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The monastery at daybreak. The Monastery of the Holy Spirit was founded on March 21, 1944, by twenty monks from the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. The Archdiocese of Atlanta and silent film star Colleen Moore donated 1,400 acres (5.7 km 2) of land and the first monks lived in a barn while they built (by themselves) what would become known as the "pine board" monastery.
Historical Bonsai marker 201 Goshin (courtesy of US National Arboretum) Goshin ( Japanese : 護神 , "protector of the spirit") [ 1 ] is a bonsai created by John Y. Naka . It is a forest planting of eleven Foemina junipers ( Juniperus chinensis 'Foemina'), the earliest of which Naka began training into bonsai in 1948.
Popularly known as "Ascension Monastery", the Monastery of the Glorious Ascension is located in Resaca, Georgia, about 60 miles northwest of Atlanta along I-75, near Dalton, Georgia. The monastery was founded in 1966 and was received into the Orthodox Church in America in August 1977. In 1980, the Brotherhood moved from Mississippi to Resaca ...
The complex was founded in the 6th century by David of Gareji, one of the thirteen Assyrian monks who arrived in the country at the same time. His disciples Dodo and Luciane expanded the original lavra and founded two other monasteries known as Dodo's Rka (literally, "the horn of Dodo") and Natlismtsemeli ("the Baptist").
Initially intended as a night school, Georgia State University was established in 1913 as the Georgia School of Technology's Evening School of Commerce. [23] A reorganization of the University System of Georgia in the 1930s led to the school becoming the Atlanta Extension Center of the University System of Georgia and allowed night students to earn degrees from several colleges in the ...
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This is a list of Georgia State University people. Georgia State University is an urban research university in downtown Atlanta , Georgia , United States. Founded in 1913, it serves a diverse population of approximately 50,000 [ 1 ] students, and is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities.
The term "bonsai" itself is a Japanese pronunciation of the earlier Chinese term penzai. The word bonsai is often used in English as an umbrella term for all miniature trees in containers or pots. This article focuses on the history of bonsai in Japan and, in modern times, worldwide.