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  2. Jan Palach - Wikipedia

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    Jan Palach (Czech pronunciation: [jan ˈpalax]; 11 August 1948 – 19 January 1969) was a Czech student of history and political economics at Charles University in Prague. His self-immolation in 1969 at age 20 was a political protest against the end of the Prague Spring resulting from the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 by the ...

  3. Self-Strengthening Movement - Wikipedia

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    The Self-Strengthening Movement, also known as the Westernization [1] or Western Affairs Movement [2] ( c. 1861 –1895), was a period of radical institutional reforms initiated in China during the late Qing dynasty following the military disasters of the Opium Wars . The British and French burning of the Old Summer Palace in 1860 as Taiping ...

  4. Student-centered learning - Wikipedia

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    Student-centered learning means inverting the traditional teacher-centered understanding of the learning process and putting students at the center of the learning process. In the teacher-centered classroom, teachers are the primary source for knowledge. On the other hand, in student-centered classrooms, active learning is strongly encouraged.

  5. Panashe Chigumadzi - Wikipedia

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    Born in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1991, Chigumadzi grew up in South Africa. [1] She has published her writing in a variety of media. She has been a columnist for The Guardian, [2] Die Zeit, The New York Times, [3] The Washington Post, [4] New York Review of Books [5] [6] and Chimurenga. [7] She was a founder of VANGUARD, a magazine designed to give ...

  6. Self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell - Wikipedia

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    Self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell. /  38.942472°N 77.067889°W  / 38.942472; -77.067889. On February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force, died after setting himself on fire outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. Immediately before the act, which was live-streamed ...

  7. Justus Henry Nelson - Wikipedia

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    Justus Henry Nelson. Justus Henry Nelson in South America in 1920. Justus Henry Nelson (December 22, 1850 – February 6, 1937) established the first Protestant church in the Amazon basin and was a self-supporting Methodist missionary in Belém, Pará, Brazil for 45 years.

  8. Henley Business School South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Henley Business School Africa is located in the Sandton suburb of Paulshof, close to the N1 Western Bypass and 10 km from Sandton City. It provides a variety of facilities for workshops, learning events, coaching sessions, conferences, board meetings, strategy sessions, team meetings, courses and seminars. It is equidistant from Lanseria and OR ...

  9. Warren Goldstein - Wikipedia

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    Warren Goldstein (born 1971) is the chief rabbi of The Union of Orthodox Synagogues of South Africa since 2005. Born in Pretoria, he currently lives in Johannesburg.He is the first chief rabbi of South Africa who was born in South Africa and the youngest person ever to be appointed to that post, at age 32.