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St Trinnean's Academy for Young Ladies was one of the real-life inspirations for the fictional girls' school of St Trinian's The squalid Dotheboys Hall in Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby was inspired by a real school in Bowes. [1] This is a list of fictional schools as portrayed in various media.
The protagonist of Linklater's semi-autobiographical White Maa's Saga attends medical school at this Scottish university, either identified as University of Aberdeen or set in a town which is "a thinly veiled combination of Aberdeen and Inverness". [33] [34] King's University, also known as King's College Dublin: Eilís Dillon: Novel: Ireland
Mystery religions, mystery cults, sacred mysteries or simply mysteries (Greek: μυστήρια), were religious schools of the Greco-Roman world for which participation was reserved to initiates (mystai). The main characteristic of these religious schools was the secrecy associated with the particulars of the initiation and the ritual practice ...
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Veronica Mars – school girl whose father is a private detective, created by Rob Thomas; Amelia Peabody – Egyptologist who solves a variety of dastardly crimes in turn-of-the-century Egypt, created by Elizabeth Peters. Ellery Queen – author and editor of a magazine, created by two writers, using the pseudonym Ellery Queen
A paranormal debunker arrives at a boys' boarding school to disprove alleged hauntings. [67] 2012 The Moth Diaries: Mary Harron: A female boarding school student suspects a new peer is a vampire. [68] 2015 The Blackcoat's Daughter: Oz Perkins: Two young women encounter a mysterious demonic force while alone at their boarding school during a ...
Strange Academy is a fictional school appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.It was founded by Doctor Strange to train young people from many worlds with magical abilities in the use of sorcery and magical artifacts.
A pseudonym is a name adopted by a person for a particular purpose, which differs from their true name. A pseudonym may be used by social activists or politicians for political purposes or by others for religious purposes. It may be a soldier's nom de guerre or an author's nom de plume.