-68)
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Preston bus station (1968-69)
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Halifax HQ, Halifax (1973 & refurbisment 2002)
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Cribbs Causeway, Bristol (1998)
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Copper clad
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There are four main techniques used today in the UK and mainland Europe for copper cladding a building, Seamed-cladding, max 600mm by 4000mm seam centres. Shingle-cladding, max 600mm by 4000mm seam centres, slot-in panels, max 350mm wide for 1. 0mm, by nominal 4 mtr length. Cassettes, largest-format cladding elements, more subframing is needed, can be 900mm x nominal 4000mm length, when selecting size of a cladding element, take wind-loadings into account, and also consider the standard sizes available of the sheet pre-material, to minimise material wastage through off-cuts. The choice of system to use depends on the aesthetic effect required. Copper cladding is very durable, lightweight compared to materials and techniques. Depending on metal prices, copper may be a very cost-effective cladding and roofing material, typically, an installer of hard metal roofing and cladding must put in around 8–10 years on-the-job in order to achieve a respectable experience on a work site
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Harvington Parish Church, with its copper-clad spire
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Copper-clad spire at the Saïd Business School Oxford
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Coat of Arms
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A coat of arms is an heraldic visual design on an escutcheon, surcoat, or tabard. The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the heraldic achievement which in its whole consists of shield, supporters, crest. A coat of arms is traditionally unique to a person, family, state. The ancient Romans used similar insignia on their shields, but these identified military units rather than individuals, the first evidence of medieval coats of arms has been attributed to the 11th century Bayeux Tapestry in which some of the combatants carry shields painted with crosses. However, that heraldic interpretation remains controversial, coats of arms came into general use by feudal lords and knights in battle in the 12th century. By the 13th century, arms had spread beyond their initial battlefield use to become a flag or emblem for families in the social classes of Europe. Exactly who had a right to use arms, by law or social convention, in the German-speaking regions both the aristocracy and burghers used arms, while in most of the rest of Europe they were limited to the aristocracy. The use of spread to the clergy, to towns as civic identifiers. Flags developed from coats of arms, and the arts of vexillology, the coats of arms granted to commercial companies are a major source of the modern logo. Despite no widespread regulation, heraldry has remained consistent across Europe, some nations, like England and Scotland, still maintain the same heraldic authorities which have traditionally granted and regulated arms for centuries and continue to do so in the present day. In England, for example, the granting of arms is and has controlled by the College of Arms. Unlike seals and other emblems, heraldic achievements have a formal description called a blazon. Many societies exist that also aid in the design and registration of personal arms, in the heraldic traditions of England and Scotland, an individual, rather than a family, had a coat of arms. In those traditions coats of arms are legal property transmitted from father to son, wives, undifferenced arms are used only by one person at any given time. Other descendants of the bearer could bear the ancestral arms only with some difference. One such charge is the label, which in British usage is now always the mark of an apparent or an heir presumptive. Because of their importance in identification, particularly in seals on legal documents and this has been carried out by heralds and the study of coats of arms is therefore called heraldry. In time, the use of arms spread from military entities to educational institutes, the author Helen Stuart argues that some coats of arms were a form of corporate logo
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The German
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The
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The College is also the official body responsible for matters relating to the flying of flags on land, and it maintains the official registers of flags and other national symbols. Though a part of the Royal Household of the United Kingdom the College is self-financed, unsupported by any public funds, founded by royal charter in 1484 by King Richard III, the College is one of the few remaining official heraldic authorities in Europe. Within the United Kingdom, there are two authorities, the Court of the Lord Lyon in Scotland and the College for the rest of the United Kingdom. The College has had its home in the City of London since its foundation, the College of Arms also undertakes and consults on the planning of many ceremonial occasions such as coronations, state funerals, the annual Garter Service and the State Opening of Parliament. Heralds of the College accompany the sovereign on many of these occasions, the College comprises thirteen officers or heralds, three Kings of Arms, six Heralds of Arms and four Pursuivants of Arms. There are also seven officers extraordinary, who take part in ceremonial occasions but are not part of the College, the entire corporation is overseen by the Earl Marshal, a hereditary office held by the Duke of Norfolk, currently Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk. King Richard IIIs interest in heraldry was indicated by his possession of two important rolls of arms, while still Duke of Gloucester and Constable of England for his brother from 1469, he in the latter capacity supervised the heralds and made plans for the reform of their organisation. Soon after his accession to the throne he created Sir John Howard as Duke of Norfolk and Earl Marshal of England, who became the first Howard appointed to both positions. The charter then goes on to state that the heralds for the time being, shall be in perpetuity a body corporate in fact and name and this charter titled Literæ de incorporatione heraldorum is now held in the British Museum. There has been evidence that prior to this charter, the royal heralds had already in some ways behaved like a corporation as early as 1420. Nevertheless, the charter is the earliest surviving document to affirm the chapter as a body of heralds. The charter outlines the constitution of the officers, their hierarchy, the College was also granted a house named Coldharbour on Upper Thames Street in the parish of All-Hallows-the-Less, for storing records and living space for the heralds. The house, built by Sir John de Pulteney, four times Lord Mayor of London, was said to be one of the greatest in the City of London. The defeat and death of Richard III at Bosworth field was a blow for the heralds. The victorious Henry Tudor was crowned King Henry VII soon after the battle, henrys first Parliament of 1485 passed an Act of Resumption, in which large grants of crown properties made by his two predecessors to their supporters were cancelled. Whether this act affected the status of the Colleges charter is debatable, however, Henry then granted the house to his mother Lady Margaret Beaufort, for life. This was because it was supposed that the house was granted personally to John Writhe the Garter King of Arms, as a result, the heralds were left destitute and many of their books and records were lost. Despite this ill treatment from the King, the position at the royal court remained
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Depiction of King Richard III the College of Arms' founder, his wife Queen Anne Neville and their son Prince Edward, Prince of Wales with their heraldic crests and badges from the Rous Roll. A roll of arms painted by
John Rous around 1483–1485 for the
Earl of Warwick.
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Officers of the College of Arms riding in procession to the
Westminster Tournament, from a tourney roll, made during the reign of King Henry VIII in 1511. The pursuivants to the left are identified by their reversed tabards, while the figure in the right (with the black hat) is probably Garter King of Arms
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The College of Arms, as it looked in the 18th century, engraved by
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Celestial navigation
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Celestial navigation uses sights, or angular measurements taken between a celestial body and the visible horizon. The sun is most commonly used, but navigators can also use the moon, Celestial navigation is the use of angular measurements between celestial bodies and the visible horizon to locate ones position on the globe, on land as well as at sea. At a given time, any celestial body is located directly over one point on the Earths surface. The latitude and longitude of that point is known as the celestial body’s geographic position, the measured angle between the celestial body and the visible horizon is directly related to the distance between the celestial bodys GP and the observers position. Sights on two celestial bodies give two such lines on the chart, intersecting at the observers position, most navigators will use sights of three to five stars, if theyre available, since that will result in only one common intersection and minimize the chance for error. That premise is the basis for the most commonly used method of celestial navigation, there are several other methods of celestial navigation which will also provide position finding using sextant observations, such as the noon sight, and the more archaic lunar distance method. Joshua Slocum used the lunar distance method during the first ever recorded single-handed circumnavigation of the world, unlike the altitude-intercept method, the noon sight and lunar distance methods do not require accurate knowledge of time. An example illustrating the concept behind the method for determining one’s position is shown to the right. In the adjacent image, the two circles on the map represent lines of position for the Sun and Moon at 1200 GMT on October 29,2005. At this time, a navigator on a ship at sea measured the Moon to be 56 degrees above the horizon using a sextant, ten minutes later, the Sun was observed to be 40 degrees above the horizon. Lines of position were calculated and plotted for each of these observations. Since both the Sun and Moon were observed at their respective angles from the location, the navigator would have to be located at one of the two locations where the circles cross. In this case the navigator is either located on the Atlantic Ocean, about 350 nautical miles west of Madeira, or in South America, about 90 nautical miles southwest of Asunción, Paraguay. In most cases, determining which of the two intersections is the one is obvious to the observer because they are often thousands of miles apart. As it is unlikely that the ship is sailing across South America, note that the lines of position in the figure are distorted because of the map’s projection, they would be circular if plotted on a globe. Accurate angle measurement evolved over the years, one simple method is to hold the hand above the horizon with ones arm stretched out. The need for accurate measurements led to the development of a number of increasingly accurate instruments, including the kamal, astrolabe. Navigators measure distance on the globe in degrees, arcminutes and arcseconds, a nautical mile is defined as 1852 meters, but is also one minute of angle along a meridian on the Earth
Celestial navigation
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A
sextant
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Pilgrim (Plymouth Colony)
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The Pilgrims or Pilgrim Fathers were early European settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. The Pilgrims held Calvinist religious beliefs similar to the Puritans but, unlike many Puritans, the colony was established in 1620 and became the second successful English settlement in North America. While seeking religious freedom for their own group, the Pilgrims exhibited intolerance to other faiths, the Pilgrims story became a central theme of the history and culture of the United States. By this time, non-English European colonization of the Americas was also under way in New Netherland, New France, Essequibo, Colonial Brazil, Barbados, the Viceroyalty of Peru, and New Spain. This congregation held Separatist beliefs comparable to nonconforming movements led by Robert Browne, John Greenwood, William Brewster, a former diplomatic assistant to the Netherlands, was living in the Scrooby manor house, serving as postmaster for the village and bailiff to the Archbishop of York. He had been impressed by Clyftons services, and had begun participating in Separatist services led by John Smyth in Gainsborough. The Separatists had long been controversial, under the 1559 Act of Uniformity, it was illegal not to attend official Church of England services, with a fine of one shilling for each missed Sunday and holy day. The penalties for conducting unofficial services included imprisonment and larger fines, under the policy of this time, Barrowe and Greenwood were executed for sedition in 1593. During much of Brewsters tenure, the Archbishop was Matthew Hutton, but the Papistes are opposite and contrarie in very many substantiall pointes of religion, and cannot but wishe the Popes authoritie and popish religion to be established. Following the Conference in 1605, Clyfton was declared a nonconformist, Brewster invited Clyfton to live at his home. Upon Huttons death in 1606, Tobias Matthew was appointed as his replacement, disobedient clergy were replaced, and prominent Separatists were confronted, fined, and imprisoned. He is credited with driving out of the country, those who refused to attend Anglican services. At about the time, Brewster arranged for a congregation to meet privately at the Scrooby manor house. Services were held beginning in 1606, with Clyfton as pastor, John Robinson as teacher, shortly thereafter, Smyth and members of the Gainsborough group moved on to Amsterdam. Brewster is known to have been fined £20 in absentia for his non-compliance with the church and this followed his September 1607 resignation from the postmaster position, about the time that the congregation had decided to follow the Smyth party to Amsterdam. Scrooby member William Bradford of Austerfield kept a journal of the events that later was published as Of Plymouth Plantation. They lived in Leiden, Holland, a city of 100,000 inhabitants, the success of the congregation in Leiden was mixed. Leiden was an industrial center, and many members were well able to support themselves working at Leiden University or in the textile, printing
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"The Embarkation of the Pilgrims" (1857) by the American painter
Robert Walter Weir at the
Brooklyn Museum in
New York City
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Model of a typical
merchantman of the period, showing the cramped conditions that had to be endured.
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Landing of the Pilgrims by
Michele Felice Cornè, circa 1805. Displayed in the
White House
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Ministry of Jesus &
Apostolic Age
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Barbican, Plymouth
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The Barbican is the name given to the western and northern sides of Sutton Harbour, the original harbour of Plymouth in Devon, England. It was one of the few parts of the city to escape most of the destruction of The Blitz during World War II, two or three streets still retain some of the architecture of an old fishing port. The Barbican has the largest concentration of cobbled streets in Britain, the present Barbican district is generally regarded as being roughly equivalent to the location and size of the medieval walled town of Sutton. For centuries the Barbican was home to Plymouths fish market and is home to many fishermen. One of the oldest streets in Plymouth running north from the Barbican is now called New Street, however many old and significant buildings were demolished during the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries. The Plymouth Gin Distillery has been producing Plymouth Gin since 1793, during the 1930s, it was the most widely distributed gin and has a protected designation of origin. The Barbican also contains a variety of shops and businesses - including the Barbican Theatre, retail art galleries, the Plymouth Gin Distillery, the Barbican boasts some underground culture, from live music to Stone Soup Story Tellers evenings and festivals. In the same year, the 1890s Victorian fish market at the end of Southside St was closed. This has been successful and the auctions are some of the busiest on the south coast. There is much activity around the quay as trawlers and small fishing boats arrive to offload their catches. During the last two decades accelerating developments have taken place around most of Sutton Pool area, there has also been adverse comment about the recent extension of the many marina pontoons severely limiting the area of open water
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The Barbican waterfront, although currently this area is covered with enclosed seating and umbrellas.
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The National Marine Aquarium.
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The Plymouth Gin Distillery.
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Mayflower
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The Mayflower was the ship that transported the first English Separatists, known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth, England to the New World in 1620. There were 102 passengers, and the crew is estimated to have been about 30 and this voyage has become an iconic story in some of the earliest annals of American history, with its story of death and of survival in the harsh New England winter environment. The culmination of the voyage in the signing of the Mayflower Compact was an event which established a form of democracy. There was a ship named Mayflower that made the London to Plymouth. This was the cause of the voyage from England to America taking more than two months. The Mayflowers return trip to London in April–May 1621 took less than half that time, by 1620, the Mayflower was aging, nearing the end of the usual working life of an English merchant ship in that era, some 15 years. No dimensions of her hull can be stated exactly, since this was years before such measurements were standardized. She probably measured about 100 feet in length from the end at the beak of her prow to the tip of her stern superstructure aft. She was about 25 feet at her widest point, with the bottom of her keel about 12 feet below the waterline, although William Bradford was not a mariner, he estimated that Mayflower had a cargo capacity of 180 tons. What is known on the basis of surviving records from that time is that she could certainly accommodate 180 casks of wine in her cargo hold, the casks were great barrels that each held hundreds of gallons of claret wine. This was a ship that traditionally was heavily armed while on trading routes around Europe, due to the possibility of encountering pirates, and with its armament, the ship and crew could easily be conscripted by the English monarch at any time in case of conflict with other nations. The general layout of the ship was as follows, Three masts, mizzen, main, and fore, Three primary levels, main deck, gun deck, and cargo hold. Aft on the deck in the stern was the cabin for Master Christopher Jones. Forward of that was the room, which housed a whipstaff for sailing control, not a wheel. Also here was the compass and probably also berths for the ships officers. Forward of the room was the capstan, a vertical axle used to pull in ropes or cables. Far forward on the deck, just aft of the bow, was the forecastle space where the ships cook prepared meals for the crew. The poop deck was above the cabin of Master Jones, on the ships highest level above the stern on the aft castle, the poop house was on this deck, which may have been for passengers use either for sleeping or cargo
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Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by
William Halsall (1882)
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Mayflower arrived in
the "Cape Cod fishhook", 11 November 1620 (satellite photo, 1997)
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Plaque on the side of a building next to Newlyn Old Quay
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The Mayflower Memorial in
Southampton
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Golden Hind
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Golden Hind was an English galleon best known for her privateering circumnavigation of the globe between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake. She was originally known as Pelican, but was renamed by Drake mid-voyage in 1578, in honour of his patron, Sir Christopher Hatton, Hatton was one of the principal sponsors of Drakes world voyage. The queens support was advantageous, Drake had official approval to benefit himself and this would eventually culminate in the Anglo–Spanish War. Before setting sail, Drake met the queen face-to-face for the first time and she said to him, the explicit object was to find out places meet to have traffic. Drake, however, acted as a privateer, with support from Queen Elizabeth. Drake commissioned his flagship in Plymouth, the keel was registered in 1575. The majority of the work was done in 1576, and it was completed early the next year and it is described as a mid 16th century warship during the transition from the carrack to the galleon, and displaced about 100 tons. He first named his flagship the Pelican, but renamed it the Golden Hind on 20 August 1578 to honor his patron, Sir Christopher Hatton and he set sail in December 1577 with five small ships, manned by 164 men, and reached the Brazilian coast in early 1578. On 1 March 1579, now in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Ecuador and this galleon had the largest treasure captured to that date, over 360,000 pesos. The six tons of treasure took six days to transship and included 26 tons of silver, half a ton of gold, porcelain, jewellery, coins, there she shrewdly asked the French ambassador to bestow a knighthood on Drake. Her share of the came to at least £160,000, enough to pay off her entire government debt. Her return and that of other investors came to more than £47 for every £1 invested, after Drakes circumnavigation, the Golden Hind was maintained for public exhibition at the dockyard at Deptford, London. The ship remained there from 1580 to approximately 1650 before she eventually rotted away and was broken up. A table, known as the cupboard, in the Middle Temple Hall is also reputed to have made from the wood of Golden Hind. Upon the cupboard is placed the roll of members of Middle Temple, the ships lantern was hung in the vestibule of Middle Temple Hall but was destroyed during the Second World War. A replica of Golden Hind was constructed at Peter Pans Playground, Southend-on-Sea and it was constructed from 1947 and opened in 1949 together with a waxworks. It was popular at first, but by 1992 attendances had dropped, the ship was replaced by a replica of Blackbeards Queen Annes Revenge. This ship was demolished in 2013, the replica ship used in the TV series cost £25,000 to construct and had no rear gallery
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New Albion. Sir Francis Drake's ship "Golden Hind" - painting by
Simon Kozhin (2008)
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Golden Hind at Deptford 1581
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The first replica in
Brixham, 1968
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The second replica in
Brixham
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Sir Francis Drake
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Sir Francis Drake, vice admiral was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. With his incursion into the Pacific he inaugurated an era of privateering, Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588 and he died of dysentery in January 1596 after unsuccessfully attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico. His exploits made him a hero to the English but a pirate to the Spaniards, King Philip II was said to have offered a reward of 20,000 ducats, about £4 million by modern standards, for his life. Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon, England, although his birth is not formally recorded, it is known that he was born while the Six Articles were in force. Drake was two and twenty when he obtained the command of the Judith and this would date his birth to 1544. A date of c.1540 is suggested from two portraits, one a miniature painted by Nicholas Hilliard in 1581 when he was allegedly 42 and he was the eldest of the twelve sons of Edmund Drake, a Protestant farmer, and his wife Mary Mylwaye. The first son was alleged to have named after his godfather Francis Russell. Because of religious persecution during the Prayer Book Rebellion in 1549, there the father obtained an appointment to minister the men in the Kings Navy. He was ordained deacon and was vicar of Upnor Church on the Medway. Drakes father apprenticed Francis to his neighbour, the master of a used for coastal trade transporting merchandise to France. The ship master was so satisfied with the young Drakes conduct that, being unmarried and childless at his death, Francis Drake married Mary Newman in 1569. She died 12 years later, in 1581, in 1585, Drake married Elizabeth Sydenham—born circa 1562, the only child of Sir George Sydenham, of Combe Sydenham, who was the High Sheriff of Somerset. After Drakes death, the widow Elizabeth eventually married Sir William Courtenay of Powderham. At age 23, Drake made his first voyage to the Americas, sailing with his cousin, Sir John Hawkins, on one of a fleet of ships owned by his relatives. In 1568 Drake was again with the Hawkins fleet when it was trapped by the Spaniards in the Mexican port of San Juan de Ulúa, following the defeat at San Juan de Ulúa, Drake vowed revenge. He made two voyages to the West Indies, in 1570 and 1571, of which little is known, in 1572, he embarked on his first major independent enterprise. He planned an attack on the Isthmus of Panama, known to the Spanish as Tierra Firme and the English as the Spanish Main
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Sir Francis Drake in
Buckland Abbey 16th century, oil on canvas, by
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
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Portrait miniature by
Nicholas Hilliard, 1581, reverse of "Drake Jewel", inscribed Aetatis suae 42, An(n)o D(omi)ni 1581 ("42 years of his age, 1581 AD")
Sir Francis Drake
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A replica of the
Golden Hind
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The journey of Francis Drake up the Pacific Coast in 1579, artist's impression
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Mark Twain
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter and he later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, the short story brought international attention and was even translated into classic Greek. His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. He filed for bankruptcy in the wake of financial setbacks. He chose to pay all his creditors in full, even though he had no legal responsibility to do so. Twain was born shortly after an appearance of Halleys Comet, and he predicted that he would go out with it as well and he was lauded as the greatest American humorist of his age, and William Faulkner called him the father of American literature. His parents met when his father moved to Missouri, and they were married in 1823, Twain was of Cornish, English, and Scots-Irish descent. Only three of his siblings survived childhood, Orion, Henry, and Pamela and his sister Margaret died when Twain was three, and his brother Benjamin died three years later. His brother Pleasant died at six months of age, slavery was legal in Missouri at the time, and it became a theme in these writings. His father was an attorney and judge, but he died of pneumonia in 1847, the next year, Twain left school after the fifth grade to become a printers apprentice. In 1851, he working as a typesetter, contributing articles and humorous sketches to the Hannibal Journal. He educated himself in libraries in the evenings, finding wider information than at a conventional school. Twain describes his boyhood in Life on the Mississippi, stating there was but one permanent ambition among his comrades. Pilot was the grandest position of all, the pilot, even in those days of trivial wages, had a princely salary – from a hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars a month, and no board to pay. As Twain describes it, the pilots prestige exceeded that of the captain, bixby took Twain on as a cub pilot to teach him the river between New Orleans and St. Louis for $500, payable out of Twains first wages after graduating. It was more than two years before he received his pilots license, piloting gave also him his pen name from mark twain, the leadsmans cry for a measured river depth of two fathoms, which was safe water for a steamboat
Mark Twain
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Mark Twain, detail of photo by
Mathew Brady, February 7, 1871
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Samuel L. Clemens stamp, 1940
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Samuel Clemens, age 15
Mark Twain
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Library of
Twain House, with hand-stenciled paneling, fireplaces from India, embossed wallpapers, and hand-carved mantel purchased in Scotland
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Letters Patent
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Letters patent can be used for the creation of corporations or government offices, or for the granting of city status or a coat of arms. Letters patent are issued for the appointment of representatives of the Crown, such as governors and governors-general of Commonwealth realms, in the United Kingdom they are also issued for the creation of peers of the realm. A particular form of letters patent has evolved into the modern patent granting exclusive rights in an invention. e, the opposite of letters patent are letters close, which are personal in nature and sealed so that only the recipient can read their contents. Letters patent are thus comparable to other kinds of open letter in that their audience is wide, letters patent are so named from the Latin verb pateo, to lie open, exposed, accessible. The originators seal was attached pendent from the document, so that it did not have to be broken in order for the document to be read. Thus letters patent do not equate to a letter but rather to any form of document, deed, contract, letter, despatch, edict, decree. Letters patent are a form of open or public proclamation and an exercise of extra-parliamentary power by a monarch or president. Prior to the establishment of Parliament, the monarch ruled absolutely by the issuing of his written orders. They can thus be contrasted with the Act of Parliament, which is in effect an order by Parliament. No explicit government approval is contained within letters patent, only the seal or signature of the monarch, in their original form they were simply written instructions or orders from the sovereign, whose order was law, which were made public to reinforce their effect. According to the United Kingdom Ministry of Justice, there are 92 different types of letters patent. The Patent Rolls are made up of copies of English royal letters patent. In 1634, during the Thirty Years War, the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II became convinced that his general Albrecht von Wallenstein was plotting treason, on 24 January 1634 the Emperor signed a secret patent removing him from his command. Finally an open patent, charging Wallenstein with high treason, was signed on 18 February, in the patent, Ferdinand II ordered to have Wallenstein brought under arrest to Vienna, dead or alive. On the basis of patent, several of Wallensteins officers assassinated him and were rewarded by the Emperor. The form of patent for creating peerages has been fixed by the Crown Office Order 1992. Part III of the schedule lays down nine pro forma texts for creating various ranks of the peerage, lords of appeal in ordinary, gender-specific differences are highlighted in italics. In Commonwealth realms, letters patent are issued under the powers of the head of state
Letters Patent
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Letters patent issued by
Queen Victoria in 1900, creating the office of
Governor-General of Australia as part of the process of
Federation
Letters Patent
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Letters patent issued by the United States
General Land Office
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Eric Dancer
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Sir Eric Dancer KCVO CBE KStJ is a British businessman and formerly Lord-Lieutenant of Devon. Dancer was born in Sheffield in 1940, after moving to Devon in 1980 he attained the Diploma in Company Direction at Exeter University. His career has been in industry, with over 30 years at Board level of which the last 20 were as Managing Director of Dartington Crystal, prior to his retirement in 2000. In 1998 he was appointed Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Devon, in 2001 he received an Honorary Doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University and in 2002 was commissioned Honorary Captain Royal Naval Reserve. Honorary Doctorates of Law and Business were conferred by Exeter and Plymouth Universities respectively in 2010,15 June 1991 - Dancer was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1991 for services to business and training. Sir Eric Dancer was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Business from Plymouth University, Sheffield Hallam link Devon County Council
Eric Dancer
Eric Dancer
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Lord Lieutenant
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The Lord-Lieutenant is the British monarchs personal representative in each county of the United Kingdom. Historically, the Lord-Lieutenant was responsible for organising the militia but it is today a largely ceremonial position. Lieutenants were first appointed to a number of English counties by King Henry VIII in the 1540s and he raised and was responsible for the efficiency of the local militia units of the county, and afterwards of the yeomanry, and volunteers. He was commander of forces, whose officers he appointed. Lieutenancies soon became more organised, probably in the reign of his successor King Edward VI, however, it was not until the threat of invasion by the forces of Spain in 1585 that lieutenants were appointed to all counties and counties corporate and became in effect permanent. Although not explicitly stated, from that date lieutenants were appointed to counties at large, the origin of this anomaly may have lain in the former palatine status of Pembrokeshire. The City of London was uniquely given a commission of lieutenancy, an Act to make the Militia of this Kingdom more useful was passed by the Parliament of Ireland in 1715. The lieutenants were empowered to embody militia regiments, in 1921, with the establishment of Northern Ireland, lord-lieutenants continued to be appointed through the Governor of Northern Ireland to the six counties and two county boroughs. By the Militia Act 1797, the lieutenants appointed for the Counties, Stewartries, Cities, the Lord Provosts of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Dundee are, by virtue of office, also the Lord-Lieutenant of their respective city. The Militia Act 1802 provided for the appointment of lieutenants to Lieutenants for the Counties, Ridings, and Places in England and Wales, and gave them command of the county militia. In the case of towns or cities which were counties of themselves, the Militia Act 1882 revested the jurisdiction of the lieutenants in the crown. Counties for lieutenancy purposes were also redefined as a county at large, the text of the letters patent appointing lieutenants under the act stated they were to be. Haverfordwest was permitted to retain a lieutenant while the Tower Hamlets, from 1889 lieutenancy counties in England and Wales were to correspond to groupings of administrative counties and county boroughs established by the Local Government Act 1888. The creation of a new County of London also led to the ending of the Tower Hamlets lieutenancy, the Act also extinguished the lieutenancy of the Cinque Ports. Section 69 of the Local Government Act 1898 realigned the lieutenancy counties with the new counties created by the Act. The one exception was County Tipperary, which administered by two county councils, was to remain united for lieutenancy. In contrast to the legislation in England and Wales, each county borough was to have its own lieutenant, and those counties corporate not made county boroughs were abolished. The effect of this was to create a lieutenant for the county boroughs of Belfast and Londonderry, the office of lieutenant was honorary, and held during the royal pleasure, but virtually for life
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The uniform of an English Lord-Lieutenant includes a rose-and-crown badge on the cap and shoulder-boards
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Banner flown by Lords Lieutenant in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
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Lord Lieutenant, full dress uniform (early 20th century)
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Henry Paston-Bedingfeld
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Sir Henry Edgar Paston-Bedingfeld, 10th Baronet is a retired King-at-Arms of the College of Arms in London and former member of the Royal Household, he is also a baronet. Paston-Bedingfeld is the son of Sir Edmund Paston-Bedingfeld, 9th Baronet of Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk. He succeeded to the title upon his fathers death on 24 May 2011. He was educated at Ampleforth College, then an independent school in Ampleforth. Paston-Bedingfeld served as Norroy and Ulster King of Arms, the junior of the two provincial Kings-at-Arms with jurisdiction over the north of England and Ulster, between 2010 and 2014 and he had previously been York Herald since 1993 and prior to that Rouge Croix Pursuivant from 1983. He married, in 1968, Mary Kathleen daughter of Brigadier Robert Ambrose CIE OBE MC, Sir Henry and Lady Paston-Bedingfeld have two sons and two daughters, their elder son, Richard is heir apparent to the baronetcy. scriveners. org. uk
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Sir Henry Paston-Bedingfeld wearing his
ceremonial tabard during an annual
Garter Service at St George's Windsor
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York Herald
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York Herald of Arms in Ordinary is an officer of arms at the College of Arms. These fees included the Manor of Bayhall in Pembury, Kent, and 8 pounds,6 shillings, the badge of office is the white rose of York en soleil ensigned by the Royal Crown. Parentheses indicate a date or approximate date for which there is evidence that the person was holder of this office. The reigning monarch is given if the date is not known more precisely, 1509-1513 William Writhe or Wriothesley, Esq. Concurrently held the office of Carolina Herald, FAS 1820-1842 Charles George Young, Esq. FSA 1872-1886 John von Sonnentag de Havilland, Esq, FSA 1886-1904 Sir Alfred Scott Scott-Gatty, KCVO, KStJ, FSA 1904-1905 George William Marshall, Esq. LLD, FSA 1905-1922 Gordon Ambrose de Lisle Lee, Esq, CB, CVO 1923-1932 Hon. Philip Plantagenet Cary, FSA 1932-1957 Aubrey John Toppin, Esq. CVO, FSA 1957-1968 Charles Murray Kennedy St Clair, 17th Lord Sinclair, CVO 1968-1992 Sir Conrad Marshall John Fisher Swan, KCVO, PhD, FSA 1992-1993 Peter Brotherton Spurrier, 1993-2010 Sir Henry Edgar Paston-Bedingfeld, Bt. 2010-2012 Vacant 2012- Michael Peter Desmond ODonoghue, Esq
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The
heraldic badge of York Herald of Arms in Ordinary
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Judith Wilcox, Baroness Wilcox
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Judith Ann Wilcox, Baroness Wilcox is a Conservative member of the House of Lords. From May 2010 to September 2012 she had been a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Business, Innovation and she used to run a family business in Devon and was chair of the National Consumer Council from 1990 to 1996. On 16 January 1996, she was made a peer as Baroness Wilcox. Between 1997 and 2006 she held a director position on the board of Cadbury Schweppes. Baroness Wilcox is a Trustee of the Community of St Mary the Virgin, one of the oldest surviving Religious Communities in the Church of England
Judith Wilcox, Baroness Wilcox
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The Baroness Wilcox
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Planetary Collegium
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The Planetary Collegium is an international research platform that promotes the integration of art, science, technology, and consciousness research, under the rubric of technoetic arts. It is based in Plymouth University, the Collegiums Hub is the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Integrative Arts, and it has nodes in Lucerne, Trento, and Shanghai. The founding President is Professor Roy Ascott, cAiiA-STAR constituted a joint research platform, with access to supervisory and technical resources of both universities. Since its inception, over 80 doctoral candidates have graduated from the programme with the Plymouth University PhD, the Collegium seeks outcomes that involve new language, systems, structures, and behaviours, and insights into the nature of mind, matter and human identity. Their doctoral research leads to the award of the University of Plymouth PhD, the hub of the Collegium, CAiiA-Hub is situated in the School of Art and Media, Faculty of Arts, Plymouth University. Its Nodes are T-Node in Trento, De Tao-Node in Shanghai, the programme, which is largely part-time, has a virtually 100% success rate, with well over 80 doctoral graduates. facebook. The Collegium was awarded The World Universities Forum Award for Best Practice in Higher Education 2011, Roy Ascott, Founding President, and Director of the CAiiA-Hub. 2014 Recipient of the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica Award for Visionary Pioneer of New Media Art, doctor Honoris Causa, Ionian University, Corfu,2016. Honorary Fellows of the Collegium Marco Bischof James Gimzewski Pierre Lévy Luis Eduardo Luna Roger Malina Ryohei Nakatsu F. David Peat Louise Poissant Thomas S, facing Experience, A Painter’s Canvas In Virtual Reality Dolinsky, Margaret, PhD Plymouth University. Interactive Technologies for the Public Sphere Toward a Theory of Critical Creative Technology Jennings, hypermedia Systems, the creation and interpretation of concept-based art. The Kinesfield, study of movement-based interactive and choreographic art, Art and Technology, coherence, connectedness, and the integrative field Nobrega, Carlos Augusto Moreira PhD Plymouth University. Outline of a Subversive Technopoetic, for a Libertarian Pedartgogy, monico, Francesco PhD Plymouth University A Procedural Model For Integrating Physical And Cyberspaces In Architecture. Networked Public Spaces, An Investigation into Virtual Embodiment, vesna, Victoria PhD University of Wales. Strategies for Interactive Public Art, Dynamic Mapping with PhD Plymouth University, rogala, Miroslaw PhD University of Wales. The Hybronaut and the Umwelt, Wearable Technology as Artistic Strategy Beloff, Image and Evidence, The Study of Attention through the Combined Lenses of Neuroscience and Art. Levy, Ellen K PhD Plymouth University, Life Expansion, Toward an Artistic, Design-Based Theory of the Transhuman / Posthuman. Polyphibianism, Evolving Transdisciplinarity into an Imaginary Organism of Living Knowledge, ballengée, Brandon ( PhD Plymouth University. Creating Complexity through Interaction, the Application of Complex System and Origin of Life Theory to Interactive Art Works, diffracting Representation, Towards A Situated Aesthetics Of Technospaces Timeto, Federica PhD Plymouth University
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Planetary Collegium logo
Planetary Collegium
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Artspace Media Centre,
Dublin (1997)
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History
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New media art
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The term differentiates itself by its resulting cultural objects and social events, which can be seen in opposition to those deriving from old visual arts. New Media Art often involves interaction between artist and observer or between observers and the artwork, which responds to them, such insights emphasize the forms of cultural practice that arise concurrently with emerging technological platforms, and question the focus on technological media, per se. The origins of new media art can be traced to the moving photographic inventions of the late 19th century such as the zoetrope, in 1958 Wolf Vostell becomes the first artist who incorporates a television set into one of his works. This installation is part of the collection of the Berlinische Galerie, a. Michael Noll, and multimedia performances of E. A. T. In 1983, Roy Ascott introduced the concept of distributed authorship in his worldwide telematic project La Plissure du Texte for Frank Poppers Electra at the Musée dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Simultaneously advances in biotechnology have allowed artists like Eduardo Kac to begin exploring DNA. Influences on new media art have been the theories developed around interaction, hypertext, databases, important thinkers in this regard have been Vannevar Bush and Theodor Nelson, whereas comparable ideas can be found in the literary works of Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and Julio Cortázar. These elements have been especially revolutionary for the field of narrative and anti-narrative studies, leading explorations into areas such as non-linear and this should be taken into account in examining the several themes addressed by new media art. This is a key concept since people acquired the notion that they were conditioned to view everything in a linear, now, art is stepping out of that form and allowing for people to build their own experiences with the piece. Non-linearity describes a project that escape from the linear narrative coming from novels, theater plays. Non-linear art usually requires audience participation or at least, the fact that the visitor is taken into consideration by the representation, altering the displayed content. The participatory aspect of new art, which for some artists has become integral, emerged from Allan Kaprows Happenings and became with Internet. Art is not produced as a completed object submitted to the audience appreciation, many new media art projects also work with themes like politics and social consciousness, allowing for social activism through the interactive nature of the media. One of the key themes in new art is to create visual views of databases. Pioneers in this area include Lisa Strausfeld, Martin Wattenberg and Alberto Frigo, the emergence of 3D printing has introduced a new bridge to new media art, joining the virtual and the physical worlds. The rise of technology has allowed artists to blend the computational base of new media art with the traditional physical form of sculpture. A pioneer in this field was artist Jonty Hurwitz who created the first known anamorphosis sculpture using this technique, currently, research projects into New media art preservation are underway to improve the preservation and documentation of the fragile media arts heritage. In New Media programs, students are able to get acquainted with the newest forms of creation and communication, New Media students learn to identify what is or isnt new about certain technologies
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Eduardo Kac 's installation "Genesis"
Ars Electronica 1999
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Newskool ASCII Screenshot with the words “Closed Society II”
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10.000 moving cities,
Marc Lee, 2013,
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul, Korea
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World Skin (1997),
Maurice Benayoun 's Virtual Reality Interactive Installation
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The Sun (United Kingdom)
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The Sun is a tabloid published in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Since The Sun on Sunday was launched in February 2012, the paper has been a seven-day operation, as a broadsheet, it was founded in 1964 as a successor to the Daily Herald, it became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owners. It is published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, the Sun had the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the United Kingdom, but in late 2013 slipped to second largest Saturday newspaper behind the Daily Mail. It had a daily circulation of 2.2 million copies in March 2014. Approximately 41% of readers are women and 59% are men, the Sun has been involved in many controversies in its history, including its coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster. Regional editions of the newspaper for Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are published in Glasgow, Belfast, on 26 February 2012, The Sun on Sunday was launched to replace the closed News of the World, employing some of its former journalists. Roy Greenslade issued some caveats over the May 2015 figures, the Sun was first published as a broadsheet on 15 September 1964, with a logo featuring a glowing orange disc. It was launched by owners IPC to replace the failing Daily Herald, the new paper was intended to add a readership of social radicals to the Heralds political radicals. Supposedly there was an immense, sophisticated and superior class, hitherto undetected and yearning for its own newspaper. As delusions go, this was in the El Dorado class, launched with an advertising budget of £400,000, the brash new paper burst forth with tremendous energy, according to The Times. Its initial print run of 3.5 million was attributed to curiosity and the advantage of novelty, by 1969, according to Hugh Cudlipp, The Sun was losing about £2m a year and had a circulation of 800,000. Seizing the opportunity to increase his presence on Fleet Street, he made an agreement with the print unions and he assured IPC that he would publish a straightforward, honest newspaper which would continue to support Labour. IPC, under pressure from the unions, rejected Maxwells offer and he would later remark, I am constantly amazed at the ease with which I entered British newspapers. Murdoch found he had such a rapport with Larry Lamb over lunch that other potential recruits as editor were not interviewed, Lamb wanted Bernard Shrimsley to be his deputy, which Murdoch accepted as Shrimsley had been the second name on his list of preferences. Lamb hastily recruited a staff of about 125 reporters, who were selected for their availability rather than their ability. This was about a quarter of what the Mirror then employed, Murdoch immediately relaunched The Sun as a tabloid, and ran it as a sister paper to the News of the World. The Sun used the printing presses, and the two papers were managed together at senior executive levels. The new tabloid Sun was first published on 17 November 1969, with a front page headlined HORSE DOPE SENSATION, an editorial on page 2 announced, Todays Sun is a new newspaper
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Front page of The Sun, October 2013, which was criticised by
Mind and
Rethink Mental Illness, two mental health charities
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"Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster", 13 March 1986
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The Sun 's front page on 19 April 1989. The allegations were later proven to be entirely false, with the Sun later admitting their decision to publish the allegations was the "blackest day in this newspaper's history."
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Poster urging the Liverpool public not to purchase The Sun.
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Surfing
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Surfing is a surface water sport in which the wave rider, referred to as a surfer, rides on the forward or deep face of a moving wave, which is usually carrying the surfer towards the shore. Waves suitable for surfing are primarily found in the ocean, however, surfers can also utilize artificial waves such as those from boat wakes and the waves created in artificial wave pools. The term surfing refers to the act of riding a wave, regardless of whether the wave is ridden with a board or without a board, and regardless of the stance used. The native peoples of the Pacific, for instance, surfed waves on alaia, paipo, and other such craft, and did so on their belly and knees. The modern-day definition of surfing, however, most often refers to a riding a wave standing up on a surfboard. Another prominent form of surfing is body boarding, when a surfer rides a wave on a bodyboard, either lying on their belly, drop knee, other types of surfing include knee boarding, surf matting, and using foils. Body surfing, where the wave is surfed without a board, using the surfers own body to catch, recently with the use of V-drive boats, Wakesurfing, in which one surfs on the wake of a boat, has emerged. For centuries, surfing was a part of ancient Polynesian culture. Surfing may have first been observed by British explorers at Tahiti in 1767, samuel Wallis and the crew members of the Dolphin who were the first Britons to visit the island in June of that year. Another candidate is the botanist Joseph Banks being part of the first voyage of James Cook on the HMS Endeavour, who arrived on Tahiti on 10 April 1769. Lieutenant James King was the first person to write about the art of surfing on Hawaii when he was completing the journals of Captain James Cook upon Cooks death in 1779. When Mark Twain visited Hawaii in 1866 he wrote, In one place we came upon a company of naked natives. In July 1885, three teenage Hawaiian princes took a break from their school, St. Mathew’s Hall in San Mateo. George Freeth is often credited as being the Father of Modern Surfing and he is thought to have been the first modern surfer. In 1907, the interests of the land baron Henry E. Huntington brought the ancient art of surfing to the California coast. While on vacation, Huntington had seen Hawaiian boys surfing the island waves, looking for a way to entice visitors to the area of Redondo Beach, where he had heavily invested in real estate, he hired a young Hawaiian to ride surfboards. George Freeth decided to revive the art of surfing, but had success with the huge 16-foot hardwood boards that were popular at that time. When he cut them in half to them more manageable, he created the original Long board
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A surfer at the Cayucos Pier,
Cayucos, California
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Surfing on the
Gold Coast, Queensland Australia
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Synchronised surfing, Manly Beach, New South Wales, 1938–46
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A surfer wipes out
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Maritime Studies
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Seamanship is the art of operating a ship or boat. The degree of knowledge needed within these areas is dependent upon the nature of the work, navigation is the art and science of safely and efficiently directing the movements of a vessel from one point to another. Piloting uses water depth and visible references, while dead reckoning uses courses and distances from the last known position, more than just finding a vessels present location, safe navigation includes predicting future location, route planning and collision avoidance. Nautical navigation in western nations, like air navigation, is based on the nautical mile, navigation also includes electronics such as GPS and Loran. Celestial navigation involves taking sights by sextant on the planets, moon, stars, sun and using the data with a nautical almanac, accurate time information is also needed. After nautical dusk, navigation at sea referencing the horizon is no longer possible, a fundamental skill of professional seamanship is being able to maneuver a vessel with accuracy and precision. Unlike vehicles on land, a ship afloat is subject to the movements of the air around it, another complicating factor is the mass of a ship that has to be accounted for when stopping and starting. Ship-handling is about arriving and departing a berth or buoy, maneuvering in confined channels and harbours and in proximity to other ships, two other types of operations, berthing alongside another ship and replenishment at sea, are occasionally included. Fundamental to low-speed maneuvering is an understanding of the configuration and handedness of the propeller, thus to put the vessel into astern mode the rudder can be rotated through 180 degrees without altering the speed and direction of the engine. Since with the propeller or rudder configuration the propeller is designed to operate at maximum efficiency when going ahead. But with the Kortz Nozzle, the ahead and astern thrust is the same, most commercial vessels in excess of size limits determined by local authorities are handled in confined areas by a marine pilot. Marine pilots are seafarers with extensive seafaring experience and are usually qualified master mariners who have trained as expert ship-handlers. These pilots are conversant with all types of vessel and propulsion systems, as well as handling ships of all sizes in all weather and they are also experts in the geographical areas they work. In most countries, the pilot takes over the conduct of the navigation from the ship master and this means that the master and crew should adhere to the pilots orders in respect of the safe navigation of the vessel when in a compulsory pilotage area. The master may with good cause resume conduct of the vessels navigation, however this should never be done lightly. In situations where the pilot is an advisor even though he has the con, the master, upon realizing there is a dangerous situation developing, must take such action as to avoid an accident or at least to minimize the damage from one that cant be avoided. In some countries and areas, the role is as an advisor. However, in practice, they are likely to have the conduct of the vessel, especially on larger ships using tug boats to assist
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Sailors aboard
USS San Antonio handle
mooring lines.
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An able-bodied seaman climbs a
kingpost to perform maintenance aboard a general
cargo ship or
freighter.
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Princess Cruises
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Princess Cruises is a cruise line based in Santa Clarita, California, in the United States and incorporated in Bermuda. It is part of Holland America Group, which controls the three Carnival brands based on the West Coast of the United States, the lines ships cruise worldwide and are marketed to both American and international passengers. The company was famous by The Love Boat TV series, in which its ship. In 1969, the Princess Italia was used on Alaskan cruises from San Francisco, but by 1973, the charter was canceled, Princesss third charter ship was none other than Costas Carla C. Originally, Compagnie Générale Transatlantiques SS Flandre, the ship had been purchased by Costa in the late 1960s and given a major rebuilding. The two ships that were to be featured heavily in the television series The Love Boat were built in 1971 at Nordseewerke for Flagship Cruises and originally named the Sea Venture and Island Venture. In 1974, P&O purchased them for their Princess division, and they served as the Island Princess and she was initially based in Australia as a P&O ship until 1981 when her role there was taken over by the Oriana. After that, she alternated between P&O and Princess colours as she moved between fleets, the Sea Princess returned to the P&O UK fleet permanently and in 1995 and was renamed MV Victoria to allow a then-new Princess ship to be named Sea Princess. The ship served in P&O Cruises fleet as the Artemis until 2011, the Swan Hellenic Cruiseship Minerva II, originally built as the Renaissance Cruises R8 was renamed Royal Princess in 2007 after an extensive refit during a drydock in Gibraltar. In 1986, P&O Princess Cruises acquired Tour Alaska, which operated on the Alaska Railroad, based in Anchorage, Alaska, Princess Tours now operates ten luxury railcars with full-service scenic tours of Denali and can accommodate over 700 passengers per day. P&O Princess Cruises acquired Sitmar Line in 1988 and transferred all of its tonnage to Princess. The Dawn Princess and Fair Princess were both ex-Cunard, and the former Sitmar Fairsky became Princesss Sky Princess, the first of the three new Sitmar ships came into the Princess brand in 1989 as the Star Princess, the largest British exclusively cruising ship. Two 70,000 grt cruise ships entered service in 1990 as the Crown Princess and Regal Princess, Princess Cruises was involved in litigation with General Electric in 1998 over consequential damages and lost profits resulting from a contract the two parties entered into. General Electric was to provide inspection and repair services upon the SS Sky Princess, upon noticing surface rust on the turbine rotor, the vessel was brought ashore for cleaning and balancing, but good metal was unintentionally removed. This destabilized the rotor, forcing Princess Cruises to cancel two 10-day cruises while additional work was performed, Princess originally prevailed, being awarded nearly $4.6 million. On appeal, however, the judgement was reversed in favor of General Electric, on October 23,2000, the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company spun-off its passenger division to form an independent company, P&O Princess Cruises. The company subsequently merged with Carnival Corporation on April 17,2003, as a result of the merger, Carnival Corporation and P&O Princess were integrated to form Carnival Corporation & plc, with a portfolio of eleven cruise ship brands. It is a company, registered in both the United States and the United Kingdom, with the former P&O Princess Cruises being relisted as Carnival plc
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Princess Cruises headquarters in
Santa Clarita
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Royal Princess
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Regal Princess
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Grand Princess
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University of Exeter
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The University of Exeter is a public research university located in Exeter, Devon, South West England, United Kingdom. In post-nominals, the University of Exeter is abbreviated as Exon. and is the given to honorary. The university has four campuses, Streatham and St Lukes, and Truro, the university is centred in the city of Exeter, Devon, where it is the principal higher education institution. Streatham is the largest campus containing many of the administrative buildings. The Penryn campus is maintained in conjunction with Falmouth University under the Combined Universities in Cornwall initiative, the university was named the Sunday Times University of the Year in 2013 and was the Times Higher Education University of the Year in 2007. Exeter has maintained a top ten position in the National Student Survey since the survey was launched in 2005, for 2015-16, Exeter had a turnover of £371.5 million, including £61.4 million from research grants and contracts. Exeter is a member of the Russell Group of leading research-intensive UK universities, the university is also a member of Universities UK, the European University Association, and the Association of Commonwealth Universities and is an accredited institution of the Association of MBAs. The universitys origins can be traced back to three educational institutions that existed in the city of Exeter and in Cornwall in the middle of the nineteenth century. To celebrate the educational and scientific work of Prince Albert, and inspired by the Great Exhibition of 1851, Exeter School of Art in 1855, in 1900 its official title was changed to the Royal Albert Memorial College and the college moved to Bradninch Place in Gandy Street. As was customary for new university institutions in England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, alderman W H Reed, a former mayor of Exeter, donated Streatham Hall on the Streatham Estate to the new University College in 1922. Streatham Hall was renamed to Reed Hall after its benefactor, at the same time, the first principal of the University College, later Sir Hector Hetherington, persuaded the Council of the College to buy a major portion of the Streatham Estate. A slow move to the Streatham Estate from the centre of the city occurred over time, the building was opened in 1931. The first of the halls of residence, Mardon Hall. Roborough Library was completed around 1939, Queen Elizabeth II presented the Charter to the university on a visit to Streatham the following year. The university underwent a period of expansion in the 1960s. These included homes for the Chemistry and Physics departments, the Newman, Laver and Engineering Buildings, queens Building had been opened for the Arts Faculty in 1959 and the Amory Building, housing Law and Social Sciences, followed in 1974. In the following two decades, considerable investment was made in developing new self-catering accommodation for students, gifts from the Gulf States made it possible to build a new university library in 1983 and more recently have allowed for the creation of a new Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. A further major donation enabled the completion of the Xfi Centre for Finance, since 2009, significant further investment has been made into new student accommodation, new buildings in The Business School, and the Forum, a new development for the centre of Streatham Campus
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University of Exeter
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Bradninch Place, original site of the University College of the South West of England
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Reed Hall, Streatham Campus
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North Cloisters, St Luke's Campus
