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Cheshire Academy, the Glossary

Cheshire Academy is a co-educational college preparatory school located in Cheshire, Connecticut, United States.^[1]

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1794 establishments in Connecticut
Boarding schools in Connecticut
Educational institutions established in 1794
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Abraham Attah

Abraham Nii Attah (born 2 July 2001) is a Ghanaian actor, living in the United States.

Alberto Díaz Jr.

Rear Admiral Alberto Díaz Jr. (born 1943) is the first Hispanic to become the Director of the San Diego Naval District and Balboa Naval Hospital.

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Alexis Holmes

Alexis Holmes (born January 28, 2000) is an American track and field athlete who competes over 400 metres.

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Andrew Hull Foote (September 12, 1806 – June 26, 1863) was an American naval officer who was noted for his service in the American Civil War and also for his contributions to several naval reforms in the years prior to the war.

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Ars Technica

Ars Technica is a website covering news and opinions in technology, science, politics, and society, created by Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes in 1998.

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Blue Öyster Cult

Blue Öyster Cult (sometimes abbreviated BÖC or BOC) is an American hard rock band formed on Long Island in Stony Brook, New York, in 1967.

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Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction.

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Carl Barzilauskas

Carl Joseph "Barzo" Barzilauskas (March 19, 1951 – December 20, 2023) was an American professional football player who was a defensive tackle for six seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Jets and the Green Bay Packers.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.

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Charles L. Mitchell

Charles Le Moyne Mitchell (August 6, 1844 – March 1, 1890) was an American businessman and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from Connecticut from 1875 to 1883.

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Cheshire, Connecticut

Cheshire, formerly known as New Cheshire Parish, is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.

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Chester B. Bowles

Chester Bliss Bowles (April 5, 1901 – May 25, 1986) was an American diplomat and ambassador, governor of Connecticut, congressman and co-founder of a major advertising agency, Benton & Bowles, now part of Publicis Groupe.

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Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer (CEO) (chief executive (CE), or managing director (MD) in the UK) is the highest officer charged with the management of an organization especially a company or nonprofit institution.

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College-preparatory school

A college-preparatory school (usually shortened to preparatory school or prep school) is a type of secondary school.

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Confederate States Army

The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting against the United States forces to win the independence of the Southern states and uphold and expand the institution of slavery.

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Connecticut

Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Data-rate units

In telecommunications, data transfer rate is the average number of bits (bitrate), characters or symbols (baudrate), or data blocks per unit time passing through a communication link in a data-transmission system.

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Dawson's Creek

Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series about the lives of a close-knit group of friends in the fictional town of Capeside, Massachusetts, beginning in high school and continuing into college that ran for six seasons from January 20, 1998, to May 14, 2003.

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Distinguished Service Cross (United States)

The Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) is the United States Army's second highest military decoration for soldiers who display extraordinary heroism in combat with an armed enemy force.

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Educational accreditation

Educational accreditation is a quality assurance process under which services and operations of educational institutions or programs are evaluated and verified by an external body to determine whether applicable and recognized standards are met.

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Eli Pemberton

Elijah Pemberton (born May 31, 1997) is an American professional basketball player for Hubo Limburg United of the BNXT League.

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Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church, officially the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere.

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Eric Bloom

Eric Jay Bloom (born December 1, 1944) is an American musician, singer and songwriter.

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Fear Factory

Fear Factory is an American industrial metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1989.

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Francisco García (basketball)

Francisco Alberto García Gutiérrez (born December 31, c. 1981) is a Dominican former professional basketball player who played ten seasons in the NBA.

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Frank Shields

Francis Xavier Alexander Shields Sr. (November 18, 1909 – August 19, 1975) was an American amateur tennis player of the 1920s and 1930s, and an actor known for Hoosier Schoolboy (1937).

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Fred W. Friendly

Fred W. Friendly (born Ferdinand Friendly Wachenheimer, October 30, 1915 – March 3, 1998) was a president of CBS News and the creator, along with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program See It Now.

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Geoffrey Cheney Ferris

Geoffrey Cheney Ferris (April 8, 1918 – May 7, 1943) was a United States Army soldier during World War II who received the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions as a Forward Observer during Operation Torch near Beja, Tunisia.

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Gideon Welles

Gideon Welles (July 1, 1802 – February 11, 1878), nicknamed "Father Neptune", was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869, a cabinet post he was awarded after supporting Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election.

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Henry Shelton Sanford

Henry Shelton Sanford (June 15, 1823 – May 21, 1891) was an American diplomat and businessman from Connecticut who served as United States Minister to Belgium from 1861 to 1869.

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IB Diploma Programme

The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) is a two-year educational programme primarily aimed at 16-to-19-year-olds in 140 countries around the world.

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International Baccalaureate

The International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), more commonly known as the International Baccalaureate (IB), is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and founded in 1968.

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International Tennis Hall of Fame

The International Tennis Hall of Fame is located in Newport, Rhode Island, United States.

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Israeli Basketball Premier League

Ligat HaAl (ליגת העל, lit., Supreme League or Premier League), or the Israeli Basketball Premier League, is the top-tier level league of professional competition in Israeli club basketball, making it Israel's primary basketball competition.

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J. Kenneth Campbell

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J. P. Morgan

John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

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James Van Der Beek

James William Van Der Beek (born March 8, 1977) is an American actor.

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John Bowden (minister)

John Bowden (died 8 January 1750) was an English Presbyterian minister.

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John Frederick Kensett

John Frederick Kensett (March 22, 1816 – December 14, 1872) was an American landscape painter and engraver born in Cheshire, Connecticut.

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Joseph W. Hasel

Joseph W. Hasel (October 28, 1906 – July 16, 1996) was a broadcaster who, among many other activities, interviewed Babe Ruth for Armed Forces Radio Service during World War II.

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Joseph Wheeler

Joseph "Fighting Joe" Wheeler (September 10, 1836 – January 25, 1906) was a military commander and politician of the Confederate States of America.

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Josh Jobe

Joshua Jobe (born April 9, 1998) is an American football cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL).

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Lambert Hitchcock

Lambert Hitchcock (May 28, 1795, Cheshire, Connecticut – 1852) was an American furniture manufacturer, "Last Seating: America's Best-Known Chair Is on the Brink of Extinction" American Heritage, Oct.

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Lenny Simpson

Lendward Simpson (September 23, 1948 – February 9, 2024) was an American professional tennis player and founder of One Love Tennis, a tennis and academic enrichment program for at-risk kids.

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List of ambassadors of the United States to India

The United States ambassador to India is the chief diplomatic representative of United States in India.

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List of governors of Connecticut

The governor of Connecticut is the head of government of Connecticut, and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

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Loring Buzzell

Loring Bruce Buzzell (October 3, 1927 – October 20, 1959) was an American music publisher and record label executive.

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Mike Heller

Mike Heller (born January 17, 1982) is an American drummer known as a member of the industrial metal band Fear Factory, the technical death metal band Malignancy, the British heavy metal band Raven, and rock band The Lucid alongside bassist David Ellefson (ex Megadeth), guitarist Drew Fortier, and vocalist Vinnie Dombroski (Sponge).

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Music executive

A music executive or record executive is a person within a music company, in particular, a record label who works in senior management and makes executive decisions over the label's artists.

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Music publisher

A music publisher is a type of publisher that specializes in distributing music.

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National Association of Independent Schools

The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) is a U.S.-based membership organization for private, nonprofit, K-12 schools.

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The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

The New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc. (NEASC) is an American educational organization that accredits private and public secondary schools (high schools and technical/career institutions), primarily in New England.

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New York Giants

The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area.

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Norman Larsen

Norman Bernard Larsen (1923—1970) was an American industrial chemist.

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Pete Perreault

Pete Perreault (March 1, 1939 – December 8, 2001) was an American football guard who played nine seasons of professional football.

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Peter Brant

Peter Mark Brant Sr. (born March 1, 1947) is an American industrialist and art collector.

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Philadelphia Eagles

The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia.

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Postgraduate year

A postgraduate (PG) year is an extra year of secondary coursework at a boarding school following high school graduation, but before entering college.

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Private school

A private school is a school not administered or funded by the government, unlike a public school.

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Rear admiral

Rear admiral is a flag officer rank used by English-speaking navies.

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Robert A. Hurley

Robert Augustine Hurley (August 25, 1895 – May 3, 1968) was an American politician and the 73rd Governor of Connecticut.

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Robert Ludlum

Robert Ludlum (May 25, 1927 – March 12, 2001) was an American author of 27 thriller novels, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne from the original The Bourne Trilogy series.

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Roberto Goizueta

Roberto Críspulo Goizueta Cantera (November 18, 1931 – October 18, 1997) was a Cuban-born American business executive who served as the chairman, president, and chief executive officer (CEO) of The Coca-Cola Company from August 1980 until his death in October 1997.

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Rockwell Kent

Rockwell Kent (June 21, 1882 – March 13, 1971) was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager.

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Samuel Seabury

Samuel Seabury (November 30, 1729February 25, 1796) was the first American Episcopal bishop, the second Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, and the first Bishop of Connecticut.

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Sanford, Florida

Sanford is a city and the county seat of Seminole County, Florida.

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Second lieutenant

Second lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces.

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Sidney Wood

Sidney Burr Wood Jr. (November 1, 1911 – January 10, 2009) was an American tennis player who won the 1931 Wimbledon singles title.

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Talib Kweli

Talib Kweli Greene (born October 3, 1975) is an American rapper.

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The Bourne Identity (novel)

The Bourne Identity is a 1980 spy fiction thriller by Robert Ludlum that tells the story of Jason Bourne, a man with remarkable survival abilities who has retrograde amnesia, and must seek to discover his true identity.

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The Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational corporation founded in 1892.

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The Enrollment Management Association

The Enrollment Management Association, formerly known as the Secondary School Admission Test Board (SSATB), is a nonprofit organization founded in 1957 in the United States by independent school admission officers with three goals in mind: to provide a forum for exchange and support among admission professionals, to create an admission test for use by private schools, and to assist parents and students in their independent school search.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshire_Academy

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See also

1794 establishments in Connecticut

Boarding schools in Connecticut

Educational institutions established in 1794

Preparatory schools in Connecticut

Private high schools in Connecticut

Private middle schools in Connecticut

References