According to physicist Phil Anderson, the term was coined by himself and Volker Heine when they changed the name of their group at the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge from " Solid state theory " to " Theory of Condensed Matter ", as they felt it did not exclude their interests in the study of liquids, nuclear matter and so on.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Cambridge has a total area of, of which of it is land and of it ( 9. 82 %) is water.

According to Dr Rupert Thompson, the Orator of The University of Cambridge, the earliest reference to drinking games in Western literature is from Plato's Symposium The Drinking Party.

According to Nicholas Kaldor, Hayek's theory of the time-structure of capital and of the business cycle initially " fascinated the academic world " and appeared to offer a less " facile and superficial " understanding of macroeconomics than the Cambridge school's.

According to Cambridge University historian Christopher Andrew, who undertook the task of processing the Mitrokhin Archive, Carlos Fonseca Amador, one of the original three founding members of the FSLN had been recruited by the KGB in 1959 while on a trip to Moscow.

According to The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought, the Right has gone through five distinct historical stages: ( i ) the reactionary right, which sought a return to aristocracy and established religion ; ( ii ) the moderate right, who sought limited government and distrusted intellectuals ; ( iii ) the radical right, who favored a romantic and aggressive nationalism ; ( iv ) the extreme right, who proposed anti-immigration policies and implicit racism ; and ( v ) the neo-liberal right, who sought to combine a belief in a market economy and economic deregulation with the traditional Right-wing beliefs in patriotism, élitism, and law and order.

According to a 2011 discovery by a Cambridge manuscript expert, Syriac was the first language to use a question mark.

According to an article in Science News, " researchers with the University of Cambridge in England have shown that fleas take off from their tibiae and tarsi — the insect equivalent of feet — and not their trochantera, or knees.

According to an article about Graces from the University of Cambridge, a slightly different version of the Latin text of these verses is painted ( apparently as a decoration ) around Old Hall in Queens ' College, Cambridge, and is " commonly in use at other Cambridge colleges ".

According to the Enciklopedio de Esperanto, Mayor learned Esperanto in 1907, and gave a historic speech against Esperanto reformists at the World Congress of Esperanto held at Cambridge.

According to Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey, Leary was dismissed for leaving Cambridge and his classes without permission or notice, and Alpert for allegedly giving psilocybin to an undergraduate.

According to the historian Thomas Macaulay, Simeon's " authority and influence … extended from Cambridge to the most remote corners of England, … his real sway in the Church was far greater than that of any primate.

According to the Cambridge University Press, “ He was a self-educated man, committed to the teachings of Bakunin and Kropotkin, and he could not fairly be described as an anti-Semite.

According to a plaque underneath a painting of Hobson donated to Cambridge Guildhall, Hobson had an extensive stable of some 40 horses.

According to an unverifiable story, Perkins was convicted of the error of his ways after he heard a Cambridge mother say to her child, " Hold your tongue, or I will give you to drunken Perkins yonder.

According to The Cambridge History of Africa ( 1975 ):

According to the 2011 Universities Guide from The Guardian newspaper, the five top universities in the UK based on undergraduate students ' performance in public examinations while at high school ( as measured on the UCAS tariff scale ) were Cambridge ( 546 ), Oxford ( 530 ), Imperial College London ( 500 ), the London School of Economics ( 493 ) and Durham University ( 466 ).

According to the Cambridge History of Africa the Islamic historian Al-Sa ' df expresses this sentiment in describing his incursion on Timbuktu:

According to the publisher, Cambridge University Press, the Numerical Recipes books are historically the all-time best-selling books on scientific programming methods.

According to a campus legend, under the terms of the Widener family donation, the exterior of the library is never to be altered, or else ownership of the building reverts to the city of Cambridge.

According to a grant of 1590, the office of Regius Professor of " Greke " at Cambridge has a coat of arms with the following blazon: Per chevron argent and sable, in chief the two Greek letters Alpha and Omega of the second, and in base a cicado ( grasshopper ) of the first, on a chief gules a lion passant guardant Or, charged on the side with the letter G sable.

According to Alan Ross, Ranjitsinhji may have been lonely in his first years at Cambridge and probably encountered racism and prejudice.

According to Lovecraft's " History of the Necronomicon " ( written 1927, first published 1938 ), Alhazred was:

According to The Natural History " by Pliny the Elder:

According to Edward Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, during the shifting of offices that took place at the beginning of the new reigns, Alaric apparently hoped he would be promoted from a mere commander to the rank of general in one of the regular armies.

According to Glenn W. LaFantasie, Professor of Civil War History at Western Kentucky University,

According to sources such as the History of Bede, after the invasion of Britannia, the Angles split up and founded the kingdoms of the Nord Angelnen ( Northumbria ), Ost Angelnen ( East Anglia ), and the Mittlere Angelnen ( Mercia ).

According to Judge, the History set was made up of episodes that he had previously rejected for home video release and had been prepared without his knowledge or consent.

According to Neil Parsons's online " Brief History of Botswana ":

According to the History of the Cyprus Church, in 478 Barnabas appeared in a dream to the Archbishop of Constantia ( Salamis, Cyprus ) Anthemios and revealed to him the place of his sepulchre beneath a carob-tree.

According to Emile Benveniste ( 1954 ), the earliest written occurrence in English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society ( Edinburgh, 1767 – p. 2 ): " Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation.

According to Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the term is interchangeable with the Gewisse, meaning the descendants of Gewis.

According to Carl Benjamin Boyer, in the introduction to his The History of the Calculus and its Conceptual Development, concepts in calculus do not refer to perceptions.

According to The General History of the Pirates, published more than 25 years after the event by an author whose very identity remains in dispute, Kidd made peaceful overtures to Culliford: he " drank their Captain's health ," swearing that " he was in every respect their Brother ," and gave Culliford " a Present of an Anchor and some Guns.

According to Eusebius of Caesarea in the Ecclesiastical History, he served as the first bishop of Crete.

According to BBC History: " There have been 53 major wars in Europe, France had been a belligerent in 49 of them ; UK 43.

According to Book of Zhou and History of Northern Dynasties, Ashina was a branch of Xiongnus and according to Book of Sui and Tongdian, they were " mixed Barbarians " ( 雜胡 / 杂胡, Pinyin: zá hú, Wade-Giles: tsa hu ) from Pingliang.

According to Anthony Harkins in Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, the term first appeared in print in a 1900 New York Journal article, with the definition: " a Hill-Billie is a free and untrammeled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills, has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it, and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him.

According to Theodor Mommsen ( The History of Rome, volume 4, The Revolution, ISBN 1-4353-4597-5, page 4 ), 1 January became the first day of the year in 600 AUC of the Roman Calendar ( 153 BC ), due to disasters in the Lusitanian War.

According to George Macaulay Trevelyan in A Shortened History of England, during the Viking occupation: “ The Scandinavians, when not on the Viking warpath, were a litigious people and loved to get together in the ‘ thing ’ to hear legal argument.

According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, he influenced Cornelis de Bie, Jan Coelenbier, Cornelis van Noorde, Abraham Susenier, Herman Saftleven, Pieter Jansz van Asch, and Abraham van Beijeren.

According to the all-time ranking published in 2009 by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, an organization recognised by FIFA, based on clubs ' performance in international competitions, Juventus were Italy's best club and second in Europe of the 20th century.

According to the book Local DJ, a Rock & Roll History, the band was performing in the area as an opening act for Herman's Hermits.

According to Burton Stein's History of India, " Kashmir was neither as large nor as old an independent state as Hyderabad ; it had been created rather off-handedly by the British after the first defeat of the Sikhs in 1846, as a reward to a former official who had sided with the British.

According to Nikephoros Kallistos Xanthopoulos ( Ecclesiastical History 14th century AD., Migne P. G.

According to Geoffrey Keating's 17th century History of Ireland, Ériu, Banba, and Fódla worshipped Badb, Macha, and the Morrígan respectively.

According to the Princeton Encyclopedia on American History: