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Bernina International AG is a privately owned international manufacturer of sewing and embroidery systems. The company was founded in Steckborn, Switzerland, and develops, manufactures, and sells goods and services for the textile market, primarily household sewing-related products in the fields of embroidery, quilting, home textiles, garment sewing, and crafting.
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Mastery learning (or, as it was initially called, "learning for mastery"; also known as "mastery-based learning") is an instructional strategy and educational philosophy, first formally proposed by Benjamin Bloom in 1968. [1] Mastery learning maintains that students must achieve a level of mastery (e.g., 90% on a knowledge test) in prerequisite ...
The Albula line and the Bernina line on the Bernina Express's route were jointly declared a World Heritage Site in 2008. The trip on the Bernina Express through this World Heritage Site is a four-hour railway journey across 196 bridges, through 55 tunnels and across the Bernina Pass at 2,253 metres (7,392 ft) above sea level.
Piz Bernina and the Morteratsch Glacier. Piz Bernina is one of the few isolated Alpine four-thousanders and the most topographically isolated mountain of Switzerland.It is the culminating point of a group of summits slightly lower than 4,000 m (13,123 ft) mostly lying on the main watershed between Switzerland and Italy (such as Piz Scerscen, Piz Zupò, and Piz Palü).
Bernina Region is one of the eleven administrative districts in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It had an area of 237.31 square kilometers (91.63 sq mi) and a population of 4,561 (as of 31 December 2020). [1]. It was created on 1 January 2017 as part of a reorganization of the Canton. [2]
The textile sector is believed to use 79 trillion litres of water per year and to discharge around 20% of all industrial effluent into the environment. [152] Reportedly, aromatic and heterocyclic compounds with color-display and polar groups make up most of the dyes used in textile coloration processes.
Hadrian's Villa (Italian: Villa Adriana; Latin: Villa Hadriana) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising the ruins and remains of a large villa complex built around AD 120 by emperor Hadrian (r.117-138) near Tivoli, outside Rome.