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Kathy Wilkes

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Kathleen Vaughan Wilkes (23 June 1946 – 21 August 2003) was an English philosopher and academic who played an important part in rebuilding the education systems of former Communist countries after 1990. [1]

33 relations: Channel 4, College Girls, Croatia, Croatian War of Independence, Cyril Alington, Dubrovnik, Eastbourne, Eton College, Iron Curtain, Jan Hus Educational Foundation, John Vaughan Wilkes, Julius Tomin, King's College, Cambridge, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, Philosophy of mind, Prague, Princeton University, Radley College, Richard Rorty, Roger Scruton, Samizdat, Siege of Dubrovnik, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, St Cyprian's School, St Hilda's College, Oxford, St Hugh's College, Oxford, Thomas Nagel, University of Zagreb, Václav Havel, William Newton-Smith, Wycombe Abbey, Yugoslav People's Army, Zhiguli (car brand).

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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College Girls

College Girls is a Channel 4 documentary series, first transmitted in the United Kingdom from 8 September 2002.

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Croatia

Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea.

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Croatian War of Independence

The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY)—and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and local Serb forces, with the JNA ending its combat operations in Croatia by 1992.

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Cyril Alington

Cyril Argentine Alington (22 October 1872 – 16 May 1955) was an English educationalist, scholar, cleric, and prolific author.

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Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik (historically Ragusa) is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea.

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Eastbourne

Eastbourne is a town, seaside resort and borough in the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex on the south coast of England, east of Brighton.

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Eton College

Eton College is an English independent boarding school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, near Windsor.

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Iron Curtain

The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.

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Jan Hus Educational Foundation

The Jan Hus Educational Foundation was founded in May 1980 by a group of British philosophers at the University of Oxford.

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John Vaughan Wilkes

John Comyn Vaughan Wilkes (30 March 1902 – 24 January 1986) was an English educationalist, who was Warden of Radley College and an Anglican priest.

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Julius Tomin

Julius Tomin (born 2 December 1938) is a Czech philosopher.

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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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Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Marlow (historically Great Marlow or Chipping Marlow) is a town and civil parish within Wycombe district in south Buckinghamshire, England.

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Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind.

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Prague

Prague (Praha, Prag) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, the 14th largest city in the European Union and also the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Radley College

Radley College (formally St Peter's College, Radley) is a boys' independent boarding school near Radley, Oxfordshire, England, which was founded in 1847.

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Richard Rorty

Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher.

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Roger Scruton

Sir Roger Vernon Scruton (born 27 February 1944) is an English philosopher and writer who specialises in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative views.

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Samizdat

Samizdat was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader.

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Siege of Dubrovnik

The Siege of Dubrovnik (Opsada Dubrovnika, Blokada Dubrovnika) was a military engagement fought between the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and Croatian forces defending the city of Dubrovnik and its surroundings during the Croatian War of Independence.

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Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia or SFRY) was a socialist state led by the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, that existed from its foundation in the aftermath of World War II until its dissolution in 1992 amid the Yugoslav Wars.

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St Cyprian's School

St Cyprian's School was an English preparatory school for boys, which operated in the early 20th century in Eastbourne, East Sussex.

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St Hilda's College, Oxford

St Hilda's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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St Hugh's College, Oxford

St Hugh's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.

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Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel (born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher and University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University, where he taught from 1980 to 2016.

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University of Zagreb

The University of Zagreb (Sveučilište u Zagrebu,; Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis) is the largest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of Southeastern Europe.

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Václav Havel

Václav Havel (5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, writer and former dissident, who served as the last President of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first President of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003.

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William Newton-Smith

William Herbert Newton-Smith (born May 25, 1943) is a Canadian philosopher of science.

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Wycombe Abbey

Wycombe Abbey is an independent girls' boarding school in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Yugoslav People's Army

The Yugoslav People's Army (Jugoslovenska narodna armija / Југословенска народна армија / Jugoslavenska narodna armija; also Yugoslav National Army), often referred-to simply by the initialism JNA, was the military of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

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Zhiguli (car brand)

Zhiguli was a brand of cars manufactured in Russia and the Soviet Union by AvtoVAZ during 1970-2012 and somewhat longer in some places abroad.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Wilkes

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