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5 hours ago · Imperial College London (Imperial) is a public research university in London, England.Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who envisioned a cultural area including the Royal Albert Hall, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Natural History Museum and in addition to several royal colleges. Established by royal charter in 1907, Imperial unified into one institution the ...
1 day ago · Harold Barlow, staff then Pender Chair in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (1950–1966) Thomas Hudson Beare (1859–1940), chair of engineering from 1889 to 1901. Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver of Cranfield (1926–), 1961–69. Wellesley Curram Clinton (1871-1934), Pender Chair from 1926 to 1934.
5 hours ago · Life Childhood: 1928–1945 Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in the East Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents, William Chomsky and Elsie Simonofsky, were Jewish immigrants. William had fled the Russian Empire in 1913 to escape conscription and worked in Baltimore sweatshops and Hebrew elementary schools before attending university. After moving to Philadelphia ...
5 hours ago · The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area.The Bills compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team plays its home games at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York.. Founded in 1959 as a charter member of the American Football ...
1 day ago · Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private, Ivy League, research university in New York City.Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan, it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States.. Columbia was established as a colonial college by royal charter ...
1 day ago · Oxford (⫽ ˈ ɒ k s f ər d ⫽) is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.Founded in the 8th century, it was granted city status in 1542. The city is located at the confluence of the rivers Thames (locally known as the Isis) and Cherwell.It had a population of 163,257 in 2022. It is 56 miles (90 km) north-west of London, 64 miles (103 km ...
1 day ago · Proportional representation (PR) refers to any type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to political divisions (political parties) among voters.The essence of such systems is that all votes cast – or almost all votes cast – contribute to the result and are effectively used to help elect ...
