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Josephine Foss
Josephine Foss (1887–1983) was an Anglican missionary teacher and welfare worker in Kuala Lumpur. Foss was active in missionary and teaching work from 1914 to 1983. In 1914, along with Elinor Gage-Brown, she founded the Pudu English School in Kuala Lumpur. She was the school's second and longest serving headmistress for sixteen years, from 1926 to 1942, and the school was one of the earliest to teach girls in English there. Foss used sports such as badminton, tennis, netball, and basketball as a way to free young women from the restrictions of traditional gender roles in Asia, believing sports and an English speaking teaching environment created "athletic, happy, healthy and normal girls, far better fitted to take their share in the struggle for existence in Malaya than their less fortunate uneducated sisters." In 1942, Foss was taken prisoner by Japanese soldiers during World War II. Jalan Foss in Kuala Lumpur is named after her. She is buried in St. Andrew's Cathedral in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuala Lumpur
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Elinor Gage-Brown
Eleanor is a female given name. Eleanor, Elenore, Elinor, Elinore, Ellinore, Elynor or variations thereof may also refer to: Places * Lake Eleanor, a reservoir in Yosemite National Park, California * Eleanor, Iowa, an unincorporated community *Eleanor, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Ellinor, Kansas, an unincorporated community * Eleanor, West Virginia, a town *2650 Elinor, an asteroid Ships *, a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918 * PS ''Eleanor'' (1873), a paddle steamer cargo vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1873 to 1881 * PS ''Eleanor'' (1881), a paddle steamer cargo vessel operated by the London and North Western Railway from 1881 to 1902 * ''Eleanor'' (sloop), a racing sloop built in 1903 *''Eleanor'', one of the three tea ships boarded in the Boston Tea Party Other uses *" Eleanor Put Your Boots On", a song by Franz Ferdinand *" Eleanor Rigby", a song by The Beatles *"Elenore", a 1968 song by The Turtles * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pudu English School
The pudus (Mapudungun ''püdü'' or ''püdu'', es, pudú, ) are two species of South American deer from the genus ''Pudu'', and are the world's smallest deer. The chevrotains (mouse-deer; Tragulidae) are smaller, but they are not true deer. The name is a loanword from Mapudungun, the language of the indigenous Mapuche people of central Chile and south-western Argentina. The two species of pudus are the northern pudu (''Pudu mephistophiles'') from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, and the southern pudu (''Pudu puda''; sometimes incorrectly modified to ''Pudu pudu'') from southern Chile and south-western Argentina. Pudus range in size from tall, and up to long. The southern pudu is classified as near threatened, while the northern pudu is classified as Data Deficient in the IUCN Red List. Taxonomy The genus ''Pudu'' was first erected by English naturalist John Edward Gray in 1850. ''Pudua'' was a Latinized version of the name proposed by Alfred Henry Garrod i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jalan Foss
Like all other historical urban centres, the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, contains a number of current and old roads and streets across the city. This article contains an alphabetical list of notable roads within Kuala Lumpur. Overview The names of the majority of older roads in and around Kuala Lumpur were originally formed during British rule in Selangor, and as such, were in English and named after British figures, a handful of local dignitaries or royalties, districts, local populations, landmarks or geographical features. Other surrounding locales, such as Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur, Kampung Baru, Pudu, Kuala Lumpur, Pudu, Imbi District, Imbi and Sentul, Kuala Lumpur, Sentul have had roads known primarily in Malay language, Malay since colonial rule. Following Independence Day (Malaysia), Malaya's independence in 1957 and the formation of Independence Day (Malaysia), Malaysia in 1963, street names in Kuala Lumpur were translated into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
