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• ... that La Martiniere Boys' College (pictured) in Lucknow, India is the only school in the world to be awarded a battle honour?

• ... that Dougherty Valley High School was the first real-estate developer-built high school in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District?

• ... that Christian Zheng Sheng College (pictured) on Lantau, Hong Kong, has a dormitory on Cheung Chau from which students take small ferries called kai-tos to get to school?

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• ... that the old school building in Albany, New York (pictured) where Joseph Henry co-discovered electrical inductance is now named after him?

• ... that Trafalgar High School, established for non-whites in Cape Town, defiantly refused to move after its part of the city was declared "whites only"?

• ... that the Nebraska School for the Deaf became nationally known within the Deaf community for its fight against an anti-American Sign Language state bill endorsed by Alexander Graham Bell?

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• ... that The Harvey School (pictured), a rural school in New York, was established to give an education to the founder's handicapped son?

• ... that Kellom Elementary School in Omaha, Nebraska is the alma mater of Fred Astaire, Gale Sayers and Bob Gibson, as well as youth programs once led by Whitney Young?

• ... that since 2002, New York's Middletown High School has seen the district superintendent convicted of sexual abuse, had one principal resign and another suspended, had two student walkouts and was ordered to reinstate a teacher?

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• ... that in the early 20th century, when education was segregated in the United States, the Calhoun Colored School (pictured) focused on vocational education for African Americans instead of classical education^{[disambiguation needed]} to protect the school from being closed down?

• ... that Tanjong Katong Primary School has the most diverse student population among all government-operated schools in Singapore, as its students come from 39 countries?

• ... that the Calabasas, California facilities for the private elementary school New Village Academy is funded by actor Will Smith?

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• ... that Sir John Maynard used Elize Hele's money to create The Maynard School (pictured) for girls in 1658

• ... that Ellenville Middle School abandoned an experiment with single-sex classes after the school failed to meet No Child Left Behind Act standards?

• ... that Bunscoill Ghaelgagh is the only primary school that teaches only in the Manx language?

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• ... that the Garrison Union Free School (pictured) in New York traces its origins back to 1793?

• ... that a former principal of Tubman Elementary School received a national award for her work which included a discipline program featuring a due process system for punishment referrals?

• ... that City Academy High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota, became the first charter school in the U.S. when it opened its doors to 30 students on September 7, 1992?

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• ... that a basketball team from Wendell Phillips Academy High School (pictured) was drafted to form the nucleus of the original Harlem Globetrotters?

• ... that Salisbury Cathedral School was founded over 900 years ago by a saint?

• ... that the radio station of North Community High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota used to be the official broadcaster for traffic reports in the area?

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• ... that taxpayers of Palenville, New York argued so bitterly over the costs of Rowena Memorial School (pictured) that some called for it to be demolished?

• ... that the rooflines of the newest school in the Cornwall Central School District mimics the surrounding hills in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York?

• ... that Gordon Parks High School, an alternative school, is named after the famous photographer, because he dropped out of education locally in Saint Paul, Minnesota?

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• ...that Roseland Christian School (pictured) changed from a completely Dutch-American student body in 1884 to a completely African American one by the mid 1980s?

• ... that E.S. Richardson Elementary School is named after a Louisiana educator, who ended his career as an administrator of the wartime Office of Price Administration?

• ... that Evergreen Lutheran High School lost its lease in DuPont, Washington in 1988 and has been looking for another site while sharing land at a local church?

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• ...that The Mather School (pictured) in Dorchester, Massachusetts, is the oldest free public elementary school in North America?

• ...that Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Florida is only one of two schools left in the United States named after the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan?

• ...that the First Tokyo Middle School, one of the top public secondary schools in Japan, expelled all of its Korean international students in 1905 when they demonstrated against the Eulsa Treaty between Japan and Korea?

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• ...that the currently abandoned Old High School of Music (pictured) in Rousse, Bulgaria has previously housed a primary school, a junior high school, a university, and a trade school?

• ...that the Poplar Tree Elementary School building was damaged by boulders from blasting works during its construction, and it initially had no playground?

• ... that despite over 85% of American Indian students giving it their support, mascot controversy at Humboldt High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota resulted in the abandonment of its Indians mascot?

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• ...that the Oriental Seminary (pictured), established in 1829, was the earliest privately run modern school in Kolkata?

• ...that the Kentucky High School Athletic Association divides its member schools into separate enrollment classes in only three of the 13 sports in which it conducts state championships?

• ...that the Normal School for Colored Girls was incorporated into the University of the District of Columbia?

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• ...that the Annenschule (pictured) high school in Saint Petersburg, Russia was transformed into a Soviet work school after the Russian Revolution, but now houses a lyceum?

• ... that Newark Arts High School in New Jersey opened its doors to students in 1931 as the first U.S. public high school specializing in the visual and performing arts?

• ... after being headmaster of St. Bees School, George Mallaby joined the army, rose to Colonel, became High Commissioner to New Zealand, and was knighted?

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• ... that the first British comprehensive school was Holyhead High School (pictured) on the Welsh island of Anglesey?

• ... that Republican U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended Wasilla High School?

• ... that Rebecca Adlington, British Olympic Gold swimmer, went to The Brunts School?

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• ... that the headmaster of Shardlow Hall (pictured), a school in Derbyshire, played soccer for England?

• ... that the International High School in Paterson, New Jersey, was built with triple-pane windows to keep out noise from Interstate 80, located just 20 feet (6 m) from the school building?

• ... that after 175 years in operation the Red Brick School, one of the oldest single room school houses in the U.S., closed in 2008?

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• ... that the Archdiocesan Classical Gymnasium in Zagreb, Croatia has an observatory (pictured) on school grounds?

• ... that the Power Memorial Academy basketball team, led by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1964, was named "The #1 High School Team of The Century" by National Sports Writers?

• ... that the Classical Academy Charter School of Clifton, a chartered middle school that requires students to learn three years of Latin and to study Literary classics, has been recognized as a Blue Ribbon School?

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• ... that the Holgate School in Nottinghamshire, England had a Khatchkar (pictured) installed in thanks by the Armenian Government for UK-funded Lord Byron School in Gyumri?
• ... that Schools Plus, an education policy proposed by New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, was boycotted by 15 schools?
• ... that Diocesan School for Girls students can download whiteboard notes to their laptops?

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• ... that Manor Community College (pictured), a Cambridge school, has a headteacher who used to present a BBC childen's programme?

• ... that restoration of the Old Savannah School House was the first project undertaken by the National Trust for the Cayman Islands after its creation?

• ... that Samuel Johnson failed to get a job at Brewood Grammar School because headmaster William Budworth was concerned with Johnson's head movements?

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• ...that Clontarf Aboriginal College (pictured) in Australia has at various points in its history served as an orphanage, a convent, an RAAF training facility, a boarding school and a day school?

• ...that Wyoming Seminary, a private school in Kingston, Pennsylvania, participated in the first nighttime American football game in 1892?

• ...that Immediate Past President of the American Bar Association Michael S. Greco taught English at Phillips Exeter Academy before attending law school?

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• ... that although Fairfield Grammar School, Bristol, expelled Cary Grant for going into the girls' lavatories, the city later erected a life-size bronze statue (pictured) of him?

• ...that Serenity High School, the oldest public substance-abuse recovery high school in Texas, has served students from over 25 area high schools since opening in 1999?

• ... that secondary students can take Yup'ik studies in the Yupiit School District, which is located in the Bethel Census Area of Alaska?

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• ... that three years after tying for its final Kentucky State Football championship, Flaget High School (pictured) closed due to falling enrollment?
• ... that Deutsche Evangelische Oberschule, Cairo's oldest German school, has been running since 1873?
• ... that Rowen House School in Derbyshire was an "Educational experiment" that used the power of the childhood group in the same way as Summerhill School?

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• ... that the Bolhrad High School (pictured) in Bolhrad, Ukraine, was founded by the Bessarabian Bulgarian diaspora as the first high school of the Bulgarian National Revival period?
• ... that the now defunct Heritage Christian School in Hillsboro, Oregon, once held a chariot race?
• ... that despite being located in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Assumption Preparatory School followed French custom in holding classes on Saturday mornings but not on Thursday or Saturday afternoons?

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• ... that the Liberty Colored High School (pictured), built to replace a Rosenwald school for African-American students in Liberty, South Carolina, is now the Rosenwood community center?
• ... that Konawaena High School's 18th place finish in the 1990 World Solar Challenge was the basis for the 1996 film Race the Sun?
• ... that the 2009 film Heart of Stone is the story of Weequahic High School beset by gangs, and its principal working with Black and Jewish alumni and gang members to restore its glory prior to 1960?

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• ... that John McMillan's Log School (pictured), a latin school that eventually developed into Washington & Jefferson College, is regarded as the oldest educational building west of the Allegheny Mountains?
• ... that in 1979 only two students registered to join Ai Tong School, now one of the most popular schools in Singapore?
• ... that Gardiner Lyceum was the first vocational trade school in the United States?

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• ... that in 1973, Margaret Thatcher temporarily saved the Strand Grammar School (pictured), famous for its contribution of young men to the British Civil Service, from closure?

• ... that Norwegians built Gibraltar District School No. 2 in Wisconsin in the 1860s?

• ... that Daniel and Lucy Lindley founded Inanda Seminary School to ensure that schoolboys in South Africa would not have to marry "naked girls"?

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• ... that since being closed in 1973 for desegregation, Washington School (pictured) in Ossining, New York, has been used as offices and a church?

• ... that Nelson Mandela went especially to Ohlange High School to see a grave and to place his vote in South Africa's first free election?

• ... that faced with high teacher turnover rates, Hertford County Public Schools helped build teacher housing?

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• ... that United States president Abraham Lincoln learned his ABCs when he attended a blab school (pictured) which he walked to in his youth?

• ... that Alexander Pope was expelled from Twyford School for writing a poem that poked fun at one of his school masters?

• ... that three protesters were killed near a Cape Town school by armed police hidden in a "Trojan Horse" vehicle?

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Earth Dome II under construction

• ... that as one of its campus traditions, Pomona College reveres the number 47, having the bell in its clock tower chime on the 47th minute of the hour?

• ... that to raise desperately needed money, the first president of Pomona College, Cyrus G. Baldwin, built the first hydroelectric power station with high-voltage transmission in California in 1892?

• ... that the first superadobe earth dome (replacement pictured) at the Pomona College Organic Farm was built by students without authorization and was demolished by the college administration?