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Robert Burns is revered the world over with his prolific work being a source of interest to generations of readers few authors have rivalled.

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In 1959 news footage, Sen. John F. Kennedy answers questions in Los Angeles on such topics as when he'll announce if he plans to run for U.S. president.

UCLA Film and Television Archive launches online video resource featuring news footage from Los Angeles station KTLA-TV Kelly Graml In 1959 news footage, Sen.

Cornell will commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks this Sunday, Sept.

A new collaboration between Cornell's Jewish Studies Program and the Center for Jewish History in New York City will launch Sept.

Researchers have studied why young, highly educated Muslim women who live in modern urban environments may be choosing to wear the veil and have uncovered a paradox.

Students, faculty and staff gather Sept. 1 on Ho Plaza for a vigil to remember Ithaca College sophomore Anthony Nazaire and Cornell junior Darryl Wu '18.

The International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has welcomed the Myanmar government's intention to establish an advisory commission on Rakhine State, but has

A new book by Charles Drazin from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) takes the reader on a historical journey from a small village in rural Ireland to the farthest flung outposts of the early twentieth century British empire.

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A young woman who has suffered at the hands of the so-called Islamic State will speak at The University of Queensland next week.

A young woman who has suffered at the hands of the so-called Islamic State will speak at The University of Queensland next week.

California voters oppose an effort to abolish the death penalty and strongly support a competing measure that would streamline procedures in capital cases, according to a new poll released today by the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley.

Volkswagen Foundation Grants 10 Million Euros for Outstanding Junior Researchers ' 280/2016 from Aug 16, 2016 The historian Dr. Timothy Nunan is receiving 660,000 euros as a Freigeist Fellowsh

How did the concept of a "musical past" develop between the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Age? This question is the focus of a European research team that includes music scholars from Heidelberg University.

The University of Salzburg honors the lifetime achievements of Cultural Scientists and Egyptologists, Jan and Aleid Assman, by presenting the pair with the Salzburg Hochschulwochen Award.

This year the Salzburger Hochschulwochen will be held in the Großen Aula, as well as in the lecture halls of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Salzburg.

In its professed zeal to protect religious Texans, the state Legislature has included within an increasing number of laws exemptions for those with â?'sincerely held religious beliefs.â'' Unfortunately, lawyers remain uncertain about the scope of â?'religious libertyâ'' that it seemingly protects.

Donald Trump recently told a group of Evangelicals that he has doubts about the Christianity of both President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Dr Michael Scott, Associate Professor in the University of Warwick's Classics and Ancient History department presents a richly coloured new vision of ancient history for our globalised world, showing

The Almoravid and Almohad empires flourished in the western Mediterranean of the 11th and 12th centuries.

Sufi music - and especially the Sabri Brothers - have been bridging the divide between Islam and the West Khaled Abou El Fadl Fareed Khan/AP Photo People comfort the brother, center, of famous Sufi singer Amjad Sabri, who was killed by unknown attackers, outside his residence in Karachi, Pakistan.

Leading theologians have called on the Church of England to recognise and celebrate same-sex relationships at its forthcoming General Synod, warning that to take a hard line on the subject would be "suicidal".

"This is an exciting moment for Jewish studies," said Gretchen Ritter, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences, in her introduction to a Reunion Weekend panel on "Jewish Studies at Cornell, Today and Tomorrow," held June 10 in the Physical Sciences Building.

The investigation into the Orlando, Florida, nightclub massacre is still in its infancy, but already enough is known to call it what it was: an act of war by militant jihadist against our nation.

President Barack Obama promised in June 2011 that "the tide of war is receding." In the wake of Orlando, it is clearer than ever that Obama substituted wishful thinking for counterterrorism policy.

Professor of Culture of the Talmud at UC Berkeley Will Address the Topic of Diaspora on June 22 at 6 p.m. as Part of the Lecture Series on Migration No 202/2016 from Jun 10, 2016 Daniel

PhD scholarship commemorates life of "a great humanitarian" A new PhD scholarship at the University of Sussex commemorates the life and works of "a great humanitarian" who was widely known in the Jewish community.

Some of the world's most important religious texts are currently on display in Cambridge as part of Cambridge University Library's 600th anniversary exhibition - Lines of Thought: Discoveries that Changed the World.

On 14 May, 2016, withn the framework of the initiative, Citizen Science, a day of "Essbaren Gemeinde" will take place in Üblach/Stmk.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Penn State scholar Daniel Falk has been named one of three editors on an international project to produce new critical editions of the Dead Sea Scrolls , the ancient documents that contain some of the earliest known versions of Biblical texts. The 15-volume series, known as Dead Sea Scrolls Editions, will feature improved reconstructions of previously published texts and some texts that have not been published before.