The first season in second league, considered the worst in its history, ended with VfB being ranked 11th, having even lost a home game against local rival SSV Reutlingen in front of only 1200 spectators.

When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??

-- The New York University Board of Trustees has elected the youngest president in the 130-year history of NYU, it was announced yesterday.

* Almond Production Manual Published by University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, this handbook includes amongst other chapters a history of almonds, trends in orchard management, and almond farm economics.

Cofounder Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ) was a quintessential modernist who studied at the elite École Normale Supérieure, and in Germany, serving as a professor at the University of Strasbourg until he was called to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1936 as professor of economic history.

* Swearingen Jr., William Scott Environmental City: People, Place, and the Meaning of Modern Austin ( University of Texas Press ; 2010 ) 273 pages ; traces the history of environmentalism in the Texas capital, which has been part of a larger effort to preserve Austin's quality of life and sense of place.

* Morris Jastrow, Jr., The Civilization of Babylonia and Assyria: its remains, language, history, religion, commerce, law, art, and literature, London: Lippincott ( 1915 ) — a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries ; also available in layered PDF format

The faculty of Acadia University have been on strike twice in the history of the institution.

He undertook a history of the Bábí religion through publication of A Traveller's Narrative ( Makála-i-Shakhsí Sayyáh ) in 1886, later translated and published in translation in 1891 through Cambridge University by the agency of Edward Granville Browne who described ` Abdu ' l-Bahá as:

* Guide to Benjamin Franklin By a history professor at the University of Illinois.

* Oral history interview with Isaac Levin Auerbach Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota.

* Oral history interview with Carel Sellenraad Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota.

* Oral history interview with Ovid M. Smith Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota.

Although the history of the Big Apple was once thought a mystery, research over the past two decades, primarily by amateur etymologist Barry Popik and Gerald Cohen of Missouri University of Science and Technology, has provided a reasonably clear picture of the term's history.

An adjoining Memorabilia Room commemorates the life of Bob Jones, Sr. and the history of the University.

In his posthumously published 1981 book The Anglo-American Establishment, Georgetown University history professor Carroll Quigley explained that the Balfour Declaration was actually drafted by Lord Alfred Milner.

* Oral history interview with Mike Busha, a member of the 6th Marine Division during the Battle of Okinawa from the Veterans History Project at Central Connecticut State University

* Oral history interview with Albert D ' Amico, a Navy Veteran who was aboard LST 278 during the landing at Okinawa from the Veterans History Project at Central Connecticut State University

* Pankhurst, R. ( 1968 ) Economic history of Ethiopia, 1800-1935, Addis Ababa: Haile Sellassie I University Press, 772 pp.

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

The youngest son of William Edward Parkinson ( 1871 – 1927 ), an art master at North East County School and from 1913 principal of York School of Arts and Crafts, and his wife, Rose Emily Mary Curnow ( born 1877 ), the young Parkinson attended St. Peter's School, York, where in 1929 he won an Exhibition to study history at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.

Demobilized as a Major in 1945, he was appointed lecturer in history at the University of Liverpool from 1946 to 1949.

* Dr. Roy Ruddle's history page at the University of Leeds

* Dr. Carl Stahmer's history page at the University of Santa Barbara

* China Rediscovers its Own History 100 minute lecture on Chinese history given by renowned scholar / author Yu Ying-shih, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University.

She ends up hitting every batter at the plate ( or " beaning " them ) and goes down as the worst pitcher in history.

The history of Comoros goes back some 1, 500 years.

The Djiboutian history recorded in poetry and songs of its nomadic people, goes back thousands of years to a time when Djiboutians traded hides and skins for the perfumes and spices of ancient Egypt, India, and China.

The history of epiphenomenalism goes back to the post-Cartesian attempt to solve the riddle of Cartesian dualism, i. e., of how mind and body could interact.

The story of Æthelred's notorious nickname, " Æthelred the Unready ", from Old English Æþelræd Unræd, goes a long way toward explaining how his reputation has declined through history.

Of his cult at Eridu, which goes back to the oldest period of Mesopotamian history, nothing definite is known except that his temple was also associated with Ninhursag's temple which was called Esaggila, " the lofty head house " ( E, house, sag, head, ila, high ; or Akkadian goddess = Ila ), a name shared with Marduk's temple in Babylon, pointing to a staged tower or ziggurat ( as with the temple of Enlil at Nippur, which was known as E-kur ( kur, hill )), and that incantations, involving ceremonial rites in which water as a sacred element played a prominent part, formed a feature of his worship.

The history of the Falkland Islands () goes back at least five hundred years, with active exploration and colonisation only taking place in the 18th century.

The history of the petroleum industry in the United States goes back to the early 19th century, although the indigenous peoples, like many ancient societies, have used petroleum seeps since prehistoric times ; where found, these seeps signaled the growth of the industry from the earliest discoveries to the more recent.

According to Islamic tradition, the history of Mecca goes back to Abraham ( Ibrahim ) who built the Kaaba with the help of his elder son Ishmael in around 2000 BCE when the inhabitants of what was then known as Bakkah had fallen away from the original monotheism of Abraham through the influence of the Amelkites.

Mad poked fun at the tendency of readers to accuse the magazine of declining in quality at various points in its history, depending on the age of the critic, in its " Untold History of Mad Magazine ," a self-referential faux history in the 400th issue which joked: " The second issue of Mad goes on sale on December 9, 1952.

Nevertheless, the experience deepened his love for natural history, and locals referred to him as " that crazy Englishman who goes about picking up bugs.

The further back in history one goes, the lower the level of childcare, and the more likely children are to be killed, abandoned, beaten, terrorized and sexually abused.

The myth of silver's mystical properties goes deep into human history.

Since 1848, the Swiss Confederation has been a federal state of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of confederacy that goes back more than 700 years, arguably putting them among the world's oldest surviving republics.

Its history goes back to the Roman harbour ( named " Portus Luguidonis "-presumably located in the little bay in front of the ancient church of St. John ), from where the Romans entered inner Sardinia.

The history of video games goes as far back as the 1940s, when in 1947 Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. and Estle Ray Mann filed a United States patent request for an invention they described as a " cathode ray tube amusement device.

Permanently settled for around 7000 years, the history of Zurich goes back to its founding by the Romans, who, in 15 BC, called it Turicum.

The magazine goes on to become the longest continually published comic book in American history ; it is still published.

* Alan Bond's Bond Corporation goes into receivership with the largest debt in Australian history.

* According to history, Joseph of Arimathea goes to Glastonbury on the first Christian mission to Britain.

The history of the prayer rope goes back to the origins of Christian monasticism itself.

The history of supercomputing goes back to the 1960s when a series of computers at Control Data Corporation ( CDC ) were designed by Seymour Cray to use innovative designs and parallelism to achieve superior computational peak performance.

Although vulcanization is a 19th century invention, the history of rubber cured by other means goes back to prehistoric times.

The Burakumin are a group that is socially discriminated against in Japanese society, whose recorded history goes back to the Heian Period in the 11th century.