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Eastfields

The area is home to St Mark's Academy (formerly known as Eastfields and then Mitcham Vale) secondary school and to Mitcham Eastfields railway station, which opened on 2 June 2008.


Alleyne's Academy

It is located in Stone, Staffordshire, England, and is one of three schools founded in 1558 by the Reverend Thomas Alleyne.

Alonso Lobo

Some of his music also uses polychoral techniques, which were common in Italy around 1600, though Lobo never used more than two choirs (contemporary choral music of the Venetian school often used many more — the Gabrielis often wrote for as many choirs as there were choir-lofts at St Mark's Basilica).

Architecture of Italy

St Mark's Basilica in Venice is also an example of Byzantine architecture in Italy.

Children's Academy

Children's Academy is a Mumbai-based chain of private co-educational English-medium day schools at Malad and Kandivali in Mumbai.

Deerfield Academy

He stepped down in June 2006 and soon after assumed the position of Founding Headmaster at King's Academy in Madaba, Jordan, a school inspired in part by HM King Abdullah II's Deerfield years in the 1980s.

George Friel

He was born in Glasgow as the fourth of seven children, and was educated at St. Mungo's Academy and the University of Glasgow.

Giovanni Antonio Antolini

He designed grandiose Neoclassical projects such as the Foro Bonaparte in Milan, which was never executed, and plans for the Procuratie buildings on St Mark's Square in Venice, which were modified and completed by others.

Giovanni Rovetta

Giovanni Rovetta (1596–1668) was an Italian Baroque composer and maestro di capella of the Capella Marciana at St Mark's Basilica, Venice between Monteverdi and Cavalli.

Gohar Ayub Khan

Gohar Ayub was sent to study at the military-controlled Army Burn Hall College and eventually moved on to attend St. Mary's Academy private school in Rawalpindi.

Henry Benyon

He had inherited his father's estates - as well as the patronage of St Mark's Church, Englefield and St Peter's Church, De Beauvoir Town, Hackney - in 1935 and was raised to the baronetcy on 8 July 1958.

Ifield Community College

The choir, led by Patrick Allen (music educator), has performed at some of Europe's major venues, including St Mark's Basilica in Venice (2008),the Royal Festival Hall, London, Barcelona Cathedral, the Auditorium Stravinski in Montreux and a recent (June 2011) collaboration with the BBC Singers saw them performing and recording at Maida Vale Studios.

Jlloyd Samuel

Born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, Samuel attended St Joseph's Academy, Blackheath through the 1990s where he was a valuable member of the school football teams as well as the London Schoolboys teams.

John Francis Bentley

After deciding on a Byzantine Revival design, Bentley travelled to Italy to study some of the great early Byzantine-influenced cathedrals, such as St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

Jon Shain

For high school, Shain attended The Governor's Academy in Byfield, Massachusetts, where he met up with other aspiring musicians among its small student body.

King's Academy

Communication, Rhetoric and the Literary Arts (Incorporating both English and Arabic)

Mark Burchill

He attended St Mary's Academy, Bathgate followed by St. Margaret's Academy, Livingston, where his footballing ability became apparent.

Miles Salley

He was buried in The Gaunt's Chapel, Bristol, where a fine chest tomb surmounted by his effigy exists on the north wall of the chancel.

Navtej Sarna

He was born in Jalandhar, India to noted writer in Punjabi, Mohinder Singh Sarna, and did his schooling from St. Joseph's Academy, Dehradun.

Old St. Scholastica's Academy

Due to the large number of enrollees, and the zeal of its biggest benefactor, Monsignor Prudencio David, the school was relocated to its second site in 1931, and ownership of the school was passed on to the Benedictine Sisters in 1938.

Périgueux

Félix de Verneihl claims that St Front's was a copy of St Mark's Basilica in Venice; Quicherat, that it was copied from the church of the Holy Apostles of Constantinople.

Queen Elizabeth's Hospital

In addition, the school choir often sings Council Prayers at the Lord Mayor's Chapel on College Green, where school founder John Carr is buried.

Saint Jerome's Academy

Saint Jerome's Academy, also called SJA, is a private, Roman Catholic parochial school located at the town proper of Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.

St Aidan's Academy

St Aidan's Catholic Academy, a Roman Cathoic secondary school in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England

St Aidan's Church of England Academy, a Church of England secondary school in Darlington, County Durham, England

St Mark's Abbey

St Mark's Abbey, Camperdown, is an Anglican Benedictine monastery situated in Victoria, Australia.

St Mark's Anglican Church, Warwick

The Reverend Benjamin Glennie had a plan to establish the (then) Church of England on the Darling Downs through four churches in the larger towns named after the four apostles: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

St Mark's Church, Hadlow Down

The church windows include two by Percy Bacon from the early 20th century ("Madonna & child with angels" and "Suffer little children") and a smaller window by Francis Skeat from 1948, featuring the Christian year in wild flowers.

St Mark's Clock

The relative positions of five planets (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury) were shown, as were the moon's phases and the position of the Sun in the zodiac.

St Mark's Clocktower

There was originally a statue of the Doge Agostino Barbarigo (Doge 1486-1501) kneeling before the lion, but in 1797, after the city had surrendered to Napoleon, this was removed by the French, who were purging the city of all symbols of the old regime.

The wings are sometimes attributed to Pietro Lombardi, who was later to rebuild the Procuratie on the same side of the Piazza, but the wings are of no great distinction and more probably designed by Gonella who was then the proto (buildings manager) of St Marks.

St Mark's, Winshill

First World War hero William Harold Coltman VC, DCM and Bar, MM and Bar, lies buried in the churchyard with his wife Eleanor.

St Matthew's Academy

The school first opened on 29 October 2007 following the merger of pupils from St Andrews Academy, Saltcoats and St Michael's Academy, Kilwinning.

St. Catherine's Academy

Captain Maguire was a United States Navy Chaplain to the Pacific Fleet during World War II.

St. Edmond's Academy

Beau Biden (1983) Delaware Attorney General, son of Vice President Joseph Biden

St. Paul's Academy

St Paul's Academy, Abbey Wood, a secondary school in Abbey Wood, London, England

St. Paul Christian Academy, an independent school in Nashville, Tennessee, United States

St. Paul's Preparatory Academy, a defunct school in Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Stella Women’s Academy, High School Division Class C³

She owns an IMI Desert Eagle replica pistol and several competitive shooting items, which she stores in her room.

She carries an Škorpion vz. 61 submachine gun replica as her weapon which was given to her by Sonora.

Striking clock

The St Mark's Clock was assembled in 1493, by the famous clockmaker Gian Carlo Rainieri from Reggio Emilia, where his father Gian Paolo Rainieri had already constructed another famous device in 1481.

Theodore Rudzinski

He was educated in St. Mary's parish school in Milwaukee, and graduated from St. Gall's Academy, Milwaukee, and Spencerian Business College of Milwaukee.

West End, Kamloops

The neighbourhood is located close to a number of significant Kamloops buildings, including the Old Courthouse, Sacred Heart Cathedral, St. Andrew's on the Square, Stuart Wood Elementary School (the city's first school), the Kamloops Museum and Archives and St. Ann's Academy.

William Denys

She died in 1593 and received the honour of burial at the Gaunt's Chapel, Bristol.

The couple's eldest son was Sir Richard Berkeley (died 1604), MP for Gloucestershire, whose effigy can be seen in The Gaunts Chapel, Bristol.


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