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Wotton House is a hotel, wedding venue, conference centre and former country house in Wotton near Dorking, Surrey, England.Originally the centre of the Wotton Estate and the seat of the Evelyn family, it was the birthplace in 1620 of diarist and landscape gardener John Evelyn, who built the first Italian garden in England there.
Green College is a centre for interdisciplinary scholarship and a community of scholars at the University of British Columbia founded by Cecil Howard Green and Ida Green.. The college consists of a residential community of nearly 100 graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, visiting scholars and professors, and non-resident affiliated faculty and academic programming.
Higher education in British Columbia started in 1890 with the first attempt by the British Columbia government to establish a provincial university, An Act Respecting the University of British Columbia that established the first convocation of the "one university for the whole of British Columbia for the purpose of raising the standard of higher education in the Province, and of enabling all ...
SFU Beedie's Surrey campus is a 30,000 square-metre institution located at Central City in Surrey. The building, designed by architect Bing Thom, has won numerous national and international awards. SFU's Beedie School of Business offers the undergraduate Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program and the Part-Time MBA Program at the Surrey campus.
John Evelyn, the diarist was born at Wotton House in 1620, which includes two grottos in the grounds. In 1694 he moved in as the main legatee . After the Evelyn family relinquished occupation, Wotton House was leased as a training college for the Fire Service from 1947 to 1981 and then, after being empty for nearly 13 years, was converted into ...
A Florida man is accused of killing his estranged girlfriend by stabbing her up to 70 times during a break-in Friday – exactly one month after he was nabbed for assaulting the victim and ordered ...
The Graduate School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia was established on July 24, 1996 as an academic unit within UBC's Faculty of Arts. [1] The building in which it is currently housed, the 3-story Sing Tao building, was opened on Aug. 27, 1997, and the school accepted its first class of students in September 1998.
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