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Founded in 1896, Bradley University ranked sixth among Midwestern comprehensive universities in the 2005 edition of America’s Best Colleges published by U.S. News and World Report. The university offers undergraduates more than 100 programs of study in five colleges, and 14 graduate degrees in 31 academic areas.
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NFPA has been a worldwide leader in providing fire, electrical, building, and life safety to the public since 1896. The mission of the international nonprofit organization is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training and education. Visit NFPA’s Web site at www.nfpa.org.
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Working in groups, students plan, take, and document a trip around the world in 1896 using Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896. This collection presents documentary evidence concerning the role of technology at the turn of the twentieth century and raises questions about European and American views of the world during the fin de siecle. These activities require students to penetrate Western mentalite (mindset) at the turn of the twentieth century and to explore Western perceptions and misperceptions of the non-Western world during the same time period.
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