Erasmus Darwin House, his home in Lichfield, is now a museum dedicated to Erasmus Darwin and his life's work.

In 2003, a poll showing that most Rotterdammers believed Erasmus to be the designer of the local " Erasmus Bridge " instigated the founding of the Erasmus House, dedicated to celebrating Erasmus's legacy.

He was an active member of the Lunar Society often held at Erasmus Darwin House and is remembered on the Moonstones in Birmingham.

* Erasmus Darwin House Erasmus Darwin Museum house and gardens

Venues included Erasmus Darwin's home in Lichfield, Matthew Boulton's home, Soho House, and Great Barr Hall.

* Erasmus Darwin House

* Erasmus Darwin House, Lichfield

* The “ House of Erasmus ”, built around 1450, and its medicinal garden can be visited nearby.

Erasmus Alvey Darwin ( 29 December 1804 – 26 August 1881 ), nicknamed Eras or Ras, was the older brother of Charles Darwin, born five years earlier, and also brought up at the family home, The Mount House, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.

Famous video footage of the ' battle of Boet Erasmus Stadium ' shows JPR Williams running over half of the pitch and launching himself at van Heerden after such a call.

In 1965 he received a joint Erasmus Prize with film director Ingmar Bergman and in 1971 he was made a Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor by the French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel at the Cannes Film Festival.

Bust by Hildo Krop ( 1950 ) at Gouda, where Erasmus spent his youth

While at Stein, Erasmus fell in love with a fellow canon, Servatius Rogerus, and wrote a series of passionate letters in which he called Rogerus " half my soul ".

In 1495, with the bishop's consent and stipend, he went on to study at the University of Paris, in the Collège de Montaigu, a centre of reforming zeal, under the direction of the ascetic Jan Standonck, of whose rigors Erasmus complained.

His residence at Leuven, where he lectured at the Catholic University, exposed Erasmus to much criticism from those ascetics, academics and clerics hostile to the principles of literary and religious reform and the loose norms of the Renaissance adherents to which he was devoting his life.

Erasmus, at the height of his literary fame, was inevitably called upon to take sides, but partisanship was foreign to his nature and his habits.

As a result of his reformatory activities, Erasmus found himself at odds with both the great parties.

In support of this, Erasmus states: “ Anyone who looks closely at the inward nature and essence will find that nobody is further from true wisdom than those people with their grand titles, learned bonnets, splendid sashes and bejeweled rings, who profess to be wisdom ’ s peak ”.

Cast of a skull presumed to have been that of Erasmus at the Rotterdam library Erasmus collection

* Hans Holbein is considered to be the greatest portraitist of Erasmus, having painted him at least three times, and perhaps as many as seven ; some only survive in versions by other artists.

* Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus ( 1466-1536 ) Selected works at the Latin Library.

* Desiderius Erasmus at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Agricola's dialogue Bermannus, sive de re metallica dialogus or a dialogue on metallurgy, ( 1530 ) the first attempt to reduce to scientific order the knowledge won by practical work, brought Agricola into notice ; it contained an approving letter from Erasmus at the beginning of the book.

He studied in Venice, where he became acquainted with Erasmus and Aldus Manutius, and at an early age was reputed one of the most learned men of the time.

After an oil drilling operation in 1903 in Dexter, Kansas, produced a gas geyser that would not burn, Kansas state geologist Erasmus Haworth collected samples of the escaping gas and took them back to the University of Kansas at Lawrence where, with the help of chemists Hamilton Cady and David McFarland, he discovered that the gas consisted of, by volume, 72 % nitrogen, 15 % methane ( a combustible percentage only with sufficient oxygen ), 1 % hydrogen, and 12 % an unidentifiable gas.

Hieronymus Buclidius, a friend of Erasmus, gave more than 20, 000 francs to establish a branch of Hebrew studies at Louvain in Flanders.

Published at his own expense in 1532, it showed that he was a humanist in the tradition of Erasmus with a thorough understanding of classical scholarship.

Most significantly, Erasmus Darwin moved to Derby in 1781, but although he complained of being " cut off from the milk of science ", he continued to attend Lunar Society meetings at least until 1788.

Communication sciences ( or a derivative thereof ) can be studied at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Radboud University, Tilburg University, University of Amsterdam, University of Groningen, University of Twente, Roosevelt Academy, University of Utrecht, VU University Amsterdam and Wageningen University and Research Centre.

Media studies ( or something similar ) can be studied at the University of Amsterdam, VU University Amsterdam, Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Utrecht.

The ULB comprises three main campuses: the Campus de la Plaine with faculties such as the faculty of pharmacy in Ixelles, the Campus du Solbosch, which is the main and biggest campus of the university, on the territories of Brussels and Ixelles municipalities, in the Brussels-Capital Region and the Campus Erasme ( faculty of medicine ) in Anderlecht beside the Erasmus Hospital but the university also has buildings and activities in Charleroi on the Aéropole Science Park, Parentville, Treignes and Nivelles.

Like the EU student exchange programme ERASMUS, Erasmus University College Brussels is named after the humanistic philosopher and author Desiderius Erasmus, who resided in Anderlecht, a municipality of Brussels.

The Institute is engaged in the Erasmus student exchange programme with other colleges in Austria, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain.

The Erasmushogeschool Brussel ( English name: Erasmus University College Brussels ) is an institute of higher education based in Brussels, Belgium.

As part of the Erasmus university exchange programme, Saint Patrick's College, Maynooth has bilateral agreements with Faculties of Theology in Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Malta, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain ( Salamanca ) and Switzerland ( Freiburg ).

Universities at which Hampden-Turner has taught were Harvard University, University of Cambridge, Brandeis University, University of California, University of Toronto, London Business School, Leiden ( in the Netherlands ), Erasmus University ( in the Netherlands ), Solvay ( in Belgium ) and Sungkyunkwan ( in Korea ).

Hogeschool institutions in the Flemish Community of Belgium ( such as the Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel ) are currently undergoing a process of academization.

Many of Van Delden's compositions form an expression of his deeply felt social concern, such as the orchestral work In Memoriam ( 1953 ), which was written in the aftermath of the great flood disaster of 1953 in the Netherlands, Belgium and England, the oratorio The Bird of Freedom ( 1955 ), which is an emotional cry against slavery, the radiophonic oratorio Icarus ( 1962 ), which questions the usefulness of space travel, or Canto della guerra ( after Erasmus, 1967 ; for chorus and orchestra ), which is a strong condemnation of war.

In 1989 the Erasmus Bureau invited 32 former Erasmus Students for an evaluation meeting in Ghent, Belgium.

* 1989 Ghent, Belgium ( Erasmus Evaluation Meeting )

They seemed to be at the White House half the time.

On the social side, the chore Mama had at the formal receptions at the White House thrilled her the most.

The Coolidges did not always live at the White House during the Presidency.

In the midst of this gloom, at 10:05 P.M. on September 2, Slocum's telegram to Stanton, `` General Sherman has taken Atlanta '', shattered the talk of a negotiated peace and boosted Lincoln into the White House.

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Recently Treasury Secretary Dillon and Labor Secretary Goldberg fell into line with Mr. Hodges' appraisal, though there has been some reluctance to do so at the White House.

Some reports say he was rescued from timely retirement by his friend, Congressman Walter of Pennsylvania, at a moment when the Kennedy Administration was diligently searching for all the House votes it could get.

The colored people are getting employment at Kent House and other places, and they are near their places of employment.

The young banker looked at him with a certain surprise, and then he said flatly: `` I'm afraid I can't tell you anything in particular about Kent House.

He is most effective in the ordinary business of the House, and in the legislative accomplishments of this session, he easily rose to great occasion -- even at the height of unpleasantness and exciting legislative struggle -- and as the Nation witnessed these contests, he rose, even as admitted by those who differed with him, to the proportions of a hero and a noble partisan.

The President spent much of the week-end at his summer home on Cape Cod writing the first drafts of portions of the address with the help of White House aids in Washington with whom he talked by telephone.

Mississippi's relations with the national Democratic party will be at a crossroads during 1961, with the first Democratic president in eight years in the White House.

Later, Huff cashed three checks for $100 each at the Sherman House, using a credit card.

Johnny Leighton picked up some new numbers out in Texas which he's springing on the ringsiders in the Rum House at Galt Ocean Mile Hotel.

The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing.

At 4 p.m. the President left the White House to welcome the young musicians, students from the ages of 12 to 18 who spend six weeks at the Brevard Music Center summer camp, and to greet the 325 crippled, cardiac and blind children from the District area who were special guests at the concert.

It was the first in the series of `` Concerts for Young People by Young People '' to be sponsored by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy at the White House.

`` This is a great national cultural asset, and therefore it is a great source of satisfaction to me, representing as I do today my wife, to welcome all of you here today at the White House ''.

Henry Hall Wilson, a student at the music camp 25 years ago and now on the President's staff as liaison representative with the House of Representatives, turned guest conductor for a Sousa march, the `` Stars and Stripes Forever ''.

One of the most interested `` students '' on the tour which the Brevard group took at the National Gallery yesterday following their concert at the White House, was Letitia Baldrige, social secretary to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

The ceremony ended with the laying of a wreath at the crypt of Pike in the House of the Temple.

`` Here are two old men, mad at each other and too proud to pick up the phone '', said a House Democratic leader.