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  2. David Lynch - Wikipedia

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    : 10–11 David Keith Lynch was born in Missoula, Montana, on January 20, 1946. : 1 His father, Donald Walton Lynch (1915–2007), was a research scientist working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and his mother, Edwina "Sunny" Lynch (née Sundberg; 1919–2004), was an English language tutor. Two of Lynch's maternal great-grandparents were Finnish-Swedish immigrants who arrived ...

  3. Online learning in higher education - Wikipedia

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    Online learning involves courses offered by primary institutions that are 100% virtual. Online learning, or virtual classes offered over the internet, is contrasted with traditional courses taken in a brick-and-mortar school building. It is a development in distance education that expanded in the 1990s with the spread of the commercial Internet ...

  4. M-learning - Wikipedia

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    M-learning, or mobile learning, is a form of distance education where learners use portable devices such as mobile phones to learn anywhere and anytime. The portability that mobile devices provide allows for learning anywhere, hence the term "mobile" in "mobile learning." [1] M-learning devices include computers, MP3 players, mobile phones, and ...

  5. Mercer (consulting firm) - Wikipedia

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    5,021,000,000 United States dollar (2019) Number of employees. 25,000 (2019) Parent. Marsh McLennan. Mercer is an American consulting firm founded in 1945. It is one of the four operating subsidiaries of global professional services firm Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC). Mercer is headquartered in New York City with offices in 43 countries and ...

  6. Lynching - Wikipedia

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    In 1782, Charles Lynch wrote that his assistant had administered Lynch's law to Tories "for Dealing with the negroes &c". [8] Charles Lynch was a Virginia Quaker , [9] : 23 ff planter , and Patriot who headed a county court in Virginia which imprisoned Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War , occasionally imprisoning them for up to a year.

  7. Russia warns of 'consequences' if U.S. missiles go to Ukraine

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    Russia's Foreign Ministry warned Thursday that if the United States confirms reports that it plans to deliver sophisticated air defense missiles to Ukraine, it would be “another provocative move ...

  8. Merrill D. Peterson - Wikipedia

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    Merrill Daniel Peterson (31 March 1921 – 23 September 2009) was an American historian and professor at the University of Virginia. He was the editor of the Library of America edition of the selected writings of Thomas Jefferson. Peterson wrote several books on Jefferson, including The Jefferson Image in the American Mind (Oxford University ...

  9. Timothy Geithner - Wikipedia

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    Timothy Franz Geithner ( / ˈɡaɪtnər /; born August 18, 1961) is an American former central banker who served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. He was the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2009, following service in the Clinton administration.