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Christ's College, Cambridge

Christ's College is one of the colleges of the University of Cambridge.

It was originally founded in 1448 as God's House on land now occupied by King's College Chapel[?]. It was refounded in 1505 and moved to its present site by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII.

Christ's has (2001) about 390 undergraduate and 100 graduate students.

Their webserver hosts the British division of the International Olympiad in Informatics, http://www.christs.cam.ac.uk/bio/

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