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23 hours ago · The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex, hand-written in an unknown script referred to as ' Voynichese .'. [18] The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438). Stylistic analysis has indicated the manuscript may have been composed in Italy during the Italian Renaissance.
23 hours ago · Early life Childhood and education Oppenheimer was born Julius Robert Oppenheimer into a non-observant Jewish family in New York City on April 22, 1904, to Ella (née Friedman), a painter, and Julius Seligmann Oppenheimer, a successful textile importer. Robert had a younger brother, Frank, who also became a physicist. Their father was born in Hanau, when it was still part of the Hesse-Nassau ...
23 hours ago · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Adichie in 2015 Born Amanda Ngozi Adichie (1977-09-15) 15 September 1977 (age 46) Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria Occupation Writer public speaker Alma mater Eastern Connecticut State University (BA) Johns Hopkins University (MA) Yale University (MA) Period 2003–present Notable works Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), "The Danger of a Single Story ...
23 hours ago · The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a public research university in Birmingham, England.It received its royal charter in 1900 as a successor to Queen's College, Birmingham (founded in 1825 as the Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery), and Mason Science College (established in 1875 by Sir Josiah Mason), making it the first English civic or 'red brick ...
23 hours ago · Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, Massachusetts, and in Talloires. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. [6]
23 hours ago · The University of Pennsylvania, commonly referenced as Penn and sometimes UPenn, is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.It is one of nine colonial colleges and was chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin, the university's founder and first president, advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in ...
23 hours ago · The university was established as National Third Chungshan University in 1927, in memory of Sun Yat-sen, and soon renamed as National Chekiang University (NCKU) in 1928. During the presidency of Chu Kochen from 1936 to 1949, the university retreated to Guizhou in West China during the Sino-Japanese War, [8] before it moved back to Hangzhou in 1946.
