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An 1861 oil portrait of Matthew Vassar by Charles Loring Elliott. Vassar was founded as a women's school under the name Vassar Female College in 1861. [8] Its first president was Milo P. Jewett, who had previously been first president of another women's school, Judson College; [9] he led a staff of ten professors and twenty-one instructors. [10]
Baez was born in the Staten Island borough of New York City on January 9, 1941. [13] Her grandfather, Alberto Baez, left the Catholic Church to become a Methodist minister and moved to the U.S. when her father was two years old.
Leopard Society, leopard men, and Anyoto were names used for one or more secret societies that operated in West and Central Africa approximately between 1890 and 1935. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was believed that members of the society could transform into leopards through the use of witchcraft. [ 3 ]
As of 2023, Nixon was the seventh of seven presidential nominees to win a significant number of electoral votes in at least three elections, the others being Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland, William Jennings Bryan, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. He is the only Republican ever to do so.
Bryan Ronald Wilson (25 June 1926 – 9 October 2004) was a British sociologist. He was Reader Emeritus in Sociology at the University of Oxford and President of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (1971–75). He became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1963.
Linguist; president of the Linguistic Society of America (1949) Francis Fergusson: Harvard University: Queen's: 1923 United States Dramatic theorist Robert Hall: University of Queensland: Magdalen: 1923 Australia Principal of Hertford College, Oxford (1964–1967), chief economic advisor to the British government (1947–1961) Arnold Heeney ...
Diana Mitford was the fourth child and third daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale (1878–1958), and his wife Sydney (1880–1963). [10] She was a first cousin once removed of Clementine Churchill, [11] second cousin of Sir Angus Ogilvy, and first cousin, twice removed, of Bertrand Russell. [12]
Secret Society is the seventh studio album by the Swedish rock band Europe.It was released on 25 October 2006 by Sanctuary Records. "We think it's one of the strongest albums that Europe has ever done," vocalist Joey Tempest said, "There is definitely some more melodic stuff on this one.