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  1. 107 relations: Alma Thomas, Alyson Shotz, Annapolis Group, Anne Wexler, Antoine Predock, Architectural Digest, Art in America, Arwa Damon, Associated Collegiate Press, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Basketball, Ben & Jerry's, Ben Cohen (businessman), Benjamin Barber, Cargo ship, Carlie Irsay-Gordon, Carolyn Forché, Céline Cousteau, Charles Henry Keyes, Chris Fleming (comedian), Christopher Hitchens, Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges, Cornell Law School, Cynthia Carroll, Dallas, David H. Porter, David Miner (television producer), E*vax, Elizabeth LeCompte, Evan Dando, Fillia Makedon, Forbes, Furlong, Glenda Arentzen, Grace DeGennaro, Grace Mirabella, Hazel Stiebeling, Heather Hurst, Helen Corbitt, Ice hockey, J. Erik Jonsson, J. M. Coetzee, Jamienne S. Studley, Jason Reitman, Jens David Ohlin, Jon Bernthal, Joyce Carol Oates, Judith Flanders, Justin Henry, ... Expand index (57 more) »

  2. 1903 establishments in New York (state)
  3. Liberal arts colleges in New York (state)
  4. Universities and colleges established in 1903

Alma Thomas

Alma Woodsey Thomas (September 22, 1891 – February 24, 1978) was an African-American artist and teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century.

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Alyson Shotz

Alyson Shotz (born 1964) is an American sculptor based in Brooklyn, New York.

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Annapolis Group

The Annapolis Group (officially, the Annapolis Group of Liberal Arts Colleges) is an American organization of independent liberal arts colleges.

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Anne Wexler

Anne Levy Wexler (February 10, 1930 – August 7, 2009) was an influential American Democratic political consultant, public policy advisor, and later the first woman to head a leading lobbying firm in Washington, D.C.

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Antoine Predock

Antoine Samuel Predock (June 24, 1936 – March 2, 2024) was an American architect based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Architectural Digest

Architectural Digest (stylized in all caps) is an American monthly magazine founded in 1920.

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Art in America

Art in America is an illustrated quarterly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world in the United States, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules.

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Arwa Damon

Arwa Damon (born September 19, 1977) is an American journalist who was most recently a senior international correspondent for CNN, based in Istanbul.

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Associated Collegiate Press

The Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) is the largest and oldest national membership organization for college student media in the United States.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Bachelor of Science

A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin scientiae baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.

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Ben & Jerry's

Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings Inc., trading and commonly known as Ben & Jerry's, is an American company that manufactures ice cream, frozen yogurt, and sorbet.

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Ben Cohen (businessman)

Bennett Cohen (born March 18, 1951) is an American businessman, activist and philanthropist.

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Benjamin Barber

Benjamin R. Barber (August 2, 1939 – April 24, 2017) was an American political theorist and author, perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, Jihad vs. McWorld, and for 2013's If Mayors Ruled the World.

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Cargo ship

A cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another.

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Carlie Irsay-Gordon

Carlie Irsay-Gordon (born circa 1981Walter Gutowski (ed.), Baltimore Colts: 1983 Media Guide. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Colts Football Team, p. 9 lists Carlie Irsay as 2-years old at the time of the book's publication in August 1983.) is the vice chair and co-owner of the Indianapolis Colts.

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Carolyn Forché

Carolyn Forché (born April 28, 1950) is an American poet, editor, professor, translator, and human rights advocate.

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Céline Cousteau

Céline S. Cousteau (born June 6, 1972) is a socio-environmental advocate and public figure.

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Charles Henry Keyes

Charles Henry Keyes (6 September 1858 – 16 January 1925), was an American educator.

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Chris Fleming (born January 29, 1987) is an American comedian and actor best known for his YouTube series Gayle, in which he stars as the eponymous character Gayle Waters-Waters.

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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British and American author, journalist, and educator.

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Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges

The Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges (CLAC) is a nonprofit organization of 75 American liberal arts colleges which formed in 1984 under the leadership of Oberlin College's president S. Frederick Starr.

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Cornell Law School

Cornell Law School is the law school of Cornell University, a private Ivy League university in Ithaca, New York.

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Cynthia Carroll

Cynthia Blum Carroll (born November 13, 1956) is an American businesswoman.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.

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David H. Porter

David Hugh Porter (29 October 1935 – 25 March 2016) was an American academic and the fifth president of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, serving from 1987 to 1999.

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David Miner (television producer)

David Miner (born November 15, 1969) is an American television producer and talent manager who is known for his work as an executive producer on 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Master of None and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

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E*vax

Evan Peter Mast, also known by his stage name E*vax or E.VAX, is an American electronic music artist and record producer.

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Elizabeth LeCompte

Elizabeth LeCompte (born April 28, 1944) is an American director of experimental theater, dance, and media.

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Evan Dando

Evan Griffith Dando (born March 4, 1967) is an American musician and the frontman of the rock band the Lemonheads.

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Fillia Makedon

Fillia S. Makedon is a Greek-American computer scientist whose research has spanned a broad variety of areas in computer science, including VLSI design, graph algorithms, numerical linear algebra, sensor networks, algorithm visualization, bioinformatics, recommender systems, and human–robot interaction.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Furlong

A furlong is a measure of distance in imperial units and United States customary units equal to one-eighth of a mile, equivalent to any of 660 feet, 220 yards, 40 rods, 10 chains or approximately 201 metres.

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Glenda Arentzen

Glenda Arentzen (born 1941) is an American jeweler, goldsmith, and educator.

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Grace DeGennaro

Grace DeGennaro (born 1956) is an American artist.

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Grace Mirabella

Marie Grace Mirabella (June 10, 1929 – December 23, 2021) was an American fashion journalist who was editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine between 1971 and 1988.

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Hazel Stiebeling

Hazel Katherine Stiebeling (1896–1989) was an American nutritionist who pioneered the development of USDA programs for nutrition including USDA daily dietary allowances of vitamins and minerals.

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Heather Hurst

Heather Hurst (born 1975) is an American archaeologist and archaeological illustrator.

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Helen Corbitt

Helen Corbitt (1906–1978) was an American chef and cookbook author.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.

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J. Erik Jonsson

John Erik Jonsson (6 September 1901 – 31 August 1995) was an American businessman who was co-founder and early president of Texas Instruments Incorporated.

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J. M. Coetzee

John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Jamienne S. Studley

Jamienne S. Studley is the president and CEO of the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC), a regional accrediting agency serving a diverse membership of public and private higher education institutions throughout California, Hawaii, and the Pacific, as well as a limited number of institutions outside the U.S.

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Jason Reitman

Jason R. Reitman (born October 19, 1977) is a Canadian–American filmmaker.

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Jens David Ohlin

Jens David Ohlin is an American academic administrator and legal scholar.

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Jon Bernthal

Jonathan Edward Bernthal (born September 20, 1976) is an American actor.

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Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer.

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Judith Flanders

Judith Flanders (born 1959) is a historian, journalist and author, who has settled in London, England.

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Justin Henry

Justin Henry (born May 25, 1971) is an American actor and businessman, known for playing Billy Kramer in the 1979 film Kramer vs. Kramer, a debut role that earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, when he was eight years old.

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Kriegsmarine

The Kriegsmarine was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.

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Lake Bell

Lake Siegel Bell (born March 24, 1979) is an American actress, screenwriter, and director.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Liberal arts colleges in the United States

Liberal arts colleges in the United States are undergraduate institutions of higher education in the United States that focus on a liberal arts education.

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Liberty League

The Liberty League is an intercollegiate athletic conference which competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III.

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List of Skidmore College people

Here follows a list of some notable people associated with Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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Lucy Skidmore Scribner

Lucy Skidmore Scribner (July 4, 1853 – May 2, 1931) was the founder of Skidmore College.

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MacArthur Fellows Program

The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and 30 individuals working in any field who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the United States.

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Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American novelist and essayist.

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Mario Vargas Llosa

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician.

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Martin Jay

Martin Evan Jay (born May 4, 1944) is an American intellectual historian whose research interests connected history with the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, social theory, cultural criticism, and historiography.

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Michael Zegen

Michael Zegen (born February 20, 1979) is an American actor.

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Molly Baz

Molly Baz (née Lundquist-Baz; born May 9, 1988) is an American cook, recipe developer, and food writer.

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Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer (20 November 192313 July 2014) was a South African writer and political activist.

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Nathan Barr

Nathan Barr (born February 9, 1973; also known as Nate Barr) is an American film and television composer and musician.

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and one in Canada.

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The Naval History and Heritage Command, formerly the Naval Historical Center, is an Echelon II command responsible for the preservation, analysis, and dissemination of U.S. naval history and heritage located at the historic Washington Navy Yard.

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NCAA Division III

NCAA Division III (D-III) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States.

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Oberlin Group of Libraries

The Oberlin Group of Libraries is a consortium of American liberal arts colleges, led by a board elected from its members' libraries' directors.

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Oskar Ibru

Oskar Eyovbirere Ibru (born 1958) is a Nigerian billionaire businessman and investor who currently serves as the chairman and CEO of the Ibru Organization.

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Philip A. Glotzbach

Philip A. Glotzbach (born 7 July 1950), is an American educator who was the president of Skidmore 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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Private university

Private universities and private colleges are higher education institutions not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments.

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Ransomware

Ransomware is a type of cryptovirological malware that permanently blocks access to the victim's personal data unless a "ransom" is paid.

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Ratatat

Ratatat is a Brooklyn-based electronic rock duo consisting of Mike Stroud (guitar, melodica, synthesizers, percussion) and producer Evan Mast (bass, synthesizers, percussion).

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Richard Howard

Richard Joseph Howard (October 13, 1929 – March 31, 2022; adopted as Richard Joseph Orwitz) was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator.

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Robert Boyers (academic)

Robert Boyers (born 1942) is an American literary essayist, cultural critic and memoirist.

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Robert Tracy (dancer)

Robert Tracy (1955 – June 7, 2007) was an American dancer, writer, and educator in New York City.

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Ruby Puryear Hearn

Ruby Louise Puryear Hearn (born April 13, 1940) is an American biophysicist who has dedicated her career to health policy.

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Sallie W. Chisholm

Sallie Watson "Penny" Chisholm (born 1947) is an American biological oceanographer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Salmagundi (magazine)

Salmagundi is a US quarterly periodical, featuring cultural criticism, fiction, and poetry, along with transcripts of symposia and interviews with prominent writers and intellectuals.

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Saratoga Race Course

Saratoga Race Course is a Thoroughbred horse racing track located on Union Avenue in Saratoga Springs, New York, United States. Opened in 1863, it is often considered to be the oldest major sporting venue of any kind in the U.S. It is the fourth oldest racetrack after Pleasanton Fairgrounds Racetrack (1858), Freehold Raceway (1854) and Fair Grounds Race Course (1852).

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Saratoga Springs, New York

Saratoga Springs is a city in Saratoga County, New York, United States.

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Seal (emblem)

A seal is a device for making an impression in wax, clay, paper, or some other medium, including an embossment on paper, and is also the impression thus made.

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator.

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Ship class

A ship class is a group of ships of a similar design.

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Shipyard

A shipyard, also called a dockyard or boatyard, is a place where ships are built and repaired.

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Skidmore News

The Skidmore News is the official campus newspaper of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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Studio Museum in Harlem

The Studio Museum in Harlem is an American art museum devoted to the work of artists of African descent.

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Susan Sontag

Susan Lee Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer, critic, and public intellectual.

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Sybil Shearer

Sybil Louise Shearer (February 23, 1912 November 17, 2005) Hunt, Marilyn (December 22, 2005).

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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

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The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery is a part of Skidmore College and located in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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Hidden Ivies is a college educational guide with the most recent edition, The Hidden Ivies, 3rd Edition: 63 of America's Top Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities, published in 2016, by educational consultants Howard and Matthew Greene.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed developed for horse racing.

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Tzvetan Todorov

Tzvetan Todorov (Цветан Тодоров; 1 March 1939 – 7 February 2017) was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist.

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U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report (USNWR, US NEWS) is an American media company publishing news, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.

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USNS Range Tracker

USNS Range Tracker (T-AGM-1/T-AG-160) was an Air Force Systems Command ''Range Tracker''-class missile range instrumentation ship.

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Victory ship

The Victory ship was a class of cargo ship produced in large numbers by American shipyards during World War II to replace losses caused by German submarines.

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Vogue (magazine)

Vogue U.S., also known as American Vogue, or simply Vogue, (stylized in all caps) is a monthly fashion and lifestyle magazine that covers style news, including haute couture fashion, beauty, culture, living, and runway.

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Wilma Tisch

Wilma "Billie" Tisch (née Stein) is an American philanthropist.

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Wombat

Wombats are short-legged, muscular quadrupedal marsupials of the family Vombatidae that are native to Australia.

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Women's colleges in the United States

Women's colleges in the United States are private single-sex U.S. institutions of higher education that only admit female students.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Zach Gage

Zach Gage is an independent video game programmer and designer based in New York City.

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Zazie Beetz

Zazie Olivia Beetz (born June 1, 1991) is a German-born American actress.

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See also

1903 establishments in New York (state)

Liberal arts colleges in New York (state)

Universities and colleges established in 1903

References

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

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