The country about Cambridge is flat and not particularly spectacular in its scenery, though it offers easy going to the foot traveler.

Indeed, it is even surprising in the Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, who fathered this most peculiar view, and in the brilliant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge, who inherited it and is now its most eminent proponent.

The Barker index is published for the Barker Index Committee by W. Heffer & Sons, Ltd., 4 Petty Cury, Cambridge, England.

One of the more noteworthy changes that have taken place since the mid-19th century is the situation of Catholics at Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

Dr. Gillian Tett, a Cambridge University trained anthropologist who went on to become a senior editor at the Financial Times is one of the leaders in this use of anthropology.

Catalogued as Cambridge Manuscript 286, it has been positively dated to 6th century Italy and this bound book, the St Augustine Gospels, is still used during the swearing-in ceremony of new archbishops of Canterbury.

BCPL ( Basic Combined Programming Language ) is a procedural, imperative, and structured computer programming language designed by Martin Richards of the University of Cambridge in 1966.

His most famous book in this area is The Skeptical Environmentalist, whose English translation was published as a work in environmental economics by Cambridge University Press in 2001.

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area.

Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent universities, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Cambridge is one of the two county seats of Middlesex County ( Lowell is the other ).

A resident of Cambridge is known as a Cantabrigian.

There is none on public display in Cambridge, but there is a large collection in the Toledo Museum of Art.

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.

Cambridge is located in eastern Massachusetts, bordered by:

Also, the " Cambridge Center " office complex is located here, and not at the actual center of Cambridge.

This is the primary site of Harvard University, and is a major Cambridge shopping area.

A short distance away from the square lies the Cambridge Common, while the neighborhood north of Harvard and east of Massachusetts Avenue is known as Agassiz in honor of the famed scientist Louis Agassiz.

* East Cambridge ( Area 1 ) is bordered on the north by the Somerville border, on the east by the Charles River, on the south by Broadway and Main Street, and on the west by the Grand Junction Railroad tracks.

During an experiment in Cambridge over the seven years 2001 – 2007 Majerus noted the natural resting positions of peppered moths, and of the 135 moths examined over half were on tree branches, mostly on the lower half of the branch, 37 % were on tree trunks, mostly on the north side, and only 12. 6 % were resting on or under twigs.

In criticizing The Elements of Style, Geoffrey Pullum, professor of linguistics at Edinburgh University, and co-author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language ( 2002 ), said that: Pullum noted, for example, that the authors misunderstood what constitutes the passive voice, and he criticized their proscription of established and unproblematic English usages, such as the split infinitive and the use of which in a restrictive relative clause.

* The Overbeck Sisters-four daughters of John and Sarah Overpeck who hand-produced their internationally-known Overbeck Art Pottery in Cambridge City from 1911 – 1955, noted for their Arts and Crafts designs, distinctive glazes and work in the grotesque style

Cambridge City is noted for its abundance in historic architecture, specifically in the Federal, Greek Revival, and Italianate styles.

Located just over the Juniata River from Mount Union, Kistler was designed in 1916-17 by John Nolen, a noted town planner from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Magdalene is noted for its ' traditional ' style: it boasts a well-regarded candlelit formal hall ( held every evening ) and was the last all-male College in Oxford or Cambridge to admit women in 1988 ( Oriel College was the last in Oxford, admitting women in 1985 ).

The Inner Temple is noted for its collection of silver and pewter plate, described in the early 20th century as similar in value to that of Oxford or Cambridge University.

In addition to his mathematical work, Burnside was a noted rower ; while he was a lecturer at Cambridge he also coached the crew team.

In an article appearing in the Glasgow Herald on 29 September 1936 it was noted that John Cairncross had scored an " outstanding double success of being placed 1st in the Home List and 1st in the competition for the Foreign Office and the Diplomatic Service ," and that he had been placed 5th in the ( Glasgow University ) bursary competition of 1930, and was also a Scholar and Bell Exhibitioner at Trinity College, Cambridge.

But he was not noted whilst at Cambridge for any political activity.

His obituary in The Guardian noted that, " he combined elements of Flashman, Waugh's Captain Grimes and the Earl of Rochester ", and that he reminded Noel Annan, his Cambridge tutor, of the young Guy Burgess.

He was a noted athlete, winning championships in boxing and lacrosse at Cambridge.

Born in Cambridge, he was the son of William Whitaker ( 1548 – 1595 ), noted Protestant scholar and Master of St. John's College, Cambridge.

Hamilton, who discovered it as an undergraduate at Cambridge and noted on the rear cover of the 1999 variorum edition:

The Cambridge Paragraph Bible of the authorized English version, an edition of the King James Version published in 1873, and edited by noted textual scholar F. H. A.

In 1831 Leander defeated Oxford in a race rowed from Hambleden Lock to Henley Bridge, but when it lost the match with Cambridge six years later, Lord Esher noted at a dinner that Leander was a London Club consisting of men who had never been at the University but ... were recognised throughout England, and perhaps everywhere in the world, as the finest rowers who had up to that time been seen.

In 1868 the station and post office in Brighton's eastern portion were given the name " Allston " after Washington Allston, the noted painter who had lived and worked across the Charles River in the Cambridgeport section of Cambridge.

It then moved to Cambridge in 1899 following the gift of a prime site of land near the centre of the city by two Scottish sisters, Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson, both noted biblical scholars.

At Harvard, once a month, he convenes for breakfast at the Cambridge, Massachusetts restaurant Henrietta's Table with a group of noted African-American scholars and businessmen led by Harvard Law School professor Charles Ogletree to discuss sociopolitical issues.

She writes detective fiction, and is noted for her series of mediaeval mysteries featuring Matthew Bartholomew, a teacher of medicine and investigator of murders in 14th-century Cambridge.

Besides the lectures noted he published Studies in Genesis ( 1880 ), The Foundations of Morality ( 1882 ) and some volumes of sermons, and was a co-editor of the Cambridge Modern History, although dying in May 1900 before its first volume appeared.

In addition to a classical text written while first a fellow at Cambridge, he wrote a biography of Thomas Arnold, the noted headmaster of Rugby.

The partnership which MacGregor and Woods forged during their time at Cambridge was noted by Bolton, who commented that " the two most successful Cambridge bowlers, Steel and Woods, were partnered by their two greatest wicket-keepers, Alfred Lyttelton and MacGregor.