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Preeminent universities

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As is well known, Florida classifies its state universities into "preeminent" and "emerging preeminent universities" based on specified criteria which reflect quality. Are there other states that do that?—azuki (talk · contribs · email) 05:19, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Does it classify any as "Just average"? HiLo48 (talk) 05:31, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Nope - only Florida.--WaltCip (talk) 12:57, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Museum of Board games

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Are there museums of board games in the world?--95.233.83.162 (talk) 10:46, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There was this one, but it closed in 2009. You can still view the contents of the museum online. --Viennese Waltz 10:55, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
You missed an exhibition devoted to board games at the V&A Museum of Childhood in London; Game Plan: Board Games Rediscovered which was due to close this week but actually shut weeks ago due to the current emergency. They have a large board game collection, part of which is usually on display, and you can view it on-line here. Alansplodge (talk) 11:27, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Swiss Museum of Games Tobyc75 (talk) 17:17, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
In Germany, there's the de:Deutsches Spielemuseum in Chemnitz and de:Deutsches Spielearchiv in Nuremberg, with 35,000 and 30,000 board games, respectively. 2A01:598:9183:BDEB:1:1:3919:F4B4 (talk) 15:31, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]