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  2. History of education - Wikipedia

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    Much of this education was conducted in so-called temple schools , derived from earlier Buddhist schools. These schools were no longer religious institutions, nor were they, by 1867, predominantly located in temples. By the end of the Tokugawa period, there were more than 11,000 such schools, attended by 750,000 students.

  3. Classroom pet - Wikipedia

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    A guinea pig as a classroom pet.. Classroom pets are animals that are present in an educational classroom as a pet. [1] Research and literature in the 21st century has shown the main reasons for having classroom pets is to capture the attention of students, improve relationships, provide the opportunity for creative activities, be a resource for humane education, and act as a motivator for ...

  4. History of education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Spain had small settlements in Florida, the Southwest, and also controlled Louisiana. There is little evidence that they schooled any girls. Parish schools were administered by Jesuits or Franciscans and were limited to male students. [56] Excerpt from The New England Primer of 1690, the most popular American textbook of the 18th century

  5. Domestication of the dog - Wikipedia

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    A study of dog remains indicates that these were selectively bred to be either as sled dogs or as hunting dogs, which implies that a sled dog standard and a hunting dog standard existed at that time. The optimal maximum size for a sled dog is 20–25 kg based on thermo-regulation, and the ancient sled dogs were between 16 and 25 kg.

  6. Cat litter box myths are suddenly a culture war flashpoint ...

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    Tim Kraayenbrink, a Republican Iowa state senator, said at a forum in May that local schools had been required to put cat litter boxes in the bathroom for furries to use, as he discussed schools ...

  7. Dog - Wikipedia

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    The dog is a domestic animal that likely travelled a commensal pathway into domestication (i.e. humans initially neither benefitted nor were harmed by wild dogs eating refuse from their camps). [23] [26] The questions of when and where dogs were first domesticated remains uncertain. [20]

  8. Domestication of the cat - Wikipedia

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    A Sphynx cat, one of the cat breeds resulting from human breeding practices during the last century and a half. In 1871 only five cat breeds were recognized by an association in London. Today the USA based Cat Fanciers Association (CFA) recognizes 41 breeds [20] and The International Cat Association (TICA) recognizes 57 breeds. [21]

  9. ‘Reservation Dogs’ Uses 1970s Horror Motifs to Tell the Cruel ...

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    In what may be one of the most powerful and stirring episodes of the entire run of FX’s “Reservation Dogs,” the series this week took on the horror of assimilation “Indian boarding schools ...