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The Corcoran Gallery of Art is the largest privately supported cultural ... Wilson Corcoran in 1869, and houses one of the most comprehensive collections ...

District, West Bengal, India, consists of a theological college and a ... received authorization to award the Bachelor of Arts degree. The college ...

in the American Civil Liberties Union, of which he was a founding member ... where he gained the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and ...

[[Image:IVE Tsing Yi.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Hong Kong Institute of ... conceptual knowledge, characteristic of tertiary education. ...

Clark University is a private research university and liberal arts ... to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the ...

and services they offer as well as the type of students they attract. Despite ... four-year programs. However, the advent of community colleges undeniably ...

gorillas. She completed an extended study of mountain gorillas, observing ... parents separated when she was young because of her father's drinking ...

|affiliations = University Alliance Association of Commonwealth ... having an open entry policy. The majority of students are based in the UK ...

journalist in the country during much of his life. He had a brilliant ... Dana spent months with Grant on the field of battle. The close association ...

discipline that involves application of the principles of physics for ... A Bachelor of Science (BS) / Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Mechanical ...

|name =University of Rome "La Sapienza" |native_name ... University of Rome La Sapienza (Italian Università degli Studi di ...

States presidency in the disputed election of 1876, the most controversial ... (then officially named the University of the City of New York), earning ...

In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the ... Vaughan prepared for the introduction of machine computers in the early ...

spirit and public mission to be a vital part of the life around it, not an ... Collegiate Institute and received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College ...

Queen Elizabeth and almost forgotten by most of his peers; his reputation has ... and foremost, his Euphues--which was one of the most popular literary works ...

and Sinologist, and is still considered one of the world's great Asian ... Japanese and achieved a remarkable degree of fluency and erudition. He never ...

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which ... Once a Bachelor of Arts degree had been conferred, the student could ...

which is the organization and management of information services or materials ... today are required to have a high degree of diversified and specialized ...

Nicholas or Nicolaus of Autrecourt (in French: Nicholas d'Autrécourt ... false teachings on the allegation that 66 of his propositions, culled from ...

He achieved his greatest fame as the title character of the children ... author, lecturer, and lobbyist on behalf of childrens' issues. He ...

She was involved in two of the most famous and well-received radio ... Gregory's acclaimed stage production of Shaw's Don Juan In Hell ...

11, 2021) was the last State President of apartheid-era South Africa ... De Klerk is best known for engineering the end of apartheid, South ...

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psychology. He is best known as the creator of the Stanford-Binet IQ test ... County, Indiana, seventeen miles southeast of Indianapolis. He was the twelfth ...

Wellesley College is a women's liberal arts college that opened ... As one of the "Seven Sisters," Wellesley has been and continues ...

educator and philosopher and a leader of the school of new realism in ... in Poultney, Vermont. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton ...

often called "The Dean of Western Writers". Stegner ... As a historian, Stegner concerned himself with the issues of community ...

Pendus, written while in prison. He is one of the most influential secular ... Villon was highly educated, and his mastery of the French language led to ...

[bɾɪn maueɾ]) is a women's liberal arts college located in Bryn Mawr ... of Cities department may earn a Bachelor of Arts at Bryn Mawr and a master ...

author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study ... Woodson is also notable for launching the celebration of "Negro ...

Smith College is a private, independent women's Liberal arts ... Smith is also a member of the Five Colleges consortium, which allows ...

the Bible into the Early Modern English of his day. Although a number ... he was admitted to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1512, the same year ...

executive who served as the president of Columbia Broadcasting System ... Stanton was decisive and passionate in his pursuit of the development ...

a student leader. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature ... Aung San received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature ...

In the early 1950s, he had a string of memorable Broadway productions ... University of Kansas in 1935 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and ...

Platonist and as the sole English proponent of the ideas of the French philosopher ... 1676 until 1680, when he received his Bachelor of Arts. In 1680, he was elected ...

and cooking technique into the kitchens of American families everywhere. ... Smith College where she persued a bachelor of arts degree in history and ...

and a highly successful popularizer of several natural sciences. He ... the basis for the 1997 Robert Zemeckis film of the same name starring Jodie ...

known for his novels, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ... Sterne graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in January 1737; and ...

advocate. She is famous for her promotion of higher education for women ... eventually qualified her to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1896. ...

– April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived ... He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree at the College of New Jersey ...

diplomat and the second secretary-seneral of the United Nations. He served ... graduated with honors, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree. His majors were ...

He has been called, “the conscience of his generation” ... for his satirical portrayals of American cultural manners and mores ...

the "Tripos," to acquire a Bachelor of Arts degree. After completing ... groups: the undergraduate gown, the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) gown, the Master ...

James A. Naismith, (November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts (postgraduate), Doctor of Medicine, and Doctor of ...

was an American philosopher in the school of pragmatism, known for his contributions ... He argued, controversially, that members of such groups as the Communist ...

Pierre Nicole (1625 - November 16, 1695) was one of the most distinguished ... who based their ideas on the teachings of Augustine of Hippo, he believed ...

an Australian author widely regarded as one of the major English-language ... an amateur group. White received his Bachelor of Arts in 1935, briefly settling ...

: Another John Venn was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1686–1687. ... He published three texts on logic, The Logic of Chance (1866) which introduced ...

best known for his iconic status as the host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny ... current affairs and on events in the worlds of show business and of celebrity ...

literature and society, and the impact of The Holocaust. ... A polyglot and polymath, he is often credited with redefining the ...

eras. Ruskin is also known for his advocacy of "Christian socialism. ... Ruskin was born in London, and raised in south London, the son of ...

centuries and is now considered to be one of the most remarkable poets of ... within a year earning his Bachelor of Arts degree. A year into ...

City. Founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St. John ... With a long tradition of excellence in academics and theology, Fordham ...

|affiliations = Association of American Universities |website ... initial $1 million endowment in the hopes of making a contribution to the ...

22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was the wife of President of the United States ... roadside areas. She was also an advocate of the Head Start program. ...

(1981), which won the Booker Prize. Much of his early fiction is set on ... The title refers to several verses of the Qur'an that were later ...

| affiliations = Association of Jesuit Colleges | fightsong ... graduates were awarded the degree of bachelor of arts two years later in 1817 ...

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), constitute an elite group ... program with a successful implimentation of that plan to create one of ...

American psychologist. He is regarded as one of the most significant social ... the scientific method, he rejected any type of Reductionism, such as the Behavioristic ...

or Greater Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest ... Auckland has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world ...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 - February 7, 2001) was the wife ... Smith College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in May 1928. ...

Cosby Show, in the late 1960s. He was one of the major characters on the ... During the 1980s, Cosby produced and starred in what is considered ...

was an American Jewish author and rabbi. Two of the themes that dominate his ... Jews had grown disillusioned as a result of the failed messianism of the ...

Education City, Qatar. Cornell is a member of the Ivy League, and prides ... areas useful to society. Situated in an area of farming, conservation, and ...

He is famous for his successful application of the concept of microcredit ... empowered women, who represent 95 percent of the bank's clientele. ...

acclaimed short films, Benchley's style of humor brought him respect and ... Altman, 43–51. Benchley would not receive his Bachelor of Arts from ...

was a leading American essayist and author of children's literature ... from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1921. He picked ...

A rite of passage is a ritual that marks a change in a person's ... Despite their diversity, rites of passage all serve the same purpose: ...

cummings; Cummings himself did not approve of this rendering.Norman Friedman ... Harvard University, receiving his bachelor of arts degree in 1915 and his ...

Ontario is a province located in the east-central part of Canada, ... The capital of Ontario is Toronto, the largest city in Canada. Ottawa ...

was a Kenyan politician, the third President of Kenya, serving from December ... 30, 2007, for his second term as president of the Republic of Kenya after ...

As an educator, he promoted the teaching of history, science, and the arts ... gases becoming famous for his co-discovery of oxygen, which he called "dephlo ...

4, 1774) was an Anglo-Irish author and one of the most versatile English ... Goldsmith earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1749 at Trinity College, ...

| alma_mater = Elphinstone College (1877–1880; Bachelor of Arts) ... He joined Elphinstone College in 1877, graduating with a Bachelor ...

literature and Arabic, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree, graduating cum ... studying in Europe. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity ...

who practices medicine with the purpose of promoting, maintaining, or ... Both the role of the physician and the meaning of the word itself ...

Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of the New York School of poetry ... . The urgency and quickness of his voice allows the reader to experience ...

Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of skilled ... became unpopular. However, the value of on the job training and practical ...

Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It ... many connected by parkways in the Chain of Lakes and the Grand Rounds ...

laureate, statesman, scholar, and author of books and articles on U.S. ... Henry Kissinger received his Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude ...

novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa ... Umberto Eco was born in the city of Alessandria in the region of Piedmont ...

Established in 1802, USMA is the oldest of the United States' five ... The academic program grants a bachelor of science degree with a ...

|city = USA Borough of Princeton,Princeton Township,and West Windsor ... Princeton offers two main undergraduate degrees: the Bachelor of Arts ...

scholar who served as the Solicitor General of the United States from 1973 ... Despite being recognized as one of the most influential legal ...

philosopher, and scholar – a professor of English literature, a literary ... he was named the "patron saint" of Wired magazine. ...

colonist, an early and courageous proponent of the separation of church and ... A religious separatist, Williams questioned the right of the colonists ...

|motto = Vox clamantis in deserto(The voice of one crying ... in the United States. It is a member of the Ivy League and is one of ...

St. Louis County in the United States state of Missouri. It is located at ... French explorers arrived in 1673 and found a major center of the Mississippian ...

novelist, and dramatist during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, best ... College where she received her Bachelor of Arts in anthropology in 1927 ...

was considered by many to be the grandfather of cognitive-behavioral therapies ... psychology after first earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in business from ...

leader who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia ... segregation in the United States. He was one of the "Big Six" leaders ...

different Republican presidents and is one of only two people to have held ... In 1970, he became the first director of the Office of Management ...

was an English Romantic composer. Several of his first major orchestral ... The son of a musician (his father was a church organist) Elgar was ...

who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during ... Berg was a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School ...

and mathematical psychologist, and a pioneer of cognitive science. A longtime ... Tversky was an astute observer of human behavior, recognizing that ...

Ulrich Zwingli or Huldrych Zwingli (1484 –1531) was the leader of ... taking in due course the degrees of bachelor of arts (1504) and master of ...

at Harvard University, where he is Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute ... requirement of his five-year Bachelor of Arts program; upon his return ...

November 1, 2021) was an American psychiatrist, regarded as the father ... and psychometrics, Beck was named one of the "Americans in history ...

to the union (January 4, 1896). The majority of Utah's population, known ... incredible geological diversity in the form of snowcapped mountains to well ...

/ləˈkæreɪ/), was a British author of espionage novels. During the ... Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full ...

– July 1, 1999) was the leader and founder of the Zimbabwe African People ... placed under house arrest in 1982, accused of plotting against Mugabe. Following ...

Prize. He was the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 22, 1963 ... and political cooperation among the nations of the world so that all benefit ...

tradition. In 1876 he became a professor of philosophy at Boston University ... curriculum and graduated with the Bachelor of Arts in 1871. Bowne’s formal ...

an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe ... on a scholarship, receiving his bachelor of arts degree in 1584. In 1587 ...

in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. As a ... Du Bois is viewed by many as the father of modern black scholarship ...

was a British novelist, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature ... appeared a year before Golding received his Bachelor of Arts. ...

(based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew), Fifty Million Frenchmen ... Cole Porters' songs and thoughts are about the many aspects of ...

and entrepreneur. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including ... After the war, Newman completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in drama ...

Rosicrucianism (meaning "Rose Cross") refers to a family ... The meetings of these societies were held in private and thus Rosicrucians ...

States, Doolittle was awarded the Medal of Honor for his valor and leadership ... his college degree, he earned the Bachelor of Arts from the University ...

; Postal map spelling: Tientsin) is one of four municipalities of ... The urban area of Tianjin is located along the Haihe River, and is ...

best known for her sympathetic coverage of Russia and the Bolsheviks during ... collected in 1923 under the title Mirrors of Moscow. Later that year she ...

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Order of Canada (November 18, 1939 - ) is ... Frye. She graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Arts in English (honors) ...

at Harvard University, and the author of several books, including A ... In 1943, Rawls completed his Bachelor of Arts degree and joined the ...

office executive for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association ... As coach of the Celtics from 1950 to 1966, Auerbach won nine NBA titles ...

largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located ... south of the Canada – United States border in King County, of which ...

School, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United ... after those at Oxford and Cambridge. Each of 12 residential colleges houses ...

actor, director, and producer. He is one of the most famous and revered ... than six decades and included a wide variety of roles, from Shakespeare's ...

orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative ... philosophy and mythology. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature ...

history who served as the Prime Minister of IranMike Thomson, [http://www ... Mossadeq received his Bachelor of Arts and Masters in (International ...

later, television career spanned a total of 76 years, during which time ... During his long career he also worked with some of the great composers ...

magic and the occult, he also devoted much of his life to alchemy, divination ... Dee straddled the worlds of science and magic just as the two disciplines ...

from 1981 to 1987. He served as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee ... Brigham Young University and earned a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1959. ...

and scholars for his broad understanding of both Chinese classics, and ... and daughter survived during the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, and ...

Guangzhou is the capital and the sub-provincial city of Guangdong ... The site of Guangzhou has been continuously occupied since Panyu ...

in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one of the most prominent of Founders ... 1757, seven men graduated; six with a Bachelor of Arts and one as Master of ...

(香|香 港|港), is one of the two special administrative regions ... Hong Kong was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1842 until ...

039;at 'Azza) is a narrow coastal strip of land along the eastern Mediterranean ... Following the 1948 creation of the State of Israel, hundreds of thousands ...

in promoting and supporting the settlement of North America by the English ... that he could find. He took his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) on February 19 ...

|name=The University of Chicago |motto=Crescat scientia; vita excolatur ... The College of the University of Chicago grants Bachelor of Arts and ...

Canberra is the federal capital of the Commonwealth of Australia located ... movement and incorporates significant areas of natural vegetation that have ...

film director. Working within the medium of narrative cinema, he created ... à Sceaux in Paris, receiving a bachelor of arts degree. In December ...

His seminal book The Organization of Behavior, published in 1949 ... student but he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1925. After ...

Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) (February ... Contrary to the popular conception of an either-or dichotomy between ...

, IPA: [kəɾˈnɑːʈəkɑː]), a state in the southern part of India ... Kerala to the southwest. The state covers an area of 191791|sqkm|sqmi ...

the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, ... to disillusion him about the possibility of moral progress. He concluded ...

a favorite target for his particular brand of humor were United States Presidents ... Hope, who earned the moniker "The King of Comedy," was ...

generally known as Henri Poincaré, was one of France's greatest mathematicians ... family in the Cité Ducale neighborhood of Nancy, France. His father, ...

served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. She ... when she was eleven years old. A member of the Democratic Party, she worked ...

2019) was the twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia and longest serving ... state sector industries, ended subsidization of loss-making industries, sold ...

was the first and most prominent leader of a reform movement in sixteenth ... He came to this understanding over the course of a long and tortuous ...

an influential twentieth century advocate of Pan-Africanism, and the leader ... As Ghana's leader and as an advocate of pan-Africanism, he continued ...

Motown Records, also known as Tamla-Motown, outside of the United ... Tamla Records, Motown has, over the course of its history, owned or distributed ...

Kelly was a major exponent of twentieth century filmed dance, known ... Kappa Theta fraternity and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 1933 ...

was principal owner and managing partner of Major League Baseball's ... He was a pioneer of modern sports ownership and is remembered for ...

and inventor who foresaw the possibility of space travel and launched the ... Robert Goddard was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the only child ...

#039; national hero and the anniversary of Rizal's death is commemorated ... Ateneo Municipal de Manila, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree sobresaliente ...

jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United ... . She graduated from Cornell with a bachelor of arts degree in government ...

is a nation in northwest Europe and one of the constituent countries of ... The Kingdom of Scotland was an independent state until May 1, 1707 ...

writer who is best known for his development of Christian realism. As he served ... theological ethics acknowledges the reality of human sinfulness a bit too ...

His other major works include The Winds of War and War and Remembrance ... He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the age of 19 from Columbia ...

, romanized: Moskva, IPA:) is the capital of Russia and the country ... Moscow is world-renowned for its architecture and its performing arts ...

warm expressive voice. Gielgud is a member of the short list of entertainers ... a Shakespearian actor. At different stages of his career he played Hamlet ...

on this show led to half a century of success on television. Frost was one of the "Famous Five" who were behind the launch ...

#039;ing) is the largest and most populous of the People's Republic ... Located on the edge of the Yungui Plateau, Chongqing is intersected ...

role in Dr. No, Connery played Bond in six of Eon Productions' entries ... full Highland dress, including a tartan kilt of his mother's clan, for ...

from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party and the ... incident in 1969 resulted in the death of his automobile passenger, Mary ...

was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme ... in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts in history. While in college, he was ...

(The Long Day Wanes), on the dying days of Britain's empire in the ... three years later with the degree of Bachelor of Arts (2nd class honors, upper ...

with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include ... Gilbert also wrote the Bab Ballads, an extensive collection of light ...

) was an American physicist known for expanding the theory of quantum ... He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member ...

17, 1913 - December 18, 2008) was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau ... and his wife, Rose. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University ...

commanded a battalion and later a brigade of the 1st Infantry Division. ... After the 1973 resignation of H. R. Haldeman, Haig became President ...

John Wesley (June 17, 1703-March 2, 1791) was the central figure of ... years. In 1724, Wesley graduated as a Bachelor of Arts and decided to pursue ...

Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta, and its ... center. It plays host to a year round slate of world-class festivals, earning ...

‎; (July 28, 1971 – October 27, 2019) was the Iraqi-born leader ... by the Shura Council, who were representing those members of the Islamic ...

14, 1836) was the third Vice-President of the United States (1801–1805 ... As a legislator, Burr was a formative member of the Democratic-Republican ...

) is a range of traditional medical practices originating in China ... TCM theory asserts that processes of the human body are interrelated ...

by many as the greatest American leader of the twentieth century. His ... from Morehouse in 1948, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology ...

served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United ... O'Connor was the crucial swing vote of the Court for many of her final ...

public figure. He served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations ... While widely recognized as a leading representative of Judaism in ...

- December 5, 2013) was the first President of South Africa to be elected ... Through his long imprisonment, much of it spent in a cell on Robben ...

and philanthropist. Witnessing the murder of his parents as a child leads ... Miller. That show, together with the success of director Tim Burton's ...

1878 until 1918, Montenegro was later a part of various incarnations of Yugoslavia ... and award diplomas equivalent to a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science ...

professor and theologian, a key leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and ... reformation may not have met with the level of success it enjoyed. ...

May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 ... election victories. Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer during all Blair ...

and numerous contributions to the discipline of electricity and magnetism in ... In the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other ...

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central ... an event that coincided with the baptism of Duke Mieszko I. Poland became ...

Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia is a landlocked country ... which grant diplomas equivalent to a Bachelor of Arts or a Diploma in Engineering ...

naturalist who achieved fame as originator of the theory of evolution through ... become a physician, enrolled him in a Bachelor of Arts course at Christ's ...

The modern state of Romania was formed by the merging of the Danubian ... to concentration camps and executions of between 280,000 to 380,000 Jews. ...

actor. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and ... for Best Actor for his role in East of Eden. Upon receiving a second ...

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd President of the ... Yale University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History in ...

August 4, 1961) served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 ... relations and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1983. ...

The Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë, or simply ... many times. During more than 40 years of communist totalitarian rule ...

– April 12, 1945) was the 32nd president of the United States, the longest ... Harvard University, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in 1904 without ...