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The first meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) took place on 28 December 1924, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. [1] The society met biannually until 1982, meeting once in the summer in conjunction with the Linguistic Institute and once in the winter. Since 1982, the LSA has met annually in the winter.
June 29, 1989 [ 2 ] The Chautauqua Institution ( / ʃəˈtɔːkwə / shə-TAW-kwə) is a 501 (c) (3) [ 3 ] nonprofit education center and summer resort for adults and youth located on 2,070 acres (840 ha) in Chautauqua, New York, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of Jamestown in the western southern tier of New York state. Established in 1874, the ...
Camp meeting. A service of worship at the tabernacle of a camp meeting of the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection, held at Wesleyan Methodist Camp in Stoneboro, Pennsylvania. The camp meeting is a form of Protestant Christian religious service originating in England and Scotland as an evangelical event in association with the communion season.
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly known as Cooper Union, is a private college on Cooper Square in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in France. [ 10][ 11][ 12] The school was built on a radical new model ...
Omega Institute for Holistic Studies is a non-profit educational retreat center located in Rhinebeck, New York. Founded in 1977 by Elizabeth Lesser and Stephan Rechtschaffen, inspired by Sufi mystic, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and his ecumenical spirituality, today it offers classes to over 25,000 people a year, at the 190-acre (0.77 km 2) campus.
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is a scientific research institute located in the La Jolla community of San Diego, California. [1] The independent, non-profit institute was founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk, the developer of the polio vaccine; among the founding consultants were Jacob Bronowski and Francis Crick. Construction of the ...
Cejwin Camps. / 41.3997222°N 74.6536111°W / 41.3997222; -74.6536111. Cejwin Camps was a Jewish summer camp in the Catskill Mountains, established in 1919 by the Central Jewish Institute. At its height it was "the most significant non-Hebrew Jewish cultural camp."
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Organised by. John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon. Participants. John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, Claude Shannon, and others. The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was a 1956 summer workshop widely considered [1] [2] [3] to ...