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Point Loma Nazarene University

Index Point Loma Nazarene University

Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) is a Christian liberal arts college. [1]

105 relations: Albert Spalding, Alliant International University, Alma mater, Amethyst, Arizona, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bible college, Business magnate, California, California sea lion, California Western School of Law, Christian, Church of the Nazarene, Classical antiquity, Corinthian order, Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, Council of Independent Colleges, Cross country running, Darrel R. Falk, Don Ho, Eastern Nazarene College, Ed Blakely, Edgar Ellyson, Edward F. Walker, England, Europe, Evangelicalism, Floyd W. Nease, Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Frank G. Carver, Fred J. Shields, General Superintendent (Church of the Nazarene), Gentlemen's agreement, Gold (color), Graduate school, Green, Greg Laswell, Hawaii, Henry Orton Wiley, Higher education, Hoku, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, James Dobson, Jim Bond, John W. Goodwin, Katherine Tingley, Liberal arts college, Liberal arts colleges in the United States, Liberal arts education, ..., Lomaland, Los Angeles, Michael Lodahl, Mildred Bangs Wynkoop, Motif (visual arts), National Christian College Athletic Association, National Collegiate Athletic Association, National Parliamentary Debate Association, NCAA Division II, Nevada, New Mexico, North America, Northwest Nazarene University, Olive Winchester, Orval J. Nease, Outreach, Pacific West Conference, Pasadena, California, Phineas F. Bresee, Point Loma Nazarene Sea Lions, Point Loma, San Diego, Private university, Prohibition, Psychologist, Robert Pierce, Routledge, Rum-running, Russell V. DeLong, Samaritan's Purse, San Diego, Santa Ana, California, Scripps Ranch, San Diego, Seal (emblem), Stoa, Suburb, Symbolism (arts), Tessellation, Texas, Theatre of ancient Greece, Theology, Theosophical Society Pasadena, Theosophy (Boehmian), Undergraduate education, United States, United States dollar, Utah, Venture Center, Victorian architecture, W. T. Purkiser, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, William De Los Santos, William Shakespeare, World Vision International, World War I, World War II. Expand index (55 more) »

Albert Spalding

Albert Goodwill Spalding (September 2, 1849 – September 9, 1915) was an American pitcher, manager and executive in the early years of professional baseball, and the co-founder of A.G. Spalding sporting goods company.

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Alliant International University

Alliant International University is a private, benefit corporation higher education institution based in San Diego, California.

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Alma mater

Alma mater (Latin: "nourishing/kind", "mother"; pl.) is an allegorical Latin phrase for a university or college.

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Amethyst

Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz often used in jewelry.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

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Bachelor of Science

A Bachelor of Science (Latin Baccalaureus Scientiae, B.S., BS, B.Sc., BSc, or B.Sc; or, less commonly, S.B., SB, or Sc.B., from the equivalent Latin Scientiae Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years, or a person holding such a degree.

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Bible college

Bible colleges (sometimes referred to as Bible institutes or Theological Institute) are Protestant Christian institutions of higher education that prepare students for Christian ministry with theological education, Biblical studies and practical ministry training.

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Business magnate

A business magnate (formally industrialist) refers to an entrepreneur of great influence, importance, or standing in a particular enterprise or field of business.

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California

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

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California sea lion

The California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) is a coastal eared seal native to western North America.

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California Western School of Law

California Western School of Law, founded in 1924, is a private, nonprofit law school located in San Diego, California.

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Christian

A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Church of the Nazarene

The Church of the Nazarene is an evangelical Christian denomination that emerged from the 19th-century Holiness movement in North America.

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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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Corinthian order

The Corinthian order is the last developed of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture.

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Council for Christian Colleges and Universities

The Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU) is a higher education association of more than 180 Christian institutions around the world.

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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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Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass.

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Darrel R. Falk

Darrel R. Falk (born 1946) is an American biologist.

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Don Ho

Donald Tai Loy Ho (August 13, 1930 – April 14, 2007), better known as Don Ho, was an American traditional pop musician, singer and entertainer.

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Eastern Nazarene College

The Eastern Nazarene College (ENC) is a private, coeducational college of the liberal arts and sciences in Quincy, Massachusetts, near Boston, in the New England region of the United States.

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Ed Blakely

Edward James Blakely (born 1937) is known primarily for having been Executive Director of Recovery Management for the City of New Orleans.

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Edgar Ellyson

Edgar P. Ellyson (1869 - 1954) was a minister, theologian, and general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene.

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Edward F. Walker

Edward F. Walker (January 20, 1852 – 1918) was a minister and general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene.

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England

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

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity, or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, crossdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity which maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's atonement.

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Floyd W. Nease

Floyd William Nease (1893–1930) was an American minister and the president of the Eastern Nazarene College until his death in 1930.

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Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery

Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery is a federal military cemetery in the city of San Diego, California.

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Frank G. Carver

Frank Gould Carver (May 27, 1928-July 14, 2017) was an American scholar and professor of Biblical theology and Greek.

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Fred J. Shields

Frederick James Shields was a minister, educator, and president of the Eastern Nazarene College.

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General Superintendent (Church of the Nazarene)

General Superintendent is the highest elected office within the Church of the Nazarene.

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Gentlemen's agreement

A gentlemen's agreement or gentleman's agreement is an informal and legally non-binding agreement between two or more parties.

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Gold (color)

Gold, also called golden, is a color.

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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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Green

Green is the color between blue and yellow on the visible spectrum.

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Greg Laswell

Greg Laswell (born April 26, 1974) is an American musician, recording engineer, and producer from San Diego, California.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.

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Henry Orton Wiley

Henry Orton Wiley (1877–1961) was a Christian theologian primarily associated with the followers of John Wesley who are part of the Holiness movement.

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Higher education

Higher education (also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education) is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completion of secondary education.

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Hoku

Hoku Ho Clements (born Hoku Christian Ho, June 10, 1981), known mononymously as Hoku, is an American singer.

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is an American non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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James Dobson

James Clayton "Jim" Dobson, Jr. (born April 21, 1936) is an American evangelical Christian author, psychologist, and founder in 1977 of Focus on the Family (FOTF), which he led until 2003.

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Jim Bond

Jim L. Bond (born 1936) is a minister and emeritus general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene.

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John W. Goodwin

John W. Goodwin (1869–1945) was a minister and general superintendent in the Church of the Nazarene.

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Katherine Tingley

Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley (born July 6, 1847, Newbury, Massachusetts; died July 11, 1929, Visingsö, Sweden) was a social worker and prominent Theosophist.

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Liberal arts college

A liberal arts college is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences.

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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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Liberal arts education

Liberal arts education (from Latin "free" and "art or principled practice") can claim to be the oldest programme of higher education in Western history.

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Lomaland

Lomaland was a Theosophical community located in Point Loma in San Diego, California from 1900 to 1942.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Michael Lodahl

Michael Lodahl is a theologian in the Church of the Nazarene.

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Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

Mildred Olive Bangs Wynkoop (born September 9, 1905 in Seattle, Washington died May 21, 1997 in Lenexa, Kansas) was an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene, who served as an educator, missionary and theologian, and the author of several books.

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Motif (visual arts)

In art and iconography, a motif is an element of an image.

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National Christian College Athletic Association

The National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) is an association of Christian universities, colleges, and Bible colleges in the United States and Canada whose mission is "the promotion and enhancement of intercollegiate athletic competition with a Christian perspective".

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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 Parliamentary Debate Association

The National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA) is one of the two national intercollegiate parliamentary debate organizations in the United States.

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NCAA Division II

Division II is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

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Nevada

Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Northwest Nazarene University

Northwest Nazarene University (NNU) is a private Christian liberal arts college located in Nampa, Idaho, U.S.

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Olive Winchester

Olive May Winchester (1879–1947) was an American ordained minister and a pioneer biblical scholar and theologian in the Church of the Nazarene, who was in 1912 the first woman ordained by any trinitarian Christian denomination in the United Kingdom,.

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Orval J. Nease

Orval John Nease (1891–1950) was a minister, Nazarene General Superintendent, and president of Pasadena College.

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Outreach

Outreach is an activity of providing services to any populations who might not otherwise have access to those services.

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Pacific West Conference

The Pacific West Conference (also known as the PacWest) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II level.

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Pasadena, California

Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located 10 miles (16 kilometers) northeast of Downtown Los Angeles.

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Phineas F. Bresee

Phineas F. Bresee (December 31, 1838 – November 13, 1915) was the primary founder of the Church of the Nazarene, and founding president of Point Loma Nazarene University.

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Point Loma Nazarene Sea Lions

The Point Loma Nazarene University Sea Lions (also PLNU Sea Lions) are the 11 varsity athletic teams that represent Point Loma Nazarene University, located in San Diego, California, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports.

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Point Loma, San Diego

Point Loma is a seaside community within the city of San Diego, California.

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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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Prohibition

Prohibition is the illegality of the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages, or a period of time during which such illegality was enforced.

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Psychologist

A psychologist studies normal and abnormal mental states from cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior by observing, interpreting, and recording how individuals relate to one another and to their environments.

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Robert Pierce

Robert Pierce (1914–1978) was an American Baptist minister and relief worker.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Rum-running

Rum-running, or bootlegging, is the illegal business of transporting (smuggling) alcoholic beverages where such transportation is forbidden by law.

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Russell V. DeLong

Russell Victor DeLong (1901–1981) was a Nazarene minister, evangelist, and college president.

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Samaritan's Purse

Samaritan's Purse is an evangelical Christian humanitarian aid organization that provides aid to people in physical need as a key part of Christian missionary work.

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San Diego

San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.

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Santa Ana, California

Santa Ana (Spanish for "Saint Anne") is the county seat and second most populous city in Orange County, California.

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Scripps Ranch, San Diego

Scripps Ranch is an affluent community of San Diego, California in the northeastern part of that city.

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Seal (emblem)

A seal is a device for making an impression in wax, clay, paper, or some other medium, including an embossment on paper, and is also the impression thus made.

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Stoa

A stoa (plural, stoas,"stoa", Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Ed., 1989 stoai, or stoae), in ancient Greek architecture, is a covered walkway or portico, commonly for public use.

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Suburb

A suburb is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city.

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Symbolism (arts)

Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts.

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Tessellation

A tessellation of a flat surface is the tiling of a plane using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Theatre of ancient Greece

The ancient Greek drama was a theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece from c. 700 BC.

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Theology

Theology is the critical study of the nature of the divine.

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Theosophical Society Pasadena

The Theosophical Society (Pasadena) is a branch of Theosophy based in Pasadena, California.

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Theosophy (Boehmian)

Theosophy, also known as Christian theosophy and Boehmian theosophy, refers to a range of positions within Christianity which focus on the attainment of direct, unmediated knowledge of the nature of divinity and the origin and purpose of the universe.

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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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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

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Venture Center

The Venture Center is a collaborative mission base located on a 17-acre campus in Pasadena, California.

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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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W. T. Purkiser

Westlake Taylor Purkiser (1910–1992) was a preacher, scholar, and author in the Church of the Nazarene.

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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 De Los Santos

William De Los Santos (born October 29, 1965) is a Hawaiian/Irish-American author, poet, screenwriter and film director.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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World Vision International

World Vision International is an Evangelical Christian humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy organization.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

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

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