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Woodbridge is a town in New Haven County,Connecticut,United States. The town is part of the South Central Connecticut Planning Region. The population was 9,087 at the 2020 census. The town center is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Woodbridge Green Historic District. Woodbridge is part of the Amity Regional School District #5,rated the #1 school district in New Haven County and the 10th best school district in CT by Niche in 2021. As of 2019 Woodbridge has the 7th highest median household income in CT.
Stillman Valley is a village in Marion Township,Ogle County,Illinois,United States. It lies east of Byron,south of Rockford and west of Davis Junction. The population was 1,120 at the 2010 census,up from 1,048 in 2000. Stillman Valley Currently has a population of around 3,018. The village is located on the Iowa,Chicago and Eastern Railroad,on the old Chicago Great Western Railway before it merged and was pulled up. Also,Illinois Route 72 runs through the village. It is near the site of the first battle of the Black Hawk War of 1832. The war memorial for the Battle of Stillman's Run is located in this village.
The Connecticut Sun are an American professional basketball team based in Uncasville,Connecticut. The Sun compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member of the Eastern Conference. The team is currently the only major league professional sports team based in Connecticut.
The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university system with its main campus in Storrs,Connecticut,United States. It was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School,named after two benefactors. In 1893,the school became a public land grant college,then took its current name in 1939. Over the following decade,social work,nursing,and graduate programs were established. During the 1960s,UConn Health was established for new medical and dental schools. UConn is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.
Mystic Seaport Museum is a maritime museum in Mystic,Connecticut,the largest in the United States. Its 19-acre (0.077 km2) site holds a collection of ships and boats and a re-creation of a 19th-century seaport village consisting of more than 60 historic buildings,including many rare commercial structures that were moved to the site and meticulously restored. As of 2016,the museum received about 250,000 visitors each year.
Connecticut College (Conn) is a private liberal arts college in New London,Connecticut. Originally chartered as Thames College,it was founded in 1911 as the state's only women's college,a response to Wesleyan University having closed its doors to female students in 1909. The college became coeducational in 1969,adopting its current name.
James Stillman Rockefeller was a member of the prominent U.S. Rockefeller family. He won an Olympic rowing title for the United States,then became president of what eventually became Citigroup. He was a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History and a member of the board of overseers of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Since Connecticut became a U.S. state in 1788,it has sent congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives,beginning with the 1st United States Congress in 1789. Each state elects two senators to serve for six years in general elections,with their re-election staggered. Prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913,senators were elected by the Connecticut General Assembly. Each state elects varying numbers of members of the House,depending on population,to two-year terms. Connecticut has sent five members to the House in each congressional delegation since the 2000 United States Census.
Stillman College is a private historically black Presbyterian college in Tuscaloosa,Alabama. It awards Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in 22 programs housed within three academic schools. The college has an average enrollment of 728 students and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Cory Stillman is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for several teams between 1994 and 2011,winning the Stanley Cup twice. He is currently the Head Coach of the Guelph Storm.
HV71,often referred to as just HV,is a Swedish professional ice hockey club based in Jönköping,playing in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL),the first tier of Swedish ice hockey. The team played in the 2008–09 Champions Hockey League season,and also participated in the new Champions Hockey League tournament since the 2014–15 season. Between 2008 and 2013,HV also participated in the European Trophy tournament. With the exception of a one-year stint in the 2021–22 season in Sweden's second tier,HockeyAllsvenskan,where they won the promotion playoffs,the club has played continuously in the SHL since being promoted in the 1984–85 season.
The 1840–41 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between July 6,1840,and November 2,1841. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives,before or after the first session of the 27th United States Congress convened on May 31,1841. Elections were held for all 242 seats,representing 26 states.
The 1828–29 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between July 9,1828,and October 5,1829. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 21st United States Congress convened on December 7,1829. Elections were held for all 213 seats,representing 24 states.
The 1826–27 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between July 3,1826,and August 30,1827. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 20th United States Congress convened on December 3,1827. They occurred during John Quincy Adams's presidency. Elections were held for all 213 seats,representing 24 states.
Glenville is a neighborhood and census-designated place in the town of Greenwich in Fairfield County,Connecticut,United States. As of the 2010 census,it had a population of 2,327. It is located in the western part of Greenwich at the falls of the Byram River,which provided waterpower when this was a mill village. The area is home to Glenville Elementary school,Western Civic Center and a volunteer fire station,the Glenville Fire Department.
Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller was an American financier and chairman of Cranston Print Works,a Rockefeller-owned textile company.
Chauncey Devereux Stillman was an American philanthropist,art collector,conservationist,and banking heir. As one biographer noted,"He was one of the richest men of his generation,but he was never idle or indolent."
Sarah Stillman is an American professor,staff writer at The New Yorker magazine,and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist focusing on immigration policy,the criminal justice system,and the impacts of climate change on workers. Stillman won a National Magazine Award in 2012 for her reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan and again in 2019 for her article in The New Yorker on deportation as a death sentence. She won a 2012 George Polk Award for her reporting on the high-risk use of young people as confidential informants in the war on drugs,and a second Polk Award in 2021 for coverage of migrant workers and climate change. She also won the 2012 Hillman Prize. In 2016,she was named a MacArthur Fellow. She won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for her coverage in The New Yorker about troubling injustices in felony murder prosecutions in the U.S.
Phillip Tracy "P.T." Stillman was an American football player and insurance executive. He played for the undefeated 1894 Yale Bulldogs football team and was selected as the consensus first-team center on the 1894 College Football All-America Team. He later became president of F. W. Stillman Company,an insurance brokerage company founded by his father.
Mary Emma Stillman Harkness was an American philanthropist. The wife of Edward Harkness,she participated in his philanthropy and also gave independently to various institutions,particularly for women's education,continuing to do so after his death in 1940.
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