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2 days ago · The new learning was discouraged, and thus many universities underwent a period of relative decline. New schools continued to be founded during this time, however, including ones at Edinburgh (1583), Leiden (1575), and Strasbourg (university status, 1621). The first modern university in Europe was that of Halle, founded by Lutherans in 1694.
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Karl Heinrich Ludwig Ledderhose (26 March 1821 - 1 January 1899) was a German lawyer, politician and university rector.Initially serving in the governments of both Electoral and Prussian Hesse, Ledderhose was later transferred to the newly created Imperial Territory of Alsace–Lorraine, where he served as both vice-president and undersecretary of state.
2 days ago · The university is described by the Encyclopedia Britannica as "one of the United States' most outstanding universities". [131] ARWU has consistently placed the University of Chicago among the top 10 universities in the world, [132] and the 2021 QS World University Rankings placed the university in 9th place worldwide. [133]
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21 hours ago · Baruch (de) Spinoza (24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin. As a forerunner of the Age of Reason, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism, 17th-century rationalism, and contemporary conceptions of the self and the universe, establishing himself as one of the most ...
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2 days ago · Modern global warming is the result of an increase in magnitude of the so-called greenhouse effect, a warming of Earth’s surface and lower atmosphere caused by the presence of water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxides, and other greenhouse gases. In 2014 the IPCC first reported that concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane, and ...
5 days ago · Barack Obama—with his wife, Michelle—being sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, January 20, 2009. Key events in the life of Barack Obama. Barack Obama (born August 4, 1961, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.) is the 44th president of the United States (2009–17) and the first African American to hold the office.
3 days ago · Martin Luther King, Jr. (born January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.—died April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee) was a Baptist minister and social activist who led the civil rights movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968.
