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1 day ago · Alexander Sherborne (Oxford) will be speaking on ‘The Extraordinary Medieval Monuments of Georgia: A Report by the Oxford University Byzantine Society Research Trip, July 2024’. Dante Reading Group – 5.30pm in Seminar Room 11, St Anne’s College; Thursday. Medieval Women’s Writing Research Seminar – time TBC, Online. Arnisha Ashraf ...
1 day ago · Theravāda (/ ˌ t ɛr ə ˈ v ɑː d ə /; [a] lit. 'School of the Elders') [1] [2] is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school. [1] [2] The school's adherents, termed Theravādins (anglicized from Pali theravādī), [3] [4] have preserved their version of Gautama Buddha's teaching or dhamma in the Pāli Canon for over two millennia.
1 day ago · Charlotte Barnum (1860–1934), mathematician and social activist, first female mathematics PhD from Yale. Margaret Baron (1915–1996), British mathematics educator and historian of mathematics. Lida Barrett (1927–2021), second female president of the MAA. June Barrow-Green (born 1953), British historian of mathematics.
1 day ago · Russia,[b]or the Russian Federation,[c]is a country spanning Eastern Europeand North Asia. It is the largest country in the world by area, extending across eleven time zonesand sharing land borders with fourteen countries. [d]It is the world's ninth-most populous countryand Europe's most populous country. Russia is a highly urbanised country ...
5 hours ago · See also: List of Phillips Exeter Academy principals. Charles H. Bell. Frederick Buechner. Thomas Hassan. Dan Brown. Dolores Kendrick. John Pickering – federal judge, impeached for drunkenness; trustee 1781–1782. Paine Wingate – New Hampshire delegate to the Continental Congress; U.S. representative from New Hampshire; U.S. senator from ...
