Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV
israeli university.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev was established in 1969 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, to develop the Negev desert (60 percent of Israel's land mass and 10 percent of its population). Originally called the University of the Negev, in 1973 it was renamed to honor Ben-Gurion. The center of education and research in the area, it focuses on desert research, high technology, medicine, and regional development. The university has campuses at Beersheba and Sde Boker.
Besides a medical school, there are four faculties: engineering sciences, natural sciences, health sciences, and humanities and social sciences. The student population in 2002 was 15,000.
see also
beersheba;
negev.
Miriam Simon
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Mary Custis Lee's "Reminiscences of the war"
Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...housekeeper. Mary Lee's health...ordinary place. George Washington Parke Custis was a grandson of Martha Washington and had been...infant by George and Martha...the full Custis silver service...purchased by George Washington;4 and two...which Mary Lee ...
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A Portrait in Letters; Mary Lee Custis's Two Trunks Full Of Memorabilia Tell Much About A Famous Father [Correction 7/19/07]
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/12/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...is stenciled: "M. LEE." That's Mary Custis Lee, Gen. Robert...reaching into Mary Custis Lee's trunks and...Shepard opened the Mary Custis Lee papers to the public...great-grandfather, George Washington. There's a handful...
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The House That Custis Built
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/26/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...and adopted son of George Washington, died of "camp fever...month-old son, George Washington Parke Custis, 15,000 acres of...Robert Edward Lee. Lee's military career...military posts, but the Lees always considered Arlington...
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Area Irish Give Custis' Grave a Touch of Green
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/18/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...George Washington Parke Custis built, near the place...District in the 1840s, as Custis, adopted grandson of George Washington and father-in-law of Robert E. Lee, did, you couldn...in the early 1800s, Custis-a farmer, painter...
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Lee in Love: Courtship and Correspondence in Antebellum Virginia
Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...during which many Lee family papers and...thirteen of Robert Lee's twenty-one...time.4 Robert Lee and Mary Custis...Robert Lee and Mary Custis knew one another...described her father, George Washington Parke Custis, as someone...
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ARLINGTON CEMETERY HAD ITS START AS ROBERT E. LEE'S LAWN.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 3/3/2002; 700+ words
; ...who was also a friend of John Custis II (d. 1669), the progenitor...property overlooking present-day Washington, George Washington Parke Custis, the adopted grandson of the...married her cousin Robert E. Lee there. And from then on until...
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Lee's house of U.S. history.(FAMILY TIMES)(FIELD TRIPS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 4/8/2007; 700+ words
; ...link between George Washington's family and Gen...originally built by Martha Washington's grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, as a monument to President...married then-Lt. Lee at Arlington House. The Lees enjoyed life at Arlington...
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Constructing the cause, bridging the divide: Lee's Tomb at Washington's College.(Robert E. Lee)(Report)
Magazine article from: Southern Cultures; 6/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Robert E. Lee lay dying...House. The Lees' beloved...them from George Washington Parke Custis, popularly...because he was George Washington's only (adopted) son. Custis had built...Robert Edward Lee. And for...connection to George Washington...
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Lee Family Gatherings
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/26/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...law died in 1857, Lee took a leave of absence...left the Union, and Lee, after much pacing...the home after the Lees left in 1861 and...After the war, Lee and his family did...after the time of the Custis/Fitzhugh wedding...family related to George Washington, one should not...
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North punishes Lee for siding with South.(Saturday)(The Civil War)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 12/9/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...1869 when Mrs. Lee, encouraged by...belonged to George Washington and had been taken...the relics to the Lees would be an insult...the death of Mrs. Lee in 1873 - three...husband's death - George Washington Custis Lee, who had succeeded...
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George Washington Custis Lee
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
George Washington Custis Lee 1832-1913, Confederate general in...Monroe, Va.; eldest son of Robert E. Lee. He served in the Corps of Engineers...succeeding his father, president of Washington and Lee Univ. (1871-97).
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Lee, George Washington Custis
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Lee, George Washington Custis (1832–1913) Confederate...the chief engineer of the army in Washington. After the war Lee succeeded his father, Robert E. Lee , as president of Washington College (later Washington and Lee...
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Lee, Robert E.
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...Washington 's adopted son. The Lees made their home at Arlington, the Custis mansion overlooking Washington, D.C. The marriage produced...three sons. The sons— George Washington Custis Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee...
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The Robert E. Lee Memorial Arlington House
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Formerly called the Custis-Lee Mansion, it...General Robert E. Lee . Arlington house was the home of Lee, inherited by his wife, the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis. It was abandoned by the Lees early in the Civil...
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Robert Edward Lee
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Robert Edward Lee 1807-70...Anne Randolph Custis, a great...of Martha Washington, and Arlington...reaching Gen. George B. McClellan...Petersburg . Lee's appointment...president of Washington College (now Washington and Lee Univ...
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