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  2. Education Act 1496 - Wikipedia

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    The Education Act 1496 (c. 87) was an act of the Parliament of Scotland that required landowners to send their eldest sons to school to study Latin, arts and law. This made schooling compulsory for the first time in the world.

  3. Ciudad Mitad del Mundo - Wikipedia

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    Ciudad Mitad del Mundo as seen from the west from the 30-meter-high terrace of the museum The yellow line divides the 2 hemispheres. Older monument to the equator in Calacalí (2008) The Ciudad Mitad del Mundo (Middle of the World City) is a tract of land owned by the prefecture of the province of Pichincha, Ecuador.

  4. List of private schools in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    English/Scottish Yes The High School of Glasgow [23] £16,959 n/a Scottish Yes Dollar Academy [24] £16,677 £38,601 Scottish Yes St Margaret's School for Girls, Aberdeen [25] £16,632 n/a Scottish No International School Aberdeen [26] £16,535 n/a IB No George Heriot's [27] £16,440 n/a Scottish Yes Clifton Hall School, Edinburgh [28] £16,380 ...

  5. Education in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Kilmarnock Academy is the only school in Scotland to have educated two Nobel Prize Laureates [36] [37] Secondary education is provided by secondary schools throughout Scotland, both in the state and independent sector. The vast majority of schools in the state sector are administered directly by the local Education Authority, which is ...

  6. History of schools in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    The ragged school movement attempted to provide free education to destitute children. The ideas were taken up in Aberdeen where Sheriff William Watson founded the House of Industry and Refuge, and they were championed by Scottish minister Thomas Guthrie who wrote Plea for Ragged Schools (1847), after which they rapidly spread across Britain. [37]

  7. The Middle of the World - Wikipedia

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    Mitad del Mundo (disambiguation) Center of the World (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 21 October 2022, at 20:15 (UTC). Text is available under the ...

  8. Quitsato Sundial - Wikipedia

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    The Quitsato Sundial is a cultural-tourist place located at La Mitad Del Mundo, near to Cayambe, 47 km north of Quito, Ecuador.It was built in 2006 and inaugurated in 2007 as an independent, non-profit project in a 24,756 ft 2 (2,300 m 2) area.

  9. Education in Scotland in the twentieth century - Wikipedia

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    The Scotland Street School, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and built 1903–06. Education in Scotland in the twentieth century includes all forms of organised education in Scotland, such as elementary, secondary and higher education. The centre of the education system became more focused on Scotland throughout the century, with the ...