Saint Andrew's Scots School
The Saint Andrew's Scots School (), also referred to as Saint Andrew's, is an Argentina, Argentine bilingual school in Olivos, Buenos Aires Province, Olivos, Vicente López Partido, Buenos Aires Province. Established in 1838 in downtown buenos aires, downtown Buenos Aires, the school offers early childhood education, early childhood, primary education, primary and secondary education, secondary education and has a university founded in 1988. The school's campus is located in San Fernando, Tigre Partido, inside the urban area known as Greater Buenos Aires. History The school was established in Argentina on September 1, 1838, by a group of Scotland, Scottish immigrants who wanted to educate their children in their native language, culture and religion. At the beginning only girls were admitted, although the school accepted boys soon after. The first location of the school was in la casa del boton de chimpan, in downtown Buenos Aires. The institution was later moved to the neighbo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Olivos, Buenos Aires Province
Olivos is a neighborhood in Vicente López Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is bordered to the south by Vicente López neighborhood and Florida; to the east by the River Plate; to the north by La Lucila and Martínez, and to the west by Munro. Olivos is the municipal seat of Vicente López Partido, and it is also seat of the Argentina presidencial residence. History A well-known stop along the Buenos Aires- Córdoba trade route for much of the 18th century, one of the area's first landowners, Domingo de Acassuso, began cultivating olive trees around 1720 and the spot was officially named ''Olivos'' ("Olive Trees") on 19 February 1770. Much of the area was later purchased by Viceroy Antonio de Olaguer y Feliú and by a German immigrant, Hernán Wineberg, who sold a large tract in 1860 for the construction of the Ferrocarril Central Argentino through the area. The 1863 inaugural of the local railway station, one of Argentina's first, began attracting homeow ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Constitución, Buenos Aires
Constitución is a ''Barrios of Buenos Aires, barrio'' or neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, approximately two kilometers south of downtown. The borough is centered on Constitución station, Constitución Station and the square of the same name and can be reached by Buenos Aires Metro, subway, by bus (notably Colectivo 60) and enjoys easy access by car via 9 de Julio Avenue, 9 de Julio, San Juan and Caseros Avenues, as well as the 25 de Mayo toll road. The neighborhood is home to the Argentine University of Enterprise and the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Social Sciences. History The area, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires in colonial times, was granted a parish in 1769 and incorporated into the city in 1777. Home to an important mission of Bethlehemites, they maintained a convalescent clinic there until their papal suppression in 1821. The area then became home to a large farmer's market and its relative elev ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rugby Union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century. Rugby is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is played between two teams of 15 players each, using an Rugby ball, oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field called a pitch. The field has H-shaped Goal (sports)#Structure, goalposts at both ends. Rugby union is a popular sport around the world, played by people regardless of gender, age or size. In 2023, there were more than 10 million people playing worldwide, of whom 8.4 million were registered players. World Rugby, previously called the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) and the International Rugby Board (IRB), has been the governing body for rugby union since 1886, a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sports Club
A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and may play other similar clubs on occasion, watched mostly by family and friends, to large commercial organisations with professional players which have teams that regularly compete against those of other clubs and sometimes attract very large crowds of paying spectators. Clubs may be dedicated to a single sport or to several (multi-sport clubs). The term "athletics club" is sometimes used for a general sports club, rather than one dedicated to athletics proper. Friedrich Ludwig Jahn's Turner movement, first realised at Volkspark Hasenheide in Berlin in 1811, was the origin of the modern sports clubs. Organization Larger sports clubs are characterized by having professional and amateur departments in various sports such as bike pol ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Club San Andrés
Club San Andrés (official name: Asociación Ex-Alumnos San Andrés) is an Argentine sports club sited in the Benavídez district of Tigre Partido, Greater Buenos Aires. Sports practised at San Andrés include rugby union, field hockey and association football. The rugby squad currently plays in Primera B, the third division of the Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires league system. History Background In 1838, Saint Andrew's Scots School (in ) was established by a group of Scottish settlers determined to educate their children in their language, faith and culture. Founded as a boys school, Saint Andrews would become co-educational soon after. The first sports club established by the School was the St. Andrew's Athletic Club,La primera fecha! by Jorge Gallego on CIHF, 16 Apr 2016 which won the first [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1894 Argentine Primera División
The 1894 Primera División was the 3rd season of top-flight football in Argentina. The season began on April 15 and ended on September 9.Argentina 1894 by Osvaldo Gorgazzi at RSSSF.com The championship was won by , that become the first team to retain the league title. The runner-up was Rosario A.C., which made its debut at the tournament along with Retiro A.C. Most of the results of the games and the goals scored information have been lost. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Argentine Football Association
The Argentine Football Association (, ; AFA) is the governing body of football in Argentina based in Buenos Aires. It organises the main divisions of Argentine football league system, Argentine league system (from Argentine Primera División, Primera División to :es:Torneo Regional Federal Amateur, Torneo Regional Federal and Torneo Promocional Amateur), including list of Argentine football national cups, domestic cups: Copa Argentina, Supercopa Argentina, Trofeo de Campeones de la Liga Profesional and the Supercopa Internacional. The body also manages all the Argentina national teams, including the Argentina national football team, Senior, Argentina national under-20 football team, U-20, Argentina national under-17 football team, U-17, :es:Selección de fútbol sub-15 de Argentina, U-15, Argentina national under-23 football team, Olympic and Argentina women's national football team, women's squads. Secondly, it also organizes the Campeonato de Fútbol Femenino, women's, children, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Argentine Association Football League (1891)
The Argentine Association Football League was the first football association of Argentina and predecessor of current Argentine Football Association. The association has a historic importance in football for having organised the first official championship outside the United Kingdom (which has the oldest football competition, the FA Cup established in 1871). History By the 1890s, more than 20,000 inhabitants of Argentina were British, most of them employees of railway companies. They had introduced several sports to the country, with football among them."Hace 120 años, el fútbol tenía su primer torneo local" by Oscar Barnade, Clarín, 12 Apr 2011 On 7 March 1891, the act of foundation of the "Argentine Association Football League" was signed. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1891 Argentine Primera División
The 1891 Primera División was the first ever Argentine championship, making Argentina's the oldest football league outside the United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan .... This tournament was organized by the Argentine Association Football League whose president was F.L. Wooley. This league only lasted one season, so in 1892 no championship was held. In 1893 other Association with the same name would be established by Alexander Watson Hutton becoming current Argentine Football Association. Summary The championship took the format of a league of 5 teams, with each team playing the other twice. Many of the results of individual games have been lost, hence the lack of goals for and against in the table below. Hurlingham registered in the tournament but did ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Argentine Primera División
The Primera División (; ), known officially as Liga Profesional de Fútbol, or Torneo Betano for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Argentina and the highest level of the Argentine football league system. Organised by the Argentine Football Association (AFA), it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional, Primera Nacional (Second Division), with the teams placed lowest at the end of the season being relegated. Argentina held its first championship in 1891 Argentine Primera División, 1891,''Historia del Fútbol Amateur en la Argentina'', by Jorge Iwanczuk. Published by Autores Editores (1992) - making it the first country outside the United Kingdom to establish a football league. The Football League had debuted in England in 1888, followed by the Scottish and Irish leagues in 1890. In the early years, only teams from Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires, Greater Buenos Aires, La Plata and Rosario, Argentina, Ros ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rosan Bosch
Rosan Bosch, born in 1969, is the founder and creative director of the Rosan Bosch Studio, located in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. She gained recognition for her design work on the Swedish Vittra School at Telefonplan. Additionally, her portfolio includes designing learning environments for a variety of educational institutions such as the Sheikh Zayed Private Academy in Abu Dhabi, the Western Academy of Beijing in China, and Liceo Europa in Spain. Biography Rosan Bosch is a designer and artist who studied at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, from 1987 to 1992, and also undertook courses at the Facultat de Belles Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. Before transitioning to the field of design, Bosch spent approximately ten years working as a contemporary artist. In 2001, she co-founded the design studio Bosch & Fjord. Later, in 2010, Bosch established a design practice, Rosan Bosch Studio, headquartered in Copenhagen. Design of learni ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |