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  2. Stephen M. Sano - Wikipedia

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    Piano, guitar. Website. stanford .edu /~sano /. Stephen M. Sano (born 1959) is Professor of Music, the Harold C. Schmidt Director of Choral Studies, and the Rachford & Carlota A. Harris University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. [1] Using the name Steve Sano, he is also an accomplished kī hō'alu, or slack-key guitar ...

  3. History of Stanford University - Wikipedia

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    Stanford was founded by Leland Stanford, a railroad magnate, U.S. senator, and former California governor, together with his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford. It is named in honor of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who died in 1884 from typhoid fever just before his 16th birthday. His parents decided to dedicate a university to their only son ...

  4. Sam Wineburg - Wikipedia

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    Sam Wineburg. Samuel S. Wineburg (born 1958) is an American educational and cognitive psychologist. He is the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of History & American Studies emeritus at Stanford University. Since the 1990s, Wineburg has been a leading figure in research on historical thinking and the teaching and learning ...

  5. D major - Wikipedia

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    The key is also appropriate for guitar music, with drop D tuning making two D's available as open strings. For some beginning wind instrument students, however, D major is not a very suitable key, since it transposes to E major on B ♭ wind instruments, and beginning methods generally tend to avoid keys with more than three sharps.

  6. Slack-key guitar - Wikipedia

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    Slack-key guitar. Hawaiian slack-key guitarist Cyril Pahinui in Waikiki, 2012. Slack-key guitar (from Hawaiian kī hōʻalu, which means "loosen the [tuning] key") is a fingerstyle genre of guitar music that originated in Hawaii. This style of guitar playing involves altering the standard tuning on a guitar from E-A-D-G-B-E, which has been used ...

  7. Dave Guard - Wikipedia

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    1955–91. Labels. Capitol. Formerly of. The Kingston Trio. The Whiskeyhill Singers. Donald David Guard (October 19, 1934 – March 22, 1991) was an American folk singer, songwriter, arranger and recording artist. Along with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane, he was one of the founding members of the Kingston Trio . Guard was born in San Francisco ...

  8. Stanford University - Wikipedia

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    The Stanford University Graduate School of Education grew out of the Department of the History and Art of Education, one of the original twenty-one departments at Stanford, and became a professional graduate school in 1917. [59] The Stanford Graduate School of Business was founded in 1925 at the urging of then-trustee Herbert Hoover. [60]

  9. Thomas Fingar - Wikipedia

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    Charles Thomas Fingar, (born January 11, 1946) is a professor at Stanford University.In 1986 Fingar left Stanford to join the State Department. In 2005, he moved to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as the deputy director of National Intelligence for Analysis and concurrently served as the chairman of the National Intelligence Council until December 2008. [1]