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University of Rhode Island at Kingston; coeducational; land-grant and state-supported; chartered 1888, opened as a school 1890, as an agricultural and mechanical college 1892. From 1909 to 1951 it was called Rhode Island State College. It maintains a graduate school of oceanography on Narragansett Bay, a planetarium, a center for robotics research, and the state agricultural research station (est. 1888). The university has a large collection of early American textiles.

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Rhodes the largest of the Dodecanese Islands in the SE Aegean, which in the late Bronze Age became a significant trading nation and dominant power; its capital, Rhodes, a port on the northernmost tip of the island, founded c.408 bc, was the site of the Colossus of Rhodes.

From 1309 to 1522 it was the headquarters of the order of the Knights Hospitallers.

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	Rhode Island Business Plan Competition Web Site Goes Live; Applications to Be Accepted Online for $50,000 Cash Prize. Business Wire; 10/3/2000
	University of Rhode Island Joins Bank Rhode Island's CampusMate Program; Multi-year agreement signed. Business Wire; 7/1/2003
	Dean Kamen and Rhode Island Create Partnership to Bring Robotics Program to Every High School in the State. Business Wire; 10/11/2006

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