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Encyclopedia - Cornell University: Encyclopedia Ii - Cornell University - History
Cornell University - Conception of Cornell. When Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White met in the New York Senate in January 1864, each...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aldous Huxley: Encyclopedia - Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963) was a British writer who emigrated to the United States. He was a member of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albanians: Encyclopedia - Albanians
Kosovo:    1,672,000 Serbia (excluding Kosovo):    67,000 Republic of Macedonia:    509,000 Greece:  &...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alchemy: Encyclopedia - Alchemy
Alchemy is an early protoscientific and philosophical discipline combining the elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American Philosophical Society: Encyclopedia - American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society, founded in 1743 by founding father Benjamin Franklin, continues to operate to this day. Through resea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Art School: Encyclopedia - Art School
Art school is a colloquial term for any educational institution (whether secondary, post-secondary/undergraduate, or graduate/postgraduat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bachelor Of Science: Encyclopedia - Bachelor Of Science
A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. or less commonly, S.B. or Sc.B. from the Latin Scientiae Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bachelor Of Arts: Encyclopedia - Bachelor Of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B., from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bachelor's Degree: Encyclopedia - Bachelor's Degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three or four year...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Auguste Comte: Encyclopedia - Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte (full name Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte) (January 17 (recorded January 19), 1798 - September 5, 1857) was a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agrophysics: Encyclopedia - Agrophysics
Agrophysics is a new branch of science bordering on physics and agronomy, whose objects of study are the ecosystem and the biological obj...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Switzerland: Encyclopedia - Switzerland
The Swiss Confederation or Switzerland (Latin: Confoederatio Helvetica) is a landlocked federal republic in Europe, bordering Germany, Fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Orthodox Judaism: Encyclopedia - Modern Orthodox Judaism
Modern Orthodox Judaism (or Modern Orthodox, also known as Modern Orthodoxy and sometimes abbreviated as "MO") is a movement within Ortho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Society Of Jesus: Encyclopedia - Society Of Jesus
The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu/Jesu (S.J.) in Latin) is a Christian religious order of the Roman Catholic Church in direct service t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Test Student Assessment: Encyclopedia - Test Student Assessment
In education, certification, counselling, and many other fields, a test or exam (short for examination) is a tool or technique intended t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Archaeology: Encyclopedia - Archaeology
Archaeology, archeology or archæology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech/discourse) is the stud...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nature: Encyclopedia - Nature
Nature (also called the material world, the material universe, the natural world, and the natural universe) is all matter and energy, esp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bill Gates: Encyclopedia - Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is the co-founder, chairman, and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation, the w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Academic Publishing: Encyclopedia - Academic Publishing
Academic publishing describes a system of publishing that is necessary in order for academic scholars to review work and make it availabl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theory: Encyclopedia - Theory
Theory has a number of distinct meanings in different fields of knowledge, depending on the context and their methodologies. Theory - Ety...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - T: Encyclopedia - T
T is the twentieth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is tee. Tâw was the last letter of the Western Semitic alpha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Academy Of Sciences: Encyclopedia - Academy Of Sciences
Academy of Sciences can refer to a national academy or another learned society dedicated to sciences. Examples include: Brazil - Brazili...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Creation-evolution Controversy: Encyclopedia - Creation-evolution Controversy
History of creationism Creation in Genesis Types of creationism: Young Earth creationism - Creation science Old Earth creationism Omphalo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cornell University: Encyclopedia - Cornell University
Cornell University is a research university whose main campus is located on the East Hill of Ithaca, New York, and whose two medical cam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Controversy: Encyclopedia - Controversy
A controversy is a contentious dispute, a disagreement in opinions over which parties are actively arguing. Controversies can range from ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constant: Encyclopedia - Constant
In mathematics and the mathematical sciences, a constant is a fixed, but possibly unspecified, value. This is in contrast to a variable, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Experimentum Crucis: Encyclopedia - Experimentum Crucis
In the sciences, an experimentum crucis, or critical experiment, is an experiment capable of decisively determining whether or not a part...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of Southern California: Encyclopedia - University Of Southern California
The University of Southern California (also known as USC, 'SC, and Southern California), California's oldest private research university,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - De Architectura: Encyclopedia - De Architectura
De architectura (Latin: "On architecture") was a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of Bath: Encyclopedia - University Of Bath
The University of Bath is a campus university located near Bath, England at 51°22.6′N 2°19.55′W. It received its Royal Charter in 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cultural Movement: Encyclopedia - Cultural Movement
A cultural movement is a change in the way a number of different disciplines approach their work. This embodies all art forms, the scienc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Composition: Encyclopedia - Composition
Composition could refer to: Composition - Composition in sciences. Function composition is a means of creating a new function from two...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Western Philosophy: Encyclopedia - Western Philosophy
Western philosophy is a line of related philosophical thinking, beginning in Ancient Greece, and including the predominant philosophical ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - C. P. Snow: Encyclopedia - C. P. Snow
Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, CBE (15 October 1905 - 1 July 1980) was a scientist and novelist. Born in Leicester, he was educated at U...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Serbs: Encyclopedia - Serbs
Bosnia and Herzegovina:   1,479,930 Croatia:   202,365 (2004) (581,663 in 1991) Slovenia:    38,964[1] (2002) Re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bolesław Prus: Encyclopedia - Bolesław Prus
Bolesław Prus (pronounced: [bɔ'lεswaf 'prus]; August 20, 1847 – May 19, 1912), born Aleksander Głowacki, was a Polish journalist, s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calculus: Encyclopedia - Calculus
Fundamental theorem | Function | Limits of functions | Continuity | Mean value theorem | Vector calculus | Tensor calculus Product rule |...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of Cambridge: Encyclopedia - University Of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Colleges Of The University Of Cambridge: Encyclopedia - Colleges Of The University Of Cambridge
This is a list of the colleges within the University of Cambridge. The University of Cambridge currently has 31 colleges, of which three ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cognitive Archaeology: Encyclopedia - Cognitive Archaeology
Cognitive archaeology is a sub-discipline of archaeology which focuses on the ways that ancient societies thought and the symbolic struct...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Williams College: Encyclopedia - Williams College
Williams College is a private, coeducational, highly-selective liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. As of 2005, t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Blaise Pascal: Encyclopedia - Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623–August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. Pascal was a child prod...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Environment: Encyclopedia - Environment
For more information, please refer to discussion on this page and/or the listing at Wikipedia:Requested pictures. An environment is a com...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jainism: Encyclopedia - Jainism
Jainism (pronounced in English as /ˈdʒeɪ.nɪzm̩/), traditionally known as Jain Dharma (जैन धर्म) , is a religion and ph...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ab Initio: Encyclopedia - Ab Initio
The Latin term ab initio means from the beginning and is used in several contexts: when describing literature: told from the beginning a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropology: Encyclopedia - Anthropology
Anthropology (from the Greek word άνθρωπος, "human" or "person") consists of the study of humanity (see genus Homo). It is holist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gerard Of Cremona: Encyclopedia Ii - Gerard Of Cremona - Gerard's Translations
Gerard of Cremona's Latin translation of an Arabic text was the only version of Ptolemy’s Almagest that was known in Western Europe for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grafton Elliot Smith: Encyclopedia Ii - Grafton Elliot Smith - Professional Career
He was awarded a degree in medicine at the university of Sydney (Doctor of Medicine in 1895, with a dissertation on the fore-brain of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albanians: Encyclopedia Ii - Albanians - Culture
Albanians - Contribution to humanity. Albanians have played a prominent role in the development of the arts and sciences as well as in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Astrology: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Astrology - History
History of astrology - Western astrology's Babylonian origins. The history of western astrology can now be traced back to ancient Babyl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson: Encyclopedia Ii - Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson - Music Career
Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson - Early bands. Steinblóm (Stone Flowers) by 1969, was his first group. It was a trio formed by Guðlaug...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gaston Bachelard: Encyclopedia Ii - Gaston Bachelard - Life And Work
Bachelard was a postmaster in Bar-Sur-Aube before studying physics and then finally becoming interested in philosophy. He was a professor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eli Siegel: Encyclopedia Ii - Eli Siegel - Works
Among Siegel's many published works are: Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism. About Self and World, Smithsonian magazine...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eugen Rosenstock-huessy: Encyclopedia Ii - Eugen Rosenstock-huessy - Out Of Revolution
An interdisciplinary scholar, Rosenstock-Huessy was admired in his own lifetime by some of the most influential intellectuals of the day,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Generative Sciences: Encyclopedia Ii - Generative Sciences - Scientific And Philosophical Origins
The generative sciences originate from the monadistic philosophy of Leibniz. This was further developed by the neural model of Walter Pit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Devolution Fallacy: Encyclopedia Ii - Devolution Fallacy - Misconceptions About Evolution
Biologists refer to this misconception as teleology, the idea of intrinsic finality that things are "supposed" to be and behave a certain...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jacob Emden: Encyclopedia Ii - Jacob Emden - Biography
Until seventeen Emden studied Talmud under his father Zvi Ashkenazi, the foremost Talmudic authority of the age, first at Altona, then fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Denison University: Encyclopedia Ii - Denison University - History
Denison was an exclusively male college at the time of its inception, but has since become coeducational. This began with the Granville F...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctor Of Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctor Of Philosophy - Oral Defense
In some countries, a Ph.D. candidate is required to present an oral defense of his or her thesis, known in the UK as a viva (short for vi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Josiah Willard Gibbs: Encyclopedia Ii - Josiah Willard Gibbs - Biography
Gibbs' scientific career can be divided into four phases. Up until 1879, he worked on the theory of thermodynamics. From 1880 to 1884, he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Interaction: Encyclopedia Ii - Interaction - Chemistry And Medicine
In medicine, most medications can be safely used with other medicines but particular combinations of medicines need to be monitored for i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers: Encyclopedia Ii - Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers - Overview
IEEE's Constitution defines the purposes of the organization as "scientific and educational, directed toward the advancement of the theor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - French Renaissance: Encyclopedia Ii - French Renaissance - Art Of The French Renaissance
French Art Main Page Categories Prehistoric Medieval Renaissance & Mannerism Baroque & Classicism Rococo & Neoclassicism The ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Independent Scholar: Encyclopedia Ii - Independent Scholar - Acceptance Of Independent Scholarship
Criteria on someone's source of income or academic standing have no prima facie application to how scholarly work should be evaluated. Ne...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eastern Kentucky University: Encyclopedia Ii - Eastern Kentucky University - History
Eastern was founded in 1874 as Central University. In 1906, the Kentucky State Legislature established the Eastern Kentucky State Normal ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Interaction: Encyclopedia Ii - Interaction - Chemistry And Medicine
In medicine, most medications can be safely used with other medicines but particular combinations of medicines need to be monitored for i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nottingham High School: Encyclopedia Ii - Nottingham High School - School Buildings
The original main school building consists of 3 wings: the west wing, middle corridor and the east wing. The west wing mainly houses clas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Mexico Institute Of Mining And Technology: Encyclopedia Ii - New Mexico Institute Of Mining And Technology - Princeton Review Honors
2005 Ranked #2 Best value in education 2005 Ranked among top western colleges 2004 Ranked among top western colleges 2004 Ranked #4 worst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Orthodox Judaism: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Orthodox Judaism - Philosophy
Modern Orthodoxy comprises a fairly broad spectrum of movements each drawing on several distinct, though related, philosophies, which in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Education In The United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Education In The United States - Primary And Secondary Education
See also: Primary education in the United States, Secondary education in the United States Schooling is compulsory for all children in th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Duke University: Encyclopedia Ii - Duke University - History
Duke University - Beginnings. What is known today as Duke University started as Brown's Schoolhouse, a private subscription school foun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Oxbridge Rivalry: Encyclopedia Ii - Oxbridge Rivalry - Oxbridge Image And Stereotypes
Oxford and Cambridge are very well-known inside the UK, and are generally familiar to people in other countries. Their fame stems from a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - De Architectura: Encyclopedia Ii - De Architectura - De Architectura In Summary
Probably written between 27 and 23 BC, it is the only contemporary source on classical architecture to have survived. Divided into ten se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Disputation: Encyclopedia Ii - Disputation - Medieval Disputations
Disputation - Inter-faith disputations. A significant category of disputations took place between Christian and Jewish theologians in o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doctor Of Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Doctor Of Philosophy - Oral Defense
In some countries, a Ph.D. candidate is required to present an oral defense of his thesis, known in the UK as a viva (short for viva voce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Knowledge-based Engineering: Encyclopedia Ii - Knowledge-based Engineering - Kbe / History
KBE essentially was a complementary development to CAx and can be dated from the 1980s (See Also, ICAD). CAx has been developing along wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Keele University: Encyclopedia Ii - Keele University - Dual Honours System
Founded to "promote interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary scholarship", Keele emphasises "the strength of a broad educational programm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John 'mad Jack' Fuller: Encyclopedia Ii - John 'mad Jack' Fuller - Early Life
Fuller was born on February 20, 1757 in North Stoneham, Hampshire. He was christened in the village of Waldron, near Heathfield in Sussex...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Infinite Monkey Theorem: Encyclopedia Ii - Infinite Monkey Theorem - Literature And Popular Culture
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1782) anticipates the central idea of the theorem, depicting a professor of the Grand Academy of Lag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Forensics: Encyclopedia Ii - Forensics - Forensic History
Aristotle said there are three types of discourse; epideictic (ceremonial speech), deliberative (the type of debate we expect to see in c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Exponential Function: Encyclopedia Ii - Exponential Function - Properties
Using the natural logarithm, one can define more general exponential functions. The function defined for all a > 0, and all real nu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theistic Evolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Theistic Evolution - Spectrum Of Viewpoints
Evolutionary creationism is a variant of creationism which accepts microevolution and macroevolution while retaining a theistic interpret...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Emory University: Encyclopedia Ii - Emory University - History
Emory University - Early days in Oxford Georgia. On 10 December 1836, Emory College was chartered by the Georgia Methodist conference, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English People: Encyclopedia Ii - English People - History
The English as an ethnic group can trace their heritage back to the Anglo-Saxons (or Old English), who between the 5th and 7th centuries,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ib Middle Years Programme: Encyclopedia Ii - Ib Middle Years Programme - Curriculum
The subjects taught in the MYP are divided into eight subject groups: language A (the student's best language), language B (a foreign lan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maoism: Encyclopedia Ii - Maoism - Maoist Theory
Unlike the earlier forms of Marxism-Leninism in which the urban proletariat was seen as the main source of revolution, and the countrysid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Western Philosophy: Encyclopedia Ii - Western Philosophy - Western Philosophical Subdisciplines
Philosophical inquiry is often divided into several major "branches" based on the questions typically addressed by people working in diff...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bachelor Of Arts: Encyclopedia Ii - Bachelor Of Arts - Duration
A BA program generally lasts three years in the United Kingdom (except Scotland), New Zealand and Australia or four years in the United S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rudjer Boscovich: Encyclopedia Ii - Rudjer Boscovich - Biography
Rudjer Boscovich - Early years. Boscovich was born in the Republic of Dubrovnik (Dalmatia, present-day Croatia), an independent republi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jainism: Encyclopedia Ii - Jainism - Universal History And Jain Cosmology
According to Jain beliefs, the universe was never created, nor will it ever cease to exist. It is eternal but not unchangeable, because i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albert Iii Of Austria: Encyclopedia Ii - Albert Iii Of Austria - Life
Albert III was born as the third son of Duke Albert II of Austria. Even though his father had determined that the eldest son should the s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthropology: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthropology - Politics Of Anthropology
Anthropology's traditional involvement with nonwestern cultures has involved it in politics in many different ways. Some political proble...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Archaeology: Encyclopedia Ii - Archaeology - Public Archaeology
Early archaeology was largely an attempt to uncover spectacular artifacts and features, or to explore vast and mysterious abandoned citie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Society Of Jesus: Encyclopedia Ii - Society Of Jesus - Foundation
On August 15, 1534, Ignatius (born Iñigo López de Loyola) and six other students (Francis Xavier, a fellow Basque, Alfonso Salmeron, Ja...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Williams College: Encyclopedia Ii - Williams College - Distinguishing Features
Williams College - School colors and origins thereof. Williams's primary school color is purple. The story goes that at the Williams-Ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of Southern California: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of Southern California - Overview
Founded in 1880 as a Methodist University, on land donated by three wealthy Los Angeles residents, it has grown to international prominen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Romanians: Encyclopedia Ii - Romanians - Population
Most Romanians live in Romania and Moldova, where they constitute a majority; Romanians also constitute a minority in the countries that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Legend Of Prince Valiant: Encyclopedia Ii - The Legend Of Prince Valiant - Story Summary
The Legend of Prince Valiant - The Premise. Like the original comic strip, the series begins with the fall of Thule, the fictional king...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Feynman Lectures On Physics: Encyclopedia Ii - The Feynman Lectures On Physics - Background
By 1960 Richard Feynman was already a legend in his own time; at age 42 his research and discoveries in physics had resolved a number of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Statistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Statistics - Statistical Methods
Statistics - Experimental and observational studies. A common goal for a statistical research project is to investigate causality, and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transhumanism: Encyclopedia Ii - Transhumanism - Criticisms
Criticisms of transhumanism can be divided into two main categories: those objecting to likelihood of transhumanist goals being achieved,...   » Read the article