Template:Did you know nominations/Royal Naval College, Osborne
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:49, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
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... that to enter the Royal Naval College, Osborne (pictured), boys had to pass an entrance exam in English, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, Latin, French or German, history, and geography with reference to the British Empire?
Source: United States Naval Institute Proceedings, Volume 44, Part 12 (1918), p. 2,771
- Reviewed: Franco-German University
Created/expanded by Moonraker (talk) and Rangasyd (talk). Nominated by Moonraker (talk) at 07:26, 3 March 2018 (UTC).
Interesting training system, on good sources, offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. - The image is licensed but doesn't show much, - The hook is boring, forgive me, on top of all these extra links. I'd be more interested in their final exams, or that it was for 2 years prep for the other, or something notable about one of the officers or students. - Article: in the table, can you move the title which is the same for all to above the table? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:23, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
- ALT1 ... that the spymaster and cricketer J. C. Masterman trained at the Royal Naval College, Osborne (cricket pavilion pictured)?
Source: John P. Campbell, "Masterman, Sir John Cecil (1891–1977), college head and intelligence officer" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edition (subscription site)
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... that Prince Louis of Battenberg, later Earl Mountbatten of Burma (pictured) trained at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, and went on to be Viceroy of India?
Source: Tony Heathcote, The British Admirals of the Fleet 1734–1995 (Havertown: Pen & Sword, 2002) p. 183
ALT1 is lovely, related to the building, and to the point! The image is licensed and fine to show. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:14, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
