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  2. History of Harvard University - Wikipedia

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    In 1936, Harvard University founded the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration, later renamed Harvard Kennedy School in honor of former U.S. President and 1940 Harvard College alumnus John F. Kennedy. The Kennedy School has an endowment of $1.7 billion as of 2021 and is routinely ranked at the top of the world's graduate schools in ...

  3. List of sovereign states by date of formation - Wikipedia

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    Nation-building is a long evolutionary process, and in most cases the date of a country's "formation" cannot be objectively determined; e.g., the fact that England and France were sovereign kingdoms on equal footing in the medieval period does not prejudice the fact that England is not now a sovereign state (having passed sovereignty to Great ...

  4. Harvard Medical African Expedition (1926–1927) - Wikipedia

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    The dotted lines marks the route taken by the Expedition. The Harvard Medical African Expedition of 1926–1927 was an eight-man venture sent by Harvard University for the primary purpose of conducting a medical and biological survey of Liberia; the secondary purpose being to then cross Africa from coast to coast - west to east - through the Belgian Congo (and other regions) so as to make a ...

  5. Harvard University - Wikipedia

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    Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.Founded October 28, 1636, and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.

  6. Can you pass this Harvard University quiz on Taylor Swift? - AOL

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    Taylor Swift will be the subject of a new Harvard undergraduate class called "Taylor Swift and Her World," which will launch in spring 2024. ... crafted 13-question quiz by the professor to see if ...

  7. List of kingdoms and empires in African history - Wikipedia

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    There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".

  8. History of higher education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1942, Wells reported that "The past five years have been the greatest single period of expansion in the physical plant of the university in its entire history. In this period 15 new buildings have been constructed. [66] [67] Higher education was much too elitist to fit into the New Deal agenda. The educational establishment was ignored.

  9. History of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Iron smelting has been dated to 2,000 BC in southeast Nigeria. [72] Central Africa provides possible evidence of iron working as early as the 3rd millennium BC. [73] Iron smelting developed in the area between Lake Chad and the African Great Lakes between 1,000 and 600 BC, and in West Africa around 2,000 BC, long before the technology reached ...