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    The Floating Freedom School was an educational facility for free and enslaved African Americans on a steamboat on the Mississippi River. It was established...
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  • Freedom Ship is a floating city project initially proposed in the late 1990s by engineer Norman Nixon. The namesake of the project reflects the designer's...
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    John Berry Meachum (category American school principals)
    school in the church's basement. Meachum also circumvented a Missouri state law banning education for black people by creating the Floating Freedom School...
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    Louis to care for his family. Turner attended John Berry Meachum's Floating Freedom School on a steamboat on the Mississippi River, which Meachum had set...
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    his school out of St. Louis, Missouri when that state passed an anti-literacy law in 1847, and re-established it as the Floating Freedom School on a...
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  • illegal schools in cities such as Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Charleston, Richmond, and Atlanta. John Berry Meachum, a black pastor, who created a Floating Freedom...
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    1854, Anderson operated the floating Freedom School, after its founder John Berry Meachum's death, and he lobbied for schools for black children. He worked...
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  • of physicians and introducing a system of vouchers for school education. Capitalism and Freedom was published nearly two decades after World War II, a...
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  • closer to their homes. In 1847, the school was closed by the police. Meachum then opened the Floating Freedom School on a steamboat on the Mississippi River...
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    fauna; and erotica. The term ukiyo-e (浮世絵) translates as 'picture[s] of the floating world'. In 1603, the city of Edo (Tokyo) became the seat of the ruling...
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    March 2020. "Inquiry". eFOI - Electronic Freedom of Information. 12 August 2020. "DOLE allows workers on 'floating status' for a year". CNN Philippines....
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    A submerged floating tunnel (SFT), also known as submerged floating tube bridge (SFTB), suspended tunnel, or Archimedes bridge, is a proposed design for...
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    November 23–29 (floating Friday) – day after Thanksgiving All California state holidays (schools closed) January 23 – Ed Roberts Day (schools open, but with...
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    The Gaza floating pier was a floating dock facility created by the U.S. military after being proposed immediately before U.S. President Biden's 2024 State...
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  • team First Chief Directorate, a KGB intelligence organ Floating car data, also known as floating cellular data Forum for Democratic Change, a political...
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    Colonialism Space colonization Colonization of Antarctica Floating cities and islands in fiction Freedom Ship List of largest cruise ships Ocean development...
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    Free-floating intellectuals or free-floating intelligentsia (German: Freischwebende Intelligenz) is a term from the sociology of knowledge that was used...
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    School, Beit Dajan School, Ali Bin Abi Talib School, Shujayea Basic School, Abbas Secondary School, Jamal Abd el Nasser School, Moaz Bin Jabal School...
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    Peter Thiel (category Stanford Law School alumni)
    October 2014. Retrieved 22 October 2014. Gelles, David (13 November 2017). "Floating Cities, No Longer Science Fiction, Begin to Take Shape". The New York Times...
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    are also state holidays. Five of the "floating" date holidays always fall on a Monday; the remaining floating holiday, Thanksgiving, is always on a Thursday...
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    impact in Gaza Evacuations Gaza Strip evacuations Humanitarian crisis Gaza floating pier Healthcare collapse Premature baby crisis Famine Societal breakdown...
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    agribulks and coal to timber and steel. Swansea Docks consists of three floating docks and a ferry terminal. Fastnet Line operated a Swansea Cork Ferry...
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  • On 10 August 2024, Israel struck the Al-Tabaeen school located in eastern Gaza City, which was hosting displaced Palestinians seeking shelter there during...
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  • On 9 July 2024, the Israeli Defense Forces bombed Al-Awda school in Abasan al-Kabira near the city of Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. The UNRWA-ran...
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    Milton Friedman (category Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients)
    In his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman advocated policies such as a volunteer military, freely floating exchange rates, abolition of medical...
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    Freedom balloon was a Rozière balloon designed and built by Donald Cameron and Tim Cole. In 2002 solo pilot Steve Fossett flew the Spirit of Freedom to...
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  • The Khadija School airstrike by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) occurred on 26 July 2024 during the Israel–Hamas war in the central region of Gaza, specifically...
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  • Defense Forces bombed the UN-run Al-Jawni school in the Nuseirat refugee camp of central Gaza. The school had been sheltering people displaced by the...
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  • Israel conducted two airstrikes on the al-Fakhoora school in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, which was being used as a shelter by...
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    dynamic choice (3x, Porteus '60), markets and bureaucracies (5x, Ouchi '61), floating point computation (Walther, '62), heart physiology (3x, Lederer '65), assay...
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