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The school was founded in 1904 by American missionary John Henry House to serve the rural population of Greece and the Balkans. The current major educational divisions include the Secondary School, Perrotis College (Κολλέγιο Περρωτής), the Primary School Program, the department of Adult Education & Research and the Greek Summer ...
University of Fort Hare, Faculty of Science and Agriculture. University of Pretoria, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. Fort Cox College of Agriculture and Forestry, faculties of Agriculture and Forestry. Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Department of Applied Sciences. Majuba College, Nelspruit, Department of Agriculture.
John Henry House. John Henry House was a missionary known for his work teaching agricultural techniques to Bulgarian and later Greek peasants. House was born on May 29, 1845, in Painesville, Ohio, to John House IV, a blacksmith, farmer, and abolitionist, and Jane Electa Mosely, both originally from Westfield, Massachusetts. [1]
Briar Watts-Rettig of Marion recently had an adventure of a lifetime when she traveled to the American Farm School in Greece with Ohio 4-H. Marion 4-H member embarks on transformative journey to ...
shows a tractor plowing a crop field. Worker overseeing cotton gin, ca. 1940s. Agriculture is a major industry in the United States, which is a net exporter of food. [1] As of the 2017 census of agriculture, there were 2.04 million farms, covering an area of 900 million acres (1,400,000 sq mi), an average of 441 acres (178 hectares) per farm.
Gerontissa Gavrielia (Mother Gabriela), also known as Saint Gabriela of the Ascetic of Love [2] (15 October 1897 – 28 March 1992) was a Greek Orthodox nun, known for her care of the poor and sick. She was the second woman to be admitted to a Greek university and was a trained physiotherapist prior to taking up her religious calling at the age ...
The Consulate General of the United States in Thessaloniki is the focal point for events relating to the United States in northern Greece. The consulate is situated on the 7th floor of a new commercial office building at 43 Tsimiski Street in the city center. The consulate is headed by the Principal Officer and employs local hire individuals.
The Brookholt School of Agriculture for Women (also known as Belmont's farm school for girls) was an experimental American farm vocational school for women. Established on April 1, 1911, by Alva Belmont on her Brookholt estate, located in the hamlet of East Meadow, 3 miles (4.8 km) from Hempstead, Long Island, New York, it was believed to be the first institution of its kind for the exclusive ...