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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Today's selected anniversaries:
1789:
John Jay was sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jay>
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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
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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Wikiquote quote of the day:
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
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