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Cambridge (/ ˈ k eɪ m b r ɪ dʒ / ⓘ KAYM-brij) [5] is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is the county town of Cambridgeshire and is located on the River Cam , 55 miles (89 km) north of London .
The following five supplied intelligence to the Soviet Union under their NKVD controller, Yuri Modin, who later reported that Soviet intelligence mistrusted the Cambridge double agents during the Second World War and had difficulty believing that the men would have access to top secret documents; they were particularly suspicious of Harold "Kim" Philby, wondering how he could have become a ...
Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 90– 96. Robert Donald, ed. (1907). "Cambridge". Municipal Year Book of the United Kingdom for 1907. London: Edward Lloyd. Arthur Gray (1908), The dual origin of the town of Cambridge, Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Society, OCLC 14031217, OL 14005338M
Arms of the University of Cambridge. The University of Cambridge is composed of 31 colleges in addition to the academic departments and administration of the central university. Until the mid-19th century, both Cambridge and Oxford comprised a group of colleges with a small central university administration, rather than universities in the ...
The University of Cambridge was one of only two universities to hold parliamentary seats in the Parliament of England and was later one of 19 represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency was created by a Royal charter of 1603 and returned two members of parliament until 1950 when it was abolished by the Representation ...
Great Court is the main court of Trinity College, Cambridge, and reputed to be the largest enclosed courtyard in Europe. [ 1 ] The court was completed by Thomas Nevile , master of the college, in the early years of the 17th century, when he rearranged the existing buildings to form a single court.
Trinity has some of the most distinctive architecture in Cambridge with its Great Court said to be the largest enclosed courtyard in Europe. [7] Academically, Trinity performs exceptionally as measured by the Tompkins Table (the annual unofficial league table of Cambridge colleges), coming top from 2011 to 2017, [8] and regaining the position ...
Seasons at level 5: 9 The club's highest position ever is 5th in the Second Division in 1991–92, the last season before the establishment of the Premier League , a playoff position . They lost the semi-final to Leicester City 6–1 on aggregate and lost their chance to become founder members of the Premier League.