Portal:Education/Did you know/9

...that Kanawha (pictured) was a steam-powered luxury yacht aboard which industrialist Henry H. Rogers met Booker T. Washington to secretly fund the education of African Americans?
...that Jacob Nolde was so inspired by a pine tree on his land in the early 1900s that he planted 500,000 more in what is now Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center in Pennsylvania?
...that the five themes of geography is an educational framework for geography adopted in 1984 by the Association of American Geographers?
...that the National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine was used as a House of Political Education and a Bolshevik Club after the Russian Revolution?
...that a 1934 survey of Japanese language education in the United States found only thirteen professors in the whole country fluent in Japanese? ]]?