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1 day ago · Bidding for the 2024 Summer Olympics became a two-city race between Paris and Los Angeles, so the IOC took the unusual step of simultaneously awarding both the 2024 Games to Paris and the 2028 Games to Los Angeles. Both of the bids were praised for high technical plans and innovative ways to use a record-breaking number of existing and temporary facilities.
1 day ago · The Sapienza University of Rome ( Italian: Sapienza – Università di Roma ), formally the Università degli Studi di Roma " La Sapienza ", abbreviated simply as Sapienza ("wisdom"), is a public research university located in Rome, Italy. [7] It was founded in 1303 and is as such one of the world's oldest universities, [8] and with 122,000 ...
9 hours ago · The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions. The wars originated in political forces arising from the French Revolution (1789–1799) and from the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802) and produced a ...
9 hours ago · The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn ( German: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ), is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the Rhein-Universität (English: Rhine University) on 18 October 1818 by ...
9 hours ago · Little is known about Scheffauer's youth, education and his early adult years in America, or, about his parents and siblings. His father was Johann Georg Scheffauer, a cabinet maker ("Tischler"), probably born in 1842 in the village of Unterkochen, Württemberg, who, according to Hamburg passenger lists, had first immigrated to America in 1868, returning again to Germany where he married Maria ...
9 hours ago · t. e. The Romanian revolution ( Romanian: Revoluția română) was a period of violent civil unrest in Romania during December 1989 as a part of the revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several countries around the world, primarily within the Eastern Bloc. [ 6] The Romanian revolution started in the city of Timișoara and soon spread throughout ...
1 day ago · Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, as well as in Talloires, France. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. [ 7]
