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Bowdoin College

Index Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College is a private liberal arts college located in Brunswick, Maine. [1]

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A cappella

A cappella (Italian for "in the manner of the chapel") music is specifically group or solo singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.

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A. LeRoy Greason

Arthur LeRoy Greason, Jr. (born September 13, 1922 - August 28, 2011) was the twelfth president of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, serving from 1981 to 1990.

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Abstinence-only sex education

Abstinence-only sex education is a form of sex education that teaches not having sex outside of marriage.

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African-American culture

African-American culture, also known as Black-American culture, refers to the contributions of African Americans to the culture of the United States, either as part of or distinct from mainstream American culture.

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Alfred Kinsey

Alfred Charles Kinsey (June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956) was an American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, previously known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.

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Allegation

In law, an allegation (also called adduction) is a claim of a fact by a party in a pleading, charge, or defense.

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Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.

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Ancient Greek

The Ancient Greek language includes the forms of Greek used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around the 9th century BC to the 6th century AD.

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Androscoggin River

The Androscoggin River is a river in the U.S. states of Maine and New Hampshire, in northern New England.

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Annapolis Group

The Annapolis Group is an American organization of independent liberal arts colleges.

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Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr (born October 27, 1973) is an American author of novels and short stories.

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Appomattox Court House National Historical Park

The Appomattox Court House National Historical Park is a National Historical Park of original and reconstructed 19th century buildings in Appomattox County, Virginia.

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Army of Northern Virginia

The Army of Northern Virginia was the primary military force of the Confederate States of America in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.

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Articles of impeachment

The articles of impeachment are the set of charges drafted against a public official to initiate the impeachment process.

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Athletic conference

An athletic conference is a collection of sports teams, playing competitively against each other at the professional, collegiate, or high school level.

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Augustus Stinchfield

Augustus W. Stinchfield (December 21, 1842 – March 15, 1917) was an American physician and one of the co-founders—along with Drs.

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Baffin Island

Baffin Island (ᕿᑭᖅᑖᓗᒃ, Qikiqtaaluk, Île de Baffin or Terre de Baffin), in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, is the largest island in Canada and the fifth largest island in the world.

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Barry Mills (college president)

Barry Mills (born September 8, 1950) was the fourteenth president of Bowdoin College and the fifth alumnus to serve in that role.

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Bates College

Bates College (Bates; officially the President and Trustees of Bates College) is a private liberal arts college in Lewiston, Maine.

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Battle of Gettysburg

The Battle of Gettysburg (with an sound) was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.

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Bay of Fundy

The Bay of Fundy (or Fundy Bay; Baie de Fundy) is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the US state of Maine.

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Behavioural sciences

The term behavioral sciences encompasses the various disciplines that explores the cognitive processes within organisms and the behavioural interactions between organisms in the natural world.

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Bill Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton (born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Bowdoin (Arctic schooner)

The schooner Bowdoin was designed by William H. Hand, Jr., and built in 1921, in East Boothbay, Maine, at the Hodgdon Brothers Shipyard now known as Hodgdon Yachts.

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Bowdoin College Men's Rugby

Bowdoin College Men's Rugby is the men's rugby club of Bowdoin College - founded in 1969 with a combination of students from Bowdoin and men from Portland, ME.

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Bowdoin College Museum of Art

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is an art museum located in Brunswick, Maine.

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Brevet (military)

In many of the world's military establishments, a brevet was a warrant giving a commissioned officer a higher rank title as a reward for gallantry or meritorious conduct but without conferring the authority, precedence, or pay of real rank.

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Brigadier general (United States)

In the United States Armed Forces, brigadier general (BG, BGen, or Brig Gen) is a one-star general officer with the pay grade of O-7 in the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Air Force.

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Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

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Brunswick, Maine

Brunswick is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States.

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California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology (abbreviated Caltech)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; other spellings such as.

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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University (commonly known as CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Casco Bay

Casco Bay is an inlet of the Gulf of Maine on the southern coast of Maine, New England, United States.

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Charles Beitz

Charles R. Beitz (born 1949) is an American political theorist.

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Charles W. Morse

Charles Wyman Morse (October 21, 1856 – January 12, 1933) was an American businessman and speculator, guilty of major frauds.

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Chief Justice of the United States

The Chief Justice of the United States is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and thus the head of the United States federal court system, which functions as the judicial branch of the nation's federal government.

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Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, who served as consul in the year 63 BC.

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Clayton Rose

Clayton S. Rose is the fifteenth and current president of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

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Colby College

Colby College is a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine.

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Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Chase Regatta

The Colby–Bates–Bowdoin Chase Regatta (often abbreviated CBB Chase or simply referred to as the "Chase Regatta") is an annual rowing regatta between the men's and women's heavyweight varsity and club rowing crews of Bates, Bowdoin, and Colby College.

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Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium

The Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium is an association and athletic conference of three liberal arts colleges in the U.S. State of Maine.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865.

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Connecticut College

Connecticut College (Conn College or Conn) is a private liberal arts college located in New London, Connecticut.

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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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Conviction

In law, a conviction is the verdict that usually results when a court of law finds a defendant guilty of a crime.

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Crime

In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.

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Cultural appropriation

Cultural appropriation is a concept dealing with the adoption of the elements of a minority culture by members of the dominant culture.

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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.

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DeRay Mckesson

DeRay Mckesson (born July 9, 1985) is an American civil rights activist and former school administrator.

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Doctor of Medicine

A Doctor of Medicine (MD from Latin Medicinae Doctor) is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions.

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Donald Baxter MacMillan

Donald Baxter MacMillan (November 10, 1874 – September 7, 1970) was an American explorer, sailor, researcher and lecturer who made over 30 expeditions to the Arctic during his 46-year career.

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Ed Lee (politician)

Edwin Mah Lee (May 5, 1952 – December 12, 2017) was an American politician and attorney who served as the 43rd Mayor of San Francisco, and was the first Asian American to hold the office.

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Eddie Glaude

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the chair of the Center for African-American Studies and the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African-American Studies at Princeton University.

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Edville Gerhardt Abbott

Edville Gerhardt Abbott (November 6, 1871 – August 27, 1938) was an American orthopedic surgeon and orthotist.

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Elliott Schwartz

Elliott Shelling Schwartz (January 19, 1936 – December 7, 2016) was an American composer.

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Ellis Spear

Ellis Spear (October 15, 1834 – April 3, 1917) was an officer in the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Ethnic stereotype

An ethnic stereotype, national stereotype, or national character is a system of beliefs about typical characteristics of members of a given ethnic group or nationality, their status, society and cultural norms.

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Fine art

In European academic traditions, fine art is art developed primarily for aesthetics or beauty, distinguishing it from applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine.

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Francis Fessenden

Francis Fessenden (March 18, 1839 – January 2, 1906) was a lawyer, politician, and soldier from the state of Maine who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United States (1853–1857), a northern Democrat who saw the abolitionist movement as a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation.

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Fraternities and sororities

Fraternities and sororities, or Greek letter organizations (GLOs) (collectively referred to as "Greek life") are social organizations at colleges and universities.

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Fraternity

A fraternity (from Latin frater: "brother"; "brotherhood"), fraternal order or fraternal organization is an organization, a society or a club of men associated together for various religious or secular aims.

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Freedmen's Bureau

The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was an agency of the United States Department of War to "direct such issues of provisions, clothing, and fuel, as he may deem needful for the immediate and temporary shelter and supply of destitute and suffering refugees and freedmen and their wives and children." The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which established the Freedmen's Bureau on March 3, 1865, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War.

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Freelan Oscar Stanley

Freelan Oscar Stanley (June 1, 1849 – October 2, 1940) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, hotelier and architect.

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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.

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Fulbright Program

The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs whose goal is to improve intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of the United States and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge, and skills.

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Gangster

A gangster is a criminal who is a member of a gang.

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George J. Mitchell

George John Mitchell Jr. (born August 20, 1933) is an American lawyer, businessman, author, and politician.

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Governor of Maine

The Governor of Maine is the chief executive of the State of Maine.

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Greenland

Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is an autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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Hamilton College (New York)

Hamilton College is a private, nonsectarian liberal arts college in Clinton, New York.

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Hannibal Hamlin

Hannibal Hamlin (August 27, 1809July 4, 1891) was an American attorney and politician from the state of Maine.

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Harold Hitz Burton

Harold Hitz Burton (June 22, 1888 – October 28, 1964) was an American politician and lawyer.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Brunswick, Maine)

The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is a historic home and National Historic Landmark at 63 Federal Street in Brunswick, Maine, notable as a short-term home of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Calvin Ellis Stowe.

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Harry Oakes

Sir Harry Oakes, 1st Baronet (23 December 1874 – 7 July 1943) was an American-born British Canadian gold mine owner, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.

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Hidden Ivies

Hidden Ivies: Thirty Colleges of Excellence is a college educational guide published in 2000.

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος, Hómēros) is the name ascribed by the ancient Greeks to the legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the central works of ancient Greek literature.

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Homosexuality

Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.

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Honorary degree

An honorary degree, in Latin a degree honoris causa ("for the sake of the honor") or ad honorem ("to the honor"), is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements, such as matriculation, residence, a dissertation and the passing of comprehensive examinations.

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Howard University

Howard University (HU or simply Howard) is a federally chartered, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university (HBCU) in Washington, D.C. It is categorized by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with higher research activity and is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

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Hugh McCulloch

Hugh McCulloch (December 7, 1808 – May 24, 1895) was an American statesman who served two non-consecutive terms as U.S. Treasury Secretary under three presidents.

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Humanities

Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture.

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Ivy League

The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private universities in the Northeastern United States.

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James Bowdoin

James Bowdoin II (August 7, 1726 – November 6, 1790) was an American political and intellectual leader from Boston, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution and the following decade.

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James Bowdoin III

James Bowdoin III (September 22, 1752 – October 11, 1811) was an American philanthropist and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts.

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James Deering Fessenden

James Deering Fessenden (September 28, 1833 – November 18, 1882) was a lawyer, politician, and soldier from the state of Maine who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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James S. Coles

James Stacy Coles (June 3, 1913 – June 13, 1996) was the ninth president of Bowdoin College.

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Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the only President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.

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Jes Staley

James Edward "Jes" Staley (born December 27, 1956), is an American banker, and the group chief executive (CEO) of Barclays.

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Jesse Appleton

Jesse Appleton (November 17, 1772November 12, 1819), who was the second president of Bowdoin College and the father of First Lady Jane Pierce.

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Joan Benoit

Joan Benoit Samuelson (born May 16, 1957) is an American marathon runner who won gold at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the year that the women's marathon was introduced.

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John Albion Andrew

John Albion Andrew (May 31, 1818 – October 30, 1867) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts.

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John Bisbee

John Bisbee (born 1965) is an American sculptor living and working in Maine.

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John Brown Russwurm

John Brown Russwurm (1799–1851) was an abolitionist, newspaper publisher, and colonizer of Liberia where he moved from the United States.

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John J. Studzinski

John Joseph Paul Studzinski, (born March 19, 1956) is an American-born British investment banker and philanthropist.

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Joseph E. Johnson (government official)

Joseph Esrey Johnson (April 30, 1895 – 1990) was an American government official who served with both the United States Department of State and the United Nations.

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Joseph McKeen

Joseph McKeen (October 15, 1757 – July 15, 1807) was the first president of Bowdoin College of Brunswick, Maine.

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Joshua Chamberlain

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (born Lawrence Joshua Chamberlain, September 8, 1828February 24, 1914) was an American college professor from the State of Maine, who volunteered during the American Civil War to join the Union Army.

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Kenneth C.M. Sills

Kenneth Charles Morton Sills (December 5, 1879 – November 15, 1954) was the eighth president of Bowdoin College and the third to be an alumnus.

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Kenneth Chenault

Kenneth Irvine Chenault (born June 2, 1951) is an American business executive.

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Kent Island (New Brunswick)

Kent Island, New Brunswick, Canada is an island located near Grand Manan Island off the coast of New Brunswick.

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Kristen R. Ghodsee

Kristen R. Ghodsee (born April 26, 1970) is an American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania known primarily for her ethnographic work on post-communist Bulgaria as well as being a contributor to the field of postsocialist gender studies.

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Labrador

Labrador is the continental-mainland part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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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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Latin American culture

Latin American culture is the formal or informal expression of the people of Latin America and includes both high culture (literature and high art) and popular culture (music, folk art, and dance) as well as religion and other customary practices.

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Lawrence B. Lindsey

Lawrence B. "Larry" Lindsey (born July 18, 1954) is an American economist.

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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 Gorman

Leon Arthur Gorman (December 20, 1934 – September 3, 2015) was an American businessman and the president and Chairman of the Board for the clothing company L.L. Bean.

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Leonard Woods (college president)

Leonard Woods (November 24, 1807 – December 24, 1878) was the fourth president of Bowdoin College.

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Lewiston, Maine

Lewiston (officially the City of Lewiston, Maine) is the second largest city in Maine and the most central city in Androscoggin County.

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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 Bowdoin College people

This list is of notable people associated with Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

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Little Ivies

The Little Ivies (singularly Little Ivy) are a group of small, highly academically competitive private liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States.

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Little Round Top

Little Round Top is the smaller of two rocky hills south of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—the companion to the adjacent, taller hill named Big Round Top.

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Maine

Maine is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Maine Legislature

The Maine Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maine.

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Major general (United States)

In the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, and United States Air Force, major general is a two-star general-officer rank, with the pay grade of O-8.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Massachusetts General Court

The Massachusetts General Court (formally styled the General Court of Massachusetts) is the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Massachusetts Hall, Bowdoin College

Massachusetts Hall is the oldest building on the campus of Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine.

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Mathematics

Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of such topics as quantity, structure, space, and change.

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Mayo Clinic

The Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit academic medical center based in Rochester, Minnesota focused on integrated clinical practice, education, and research.

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Medal of Honor

The Medal of Honor is the United States of America's highest and most prestigious personal military decoration that may be awarded to recognize U.S. military service members who distinguished themselves by acts of valor.

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Medical school

A medical school is a tertiary educational institution —or part of such an institution— that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians and surgeons.

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Melville Fuller

Melville Weston Fuller (February 11, 1833 – July 4, 1910) was a politician, lawyer, and judge from Illinois.

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Messiah College

Messiah College is a private Christian college of the liberal arts and applied arts and sciences located in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.

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Mexican cuisine

Mexican cuisine began about 9,000 years ago, when agricultural communities such as the Maya formed, domesticating maize, creating the standard process of corn nixtamalization, and establishing their foodways.

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Middlebury College

Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, United States.

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Missouri Compromise

The Missouri Compromise is the title generally attached to the legislation passed by the 16th United States Congress on May 9, 1820.

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Nao (robot)

Nao (pronounced now) is an autonomous, programmable humanoid robot developed by Aldebaran Robotics, a French robotics company headquartered in Paris, which was acquired by SoftBank Group in 2015 and rebranded as SoftBank Robotics.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (né Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer.

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National Association of Scholars

The National Association of Scholars (NAS) is an American non-profit politically conservative advocacy group, with a particular interest in education.

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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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Natural science

Natural science is a branch of science concerned with the description, prediction, and understanding of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation.

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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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Need-blind admission

Need-blind admission is a term used in the United States denoting a college admission policy in which the admitting institution does not consider an applicant's financial situation when deciding admission.

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New England

New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association

The New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) is one of the seven conferences affiliated with the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) that schedule and administer regattas within their established geographic regions.

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New England Small College Athletic Conference

The New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eleven schools, which are ten small liberal arts colleges and one medium-sized research university.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.

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North Pole

The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is (subject to the caveats explained below) defined as the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.

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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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Oliver Otis Howard

Oliver Otis Howard (November 8, 1830 – October 26, 1909) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War.

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Orr's Island

Orr's Island is an island in Casco Bay and the Gulf of Maine, part of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Owen Brewster

Ralph Owen Brewster (February 22, 1888 – December 25, 1961) was an American politician from Maine.

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Panic of 1907

The Panic of 1907 – also known as the 1907 Bankers' Panic or Knickerbocker Crisis – was a United States financial crisis that took place over a three-week period starting in mid-October, when the New York Stock Exchange fell almost 50% from its peak the previous year.

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Parker Cleaveland House

The Parker Cleaveland House is a historic house at 75 Federal Street in Brunswick, Maine.

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Party leaders of the United States Senate

The Senate Majority and Minority Leaders are two United States Senators and members of the party leadership of the United States Senate.

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Paul A. Chadbourne

Paul Ansel Chadbourne (October 21, 1823 – February 23, 1883) was an American educator and naturalist who served as President of University of Wisconsin from 1867 to 1870, and President of Williams College from 1872 until his resignation in 1881.

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Paul Douglas

Paul Howard Douglas (March 26, 1892 – September 24, 1976) was an American politician and Georgist economist.

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Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum

The Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum is a museum located in Hubbard Hall at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

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Peter Buck (restaurateur)

Peter Buck (born December 19, 1930) is an American physicist, restaurateur, and philanthropist.

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Phi Beta Kappa

The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States.

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Polar bear

The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a hypercarnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses.

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Presidency of Abraham Lincoln

The presidency of Abraham Lincoln began on March 4, 1861, when he was inaugurated as the 16th President of the United States, and ended upon his assassination and death on April 15, 1865, days into his second term.

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President of the Confederate States of America

The President of the Confederate States of America was the elected head of state and government of the Confederate States.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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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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Racism

Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person's consent.

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Reed Hastings

Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr. (born October 8, 1960) is an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist.

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Richard E. Morgan

Richard Ernest "Dick" Morgan (May 17, 1937 – November 13, 2014) was a conservative author, contributing editor of City Journal, and the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Government at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, United States.

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Richard Hooker (author)

Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr. (February 1, 1924 – November 4, 1997) was an American writer and surgeon who wrote under the pseudonym Richard Hooker.

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Rinker Buck

Rinker Buck is an American author who is best known for his 1997 memoir Flight of Passage.

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Robert H. Edwards

Robert Hazard Edwards (born May 26, 1935) is an American educator who was the seventh president of Carleton College and the thirteenth president of Bowdoin College.

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Robert Peary

Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary Sr. (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920) was an American explorer and United States Navy officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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RoboCup

RoboCup is an annual international robotics competition proposed and founded in 1996 (Pre-RoboCup) by a group of university professors (among which Hiroaki Kitano, Manuela M. Veloso, and Minoru Asada).

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Rochester, Minnesota

Rochester is a city founded in 1854 in the U.S. State of Minnesota and is the county seat of Olmsted County located on the Zumbro River's south fork in Southeast Minnesota.

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Roger Howell Jr.

Roger Howell Jr. (1936 – September 27, 1989) was the tenth president of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and the fourth to be an alumnus of the college.

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Samuel Harris (theologian)

Samuel Harris (June 6, 1814 – June 25, 1899) was the fifth president of Bowdoin College and the first to be an alumnus.

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SAT

The SAT is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States.

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Scott Sehon

Scott Robert Sehon (born 1963) is an American philosopher and a professor of philosophy at Bowdoin College.

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Sex offender

A sex offender (sexual offender, sex abuser, or sexual abuser) is a person who has committed a sex crime.

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Sex offender registry

A sex offender registry is a system in various countries designed to allow government authorities to keep track of the activities of sex offenders including those who have completed their criminal sentences.

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Sexual assault

Sexual assault is an act in which a person coerces or physically forces a person to engage in a sexual act against their will.

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Single-stream recycling

Single-stream (also known as “fully commingled” or "single-sort") recycling refers to a system in which all paper fibers, plastics, metals, and other containers are mixed in a collection truck, instead of being sorted by the depositor into separate commodities (newspaper, paperboard, corrugated fiberboard, plastic, glass, etc.) and handled separately throughout the collection process.

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Slavery

Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.

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Slavery in the United States

Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Sombrero

Sombrero (Spanish for "hat", literally "shadower") in English refers to a type of wide-brimmed hat from Mexico, used to shield from the sun.

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Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

The Speaker of the House is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives.

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Stanley Druckenmiller

Stanley Freeman Druckenmiller (born June 14, 1953) is an American investor, hedge fund manager and philanthropist.

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Stanley Motor Carriage Company

The Stanley Motor Carriage Company was an American manufacturer of steam-engine vehicles; it operated from 1902 to 1924.

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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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Subway (restaurant)

Subway is an American privately held fast food restaurant franchise that primarily sells submarine sandwiches (subs) and salads.

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Tapestry

Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven on a vertical loom.

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Tequila

Tequila is a regional distilled beverage and type of alcoholic drink made from the blue agave plant, primarily in the area surrounding the city of Tequila, northwest of Guadalajara, and in the highlands (Los Altos) of the central western Mexican state of Jalisco.

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The Blackstone Group

The Blackstone Group L.P. is an American multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services firm based in New York City.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.

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The Bowdoin Orient

The Bowdoin Orient is the student newspaper of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, United States.

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The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited at offices in London.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Official Preppy Handbook

The Official Preppy Handbook (1980) is a tongue-in-cheek humor reference guide edited by Lisa Birnbach, written by Jonathan Roberts, Carol McD.

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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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The Quill (magazine)

The Quill is Bowdoin College's oldest and only literary magazine.

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The Stanley Hotel

The Stanley Hotel is a 142-room Colonial Revival hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, United States of America.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Thomas Brackett Reed

Thomas Brackett Reed (October 18, 1839 – December 7, 1902), occasionally ridiculed as Czar Reed, was a U.S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1889–1891 and also from 1895–1899.

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Thomas Cornell (artist)

Thomas Browne Cornell (March 1, 1937- December 7, 2012) was an American artist.

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Thomas R. Pickering

Thomas Reeve "Tom" Pickering (born November 5, 1931) is a retired United States ambassador.

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Trinity College (Connecticut)

Trinity College is a private liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut.

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Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university incorporated in the municipality of Medford, Massachusetts, United States.

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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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Ultimate (sport)

Ultimate, originally known as Ultimate frisbee, is a non-contact team sport played with a flying disc (frisbee).

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Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American soldier and statesman who served as Commanding General of the Army and the 18th President of the United States, the highest positions in the military and the government of the United States.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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United Daughters of the Confederacy

The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is an American hereditary association of Southern women established in 1894 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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United Service Organizations

The United Service Organizations Inc. (USO) is a nonprofit organization that provides live entertainment, such as comedians and musicians, and other programs to members of the United States Armed Forces and their families.

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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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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States Secretary of Defense

The Secretary of Defense (SecDef) is the leader and chief executive officer of the Department of Defense, the executive department of the Armed Forces of the United States of America.

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United States Secretary of War

The Secretary of War was a member of the United States President's Cabinet, beginning with George Washington's administration.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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University of Maine

The University of Maine (also referred to as UMaine, Maine or UMO) is a public research university in Orono, Maine, United States.

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Vice President of the United States

The Vice President of the United States (informally referred to as VPOTUS, or Veep) is a constitutional officer in the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States as the President of the Senate under Article I, Section 3, Clause 4, of the United States Constitution, as well as the second highest executive branch officer, after the President of the United States.

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Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro (traditional dates October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.

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Wallace H. White Jr.

Wallace Humphrey White Jr. (August 6, 1877March 31, 1952) was an American politician and Republican leader in United States Congress from 1916 until 1949.

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Washington Monthly

Washington Monthly is a bimonthly nonprofit magazine of United States politics and government that is based in Washington, D.C. The magazine is known for its annual ranking of American colleges and universities, which serve as an alternative to the Forbes and U.S. News & World Report rankings.

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WBOR

WBOR (91.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, United States.

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Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, founded in 1831.

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Whittier Field

Whittier Field is the outdoor stadium of Bowdoin College.

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Willard F. Enteman

Willard Finley Enteman (born 1936) was the eleventh president of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

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William Allen (biographer)

William Allen (January 2, 1784 – July 16, 1868) was an American biographer, scholar and academic.

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William Cohen

William Sebastian Cohen (born August 28, 1940) is an American politician and author from the U.S. state of Maine.

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William De Witt Hyde

William De Witt Hyde (September 23, 1858 – June 29, 1917) was an American college president, born at Winchendon, Mass.

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William P. Fessenden

William Pitt Fessenden (October 16, 1806September 8, 1869) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine.

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Williams College

Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States.

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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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Xenophon

Xenophon of Athens (Ξενοφῶν,, Xenophōn; – 354 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, historian, soldier, mercenary, and student of Socrates.

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20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a volunteer regiment of the United States Army (Union Army) during the American Civil War (1861-1865), most famous for its defense of Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1-3, 1863.

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54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

The 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that saw extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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References

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