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Mills College

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Mills College is a liberal arts and sciences college located in the San Francisco Bay Area. [1]

97 relations: Alvin Curran, Anthony Braxton, Bancroft Library, Barbara M. White, Benicia, California, Cal Grant, California, California Historical Landmark, Catherine Wagner (artist), Chris Brown (composer), Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges, Council of Independent Colleges, Darius Milhaud, Dave Brubeck, Diego Rivera, Doctor of Education, Don Buchla, Ellen Spertus, Environmentally friendly, FAFSA, Fred Frith, Frederic Rzewski, Genderqueer, Gordon Mumma, Graduate school, Great South Athletic Conference, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Henri Matisse, Iannis Xenakis, Joanna Newsom, Julia Morgan, Julia Morgan School for Girls, Juliana Spahr, Julie Chen (book artist), Kathryn Reiss, Latin, Laurie Anderson, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, Leon Kirchner, Liberal arts colleges in the United States, List of Mills College honorary degree recipients, List of Presidents of Mills College, Lou Harrison, Luciano Berio, Lynn Townsend White Jr., Maggi Payne, Master of Arts, Master of Business Administration, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Management, ..., Master of Public Policy, Master's degree, Mississippi River, Molissa Fenley, Morton Subotnick, Mount Holyoke College, Municipal corporation, National Collegiate Athletic Association, National Register of Historic Places, NCAA Division III, Noah Georgeson, Nonviolence, Oakland, California, Oberlin College, Oberlin Group, Pablo Picasso, Pauline Oliveros, Phil Lesh, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Postbaccalaureate program, Pran Nath (musician), Private university, Rembrandt, Rocky Mountains, Roscoe Mitchell, San Francisco Bay Area, Steve Reich, Strike action, Susan Tolman Mills, Teaching credential, Terry Riley, The Princeton Review, Transgender, U.S. News & World Report, Undergraduate education, United States, University of Massachusetts Press, Urban area, West Africa, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, William Joseph McInnes Botanic Garden and Campus Arboretum, Winslow Homer, Women's colleges in the United States, World's Columbian Exposition, Yoruba, Zeena Parkins, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Expand index (47 more) »

Alvin Curran

Alvin Curran (born December 13, 1938) is an American composer.

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Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist who is known in the genre of free jazz.

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Bancroft Library

The Bancroft Library in the center of the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is the university's primary special-collections library.

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Barbara M. White

Barbara McClure White is a former ambassador and president of Mills College.

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Benicia, California

Benicia is a waterside city in Solano County, California, located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Cal Grant

Cal Grant is a financial aid program administrated by the California Student Aid Commission (CSAC) providing aid to California undergraduates, vocational training students, and those in teacher certification programs.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California Historical Landmark

California Historical Landmarks (CHLs) are buildings, structures, sites, or places in the U.S. state of California that have been determined to have statewide historical landmark significance.

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Catherine Wagner (artist)

Catherine Wagner is an American conceptual artist whose process involves the investigation of what art critic David Bonetti called "the systems people create, our love of order, our ambition to shape the world, the value we place on knowledge, and the tokens we display to express ourselves." Wagner has created large-scale, site-specific public artworks for the cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose, and Kyoto, Japan.

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Chris Brown (composer)

ÂÂChris Brown (born 1989) is an American composer, pianist and electronic musician, who creates music for acoustic instruments with interactive electronics, for computer networks, and for improvising ensembles.

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Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges

The Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC) is a nonprofit organization of 70 American liberal arts colleges which formed in 1984 under the leadership of Oberlin College's president S. Frederick Starr.

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Council of Independent Colleges

The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) is an association in the United States of more than 650 independent, liberal arts colleges and universities and more than 100 higher education affiliates and organizations that work together to strengthen college and university leadership, sustain high-quality education, and enhance private higher education’s contributions to society.

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Darius Milhaud

Darius Milhaud (4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher.

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Dave Brubeck

David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz.

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Diego Rivera

Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter.

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Doctor of Education

The Doctor of Education (EdD or DEd; Latin Educationis Doctor or Doctor Educationis) is a doctoral degree that has a research focus in the field of education.

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Don Buchla

Donald "Don" Buchla (April 17, 1937 – September 14, 2016) was an American pioneer in the field of sound synthesizers, releasing his first units shortly after Robert Moog's first synthesizers.

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Ellen Spertus

Ellen Spertus is a Professor of Computer Science at Mills College, Oakland, California, United States, and a former senior research scientist at Google.

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Environmentally friendly

Environmentally friendly or environment-friendly, (also referred to as eco-friendly, nature-friendly, and green) are sustainability and marketing terms referring to goods and services, laws, guidelines and policies that claim reduced, minimal, or no harm upon ecosystems or the environment.

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FAFSA

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is a form that can be prepared annually by current and prospective college students (undergraduate and graduate) in the United States to determine their eligibility for student financial aid.

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Fred Frith

Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improvisor.

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Frederic Rzewski

Frederic Anthony Rzewski (born April 13, 1938 in Westfield, Massachusetts) is an American composer and virtuoso pianist.

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Genderqueer

Genderqueer, also known as non-binary, is a catch-all category for gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminineidentities which are outside the gender binary and cisnormativity.

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Gordon Mumma

Gordon Mumma (born March 30, 1935, in Framingham, Massachusetts) is an American composer.

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Graduate school

A graduate school (sometimes shortened as grad school) is a school that awards advanced academic degrees (i.e. master's and doctoral degrees) with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate (bachelor's) degree with a high grade point average.

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Great South Athletic Conference

The Great South Athletic Conference (GSAC) was an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA’s Division III.

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Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (born 1942) is the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of American Studies and History, emerita, at Smith College.

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Henri Matisse

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.

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Iannis Xenakis

Iannis Xenakis (Greek: Γιάννης (Ιάννης) Ξενάκης; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born, Greek-French composer, music theorist, architect, and engineer.

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Joanna Newsom

Joanna Caroline Newsom (born January 18, 1982) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and actress.

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Julia Morgan

Julia Morgan (January 20, 1872 – February 2, 1957) was an American architect.

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Julia Morgan School for Girls

Julia Morgan School for Girls is an all-girls middle school in Oakland, California named for Julia Morgan, the building's architect and the first woman to be licensed in California as an architect.

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Juliana Spahr

Juliana Spahr (born 1966) is an American poet, critic, and editor.

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Julie Chen (book artist)

Julie Chen is an American book artist.

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Kathryn Reiss

Kathryn Reiss (born December 4, 1957) is an American author of award-winning children's and young adult fiction.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Laurie Anderson

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.

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Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is one of the most popular green building certification programs used worldwide.

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Leon Kirchner

Leon Kirchner (January 24, 1919 – September 17, 2009) was an American composer of contemporary classical music.

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Liberal arts colleges in the United States

Liberal arts colleges in the United States are certain undergraduate institutions of higher education in the United States.

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List of Mills College honorary degree recipients

List of Mills College, Oakland, California, U.S.A., honorary degree recipients.

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List of Presidents of Mills College

The following is a list of Presidents of Mills College.

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Lou Harrison

Lou Silver Harrison (May 14, 1917 – February 2, 2003) was an American composer.

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Luciano Berio

Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer.

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Lynn Townsend White Jr.

Lynn Townsend White Jr. (April 29, 1907 – March 30, 1987) was an American historian.

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Maggi Payne

Maggi Payne (born 1945, Temple, Texas, United States) is an American composer, flutist, video artist, recording engineer/editor, and historical remastering engineer who creates electroacoustic, instrumental, vocal works, and works involving visuals (video, dance, film, slides).

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Master of Arts

A Master of Arts (Magister Artium; abbreviated MA; also Artium Magister, abbreviated AM) is a person who was admitted to a type of master's degree awarded by universities in many countries, and the degree is also named Master of Arts in colloquial speech.

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Master of Business Administration

The Master of Business Administration (MBA or M.B.A.) is a master's degree in business administration (management).

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Master of Fine Arts

A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a creative degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts—or in some cases, theatre management or arts administration.

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Master of Management

The Master of Management (MM, MBM,MIM, MMgt) is a post-graduate master’s degree awarded to students who normally complete a one- to two-year program of graduate level coursework in business management at an accredited academic institution.

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Master of Public Policy

The Master of Public Policy (MPP), one of several public policy degrees, is a master's level professional degree that provides training in policy analysis and program evaluation at public policy schools.

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Master's degree

A master's degree (from Latin magister) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.

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Molissa Fenley

Molissa Fenley is an American choreographer, performer and teacher of contemporary dance.

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Morton Subotnick

Morton Subotnick (born April 14, 1933, in Los Angeles, California) is an American composer of electronic music, best known for his Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch.

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Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women, in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.

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Municipal corporation

A municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit organization which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions and conferences.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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NCAA Division III

Division III (D-III) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States.

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Noah Georgeson

Noah Georgeson is a Grammy winning musician, producer, engineer, mixer and solo recording artist.

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Nonviolence

Nonviolence is the personal practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States.

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Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio.

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Oberlin Group

The Oberlin Group is an "informal consortium of the libraries of approximately 80 selective liberal arts colleges in the United States." The group developed as a result of conferences held in 1984-85 at Oberlin College when the presidents of 50 colleges met to discuss the role of science education.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of experimental and post-war electronic art music.

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Phil Lesh

Philip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940) is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919), was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.

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Postbaccalaureate program

Postbaccalaureate programs (postbac) are reserved for students who are working toward a second bachelor's degree or a second entry degree.

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Pran Nath (musician)

Pandit Pran Nath (Devanagari: पंडित प्राणनाथ) (3 November 1918 – 13 June 1996) was an Indian classical singer and teacher of the Kirana gharana (singing style).

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Private university

Private universities are typically not operated by governments, although many receive tax breaks, public student loans, and grants.

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Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

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Roscoe Mitchell

Roscoe Mitchell (born August 3, 1940) is an American composer, jazz instrumentalist, and educator, known for being "a technically superb – if idiosyncratic – saxophonist".

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.

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Steve Reich

Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who, along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass, pioneered minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.

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Strike action

Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

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Susan Tolman Mills

Susan Tolman Mills (1826 – 1912) was the co-founder of Mills College (formerly the Young Ladies Seminary at Benicia, California).

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Teaching credential

A United States teaching credential is a basic multiple or single subject credential obtained upon completion of a bachelor's degree, from a college or university that holds regional accreditation, and prescribed professional education requirements.

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Terry Riley

Terrence Mitchell "Terry" Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician associated with the minimalist school of Western classical music, of which he was a pioneer.

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The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review is a college admission services company offering test preparation services, tutoring and admissions resources, online courses, and books published by Random House.

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Transgender

Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex.

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U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report is an American media company that publishes news, opinion, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.

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Undergraduate education

Undergraduate education is the post-secondary education previous to the postgraduate education.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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University of Massachusetts Press

The University of Massachusetts Press is a university press that is part of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment.

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West Africa

West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.

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Western Association of Schools and Colleges

The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) is an official academic body responsible for the accreditation of public and private universities, colleges, secondary and elementary schools in California and Hawaii, its territories of Guam, American Samoa and Northern Marianas Islands, in addition to the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, the Pacific Rim, East Asia, and areas of the Pacific and East Asia.

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William Joseph McInnes Botanic Garden and Campus Arboretum

The William Joseph McInnes Botanic Garden and Campus Arboretum is located at the corner of Seminary Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard on the campus of Mills College in Oakland, California, United States.

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Winslow Homer

Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects.

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Women's colleges in the United States

Women's colleges in the United States are single-sex U.S. institutions of higher education that only admit female students.

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World's Columbian Exposition

The World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair and Chicago Columbian Exposition) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.

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Yoruba

Yoruba may refer to.

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Zeena Parkins

Zeena Parkins is an American harpist active in free improvisation and jazz.

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1906 San Francisco earthquake

The 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18 with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme).

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References

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