Founded in 1701, Yale University is a leading private, independent research institution in New Haven, Connecticut. In addition, it encompasses a comprehensive range of research organizations, libraries, and museums.The university was established as a Collegiate School in the home of Abraham Pierson, its first rector.
I hope this is a reasonable place to ask this question, at least until an art history StackExchange shows up. My memory is hazy about this but I seem to remember a René Magritte painting that depi…
Scientists estimated that mobile and segmented animals with bilateral symmetry evolved during the Ediacaran period (between 635 and 542 million years ago), long before the age of the dinosaurs or even the supercontinent Pangea. However, there was no convincing evidence to corroborate these estimates.
The Sylva Sylvarum (1627) is recognized as the first 'treatise on natural history'. Some regard it as the most-complete work, for its day. But as early as 70AD, other works existed, such as Pliny's
The Royal Navy of World War Two prided itself on the superior psychiatric health of its men. Because it had its pick of recruits, it assumed that it always got the best and most emotionally stable men.This rather complacent view was to be challenged as the war went on and even the toughest of sailors began to show unmistakable signs of battle fatigue and stress.
A section of one of the most important roads (Puteoli-Neapolim), which connected Pozzuoli, the commercial port of the Roman Empire, with Naples, is emerging in the excavations in Via Terracina. In fact, in Fuorigrotta, in Via Terracina, a few steps from the San Paolo stadium, the remains of the Roman thermal baths and a valuable mud floor of a small settlement with houses and shops around the buildings used for the spa.
Founded in 1903, Albany State University is a historically black institution situated in Albany in southwest Georgia. It lies on the banks of the Flint River on a 204-acre plot.The state university was started as Albany Bible and Manual Training Institution by Joseph Winthrop Holley, to offer religious and industrial education for African-American youth.
