Recent Education Lists
2. The University of Al-Karaouine - Fes, Morocco. Founded in 859
3. Al-azhar University - Cairo, Egypt. It opened its doors in 975.
4. University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. The first university in the western world was founded in 1088.
5. The University of Paris - Paris, France. An exact date is uncertain, but it was sometime around 1150.
1. Steve Jobs, Stanford University, 2005
2. Mumia Abu-Jamal, Evergreen College, 1999
3. Fred Rogers, West Virginia University, 1995
4. Russell Baker, Connecticut College, 1995
5. Neil Diamond, NYU, 1995
6. Ali G, Harvard (Class Day), 2004
2. Get and Stay Organized.
3. Be On Time.
4. Take Good Notes.
5. Establish Your Learning Style.
1. The Indispensable Comma
2. The Underused Semicolon
3. Chatty Quotation Marks
4. The Much-Abused Apostrophe
5. The Helpful Hyphen
Arithmetic
1. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold? 3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50cts/bushel, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
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U.S. History
5. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided
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Orthography
9. What is meant by the following: alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, and syllabication.
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Geography
10. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
1. In recorded history, bananas date back to around 600 B.C.E., when they were mentioned in Buddhist texts.
2. Bananas came to the Americas in the 15th century but weren’t regularly imported to the United States until later, following their showcase at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition.
3. On average, American consumers eat 30 pounds of bananas a year. [This article was written by Jeff Fleischer, and originally appeared in the July-August 2006 issue of mental_floss magazine.
7. Badger
8. Gong Farmer
9. Fuller
10. Bullocky
9. Georgia
8. Auburn
7. UCLA
6. South Carolina
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# 2: The brain uses content-addressable memory
# 3: The brain is a massively parallel machine; computers are modular and serial
# 4: Processing speed is not fixed in the brain; there is no system clock
# 5 - Short-term memory is not like RAM
