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Hace 1 día · 19th century Tufts College, c. 1854. In the 1840s, the Universalist Church wanted to open a college in New England, and Charles Tufts donated 20 acres to the church in 1852 to help them achieve this goal. Charles Tufts had inherited the land, a barren hill which was one of the highest points in the Boston area, called Walnut Hill, and when asked by a family member what he intended to do with ...
Hace 1 día · 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 ...
Hace 1 día · Genoa (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ n oʊ ə / JEN-oh-ə, Italian: Genova, Italian: [ˈdʒɛːnova] ⓘ; Ligurian: Zêna, Ligurian:) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy.In 2023, 558,745 people lived within the city's administrative limits. While its metropolitan city has 813,626 inhabitants, more than 1.5 million people live in the wider ...
Hace 1 día · Origin of the word Pendant in the form of a siren, made of a baroque pearl (the torso) with enameled gold mounts set with rubies, probably circa 1860, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York).. The English word baroque comes directly from the French.Some scholars state that the French word originated from the Portuguese term barroco 'a flawed pearl', pointing to the Latin ...
