That Latin learning had not been obliterated is evidenced by the presence in his court of learned Mercian and West Saxon clerics such as Plegmund, Wæferth, and Wulfsige, but Alfred's account should not be entirely discounted.

Kung fu, gongfu, or gung fu (, Pinyin: gōngfu ) is a Chinese term referring to any study, learning, or practice that requires patience, energy, and time to complete, often used in the West to refer to Chinese martial arts, also known as Wushu.

On July 4, 1802, the US Military Academy at West Point formally started as an institution for scientific and military learning.

Sparta was the subject of fascination in its own day, as well as in the West following the revival of classical learning.

Upon learning that de Grasse had sailed from the West Indies for North America, and that French Admiral de Barras had also sailed from Newport, Rhode Island, Admiral Graves concluded that they were going to join forces at the Chesapeake.

The first significant renewal of learning in the West came with the Carolingian Renaissance of the Early Middle Ages.

As Pavlov's work became known in the West, particularly through the writings of John B. Watson, the idea of " conditioning " as an automatic form of learning became a key concept in the developing specialism of comparative psychology, and the general approach to psychology that underlay it, behaviorism.

West Valley Occupational Center provides learning opportunities and employment training to adults and in-and out-of-school youth.

* Adding a new tier above the present upper tier on the West Stand with a ' new specific learning zone ' between the new upper tier and present upper tier

Since both Liutprand's father and his stepfather had been sent as ambassadors to Constantinople, and as Liutprand prepared himself by learning Greek ( not widely known in the 10th-century West ) he seemed well suited for a mission of that kind.

In the period 850-1025 A. D., Palembang prospered as a centre of trade between the East and West and as a center of Sanskrit and Buddhist learning.

Patterson received his secondary education at one of Jamaica's most prominent learning institutions, Calabar High School, before moving on to pursue higher studies at the University of the West Indies Mona Campus, and later the London School of Economics.

The West Bloomfield JCC houses two gymnasiums which can be made into three gyms using a movable wall, a workout area, an indoor full size and kiddie pool, an outdoor full size pool, a kosher restaurant, a Michigan Jewish war veterans museum, an in line hockey center, a library, ceramics / art rooms, a large auditorium type room ( Handleman Hall ), an art museum, an area dedicated to teaching and learning about tzedakah ( charity ) called Shalom Street, a performing arts theater in its basement, a preschool, offices for summer camps, the previously mentioned preschool, and other administrative offices and organizations.

Lozanov's theory and practice triggered an accelerated learning movement in the West, where various techniques not originally included in the Lozanov's theory were introduced.

Member teams are private, liberal arts institutions of higher learning located in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky.

After the Roman empire collapsed in the West in the 5th century, Latin continued to be used as the language of learning and diplomacy for some centuries.

He was especially interested in the First Nations, and spent his time in the West learning from them and the Métis.

" Imperialist aggression shattered the fond dreams of the Chinese about learning from the West.

In addition, several of his classes are service-based with students going out into the West Philadelphia region to help tutor young children while simultaneously learning linguistics from different dialects such as AAVE.

Aiding both student and teachers is the Wernham West Centre for Learning, the most comprehensive and endowed secondary school learning facility in Canada.

Institutions of higher learning that have adopted insights from transpersonal psychology include The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology ( US ), California Institute of Integral Studies ( US ), John F. Kennedy University ( US ), Saybrook University ( US ), University of West Georgia ( US ), Atlantic University ( US ), Burlington College ( US ), Essex University ( UK ), Liverpool John Moores University ( UK ), the University of Northampton ( UK ), Leeds Metropolitan University ( UK ), Naropa University ( Colorado ), Pacifica Graduate Institute ( CA ), and Southwestern College ( NM ).

Among its prominent students are Wang Fuzhi, a celebrated philosopher in Chinese history ; Wei Yuan, a reformist who first advocated the idea of learning from the West ; Zeng Guofan, the first Chinese to initiate the Modernization Movement ( at the time called Yangwu Yundong, movement of emulate of oversea scitech and industry ) and to make arrangements for a modern factory in China ; Zuo Zongtang, a national hero who arranged to build China ’ s first navy and took great pains to defend and develop Xinjiang ; Guo Songtao, China ’ s first ambassador to a foreign country ; Cai E, a major leader in defending the Republic of China ; the first Chinese to set foot on the continent of Antarctica ; and Ci Yungui, the chief designer of China's first super computer.

As the West London Mental Health NHS Trust already carries out research, the Trust hopes that Broadmoor will become a centre of learning for this new type of therapy.

Rick has been divorced from his uptight ex-wife Karen ( Susanna Thompson ) for three years and has two children, Eli ( Shane West ), a 16-year-old basketball player at Sinclair High who suffers from a learning disability, and sensitive 12-year-old Jessie ( Evan Rachel Wood ), who longs for the days before her family's disintegration.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

Sir Henry Howorth, writing in 1898, put himself firmly in the Lappenburg-Kemble tradition by attacking the veracity of the West Saxon annals.

That this and the closing of the East Berlin-West Berlin border have not been accepted by the Western governments appears in notes which Britain, France, and the United States sent to Moscow after the latter's gratuitous protest over a visit of Chancellor Adenauer and other West German officials to West Berlin.

Meanwhile, in Moscow, Khrushchev was adding his bit to the march of world law by promising to build a bomb with a wallop equal to 100 million tons of TNT, to knock sense into the heads of those backward oafs who can't see the justice of surrendering West Berlin to communism.

West Berlin's Mayor Brandt vigorously demanded a firmer stand on the dismemberment of his city and won votes by it.

The question left by the election is whether West Germany veers slightly toward more firmness or more flexibility.

The West Berlin crisis is being played up artificially because it is needed by the United States to justify its arms drive ''.

As was to be expected Kennedy's latest speech was greeted with enthusiasm by revenge-seeking circles in Bonn, where officials of the West German government praised it ''.

The crisis was artificially stirred up by the Kremlin ( Wall Street ) and the Red Army ( Pentagon ) egged on by the West Germans ( East Germans ).

When East Germans fled to the West by the thousands, paeans of joy rose from the throats of Western publicists.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

The capacity of intellectuals and members of the new professional classes to contribute creatively to national development is likely to be destroyed by a constraining sense of inferiority toward both their own political class and their colleagues and professional counterparts in the West.

Any free elections that were to be held in Poland would have to produce a government in which Moscow had complete confidence, and all pressure from the West for free voting by anti-Soviet elements in Poland would be met by restrictions on voting by these elements.

But at Yalta the conflicting expectations of East and West were merged into an agreement by the Big Three to assist all liberated countries in Europe `` to create democratic institutions of their own choice ''.

And along Chicago's West Jackson Boulevard, La Salle Street, and around the Merchandise Mart Plaza there sit men who chart crop reports, who divide the number of reported lady-bugs by the number of reported green-bugs, and the number of hogs by the amount of corn.

The Middle-South Region, as defined by the National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials ( NAIRO ), consists of the states of Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee, West Virginia, Delaware, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.