• The Antiquities Museum in the Alexandrine Library
    • ary http://touregypt.net/featurestories/alexmuseum.htm A view of the New Library of Alexandria   In 295 BC, the Egyptian Ruler Ptolemy I Soter , commissioned the construction of the Great Library of Alexa...
    • University of Tehran
    • an http://www.ut.ac.ir/en/index.htm University of Tehran, is the oldest and largest scientific, educational and research center of the country which is called the“Mother University” and the“Symbol of higher educa...
    • 1-Careers in Anthropology
    • logy W. Richard Stephens Sixteen real life stories from people who used their degrees in anthropology to influence their choice of career, and to change their lives. These profiles encourage the reader to underst...
    • Willard Van Orman Quine
    • ine (6/25/1908- 12/25/2000) Willard Van Quine's father was Cloyd Robert Quine, an engineer who founded the Akron Equipment Company. His mother, Harriet Van Orman, was a teacher. Willard (or Van as he became known to h...
    • Walther Hermann Nernst
    • st (June 25, 1864 - November 18, 1941) Walther Hermann Nernst was born inBriesen,West Prussia, on June 25, 1864. His father, Gustav Nernst, was a district judge. He spent his early school years (Gymnasium) at Graud...
    • Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev
    • ev ( June 19 , 1933 i - June 30 , 1971 ) Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and had the unfortunate distinction of being part of the second crew to die du...
    • Paul Morphy
    • hy (June 22, 1837-1884) Paul Morphy, is called the "pride and sorrow of chess." He became the best player in the world and could have become recognized the first true world champion, but he retired at th...
    • Nicholas Rowe (dramatist)
    • t) ( June 20, 1674 - December 6 , 1718 ) Nicholas Rowe , English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, son of John Rowe (d. 1692), barrister and serjeant-at-law, was baptized at Little Barford in Bedfordshi...
    • Niccolo Machiavelli
    • lli (5/3/1469- 6/21/1527) Italian political thinker and historical figure at the turning point of the Middle Ages and the Modern World. Machiavelli stated inThe Prince, the then revolutionary and prophetic idea, that ...
    • Giambattista Vico
    • ico (6/23/1668- 1/23/1744) Italian philosopher. InPrincipi di una scienza nuova d'intorno alla comune natura delle nazioni (Principles of a New Science of the Common Nature of Nations) (1725) Vico argued that study...
    • Mark the Boat for a Dropped Sword
    • ord Chinese fable Long, long ago, in Chunqu Dynasty of ancient China, a man from Chu state dropped his beautiful well-set sword into the water because of the shake from the boat while he was in the middle of the rive...
    • The Terminal
    • nal The Terminal tells the story of Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), a visitor to New York from Eastern Europe, whose homeland erupts in a fiery coup while he is in the air en route to America. Stranded at Kennedy Airport ...
    • Cubism
    • ism Cubism, highly influential visual arts style of the 20th century that was created principally by the painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The key concept of Cubism is that the e...
    • Verse of the week
    • ek "Glory be to Him! He is high above all that they say!  Exalted and Great (beyond measure)! The seven heavens and the earth, and all beings therein, declare His glory: there is not a thing but celebrates H...
    • AL-JUMU`A (Friday)
    • y) Name It is derived from the sentenceidha nudiya-lis-salat-imin-yaum-il- Jumu'ati of verse 9. Although in this Surah injunctions about the Friday congregational Prayer also have been given, yet "Jumu'ah" is no...
    • online book
    • ted House Virginia Woolf http://www.readprint.com/work-1524/Virginia-Woolf 2. A Society Virginia Woolf http://www.readprint.com/work-1525/Virginia-Woolf#logo 3. An Unwritten Novel Virginia Woolf http://www.read...
    • Yarmouk University
    • ity http://www.yu.edu.jo/main.htm Founded in 1976 by a Royal Decree, Yarmouk University, YU, has grown both in size and stature over the years. It has become a leading institution of higher learning, known for its d...
    • 1-The Age of Iron in South Asia:
    • ia: Legacy and Tradition: Vibha Tripathi New Delhi, Aryan, 2001, xvi, 280 p., figs, maps, ISBN 81-7305-208-5 Contents: Preface. I. Introduction. II. The background—emergence of iron in ancient world: 1. Iron in and aro...
    • Reward of Knowledge
    • Whoever seeketh knowledge and findeth it, will get two rewards; one of them the reward for ...
    • Sir Cyril Hinshelwood
    • d (June 19,1897-1967) Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood was born in London on June 19, 1897. He was educated atWestminsterCitySchool and Oxford University where he gained Master of Arts and Doctor of Science degrees. He ...
    • Roman Ingarden
    • en (2/5/1893- 6/14/1970) Roman Witold Ingarden was born on February 5, 1893 in Kraków. He initially studied mathematics and philosophy in Lvóv, and in 1912 went to Göttingen where he studied philos...
    • William Lassell
    • sell (18 June 1799, Bolton, Lancashire, England - 4 Oct 1880, Maidenhead) William Lassell was an amateur astronomer, who made his fortune as a brewer. He built an observatory at Starfield nearLiverpool, where he constr...
    • John Robert Gregg
    • egg (June 17, 1867_) John Robert Gregg was born in the Irish village of Rockcorry, County Monaghan. He was the youngest of five children. An old friend of the family dropped in casually one Sunday and accompanied the ...
    • John Hersey
    • ey (17th June, 1914-24th March, 1993) John Hersey, the son of US missionary parents, was born in China on17th June, 1914. After graduating from Yale University he became correspondent in theFar East for Time Magaz...
    • Jerome Karle
    • e Autobiography (Born: 18 June 1918) I was born inNew York City in 1918 into a family that had a number of artistic people among its members. My father's brother and a sister's husband were probably the best known. Th...
    • Blaise Pascal
    • ascal (6/19/1623- 8/19/1662) The French thinker, mathematician, and scientist Blaise Pascal has been credited not only with imaginative and subtle work in geometry and other branches of mathematics, but with pr...
    • Bernard Bosanquet
    • uet (6/14/1848- 2/8/1923) Bernard Bosanquet was born in Rock Hall (near Alnwick), Northumberland, England. He was the youngest of five sons of the Reverend Robert William Bosanquet by the latter's second wife, Caroli...
    • Alexander the Great
    • t Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), the king ofMacedonia that conquered the Persian empire and annexed it to Macedonia, is considered one of the greatest military geniuses of all times. He is the first king to be called...
    • The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse
    • Once upon a time a Country Mouse who had a friend in town invited him, for old acquaintance’ sake, to pay him a visit in the country. The invitation being accepted in due form, the Country Mouse, though...
    • 1-The Call of the Wild
    • ild Jack London The Call of the Wild was the 1903 novella that brought Jack London to the world’s attention although an earlier work,The Son of the Wolf appeared in 1900. Both of these books were set in the Far North,...
    • SHREK 2
    • K 2 21 May 2004 (StudioBriefing) The leading newspaper critics are divided into three more-or-less equal camps over Shrek 2 : those who are delighted with the film; those who believe it fails to generate the charm o...
    • The Nubia Museum
    • eum http://www.touregypt.net/nubiamuseum.htm Location: Aswan, Egypt Description TheNubia Museum harbors the history of the "Land of Gold" as the word Nubia in the Hieroglyphic, language of ancientEgypt i...
    • Jamia Millia Islamia
    • mia http://jmi.nic.in/ Introduction Jamia Millia Islamia, an institution originally established at Aligarh in United Provinces, India in 1920 became a Central University by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1988....
    • The Da Vinci Code
    • Code Dan Brown With The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoteria culled f...
    • Shri Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
    • ddy  (May 18, 1913 _ June 1, 1996) HRI NEELAM SANJIVA REDDY, the sixth President of India, was a veteran statesman and administrator. He held many eminent positions in public life both before and after independen...
    • Maurice Blondel
    • ndel (11/2/1861-6/4/1949) Maurice Blondel was born in Dijon, France in 1861, entered the ةcole Normale Supérieure in 1881, and passed the aggregation in 1886. Like many in his generation, he was profoundly affected b...
    • Johnnie Harrison Taylor
    • ylor ( May 5 , 1938 _ May 31 , 2000 ) A vocalist in a wide variety of genres, from gospel , blues and soul to pop , doo-wop and disco . He was born in Crawford, Arkansas on and of a heart attack. He had...
    • Henry Sidgwick
    • ck ( 5/31/1838- 8/29/1900) August 28, 2000 will mark the hundreth anniversary of the death of Henry Sidgwick, the Cambridge philosopher and educational reformer who authoredThe Methods of Ethics (1874). Rivalling Jere...
    • Henry Shrapnel
    • Henry Shrapnel, British Army officer and inventor, was born in Wiltshire, England . In 1784 , while a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery , he perfected his invention of what he cal...
    • Helen Keller
    • er (June 27, 1880 _ June 1 1968) The story of Helen Keller is the story of a normal child who, at the age of 18 months, was suddenly shut off from the world but, against overwhelming odds, waged a slow, hard but succe...
    • Hazrat Fatimah Masoomeh (a.s)
    • .s) (1st Zilqadah 183 A.H. _ 10th Rabiul-thani 201 A.H.) Hazrat-e Ma’soome was born in Zulqadeh 1, 173 A.H (Arabic date)inMedina. Her father was Imam Moosa Kazim (the seventh Imam) and her mother was Hazrat-e Najmeh w...
    • Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    • on (5/29/1874- 6/14/1936) Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere "rollicking journalist," he was actually a prolific and gifted w...
    • World No Tobacco Day 2004
    • 04   The Tobacco Free Initiative proposes that World No Tobacco Day 2004 focus on tobacco and poverty. The contribution of tobacco to death and disease is well documented. Less attention is given to the ways in which...