Search results for "University of Edinburgh" - New World Encyclopedia
From New World Encyclopedia
- the cloud chamber for visualizing the tracks of electrically charged particles ... Wilson was born in the parish of Glencorse, Midlothian, near Edinburgh ...8 KB (1,235 words) - 00:34, 5 December 2023
- Aga Khan (Persian: آغا خان ) is the hereditary title of the ... philanthropic efforts and establishment of various educational and medical ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 06:09, 16 June 2023
- Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay ... needed, and the job was given to University of Edinburgh Professor Vere Gordon ...24 KB (3,569 words) - 22:43, 29 January 2023
- ) is the anglicized spelling of Bealtaine or Bealltainn, the Gaelic ... School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Since then the ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 08:55, 27 September 2023
- who is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and the best known ... Chair of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, although influential ...16 KB (2,543 words) - 03:14, 15 December 2022
- sparkling wit and dialogue. He was also one of the early pioneers of what ... Meredith was born in Portsmouth, England, a son and grandson of naval ...8 KB (1,223 words) - 15:24, 11 November 2022
- fiction and is generally cited as the father of the historical novel. His novels ... Scott Digital Archive] at the University of Edinburgh library: includes ...17 KB (2,589 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- a herbaceous plant, Dianthus caryophyllus, of the Caryophyllaceae family ... name carnation is also often applied to some of the other species of Dianthus ...10 KB (1,415 words) - 00:27, 29 November 2023
- Great Britain is the largest island of the British Isles. It lies ... As a part of the once powerful British Empire, Great Britain played ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 12:20, 24 January 2023
- sometimes referred to as the "Father of Assyriology." Rawlinson ... in Great Britain. He was the second son of Abram Tyack Rawlinson, and ...10 KB (1,581 words) - 23:12, 8 February 2022
- The Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster, normally called Westminster ... Since the Christmas Day coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066 ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 17:21, 4 May 2023
- [[Image:HiltonofCadboll01.JPG|thumb|A replica of the Hilton of Cadboll ... The Picts were a confederation of tribes who lived to the north of ...35 KB (5,272 words) - 05:13, 24 November 2022
- science. Although he was a close confidant of the Lake School of Poets, and ... not just for their preoccupation with some of the seedier issues of London ...10 KB (1,469 words) - 21:06, 30 April 2023
- Britannica and his book Religion of the Semites (1889), which is ... history. His desire was to open the study of religion to a broader discourse ...12 KB (1,721 words) - 10:46, 12 May 2023
- Calvinist lines following his experience of working with John Calvin in ... He died in Edinburgh on November 24, 1572. According to one biographer ...27 KB (4,483 words) - 14:37, 18 August 2023
- also published a book on Plato's theory of ideas (or forms) that understands ... High School, Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh. In 1895, he gained ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 15:58, 7 May 2023
- to impose a single Mu'tazili version of Islam. On the one hand, he ... rule, which lacked the generosity and piety of his brother and the intellectual ...13 KB (2,047 words) - 04:19, 17 June 2023
- by defective bone growth resulting from lack of vitamin D or calcium. Insufficient ... htm Red hair genetics]. University of Edinburgh Department of Dermatology ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 18:53, 11 August 2022
- during the Peasants' War and a leader of a radical Christian movement ... Muentzer was born in the small village of Stolberg in the Hartz Mountains ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 21:24, 30 April 2023
- Continental philosophy, as the phrase is used today, refers to a set ... who found it useful for referring to a range of thinkers and traditions that ...19 KB (2,642 words) - 02:47, 8 January 2024
