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Literary Birthdays: Virginia Woolf (born on 25th of January 1882) – British novelist, essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the 20th century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
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We are glad to invite you on our spring studies course, which will take place during March 30 – April 3 2015. A series of lectures on Business topics will include three meetings: 1) How to be a Successful Manager, 2) How to be a Successful Public Speaker, 3) Business Idioms. All classes are provided in English. Presenter – Mr. Bill Kennedy.
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American Civil War, also called War Between the States, four-year war (1861–65) between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. The war resolved two fundamental questions left unresolved by the revolution: whether the United States was to be a dissolvable confederation of sovereign states or an indivisible nation with a sovereign national government; and whether this nation, born of a declaration that all men were created with an equal right to liberty, would continue to exist as the largest slaveholding country in the world.
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This week we observe the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, which celebrates the life and legacy of a man who brought hope and healing to America. The King Holiday honors the life and contributions of America’s greatest champion of racial justice and equality, the leader who not only dreamed of a color-blind society, but who also lead a movement that achieved historic reforms to help make it a reality.
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