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The Colossus of Rhodes straddling over the harbor, painting by Ferdinand Knab, 1886. The Colossus of Rhodes (Ancient Greek: ὁ Κολοσσὸς Ῥόδιος, romanized: ho Kolossòs Rhódios; Modern Greek: Κολοσσός της Ρόδου, romanized: Kolossós tis Ródou) [a] was a statue of the Greek sun god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by ...
A U.S. district judge ruled in 1977 that the school was intentionally creating school boundaries to separate White and Black students. The school district challenged the segregation ruling, bringing it to the U.S. Supreme Court. The court supported the judge's decision, forcing new busing routes in the school district.
School segregation declined rapidly during the late 1960s and early 1970s. [2] Segregation appears to have increased since 1990. [2] The disparity in the average poverty rate in the schools whites attend and blacks attend is the single most important factor in the educational achievement gap between white and black students. [3]
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It was a statue of the Greek sun-god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World , it was constructed to celebrate the successful defence of Rhodes city against an attack by Demetrius Poliorcetes , who had besieged it for a year with a ...
East Main Street Elementary School / East Friend Street School 1469 E. Main Street Demolished Addition made in 1889. Demolished 1960 and replaced with the present-day main campus of the Columbus Collegiate Academy. 1879 Northwood School 2229 N. High Street / 5 W. Northwood Avenue Demolished Addition made in 1888. Levi Scofield design. [23] 1880
The Colossus of Rhodes, imagined in a 16th-century engraving by Martin Heemskerck, part of his series of the Seven Wonders of the World. The Rhodes Colossus is an editorial cartoon illustrated by English cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne and published by Punch magazine in 1892.