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Girton College, Cambridge

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Girton College is one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. [1]

125 relations: A14 road (England), Academic dress of the University of Cambridge, Adelaide Manning, Aftermath of World War II, Alfred Waterhouse, Allies and Morrison, Amnesty International, Ancient Egypt, Anglo-Saxons, Anno Domini, Argent, Arianna Huffington, Australia, Barbara Bodichon, Bendigo, Bertha Swirles, Bipolar Sunshine, Black squirrel, Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Brickwork, British undergraduate degree classification, Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society, Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge), Chancel, Charlotte Manning, Church of England, Churchill College, Cambridge, Civic Trust Awards, Clare College, Cambridge, Classical antiquity, Classical Tripos, Colleges of the University of Cambridge, Common Room (university), Compline, Crescent, Cross fleury, Daphne Todd, David Roberts (architect), Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, Doctor of Law, Edward Earle Dorling, Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, Emily Davies, England, Ermine (heraldry), Evening Prayer (Anglican), Fayum mummy portraits, Fellow, Flag of Wales, Flinders Petrie, ..., Formal (university), George V, Girton College Boat Club, Girton Grammar School, Girton, Cambridgeshire, Go (game), Golden jubilee, Gules, Gym, Harpsichord, Harrison & Harrison, Hawara, Henrietta Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley, Henry Dillon, 13th Viscount Dillon, Henry Sidgwick, Hisako, Princess Takamado, Hitchin, Honours degree, HuffPost, Huntingdon Road, It's a Long Way to Tipperary, Joan Robinson, Julia Morgan Hall, King's College, Cambridge, Legal person, Lent term, List of Jordanian consorts, Louisa Lumsden, Malcolm Guite, Margaret Meyer, Margrethe II of Denmark, Marilyn Strathern, Master (college), Mathematical Tripos, May Ball, Michaelmas term, Millwall F.C., Mixed-sex education, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Newnham College, Cambridge, No one likes us, we don't care, North West Cambridge development, Parapet, Paul Waterhouse, Phil Hammond, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Research fellow, Rosalyn Higgins, Baroness Higgins, Roundel, Royal Institute of British Architects, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Sandi Toksvig, Sarah Woodhead, SCONUL, Sobek, Society for Promoting the Employment of Women, Somerville College, Oxford, Steinway & Sons, Susan J. Smith, Tanagra figurine, The British Grenadiers, The Englishwoman's Review, Tinchy Stryder, Tompkins Table, Trinity College, Cambridge, Tripos, University of California, Berkeley, University of Cambridge, University of Roehampton, Vert (heraldry), Victorian architecture, Whitelands College, Women's college, Yes Minister. Expand index (75 more) »

A14 road (England)

The A14 is a trunk road in England, running from the Port of Felixstowe, Suffolk to its western end at the Catthorpe Interchange; a major intersection at the southern end of the M6 and junction 19 of the M1 in Leicestershire.

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Academic dress of the University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge has a long tradition of academic dress, which it traditionally refers to as academical dress.

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Adelaide Manning

Elizabeth Adelaide Manning (1828 – 10 August 1905) was a British writer and editor.

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Aftermath of World War II

The Aftermath of World War II was the beginning of an era defined by the decline of all great powers except for the Soviet Union and the United States, and the simultaneous rise of two superpowers: the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States of America (USA).

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Alfred Waterhouse

Alfred Waterhouse (19 July 1830 – 22 August 1905) was an English architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival architecture.

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Allies and Morrison

Allies and Morrison is an architecture and urban planning practice based in London and Cambridge.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a London-based non-governmental organization focused on human rights.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River - geographically Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt, in the place that is now occupied by the countries of Egypt and Sudan.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.

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Anno Domini

The terms anno Domini (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used to label or number years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

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Argent

In heraldry, argent is the tincture of silver, and belongs to the class of light tinctures called "metals." It is very frequently depicted as white and usually considered interchangeable with it.

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Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington (née Stasinopoúlou; born Αριάδνη-Άννα Στασινοπούλου, July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Barbara Bodichon

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (8 April 1827 – 11 June 1891) was an English educationalist and artist, and a leading mid-19th-century feminist and women's rights activist.

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Bendigo

Bendigo is a city in Victoria, Australia, located very close to the geographical centre of the state and approximately north west of the state capital, Melbourne.

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Bertha Swirles

Bertha Swirles, Lady Jeffreys (22 May 1903 – 18 December 1999) was a British physicist who carried out research on quantum theory, particularly in its early days.

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Bipolar Sunshine

Adio Marchant (born September 24, 1987), known professionally as Bipolar Sunshine, is an American–British singer from Manchester, England.

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Black squirrel

The black squirrel occurs as a "melanistic" subgroup of both the eastern gray squirrel and the fox squirrel.

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Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond

Brenda Marjorie Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, (born 31 January 1945) is a British judge and the current President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

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Brickwork

Brickwork is masonry produced by a bricklayer, using bricks and mortar.

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British undergraduate degree classification

The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading structure for undergraduate degrees (bachelor's degrees and integrated master's degrees) in the United Kingdom.

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Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society

The Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society was formed as the result of the merger in 1957 of a previous Heraldic Society (founded 1948) with the Cambridge University Society of Genealogists (founded 1954).

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Centre for Mathematical Sciences (Cambridge)

The Centre for Mathematical Sciences (CMS) at the University of Cambridge houses the university's Faculty of Mathematics, the Isaac Newton Institute, and the Betty and Gordon Moore Library.

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Chancel

In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building.

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Charlotte Manning

Charlotte Manning (née Solly; 30 March 1803 – 1 April 1871) was a British feminist, scholar and writer.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Churchill College, Cambridge

Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.

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Civic Trust Awards

Civic Trust Awards is a Community Interest Company founded in June 2009 following the closure of the Civic Trust charity earlier that year.

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Clare College, Cambridge

Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

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Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity (also the classical era, classical period or classical age) is the period of cultural history between the 8th century BC and the 5th or 6th century AD centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, collectively known as the Greco-Roman world.

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Classical Tripos

The Classical Tripos is the taught course in classics at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.

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Colleges of the University of Cambridge

This is a list of the colleges within the University of Cambridge.

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Common Room (university)

In some universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland — particularly collegiate universities such as Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, Durham, York, Kent and Lancaster— students and the academic body are organised into a common room, or at Cambridge a combination room.

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Compline

Compline, also known as Complin, Night Prayer, or the Prayers at the End of the Day, is the final church service (or office) of the day in the Christian tradition of canonical hours.

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Crescent

A crescent shape (British English also) is a symbol or emblem used to represent the lunar phase in the first quarter (the "sickle moon"), or by extension a symbol representing the Moon itself.

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Cross fleury

A cross fleury (or flory) is a cross adorned at the ends with flowers in heraldry.

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Daphne Todd

Daphne Todd OBE (born 27 March 1947) is an English artist who was the first female President of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters from 1994–2000, and who won the BP Portrait Award 2010 with a painting of her 100-year-old mother's corpse.

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David Roberts (architect)

David Wyn Roberts (1911 in Cardiff, Wales – 8 November 1982) was a British architect and educator, who designed more university buildings for Cambridge University than any other architect.

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Dina bint Abdul-Hamid

Sharifa Dina bint Abdul-Hamid (دينا بنت عبد الحميد; born 15 December 1929) is the former Queen of Jordan as the first wife of King Hussein.

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Doctor of Law

Doctor of Law or Doctor of Laws is a degree in law.

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Edward Earle Dorling

The Reverend Edward Earle Dorling (5 May 1863 – 26 October 1943) was a priest of the Church of England, archaeologist, historian, and notable writer on heraldry.

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Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean

Elizabeth Conway Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, PC (born 14 April 1951) is a British politician and former General Secretary of the FDA Trade Union and a Minister of State.

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Emily Davies

Sarah Emily Davies (22 April 1830 – 13 July 1921) was an English feminist and suffragist, and a pioneering campaigner for women's rights to university access.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Ermine (heraldry)

Ermine in heraldry is a "fur", a type of tincture, consisting of a white background with a pattern of black shapes representing the winter coat of the stoat (a species of weasel with white fur and a black-tipped tail).

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Evening Prayer (Anglican)

Evening Prayer is a liturgy in use in the Anglican tradition celebrated in the late afternoon or evening.

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Fayum mummy portraits

Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits (also Faiyum mummy portraits) is the modern term given to a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to Egyptian mummies from Roman Egypt.

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Fellow

A fellow is a member of a group (or fellowship) that work together in pursuing mutual knowledge or practice.

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Flag of Wales

The flag of Wales (Baner Cymru or Y Ddraig Goch, meaning the red dragon) consists of a red dragon passant on a green and white field.

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Flinders Petrie

Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, FRS, FBA (3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942), commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts.

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Formal (university)

Formal Hall or Formal Meal is a meal held at some of the oldest universities in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland (as well as some other Commonwealth countries) at which students usually dress in formal attire and often gowns to dine.

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George V

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

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Girton College Boat Club

Girton College Boat Club is the rowing club for members of Girton College, Cambridge.

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Girton Grammar School

Girton Grammar School is an independent co-educational school from Prep to Year 12 located in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.

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Girton, Cambridgeshire

Girton is a village and civil parish of about 1,600 households, and 4,500 people in Cambridgeshire, England.

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Go (game)

Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players, in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent.

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Golden jubilee

A golden jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 50th anniversary.

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Gules

In heraldry, gules is the tincture with the colour red, and belongs to the class of dark tinctures called "colours." In engraving, it is sometimes depicted as a region of vertical lines or else marked with gu. as an abbreviation.

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Gym

A gymnasium, also known as a gym, is a covered location for gymnastics, athletics, and gymnastic services.

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Harpsichord

A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard which activates a row of levers that in turn trigger a mechanism that plucks one or more strings with a small plectrum.

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Harrison & Harrison

Harrison & Harrison Ltd are a British company that make and restore pipe organs, based in Durham and established in 1861.

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Hawara

Hawara is an archaeological site of Ancient Egypt, south of the site of Crocodilopolis ('Arsinoe', also known as 'Medinet al-Faiyum') at the entrance to the depression of the Fayyum oasis.

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Henrietta Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley

Henrietta Maria Stanley, Baroness Stanley of Alderley (née Dillon-Lee; 21 December 1807 – 16 February 1895), was a Canadian-born political hostess and campaigner for the education of women in England.

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Henry Dillon, 13th Viscount Dillon

Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee, 13th Viscount Dillon (28 October 1777 – 24 July 1832) was an Irish peer, writer and MP for Harwich and for County Mayo.

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Henry Sidgwick

Henry Sidgwick (31 May 1838 – 28 August 1900) was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist; he held the Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy from the year 1883 until his death.

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Hisako, Princess Takamado

, born on 10 July 1953, is a member of the Japanese Imperial Family as the widow of Norihito, Prince Takamado.

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Hitchin

Hitchin is a market town in the North Hertfordshire District in Hertfordshire, England, with an estimated population of 33,350.

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Honours degree

The term "honours degree" (or "honors degree") has various meanings in the context of different degrees and education systems.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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Huntingdon Road

Huntingdon Road is a major arterial road linking central Cambridge, England with Junction 14 of the M11 motorway and the A14 northwest from the city centre.

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It's a Long Way to Tipperary

"It's a Long Way to Tipperary" is a British music hall song written by Jack Judge and co-credited to Henry James "Harry" Williams.

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Joan Robinson

Joan Violet Robinson FBA (31 October 1903 – 5 August 1983), previously Joan Violet Maurice, was a British economist well known for her wide-ranging contributions to economic theory.

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Julia Morgan Hall

Julia Morgan Hall (formerly Girton Hall) is a historic building in the University of California Botanical Garden in Berkeley, California.

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King's College, Cambridge

King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

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Legal person

A legal person (in legal contexts often simply person, less ambiguously legal entity) is any human or non-human entity, in other words, any human being, firm, or government agency that is recognized as having privileges and obligations, such as having the ability to enter into contracts, to sue, and to be sued.

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Lent term

Lent term named for Lent, the 6-week fasting period before Easter, is the name of the winter academic term at the following British universities.

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List of Jordanian consorts

This is a list of the women who have been queen consort of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan since the sultanate was elevated to the status of a kingdom in 1949.

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Louisa Lumsden

Dame Louisa Innes Lumsden (31 December 1840 – 2 January 1935) born in Aberdeen, Scotland, was a pioneer of female education.

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Malcolm Guite

Ayodeji Malcolm Guite (born 12 November 1957) is an English poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest, and academic.

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Margaret Meyer

Margaret Theodora Meyer (September 1862 – 27 January 1924), also known as Maud Meyer was a British mathematician.

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Margrethe II of Denmark

Margrethe II (Margrethe 2.,; Margreta 2.; Margrethe II; full name: Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid; born 16 April 1940) is the Queen of Denmark; as well as the supreme authority of the Church of Denmark and Commander-in-Chief of the Danish Defence.

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Marilyn Strathern

Dame Ann Marilyn Strathern, DBE (née Evans; born 6 March 1941) is a British anthropologist, who has worked largely with the natives of Papua New Guinea and dealt with issues in the UK of reproductive technologies.

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Master (college)

A Master (more generically called a Head of House or Head of College) is the head or senior member of a college within a collegiate university, principally in the United Kingdom.

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Mathematical Tripos

The Mathematical Tripos is the mathematics course that is taught in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.

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May Ball

A May Ball is a ball at the end of the academic year that takes place at any of the colleges of the University of Cambridge.

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Michaelmas term

Michaelmas term is the first academic term of the academic year in a number of English-speaking universities and schools in the northern hemisphere, especially in the United Kingdom.

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Millwall F.C.

Millwall Football Club is a professional football club in Bermondsey, South East London, England.

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Mixed-sex education

Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together.

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Murray Edwards College, Cambridge

Murray Edwards College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge

The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, also known as MAA, at the University of Cambridge houses the University's collections of local antiquities, together with archaeological and ethnographic artefacts from around the world.

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Newnham College, Cambridge

Newnham College is a women-only constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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No one likes us, we don't care

"No one likes us, we don't care" is a football chant which originated with the supporters of Millwall Football Club in the late seventies.

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North West Cambridge development

The North West Cambridge development is a University of Cambridge site to the north west of Cambridge city centre in England.

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Parapet

A parapet is a barrier which is an extension of the wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure.

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Paul Waterhouse

Paul Waterhouse, (29 October 1861 – 19 December 1924), was a British architect.

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Phil Hammond

Philip James Hammond (born 1 January 1962) is a physician, broadcaster, comedian and commentator on health issues in the United Kingdom.

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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was the wife of King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.

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Research fellow

A research fellow is an academic research position at a university or a similar research institution, usually for academic staff or faculty members.

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Rosalyn Higgins, Baroness Higgins

Rosalyn C. Higgins, Baroness Higgins, DBE, QC (born 2 June 1937, London) is a former President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

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Roundel

A roundel is a circular disc used as a symbol.

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Royal Institute of British Architects

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its charter granted in 1837 and Supplemental Charter granted in 1971.

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Royal Society of Portrait Painters

The Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP) is an art society based at Carlton House Terrace, SW1, London.

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Sandi Toksvig

Sandra Birgitte "Sandi" Toksvig, (born 3 May 1958) is a British-Danish comedian, writer, actor, presenter and producer on British radio and television, and political activist.

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Sarah Woodhead

Sarah Woodhead (1851–1912) was the first woman to sit and pass a Tripos examination at Cambridge University.

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SCONUL

SCONUL (Society of College, National and University Libraries) is the membership organisation for all academic and national libraries in the UK and Ireland.

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Sobek

Sobek (also called Sebek, Sochet, Sobk, and Sobki), in Greek, Suchos (Σοῦχος) and from Latin Suchus, was an ancient Egyptian deity with a complex and fluid nature.

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Society for Promoting the Employment of Women

The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (SPEW) was one of the earliest British women's organisations.

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Somerville College, Oxford

Somerville College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Steinway & Sons

Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway, is an American-German piano company, founded in 1853 in Manhattan, New York City, the United States, by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway).

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Susan J. Smith

Susan Jane Smith, MA, DPhil (Oxon), FBA, FAcSS, FRSE is a British geographer and academic.

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Tanagra figurine

The Tanagra figurines were a mold-cast type of Greek terracotta figurines produced from the later fourth century BCE, primarily in the Boeotian town of Tanagra.

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The British Grenadiers

"The British Grenadiers" is a traditional marching song of British and Canadian military units whose badge of identification features a grenade, the tune of which dates from the 17th century.

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The Englishwoman's Review

The Englishwoman's Review was a feminist periodical published in England between 1866 and 1910.

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Tinchy Stryder

Kwasi Danquah, better known by his stage name Tinchy Stryder (born 14 September 1987) and also as The Star in the Hood, is a Ghanaian-British rapper, singer, entrepreneur and investor.

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Tompkins Table

The Tompkins Table is an annual ranking that lists the Colleges of the University of Cambridge in order of their undergraduate students' performances in that year's examinations.

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Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.

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Tripos

At the University of Cambridge, a Tripos (plural 'Triposes') is any of the undergraduate examinations that qualify an undergraduate for a bachelor's degree or the courses taken by an undergraduate to prepare.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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University of Roehampton

The University of Roehampton, formerly Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, is a public university in the United Kingdom, situated on three major sites in Roehampton, south-west London.

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Vert (heraldry)

In classical heraldry, vert is the name of the tincture roughly equivalent to the colour "green".

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Victorian architecture

Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century.

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Whitelands College

Whitelands College is the oldest of the four constituent colleges of the University of Roehampton.

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Women's college

Women's colleges in higher education are undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations are composed exclusively or almost exclusively of women.

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Yes Minister

Yes Minister is a political satire British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted on BBC Two from 1980 to 1984, split over three seven-episode series.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girton_College,_Cambridge

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