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Cormac McCarthy, novelist who attended University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1951–1952 and 1957–1960; won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road [150] Bernadotte E. Schmitt, earned a bachelor of arts at the University of Tennessee in 1902, won a Pulitzer in History in 1931 for his book The Coming of the War, 1914 (1930) [151]
Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state, it is the flagship campus of the University of Tennessee system, with ten undergraduate colleges and eleven graduate colleges. It hosts more than 30,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries.
Tennessee: A Short History (University of Tennessee Press, 1969). Folmsbee, Stanley John. History of Tennessee (4 vol Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1960), Two volumes of text 2 of biographies; Laska, Lewis L. "A Legal and Constitutional History of Tennessee, 1772-1972" University of Memphis Law Review 6 (1975): 563+ online.
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
For example, "SC" is claimed by both the University of Southern California and the University of South Carolina. The abbreviation may be non-obvious. For example, "KU" is the University of Kansas and not "UK," which is commonly the University of Kentucky .
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: Chattanooga: Public Doctoral/Professional university: 11,380 1886 University of Tennessee Health Science Center: Memphis: Public Special-focus institution: 3,121 1911 University of Tennessee at Martin: Martin: Public Master's university: 6,941 1900 University of Tennessee Southern: Pulaski: Public ...
The University of Tennessee was founded in Knoxville as Blount College in 1794. It became East Tennessee College in 1807, and gained university status in 1840. It was designated as the state's land-grant institution in 1869, and was renamed the "University of Tennessee" in 1879.
Devastating fires broke out in the city that lasted for several days, destroying about 28,000 buildings. As a result of the quake and fires, over 3,000 people died [6] and over 80% of San Francisco was destroyed. The death toll from the earthquake and resulting fire is the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history.