Harvard University is a private university that was established in 1636 by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Named after its very first benefactor John Harvard of Charlestown, Harvard University is a member of the Ivy League – an athletic conference made up of 8...
On Tuesday, the 2011 US News college rankings were released. The rankings comprised of some familiar college rankings near the top of the list, with Harvard, Princeton, and Yale taking the prime spots.The university leading the list was Harvard University, which received a perfect score...
Here's our list of the top schools for undergraduate business majors looking to pursue a degree in business. These schools are ranked for 2009 according to the overall quality of education and prestige of the program. We found the best business schools to be the ones that best prepared their...
Atheism is generating quite a lot of attention these days. Prominent atheists are getting the word out about their views in increasing numbers and generating lots of public debate on the proper place of religion in governments and societies in the modern world. And now more than ever, atheists...
Influential people come in all shapes and sizes in all generations throughout history. Such people can be grouped together by shared affiliations and backgrounds, for whatever purposes people are drawn to make lists. This list offers some interesting biographical tidbits about 50 people of Jewish...
Paul of TarsusSaul of Tarsus, a.k.a. Paul the Apostle, Paul of Tarsus [?-65 c.e.] was a Hellenistic Jew and student of Gamaliel the Elder who served as enforcer for the Pharisaic Sanhedrin against the apostate Christian sect following the crucifixion of Jesus. Around 33 c.e. he experienced a dramatic...
A new U.S. study conducted by a team of researchers found wandering minds lead to unhappiness. The results of the study are available in the most recent installment of Science journal released Thursday. Psychologists Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University published the...
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and present President of the United States. Born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Ann Dunham and Barack Obama, Sr., Obama spent his childhood in Witchita, Kansas. Obama's parents separated when he was a toddler at the age of two, and later divorced....
Born in 1953 in Karachi, Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto was the first female leader of a Muslim state in 1988. At 16, Benazir Bhutto attended Harvard University where she attained a degree in Comparative Government. At 20 she moved to Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford where she studied Philosophy,...
The 2012 rankings for the 50 Best Colleges & Universities have been released. Coming in at the number 1 spot is Princeton University. According to the rankings publisher: "We set out to create a college ranking that does a better job of measuring the things that prospective students and...
