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  2. Alabama State University - Wikipedia

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    Alabama State University ( ASU, Bama State, or Alabama State) is a public historically black university in Montgomery, Alabama. Founded in 1867, during the Reconstruction era, it was one of about 180 "normal schools" established by state governments in the 19th century to train teachers for the rapidly growing public common schools.

  3. 2006 Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Platte Canyon High School hostage crisis was a hostage taking and shooting at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colorado, on September 27, 2006. The gunman, 53-year-old [2] Duane Roger Morrison, took seven female students hostage and sexually assaulted them, [3] later releasing four. When police broke open the classroom's door with ...

  4. Jackson State Tigers football - Wikipedia

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    Since 1958, Jackson State has won about 25 percent of the conference's football championships (19) and is a perennial powerhouse program among HBCUs. The Tigers have produced 93 professional football players and four Pro Football Hall of Famers: Lem Barney, Walter Payton, Robert Brazile, and Jackie Slater. Only 13 college football teams at any ...

  5. Blackbeard - Wikipedia

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    Commands. Queen Anne's Revenge, Adventure. Edward Teach (or Thatch; c. 1680 – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life, but he may have been a sailor on privateer ships during Queen ...

  6. Rust College - Wikipedia

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    Rust College. / 34.774746; -89.44829. Rust College is a private historically black college in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Founded in 1866, it is the second-oldest private college in the state. Affiliated with the United Methodist Church, it is one of ten historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) founded before 1868 that are still ...

  7. Bridgewater State University - Wikipedia

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    Nicholas Tillinghast. Bridgewater State University was founded by Horace Mann as Bridgewater Normal School. It opened on September 9, 1840, [4] [5] making it the oldest permanently-located institution of public higher education in Massachusetts. As one of the first normal schools in the nation, its initial mission was to train school teachers.

  8. Virginia State University - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .vsu .edu. Virginia State University ( VSU or Virginia State) is a public historically Black land-grant university in Ettrick, Virginia. Founded on March 6, 1882, Virginia State developed as the United States's first fully state-supported four-year institution of higher learning for Black Americans.

  9. Alstonia scholaris - Wikipedia

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    Alstonia scholaris, commonly called blackboard tree, scholar tree, milkwood or devil's tree in English, is an evergreen tropical tree in the Dogbane Family (Apocynaceae). It is native to southern China, tropical Asia (mainly the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia ) and Australasia , where it is a common ornamental plant .