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Gallaudet University Faculty
Gallaudet University ( ) is a private university, private University charter#Federal, federally chartered university in Washington, D.C., for the education of the Hearing loss, deaf and hard of hearing. It was founded in 1864 as a grammar school for both deaf and blind children. It was the first school for the advanced education of the deaf and hard of hearing in the world and remains the only higher education institution in which all programs and services are specifically designed to accommodate deaf and hard of hearing students. Hearing students are admitted to the graduate school and a small number are also admitted as undergraduates each year. The university was named after Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, a notable figure in the advancement of deaf education. Gallaudet University is officially bilingual, with American Sign Language (ASL) and written English language, English used for instruction and by the college community. Although there are no specific ASL proficiency requiremen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ephphatha
There exists a consensus among scholars that Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth spoke the Aramaic, Aramaic language. Aramaic was the common language of Judaea (Roman province), Roman Judaea, and was thus also spoken by Jesus' disciples. The villages of Nazareth and Capernaum in Galilee, where he spent most of his time, were populated by Aramaic-speaking communities. Jesus probably spoke the Galilean dialect, distinguishable from that which was spoken in History of Jerusalem#Early Roman period, Roman-era Jerusalem. Based on the symbolic renaming or nicknaming of some of his Apostles of Jesus, apostles, it is also likely that Jesus or at least one of his apostles knew enough Koine Greek to converse with non-Judaeans. It is reasonable to assume that Jesus was well versed in Biblical Hebrew, Hebrew for religious purposes, as it is the liturgical language of Second Temple Judaism, Judaism. Cultural and linguistic background Aramaic was the lingua franca, common language of the Eastern Mediter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amos Kendall By Mathew Brady
Amos or AMOS may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Amos'' (album), an album by Michael Ray * Amos (band), an American Christian rock band * ''Amos'' (film), a 1985 American made-for-television drama film * Amos (guitar), a 1958 Gibson Flying V * Amos Records, an independent record label established in Los Angeles, California, in 1968 People and religious figures * Amos (name), a given name, nickname and surname * Amos (prophet), a Jewish prophet from the 8th century BCE, and the author of the Book of Amos Technology * AMOS, or Advanced Mortar System, a 120 mm automatic twin-barreled, breech-loaded mortar turret * AMOS (programming language), a dialect of BASIC on the Amiga computer * Alpha Micro Operating System, a proprietary operating system used in Alpha Microsystems minicomputers * IBM SPSS Amos, a statistical software package by IBM used in structural equation modeling, companion software in the SPSS family * Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
