Edward Murrow High School

Move over Brooklyn Dodgers of old, and Brooklyn Nets of today. There’s a dynasty from Brooklyn that has had “game” since the early ’90s. The legendary chess team at Edward R. Murrow High School is ...

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With every step they take, more than 4,000 students at Edward R. Murrow High School are moving toward a lower carbon footprint - powered by something unexpected: vegetable oil. At the Midwood campus, ...

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NEW YORK CITY (WCBS, WLNY) — On the last day of school in New York City, it wasn’t just students saying goodbye to the classroom. At Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn, longtime math teacher ...

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle: The grand master at Edward R. Murrow High School is hurting

MIDWOOD — The Grand Master at Edward R. Murrow High School is hurting. Eliot Weis, the man who started the Chess Team at the school in 1981 – and created a power – is in a world of hurt. “I had an ...

Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Brooklyn’s Edward R. Murrow HS, long-dominant city chess dynasty, preps for state championship

Brooklyn’s Edward R. Murrow HS, long-dominant city chess dynasty, preps for state championship

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The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration.

Means "rich guard", derived from the Old English elements ead "wealth, fortune" and weard "guard". This was the name of several Anglo-Saxon kings, the last being Saint Edward the Confessor shortly before the Norman Conquest in the 11th century.