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Dena Blank is the Vice President of Network Support of Teach For All. She is daughter of Arthur Blank (co-founder of The Home Depot, owner of the Atlanta Falcons in the National Football League)
Sorry for my poor english translation. Among the famous graduates include Christopher McCandless, in May 1990. This young adventurer anti-materialism has been the subject of the biography success story Journey to the End of solitude (Into the Wild) by Jon Krakauer, made into a film in 2007 by Sean Penn: Into The Wild ----
Home Depot, Inc.. is a distribution company for the U.S. household goods (DIY, gardening, etc..) whose registered office is located in the city of Atlanta, Georgia. In Quebec, there are 19 stores that are called Home Depot. There are good fifth after Rona, BMR Group, Reno Depot and Home Hardware. In France, the equivalent of this concept are the Brico Depot group Kingfisher. In China, five of the twelve Home Depot opened in 2006 were closed due to cultural differences between Chinese and Americans. In Latin America, Homes Depots not been very successful and had to sell their stores, thirst in Mexico, where Home Depot is well established. ---- The team of the Atlanta Falcons (Atlanta Falcons in English) is a franchise of the NFL (National Football League, NFL) based in Atlanta, Georgia. The franchise was founded June 30, 1965 and played his first game in 1966. The franchise is currently headed by Arthur Blank. The Falcons have won the title four times in their division (NFC West in 1980 and 1998, NFC South in 2004 and 2010) and played in Super Bowl XXXIII in January 1999, lost to the Denver Broncos (34-19). --- Harvard University (Harvard University), Harvard, or more simply, is an American private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, it is the higher education institution the oldest of the US2, 3. Harvard is one of the most prestigious universities in the world. She topped the academic ranking of world universities established by researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and is part of the Ivy League, informal association of eight universities, the oldest and most famous of the United States. Forty-five Nobel emerged from its ranks (2010) 4. Harvard University is also the richest in the world. The faculty consists of 2497 teachers, 9715 students for undergraduate and 15,424 students "graduate". Harvard attracts students from around the world (132 countries represented at 20045). The origins date back to 1635 the site when French Jesuits established a Jesuit school to the attention of American Indians and Catholic missions of New France6. But the real college, as we know it today, was founded a year later, in 1636, by a vote of the General Assembly of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay (Massachusetts Bay Colony) In 1639, it is called "Harvard" in honor of John Harvard of Charlestown, a young Puritan minister who in 1638 bequeathed his library and half his estate to the young institution3. At its inception, the institution has only nine students and a teacher, Nathaniel Eaton3; education is close to that which was taught in England, but under the influence of puritanism of the early settlers of New England. Harvard then formed many pastors. The first scholarship was founded in 16433. During the Revolutionary War, American soldiers are housed in Massachusetts Hall7. The designation of "university" by cons, only dates from 1780. |
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