28 August 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Old Queens, the oldest building at Rutgers University in New Brunswick © Zeete/cc-by-sa-4.0
Rutgers University (RU), formally known as
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a
public land-grant research university based in
New Brunswick, New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called
Queen’s College. It is the eighth-oldest college in the
United States, the second-oldest in New Jersey (after
Princeton University), and one of the nine U.S.
colonial colleges that were chartered before the
American Revolution. In 1825, Queen’s College was renamed
Rutgers College in honor of Colonel
Henry Rutgers, whose substantial gift to the school had stabilized its finances during a period of uncertainty. For most of its existence, Rutgers was a
private liberal arts college but it has evolved into a
coeducational public research university after being designated The State University of New Jersey by the
New Jersey Legislature via laws enacted in 1945 and 1956.
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21 September 2020 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Rubric: General, London, Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Senate House © An Siarach
The University of London is a
federal research university located in
London. As of March 2020<, the university consists of 17 member institutions and three central academic bodies. The university has around 48,000
distance learning external students and 178,735
campus-based internal students, making it the
largest university by number of students in the United Kingdom.
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1 February 2015 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Rubric: General, House of the Month, London
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Model of the extended St Pancras station (left) and Kings Cross station (right) © Andrew Dunn – www.andrewdunnphoto.com/cc-by-sa-2.0
, also known as
London St Pancras and since 2007 as
St Pancras International, is a
central London railway terminus and Grade I listed building located on
Euston Road in the
St Pancras area of the
London Borough of Camden. It stands between the
British Library,
King’s Cross station and the
Regent’s Canal and is a structure widely known for its
Victorian architecture. It was opened in 1868 by the
Midland Railway as the southern terminus of
its mainline which connected London with the
East Midlands and
Yorkshire. When it opened, the arched
Barlow train shed was the largest single-span roof in the world.
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