University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1583, is the sixth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university....The university played an important role in leading Edinburgh to it...
Prominent scientists (of high international recognition) who have made major contributions to our understanding of our world and the rules of nature. Part I: Exact Sciences and Natural Sciences ( excluding Life Sciences and Medicine) *Exact Sciences - Mathematics & Computer Sciences; Physics; Astronomy *Natural Sciences - Chemistry (& Alchemy); Chemical Engineering; Geology (earth & planetary) ...
(adj) disgraceful, scandalous, shameful, shocking (giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation) "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time" From the Greek σκάνδαλον, a trap or stumbling-block. The metaphor is that wrong conduct can impede or "trip" people's trust or faith. adjective: scand...
This project aims to organize genealogical data on people who were born, lived or died in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines. Find more projects at the Philippine Portal .
This project aims to organize genealogical data on people who were born, lived or died in Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines. Find more projects at the Philippine Portal .
CURATOR NOTE: No project photo fits for this project. During World War 2, the Japanese colonial government sent to Japan the sons of ranking government officials, prominent families, and military officers of Borneo, Siam, Java, Sumatra, Burma, Anam and the Philippines. Referred to as special overseas scholars (their version of the American colonial government’s pensionados) these individuals ...
Everyone is invited to add their "hammering" ancestors to this project (profiles must be set to public). Project collaborators, feel free to update the project description, adding notes, documents, images, resources ... and inviting more collaborators.From Glimpses of 17th and 18th Century colonial American life There were men who earned a living at carpentry. If they lived in a port town, they...
=Sepsis= ===Also known as blood poisoning, septicemia=== Even though blood poisoning, septicemia and sepsis are frequently used interchangeably, there are differences. * The trend in medicine currently is to decrease the use of the terms septicemia and blood poisoning in favor of the terms sepsis or septic, because sepsis is defined most concisely. Blood Poisoning: occurs when bacteria are in t...
Image: The Boxer Codex of the 1590s contains vividly-colored illustrations of ethnic groups in the Philippines and other nearby territories. For instructions on how to use Geni, refer to the Geni Help Portal If you can't get the answers you need on the Geni Knowledge Base or the Discussion Boards , all Geni curators are available to provide peer assistance. Concerns on Geni tools and on...
Wikipedia Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as a female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges, among which it shared with Bryn Mawr College the popular reputation of having a particularly intellectual and independent-minded student body. Radcliffe conferred Radcliffe C...
The Kentucky Migration Note: This project is intended for anyone that moved to Kentucky during this period. If you have more info on why these families migrated, please feel free to add it here, or on their profiles. The first serious explorations of the Kentucky territory by English colonists had begun around 1750, and it was found that the area was not generally inhabited by Indians, but wa...
Roberts Cemetery, Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida, USA: Find a Grave
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Gadsden County, Florida. Gadsden County was created in 1823. It was named for James Gadsden of South Carolina, who served as Andrew Jackson's aide-de-camp in Florida in 1818. Gadsden County is historically known for its tobacco crop which is obsolete today. Wikipedia
Suomesta on lähdetty siirtolaisiksi eri puolille maailmaa, Amerikkaan, Ruotsiin, Norjaan, Venäjälle ja Neuvostoliittoon sekä muihin kaukaisiin maihin. Voit lisätä projektiin Ylivieskasta lähteneet siirtolaiset ja myös ne, jotka ovat myöhemmin jostain syystä palanneet takaisin. Ylivieskan projektit Paikkakunta Ylivieska, Pohjois-Pohjanmaa Paikkakunta Ylivieska, Pohjois-Pohjanmaa Siirtolai...
People Connected to Yorkshire == Historic County of England ===== Image adapted by CJBarnes from Wiki Commons See also >==== Yorkshire - Main Page >==== Yorkshire Genealogical Resources >==== Historic Buildings of Yorkshire >==== Yorkshire - Genealogical Resources
Wikipedia - University of Liverpool The University of Liverpool is a public research university based in the city of Liverpool, England. Founded as a college in 1881, it gained its Royal Charter in 1903 with the ability to award degrees and is also known to be one of the six original 'red brick' civic universities. It comprises three faculties organised into 35 departments and schools. It is a...
Witchcraft (also called witchery or spellcraft) is the use of magical faculties, most commonly for religious, divinatory or medicinal purposes. This may take many forms depending on cultural context.The belief in and the practice of magic has been present since the earliest human cultures and continues to have an important religious and medicinal role in many cultures today.The concept of witch...
Source: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society , Royal Society =A Gathering of the greatest of minds.The Royal Society is a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existenceThe Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world’s most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering, a...
Lincoln College, University of Oxford=Turl Street, OxfordFounded by Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln 1427Lincoln College (in full: The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Lincoln was founded in 1427 by Richard Fleming, then Bishop of Lincoln. It is the ninth oldest of Oxford University's col...
college , University of Oxford Turl Street, OxfordFounded by Walter de Stapledon Bishop of Exeter & Treasurer of England under Edward Il Still situated in its original location in Turl Street, Exeter College was founded in 1314 by Walter de Stapeldon of Devon, Bishop of Exeter and later treasurer to Edward II, as a school to educate clergy. During its first century, it was known as Stapeldon Ha...
El Presidente de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos es el jefe de Estado y de gobierno de México, también es el comandante supremo de las Fuerzas Armadas de dicho país. Su elección es directa y por voto universal (artículo 81), que a la vez esta regulada por la ley electoral vigente (COFIPE). Una vez electo entra en las funciones del cargo, el 1 de diciembre del año de la elección y dura en el seis a...
The Bataan Death March (9-17 April 1942) was the forcible transfer, by the Imperial Japanese Army, of 12,000 American and 64,000 Filipino prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of prisoners. The 128-kilometer march was characterized by wide-ranging physical abuse and murder, and resulted in very h...
About Jewish Pogroms==This is an umbrella project for Jewish Pogroms though the ages. Please join the project and add your profiles.==In the Shadow of the Holocaust==The term " pogrom " was first used in the 19th century. It is the destruction by one section of the population against another. The pogroms occurred during periods of severe political crisis in Eastern Europe. The Russian Empire, p...
This group is for anyone who carries the Boiarintsev surname or is interested in the history of a family originating from the Vyatka Governorate. The Boiarintsev family members were actively involved in major events of the early 20th century, including World War I, the 1917 Revolution, the Russian Civil War, and the Great Patriotic War. Our goal is to unite efforts to restore the history of th...