"It's almost like we're sailing through the galaxy sideways," Merav Opher, an astrophysicist at George Mason University in Virginia, told Space.com. What is the black hole in the Milky Way? Sagittarius A*, taken by NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory.(Image credit: NASA/CXC/Caltech/M.Mu...
On his epitaph, which he composed, Jefferson mentions that he was the author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statuette of Virginia for Religious Freedom and that he was the father of the University of Virginia. He neglected to mention he had been the President of the United States....
Educational Excellence: Virginia is known for its top-tier universities, including the University of Virginia, George Mason University, and the College of William & Mary, (which is the second-oldest college in the country!) Civil War History: The state played a significant role in the American...
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.
Since the NCAA women’s soccer tournament was first held in 1982, the North Carolina Tar Heels have won a record21 titles, led by players like Mia Hamm and Cindy Parlow. North Carolina won 12 of the first 13 titles, only dropping the 1985 title game, 2-0, to George Mason. ...
1751 - Pennsylvania Hospital is a private, non-profit, 534-bed teaching hospital located in Center City, Philadelphia, affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania Health System ("Penn Medicine"). Founded on May 11, 1751 by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond, Pennsylvania Hospital was the first...
George Washington was an American general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution (1775–83) and subsequently first president of the United States (1789–97). He is known as ‘the Father of His Country.’ Learn more about
Boston University began as a Methodist theological school inVermontin 1839. The school moved to Boston in 1867. The university was one of the first American institutions ofhigher educationto accept African-American and international students and the first in the state to award degrees to women;Hele...
as adelegateto theContinental Congress, signed theDeclaration of Independence. Also in that year he was appointed, with Jefferson,Edmund Pendleton, andGeorge Mason, to revise the laws of Virginia. He was a member of theConstitutional Convention(1787) and of the Virginia convention (1788) that ra...
“trading place,” andAnacostiais derived from the name of a local people, the Nacostines, who traded on that river.) Encircling the city are a series ofterracesthat in certain areas rise to about 400 feet (120 metres) abovesea level, where Washington’s neighbourhoods were gradually built...