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The School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) is a magnet arts school in Cincinnati, Ohio. SCPA was founded in 1973 as one of the first magnet schools in Cincinnati and became the first school in the country to combine a full range of arts studies with a complete college-preparatory academic program for elementary through high school students. The school rose to national prominence in the 1980s, but was nearly closed in the 1990s following a series of scandals, leadership struggles, and an arson fire which destroyed the auditorium. Its reputation recovered in the years that followed and in 2009–10, the school was featured in the MTV reality series Taking the Stage, filmed at the school and featuring SCPA students. In 2010 SCPA combined with the Schiel Primary School for Arts Enrichment to create the first kindergarten through twelfth grade arts school and first private sector / public arts school in the US. Students must audition for admission; fewer than 20 percent of those who apply each year are accepted. The newly combined school offers a curriculum designed to prepare students for professional careers in creative writing, dance, drama, music, technical theater, and visual art. (more...) Recently featured: Thomas the Slav – Bix Beiderbecke – Montague Druitt Archive – By email – More featured articles...
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December 1: World AIDS Day; Great Union Day in Romania (1918) 1822 – Pedro I was crowned the first Emperor of Brazil, less than two months after he actually began his reign on October 12. 1913 – Ford Motor Company began operating the world's first moving assembly line (pictured) for the mass production of automobiles. 1925 – The Locarno Treaties were formally signed in London, establishing post-First World War territorial settlements. 1955 – In a key event in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 1989 – Led by the Reform the Armed Forces Movement, members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines began a coup attempt against President Corazon Aquino. More anniversaries: November 30 – December 1 – December 2 Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries It is now December 1, 2011 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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On December 1, 1984, NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) conducted the Controlled Impact Demonstration, where they deliberately crashed a Boeing 720 aircraft with the intent of improving occupant crash survivability. Seen left-to-right, top-to-bottom, the plane makes a practice approach, hits the ground, slides for a short distance, strikes posts cemented in the ground, and becomes engulfed in flames.

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