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He held the regius professorship of Modern History at Oxford from 1858 to 1866, that “ ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the ‘ best instrument for cultivating the historical sense .” As a historian, indeed, he left no abiding work ; the multiplicity of his interests prevented him from concentrating on any one subject.
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At the close of 1856 Stanley was appointed regius professor of ecclesiastical history at Oxford, a post which, with the attached canonry at Christ Church, he held till 1863.
Gentili held the regius professorship until his death, but he turned more and more to practical work in London from about 1590.
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He received his PhD in electrical engineering from Princeton University, where he has held a professorship in the department of computer science since 2000.
Originally employed by the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam, he held a professorship at the Eindhoven University of Technology, worked as a research fellow for Burroughs Corporation in the early 1980s, and later held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, in the United States.
He held a professorship with the University of Virginia from 1971 until 1994, and with George Mason University until 2000.
Singer accepted a professorship in Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia in 1971, a position he held until 1994, where he taught classes on environmental issues such as ozone depletion, acid rain, climate change, population growth, and public policy issues related to oil and energy.
He was promoted to reader in 1965, and in 1968 was offered a professorship in mathematical physics, a position he held until 1979, his students including Brian Josephson and Martin Rees.
Fries was succeeded in the Borgström professorship by Johan Erhard Areschoug, after whom Theodor Magnus Fries, the son of Elias, held the chair.
From 1865 to 1880 he held the Disney professorship of archaeology at Cambridge.
In 1867 Badham left England to take up the professorship of classics and logic in Sydney University, Australia, arriving in April, which he held until his death.
Nobel laureate Artturi Ilmari Virtanen held professorship at TKK.
The university's professorship of Celtic is attached to the college, a post held by scholars such as Sir John Rhys, Ellis Evans and Thomas Charles-Edwards.
He was born at Kürnach im Allgäu in Bavaria, and was educated at the Universities of Munich and Leipzig, and held the professorship of Medieval and Modern Greek Language and Literature in the former from 1897 to his death.
He then moved to the University of Oxford and held the Lincoln and Merton professorship of classical archaeology from 1887 to 1925.
François Douaren ( Franciscus Duarenus ), who also held a professorship at Bourges, stirred up the students against the new professor, and Cujas was glad to accept an invitation he had received to the University of Valence.
He held his professorship for forty-five years till his death.
In 1700 he was appointed teacher of history and eloquence at the Herborn gymnasium, in 1704 vice-principal of the school at the Hague, and in 1716 he succeeded ( with Drakenborch as colleague ) to the professorship formerly held by Peter Burmann at Utrecht.
Taking orders, he held ( 1815 – 1847 ) the college living of Westwell, Oxfordshire, and other ecclesiastical preferments simultaneously with his professorship.
In the political excitement which followed the war of 1859 he found that he could not hope for the unreserved support of the king, and therefore in 1861 he accepted a professorship at Bonn, which he held till 1875.
Beginning in 1881, he lectured annually on American history at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and beginning in 1884 held a professorship of American history at that institution, but continued to make his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
From 1863 to 1867 he was librarian of the University of Cambridge, and in 1872 succeeded HAJ Munro in the professorship of Latin, which he held for 28 years.
In 1878 he was appointed to succeed Edwin Palmer in the professorship of Latin, and held the post till his death.
In 1868 he threw up his career in England and settled in the United States, where he held the professorship of English and Constitutional History in the Department of History at Cornell University for a number of years.
From 1885 to 1886 Ramsay held the newly created Lincoln and Merton professorship of classical archaeology and art at Oxford and became a fellow of Lincoln College ( honorary fellow 1898 ).
In 1849, Stokes was appointed to the Lucasian professorship of mathematics at Cambridge, a position he held until his death in 1903.
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* Catalogue of the BSC archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
* Catalogue of the BSC Department of Operational Research archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
* Catalogue of the CND archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
In 2006, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City held a Dada exhibition in conjunction with the National Gallery of Art in Washington D. C. and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
* Museum of Modern Literature, where the original manuscript is held.
Following Pearl Harbor, officials grew apprehensive that the film could project an unduly negative image of the US internationally, and although a prestige opening was held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1942, the film was never authorized for general release.
* The most common view, held by some Modern Orthodox authorities, and most Haredi Rabbis, rules that all women's prayer groups are absolutely forbidden by halakha ( Jewish law ).
The Modern Irish word Samhain is derived from the Old Irish samain, samuin, or samfuin, all referring to 1 November ( latha na samna: ' samhain day '), and the festival and royal assembly held on that date in medieval Ireland ( oenaig na samna: ' samhain assembly ').
Larry Bray held the previous world record ( 1982 ), in which a 52 g stone was thrown 437. 1 m. Modern authorities vary widely in their estimates of the effective range of ancient weapons and of course bows and arrows could also have been used to produce a long-range arcing trajectory, but ancient writers repeatedly stress the sling's advantage of range.
The Guggenheim Museum in New York City held an exhibit, Two Private Eyes, in 1999, and in 2001 Tate Modern held an exhibition of Surrealist art that attracted over 170, 000 visitors.
In April 1972, the Modern Lovers traveled to Los Angeles where they held two demo sessions: the first was produced by the Velvet Underground's John Cale for Warner Bros. while the second was produced by Alan Mason for A & M.
The 1st Academy Awards for film were held in Los Angeles, while the Museum of Modern Art opened in New York City.
It was the first international Olympic Games held in the Modern era.
He soon became famous for his rhetoric, satire and translations and was held in high esteem by the printer William Caxton, who wrote, in the preface to The Boke of Eneydos compyled by Vargyle ( Modern English: The Book of the Aeneid, compiled by Virgil ) ( 1490 ):
Johnson's publicly held archive, including architectural drawings, project records, and other papers up until 1964 are held by the Drawings and Archives Department of Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, the Getty, and the Museum of Modern Art.
The Ancient Olympic Games, first held in 776 BC, was the precursor to the Modern Olympic Games, although its first edition only featured a footrace and the number of sporting competitions expanded at later editions.
Modern historians use it much more frequently than the Romans themselves did ; the dominant method of identifying Roman years was to name the two consuls who held office that year.
After the peace ending the Napoleonic wars reshaped Europe ushering in the Modern era, the Electorate of Hanover ( duchy of Brunswick and Lüneburg held in personal union by the king of Great Britain, George III ) was dissolved by treaty, its lands were enlarged, and the state promoted to a kingdom.
In 1993, the year of the hundredth anniversary of his birth, several exhibitions were held, among which the most prominent were those held in the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Barcelona, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, and the Galerie Lelong, Paris.
Other significant paintings by Hopper are held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Des Moines Art Center, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
* Catalogue of Gollancz's papers, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
He began his teaching career as a fellow of Balliol College in 1912, and thereafter held positions at King's College London ( as Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History ), the London School of Economics and the Royal Institute of International Affairs ( RIIA ) in Chatham House.
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