Academy

An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education or higher learning, research, or honorary membership. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 385 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and skill, north of Athens, Greece.

The original Academy

Before Akademia was a school, and even before Cimon enclosed its precincts with a wall, it contained a sacred grove of olive trees dedicated to Athena, the goddess of wisdom, outside the city walls of ancient Athens. The archaic name for the site was Hekademia, which by classical times evolved into Akademia and was explained, at least as early as the beginning of the 6th century BC, by linking it to an Athenian hero, a legendary "Akademos". The site of Akademia was sacred to Athena and other immortals.

Plato's immediate successors as "scholarch" of Akademia were Speusippus (347–339 BC), Xenocrates (339–314 BC), Polemon (314–269 BC), Crates (ca. 269–266 BC), and Arcesilaus (ca. 266–240 BC). Later scholarchs include Lacydes of Cyrene, Carneades, Clitomachus, and Philo of Larissa ("the last undisputed head of the Academy"). Other notable members of Akademia include Aristotle, Heraclides Ponticus, Eudoxus of Cnidus, Philip of Opus, Crantor, and Antiochus of Ascalon.

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A Very Merry Christmas: Salvation Army helps hundreds of Odessa families

Odessa American 20 Dec 2024
Compass Academy’s Braydon Bridges helps load cars at the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree gift distribution Thursday at Floyd Gwin Park ... Compass Academy students help out at Salvation Army's Angel Tree gift distribution Thursday at Floyd Gwin Park ... Compass Academy students ......
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PHOTO GALLERY: Salvation Army Angel Tree gift distribution

Odessa American 19 Dec 2024
Compass Academy students help out Salvation Army's Angel Tree gift distribution Thursday at Floyd Gwin Park ... Compass Academy students carry gifts to cars at the Salvation Army's Angel Tree gift distribution Thursday at Floyd Gwin Park ... Compass Academy students carry gifts to cars ......
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Int'l experts discuss water treatment technologies in Sri Lanka

China.dot.org 18 Dec 2024
Yang Min, from the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences under the Chinese Academy for Sciences, delivered a keynote speech at the symposium, noting that due to the limited and uneven distribution of water resources, China had also faced challenges in ensuring water supply safety....
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Governor urges political leaders, bureaucracy to play role for progress of Balochistan

Urdu Point 13 Dec 2024
... members of Balochistan Civil Services Academy.</p><p>At the end of the closing ceremony, the Governor of Balochistan distributed certificates and commemorative shields among all the officers-in-training and the administrators of the Civil Services Academy.</p> ....
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Isle of Wight teacher arrested on child porn charges

Daily Press 13 Dec 2024
Hinz, a teacher at Isle of Wight Academy, faces three felony charges related to possession, reproduction, distribution, solicitation, and facilitation of child pornography....
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Blue Santa will serve 52 families

Hill Country Community Journal 12 Dec 2024
The annual Blue Santa program, sponsored by the ......
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Action Group Seeks State Inquiry Into Documentary Association for Canceling ‘We Will Dance Again’ Ads ...

The Wrap 11 Dec 2024
... Contrary to this mission, it has come to our attention that, for reasons of anti-Israel discrimination, the IDA has purposely breached a media distribution contract with the producers of We Will Dance Again, effectively sabotaging the documentary film’s Academy Award prospects....
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Classic Vietnam War Film ‘Hearts and Minds’ to Receive Cinema Eye Honors’ Legacy Award

The Wrap 10 Dec 2024
Hearts and Minds,” the 1974 anti-war film that caused a furor at the Academy Awards when it won the Best Documentary Feature Oscar, has been named recipient of the 2025 Legacy Award at the Cinema Eye Honors ... 9, 2025, at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem....
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Third Volume of the National Atlas of Hungary Unveiled

Hungary Today 10 Dec 2024
Additionally, the maps highlight the birthplace of Hungarian talents, the talent distribution in our settlements, and the accomplishments of our scientists, artists, athletes, inventors, Nobel and Academy Award winners, and Olympic champions....
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Carmel Valley teenager spreads the love and power of reading through San Diego Book Project

San Diego Union-Tribune 10 Dec 2024
She collected books to distribute to students at a school in southeast San Diego ... Throughout the year she has held a series of drives at Bishop’s, Solana Ranch Elementary, Del Mar Library and Mission Bay Montessori Academy ... She runs the Book Project on the distribution side while Libros Sin Fronteras serves as the community advocacy arm....

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