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Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown,Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams,a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was killed in the French and Indian War in 1755. It is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Concordia University is an English-language public research university located in Montreal,Quebec,Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University,Concordia is one of the three universities in Quebec where English is the primary language of instruction. As of the 2020–21 academic year,there were 51,253 students enrolled in credit courses at Concordia,making the university among the largest in Canada by enrollment. The university has two campuses,set approximately 7 kilometres apart:Sir George Williams Campus is the main campus,located in the Quartier Concordia neighbourhood of Downtown Montreal in the borough of Ville Marie;and Loyola Campus in the residential district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. With four faculties,a school of graduate studies and numerous colleges,centres and institutes,Concordia offers over 400 undergraduate and 200 graduate programs and courses.
Rowan Douglas Williams,Baron Williams of Oystermouth,is a Welsh Anglican bishop,theologian and poet. He was the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury,a position he held from December 2002 to December 2012. Previously the Bishop of Monmouth and Archbishop of Wales,Williams was the first Archbishop of Canterbury in modern times not to be appointed from within the Church of England.
Raymond Henry Williams was a Welsh socialist writer,academic,novelist and critic influential within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics,culture,the media and literature contributed to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts. Some 750,000 copies of his books were sold in UK editions alone,and there are many translations available. His work laid foundations for the field of cultural studies and cultural materialism.
Wellington College of Education was established in 1888 with the purpose of educating teachers in New Zealand. It became the Faculty of Education of Victoria University of Wellington,formed from the School of Education of the University,and the Wellington College of Education on 1 January 2005.
Robert Brent "Bob" Thirsk,is a Canadian engineer and physician,and a former Canadian Space Agency astronaut. He holds the Canadian record for the most time spent in space. He became an officer of the Order of Canada (OC) in 2013 and was named to the Order of British Columbia (OBC) in 2012.
The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) is a conservatoire located in Manchester,England. It is one of four conservatoires associated with the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. In addition to being a centre of music education,RNCM is one of the UK's busiest and most diverse public performance venues.
William Appleman Williams was one of the 20th century's most prominent revisionist historians of American diplomacy. He achieved the height of his influence while on the faculty of the department of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is considered to be the foremost member of the "Wisconsin School" of diplomatic history.
The Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) is a contemporary art school that was a faculty of the University of Sydney from 1990 until 2017,when it became a school of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Until the end of 2019,the campus was located in Rozelle,Sydney and housed within Callan Park in the Kirkbride complex,a cluster of sandstone buildings designed by James Barnet,the government architect,in the late 19th century. SCA moved to the main Camperdown Campus of the University of Sydney in 2020 and now occupies a substantial portion of the Old Teachers' College.
Postern of Fate is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie that was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1973 and in the US by Dodd,Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at £2.00 and the US edition at $6.95.
Archibald Haworth Brown,is a British political scientist. In 2005,he became an emeritus professor of politics at the University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of St Antony's College,Oxford,where he served as a professor of politics and director of St Antony's Russian and East European Centre. He has written widely on Soviet and Russian politics,on communist politics more generally,on the Cold War,and on political leadership.
The Georgetown University College of Arts &Sciences (CAS) is the oldest school within Georgetown University in Washington,D.C. The College is the largest undergraduate school at Georgetown,and until the founding of the School of Medicine in 1850,was the only higher education division of the university. In 1821,the school granted its first graduate degrees,though the graduate portion has since been separated as the Georgetown University Graduate School of Arts &Sciences. From 1990 to 2022,it was named Georgetown College.
Sheila May Fitzpatrick is an Australian historian,whose main subjects are history of the Soviet Union and history of modern Russia,especially the Stalin era and the Great Purges,of which she proposes a "history from below",and is part of the "revisionist school" of Communist historiography. She has also critically reviewed the concept of totalitarianism and highlighted the differences between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in debates about comparison of Nazism and Stalinism.
Naturalism is a movement in European drama and theatre that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It refers to theatre that attempts to create an illusion of reality through a range of dramatic and theatrical strategies. Interest in naturalism especially flourished with the French playwrights of the time,but the most successful example is Strindberg's play Miss Julie,which was written with the intention to abide by both his own particular version of naturalism,and also the version described by the French novelist and literary theoretician,Emile Zola.
Julie H. Rivkin is an American literary critic and professor of English at Connecticut College since 1982. She is best known for her publications on literary theory and Henry James,and has published several works on both subjects. Rivkin received her B.A. and PhD from Yale University and is currently the Associate Dean of Faculty at Connecticut College,a member of the Modern Language Association,and Vice President of the Henry James Society. Her other specializations include American literature and gender studies.
Heather Williams is an American ornithologist,and professor at Williams College since 1988. She graduated from Bowdoin College with an A.B. in Biology in 1977,from Rockefeller University with a Ph.D. in Neuroscience in 1985,and was Postdoctoral fellow,Field Research Center. She was a 1993 MacArthur Fellow. Williams' most notable work highlights bird song data gathered on Kent Island also known as the "Bowdoin Science Station". In the summer of 2022,she published an article that was featured in Nature.com
Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mahdī was an Abbasid prince,singer,composer and poet. He was the son of the third Abbasid caliph,al-Mahdi,and the half-brother of the poet and musician Ulayya. Ibrahim was contemporary of Abbasid caliph al-Hadi,al-Rashid and his three nephews caliph al-Amin,al-Ma'mun,al-Mu'tasim.
Darra Goldstein is an American author and food scholar who is the Willcox B. and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian,Emerita at Williams College.
Leyla Rouhi is an Iranian-American literary scholar and Mary A. and William Wirt Warren Professor of Romance Languages at Williams College. She is known for her expertise on comparative literature.
Julie A. Buckler is an American literary scholar and Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She is known for her expertise on comparative literature.
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