120px|The Royal National College for the Blind
The Royal National College for the Blind (RNC) is a co-educational residential college of further education based in the English city of Hereford. Students who attend the college are blind or partially sighted. Alongside regular further education subjects and vocational training, the college offers training in independent living and personal development. Founded in 1871 in London as The Royal Normal College and Academy for the Blind, the college had a number of homes before moving to its campus in Hereford, and was renamed Royal National College for the Blind in the late 1970s. It has been a pioneer in the education of visually impaired people in Britain since the Victorian era, and, as of 2010, is the only college for visually impaired students in the United Kingdom to have been awarded Beacon Status in recognition of its outstanding teaching and learning. The college is actively involved in the development of assistive technology to help visually impaired people in their day to day lives. The campus, located on College Road, Hereford, is home to RNC's teaching, residential and leisure facilities. Students live in halls of residence or on-campus houses which enable them to gain a level of independence within the college environment. (more...)
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1789:
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1914:
World War I: Allied forces engaged German troops in the First Battle of Ypres. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Ypres
1950:
The Chinese Army captured the town of Qamdo as part of China's plan to take control of Tibet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chamdo
1987:
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22.6% on Black Monday, at the time one of the largest one-day percentage declines in stock market history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_%281987%29
2004:
Irish aid worker Margaret Hassan was abducted in Baghdad by unidentified kidnappers, who murdered her about four weeks later. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hassan
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insensate (adj): 1. Having no sensation or consciousness; unconscious; inanimate. 2. Senseless; foolish; irrational. 3. Unfeeling, heartless, cruel, insensitive. 4. (medicine, physiology) Not responsive to sensory stimuli http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/insensate
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The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon. --Lewis Mumford http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford