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  National Soccer Coaches Association of America
The Danubian school had emerged from the Scottish short-passing game brought to central Europe by a remarkable Englishman named Jimmy Hogan.
His philosophy was that soccer was a game in which the ball belonged on the ground, and he used the phrase "keep it on the carpet" to describe how he wanted the ball to be passed.
The Danubian style, based on the 2-3-5, was faithful to Hogan’s artistic approach to the game.
www.nscaa.com /subpages/20060331154402100.php   (2041 words)

  
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From the 6th to the r2th century, wave after wave of barbarian conquerors, Goths, Tatars, Slays and others, passed over the country, and, according to one school of historians, almost obliterated its original Daco-Roman population; the modern Vlachs, on this theory, representing a later body of immigrants from Transdanubian territory.
Danubian Principalities in a single narrative, owing to the uniform system of administration adopted by the Turkish authorities, and the rapid contemporary growth of a national consciousness among the Vlachs.
The subjoined history of the country is arranged under the four headings: Walachia, Moldavia, the Danubian Principalities and Rumania, in order to emphasize this historical development.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=18977   (2398 words)

  
 Croatia
In the Danubian region in particular, and depending upon the ethnicity of the complainant, inconsistent police response to housing disputes remained a problem.
Schools filling the necessary quota of seven minority students per class are allowed to offer separate religion classes for these students.
Schools provide free meals for children, subsidized daycare facilities are available in most communities even for infants, medical care for children is free, and the Labor Code authorizes 1 full year of maternity leave and 3 years' leave for women with twins or more than two children.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/eur/716.htm   (14562 words)

  
 The Danube School
The Danube School describes collectively a number of artists who worked in or near the reaches of the Danube between Regensburg and Vienna in the period c.
The region was located between the major commercial and artistic centers of Nuremberg and Augsburg to the west and Vienna, an imperial capital, to the east.
A lyrical freedom in the handling of line and colour deriving from late Gothic art gave a decorative dimension, often touched with fantasy, to Danube School painting and the term 'realisme fantastique' is sometimes used to describe it.
gallery.euroweb.hu /tours/mini/danube.html   (491 words)

  
 Danube - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Some Danubian tributaries are important rivers in their own right, navigable by barges and river boats of shallow draught.
The Danube basin contains sites of the earliest human cultures: the Danubian Neolithic cultures include the Linear Pottery Cultures of the mid-Danube basin (see also Linear Ceramic culture) The Vucedol culture of the third millennium BC is famous for their ceramics.
The German tradition of landscape painting, the Danube school, was developed in the Danube valley in the 16th century.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Danube   (1018 words)

  
 CHAPTER V
The reform of schooling and education is considered a fundamental part of the change, inasmuch as the democratization of society cannot be accomplished without the democratization of the educational system.
A number of state-supported schools was established in the municipalities, while the opening of the schools in rural areas was still subject to the approval of the local nobility and the priest of the local Orthodox Church.
The most significant structural changes were: the extension of compulsory education from eight to ten years and the concurrent reduction of the school age for the first grade from seven to six years; the diversification of secondary schools; introduction of a new shorter form of technical studies; and reorganization of post-university and continuing education.
www.crvp.org /book/Series04/IVA-14/chapter_v.htm   (8141 words)

  
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GOURGAUD, GASPAR, BARON (1783-1852), French soldier, was born at Versailles on the 14th of September 1783; his father was a musician of the royal chapel.
At school he showed talent in mathematical studies and accordingly entered the artillery.
He was present at the siege of Saragossa in 18o8, but returned to service in Central Europe and took part in nearly all the battles of the Danubian campaign of 18og.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=29240   (763 words)

  
 BGGLOBE - Bulgaria travel guide, аccomodation in Bulgaria, tourism, landmarks, holidays, vacations, sea, mountain, ...
The reserve of Srebarna, one of Bulgaria’s most important wetlands, is situated at the Danubian plain territory, about 16 km to the west of the town of Silistra on Route 23.
In 1953 in the place of Balana, Danubian plain, east from Loukovit, in a big clay vessel, was found a silver treasure.
The Thracian silver treasure dates from the second part of 4 th century B.C. Sveshtari tomb is situated 2.5 km south - west of the village of Sveshtari, 42 km north - east of Razgrad, in the north-east of Bulgaria.
www.bgglobe.net /index.php?l=1&s=-869   (694 words)

  
 International Religious Freedom Report 2002: Croatia
An estimated 4,000 primary and secondary school children in 35 schools in the Danubian region (Eastern Slavonia) attend Orthodox religion classes.
The Government requires that religious training be provided in schools, although attendance is optional; however, in general, the lack of resources, minority students, and qualified teachers impeded instruction in minority faiths, and the Catholic catechism was the one predominantly offered.
Schools filling the necessary quota of seven minority students per class offered separate religion classes for the students.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2002/13926.htm   (2513 words)

  
 Information about Bulgaria - Northeastern Bulgarian Region
Because of its proximity to the first capitals of Danubian Bulgaria (Pliska and Preslav), and the Madara Horseman, as well as because of its rich historical past, in 1981 Shoumen was chosen as centre of the celebrations of the 1300th anniversary of the foundation of the Bulgarian state by Khan Asparuh.
The Danubian Fishing and Boat Construction Museum, one in the county, is situated in Toutrakan (tel.: 0857 2152).
In 1812 a monastery school was established, and in 1891 -a pedagogical school.
www.bulgariancoastalproperties.com /Bulgarian-Regions.php?parentid=101   (10629 words)

  
 Croatia Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1998
Housing commissions in the Danubian region in contrast were established quickly and proceeded to issue eviction notices to occupants, primarily ethnic Serbs.
Schools are allowed to offer classes in minority religions if they fill the necessary quota of minority students.
Schools provide free meals for children, daycare facilities are available in most communities even for infants, medical care for children is free, and the Labor Code authorizes a full year of maternity leave and 3 years' leave for women with twins or more than two children.
www.hri.org /docs/USSD-Rights/1998/Croatia.html   (12377 words)

  
 Croatia: Report: Part II: Analytic Section: cont. 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
For the initial introduction of these projects were selected the higher grades of the primary school and the first grades of the secondary school (45 schools from all counties, in the beginning, which expanded and included 150 schools, inclusive of schools with national minorities members).
The UNESCO ASP Schools project is related to the development of the network of primary schools and secondary schools, which are committed to encourage the creation of the atmosphere of tolerance, peace, protection, and promotion of human rights, responsibility and democracy in the everyday work and life.
These schools represent a model of a special approach in the education for healthy lifestyles where the term healthy lifestyle applies to the comprehensiveness of the human living and the relation to oneself and the environment in which a person lives.
www2.unesco.org /wef/countryreports/croatia/rapport_2_2.htm   (5690 words)

  
 Virtual - Bulgaria
In 1867 the Danubian Steam Society was established with the merchant from Svishtov Nikola Stanchov as the chief shareholder.
On 26th and 27th June the key forces of the Russian Army disembarked on the bank of the Danube River in the locality of Tekirdere (at the distance of 4 km east of Svishtov) and the Russian-Turkish War of Liberation began.
The Danubian island of Vardim is situated at about some 10 km east of the town, which is the third biggest Bulgarian island (after Belene and Kozlodui).
www.bulgaria-property.com /bulgaria/central_northern_bulgaria/119.cntns   (1222 words)

  
 The Balkan Range and the Danubian Plain
With the development of the railways, however, the river trade went into decline, and nowadays most of Bulgaria`s Danubian towns are quiet, provincial places, focusing their attention not on the river itself, but on the bigger cities inland.
Across the road, stranded behind railings in a patch of wasteland between two school playgrounds, is the seventeenth-century Church of Sveta Petka, an unassuming, sunken structure, traces of bright blue on the exterior giving some idea of its former appearance.
Like other Danubian settlements, Oescus was razed by the Huns in the fifth century, rebuilt during the reign of Justinian and destroyed again by the Avars, so it`s hardly surprising that nothing remains of the great bridge over the Danube built for the Emperor Constantine.
www.myhomebulgaria.com /Info_on_Bulgaria/The_Regions/Balkan_range_Danubian_plain   (8868 words)

  
 TEACHER-COMPOSER FETED, BOUNCED THE SAME DAY
Lyle's work was slimmed down to music lying within the capacity of some 50 elementary and middle school youngsters joining the fray, bringing on in enthusiasm and, yes, cuteness, what they may have lacked in professional polish.
Lyle had unusual sound effects in her slow-paced 16-minute opus, such as produced by West African gourds, and by players exhaling forcefully through trombones, producing the illusion of wind rushing by the Earhart Electra plane.
Rane Danubian has been covering the dance and modern-music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area with relish -- and a certain amount of salsa -- for years.
www.artssf.com /oebs0569.html   (665 words)

  
 Yfu Polska
School starts on the 1st of September, so the students can enjoy living with their families before going to school and starting to experience Polish school life.
This kind of school prepares teenagers to study at the university.
The subjects at school are quite the same, although the level of (for example) chemistry is way higher and the level of English a bit lower.
www.yfu.org.pl /come_to_poland.html   (842 words)

  
 From the Crimean War to the Congress of Berlin
Delayed was even the unification of the two autonomous Danubian principalities, which was the first aim of Rumanian nationalism and seemed a prerequisite condition for the creation of a fully independent Rumanian state.
That basic reform of the Danubian monarchy was caused by an awareness that the absolute centralistic regime could not be continued without endangering the very existence of a power which was in a very difficult international situation.
For the Danubian monarchy it was a chance of survival in spite of all difficulties which that heterogeneous body politic had to face, and for its various peoples it opened possibilities of free national development which could even affect the fate of their kinsmen outside the borders of the Habsburg domains.
victorian.fortunecity.com /wooton/34/halecki/18.htm   (5976 words)

  
 Volume 2 Chapter 3
If theologians and historians had allowed the early history of Europe to be taught in schools and universities, they would have had to admit the authenticity and the authority of the Bible.
Children would be reading in schools today of the early settlement of Assyrians and Chaldeans in Western Europe.
It is a history of the Danubian Valley -- the area of Austria, Hungary, Bohemia, Bavaria and neighboring regions.
www.earth-history.com /Various/Compendium/hhc2ch03.htm   (1512 words)

  
 2 Sisters
The older girl was 18, but still a junior in high school from having flunked out twice, while the younger one was starting to run with a tough crowd in middle school.
In exchange for watching the girls, Elena's boss said he would pay for her graduate school if there were no problems from his daughters while he was in the hospital.
They were just glad to be going back to their classes dressed, because they suspected Elena had been quite serious about sending them to school naked if they did not behave.
www.ecgraphicarts.com /2_sisters.htm   (2394 words)

  
 MEIN KAMPF By Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)- volume-1 Chapter 2 from Nalanda Digital Library at NIT Calicut
The father and mother themselves talk before the children in the most disparaging way about the teacher and the school and they are much more inclined to insult the teachers than to put their offspring across the knee and knock sound reason into him.
When the young lad leaves school, at the age of fourteen, it would be difficult to say what are the most striking features of his character, incredible ignorance in so far as real knowledge is concerned or cynical impudence combined with an attitude towards morality which is really startling at so young an age.
For only when family upbringing and school education have inculcated in the individual a knowledge of the cultural and economic and, above all, the political greatness of his own country--then, and then only, will it be possible for him to feel proud of being a citizen of such a country.
www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in /resources/english/etext-project/Biography/hitler/volume-1chapter2.html   (16629 words)

  
 Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Still, it is a great shame that the role of Prince Eugene of Savoy, the liberator of Central Europe, is widely ignored in politically correct school syllabi and by the European media.
After the expulsion of the Turks from the Panonian fields and the Danubian basin, the Holy Roman Empire decided to repopulate these devastated but fertile European regions with hundreds of thousands of German settlers who, until 1945, were known in Hungary and monarchic Yugoslavia as Donauschwaben.
During World War II, many Danubian Germans volunteered for the Prinz Eugene Division of the Waffen SS, named after their patron hero.
www.chroniclesmagazine.org /Chronicles/June2002/0602Sunic.html   (1259 words)

  
 History Channel Search Results
Schools were opened, and the grand duke revised the first Russian law code, the Russkaya Pravda (Russian Truth).
To consolidate the position of his heirs, Yaroslav devised a system of precedence, grading the various principalities from the smallest to Kiev, the most powerful, so that, as a grand duke of Kiev died, each vassal below him was moved to a larger principality, ending with the throne of Kiev.
Russia was compelled to relinquish Kars and part of Bessarabia, the Black Sea was neutralized, and the Russian protectorate over the Danubian principalities was abolished.
www.historychannel.com /thcsearch/thc_resourcedetail.do?encyc_id=221099#FWNE.fw..ru085600.a.b30   (6889 words)

  
 Romanian Eco-Schools News
The 2001-2002 school year saw a wide range of events take place with the Eco-Schools Network in Romania, as more and more children and teachers discovered that nature is their home place and it's time for us to care for the environment's needs and not only for our needs as individuals.
80 schools have registered with the programme this year; they understand that Eco-Schools is a well organized but flexible scheme of integrating environmental activities into their extracurricular and curricular daily work, so we look forward to seeing their results.
As this contest consisted mainly in recycling paper waste, this was a real opportunity for schools to involve the local community in their efforts and to raise some funds for their future actions.
www.eco-schools.org /countries/news/news_rom.htm   (1248 words)

  
 Analysis
The "Danubian" school first conquered most of the European continent, then Latin America: Italy, Uruguay and Argentina were the main beneficiaries of the transplant.
Indeed, another distinctive feature of Danubian football was the widespread diffusion of professionalism, which was still regarded with some mistrust in the British Isles.
The sudden death of the Danubian and the long decline of the English 'models' soon left the door open for the emergence of a new actor on the European football scene: (West) Germany.
www.iss-eu.org /new/analysis/analy021.html   (5816 words)

  
 AFTER DEATH THEMES, POSTLUDES TOWARD A 2ND LIFE
I was especially struck by the hard downward strokes of the bows, done ever so slightly staggered, in the finale.
He tackled one of the music world's grand unfinished puzzles, a musical counterpart perhaps to Fermat's Last Theorem: a fugue theme on Schubert's name proposed to the latter by his mentor Sechter.
The concert unfolded in the elegant ballroom of the Menlo School's Stent Hall---I could visualize Viennese balls here, back when this was a private home.
www.artssf.com /menlo0606.html   (835 words)

  
 The Jewish Community of Turnu Severin, Romania
Typically for a Danubian port town at the time, Turnu Severin, which was situated before WW1 at the western most part of Romania, harbored various nationalities: Jews made up the fourth largest ethnic group, after Romanians, Germans, and Serbs, in a town that also sheltered small Greek, Armenian, Bulgarian, and Turkish communities.
Seven years later, 58 students attended this school, a number that grew to 170 students in 1910.
However, this school was closed after a short period, after that Ashkenazi Jews used to send their children to either the Catholic or the Protestant German schools that functioned in the town.
www.bh.org.il /Communities/Archive/TurnuSeverin.asp   (1518 words)

  
 STUDIA PSYCHOLOGICA
What is meant by the expression "dispositions to school education" are phenomena such as attitudes to school, motive to achieve, beliefs about personal control over learning, external constraints on learning, etc. The aim of the research is to find the expression of individual areas of self-concept and dispositions to school education.
For example, British participants exceeded Slovenians in many areas of self-concept and the Britons' attitude to school is more positive than that of their Slovene counterparts.
Abstract: The study explored whether students (5th and 6th grades of elementary school) can be classified into groups according to their motivational orientation in learning (motivational and informational components) and assessed relationship between these orientations, academic achievement and various components of self-regulated learning (goal orientations, perceived control, learning strategies, values and self-esteem).
www.psychologia.sav.sk /sp/2003/sp1-03.htm   (1182 words)

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