If you know of any other school that has a worse name than Pansy Kidd Middle School, pls tell me.
This school is apparently located at Poteau, Oklahoma, USA.
This is not to say that the funny name was chosen in bad faith. It was actually the name of an outstanding teacher, Ms Pansy Ingle Kidd (1890-1978) who taught at the school for 42 years. The school’s original name was then changed to its present name in honour of her.
Someone commented that her middle name should’ve been included as part of the school name. Then it would sound more respectable.
A plaque of Ms Kidd hangs in a school hallway:
Click here to see the plaque
The Star reported on 26th January 2007 that a Mr Wong, 34 was a college principal in Singapore who was also a pimp. He owned several colleges offering language, culinary and cooking courses. But in the evenings, he kept busy by overseeing his vice operations at his 2 nightclubs. (more…)
This is a bit old, but I think that would go to John Carpenter, the first winner of a million dollars in any edition of the show.
He managed it without using any of his 3 lifelines, except for the final question, which he didn’t need help at all, but used a lifeline anyway for a totally unexpected purpose. (more…)
To qualify, you need to get the first question wrong, live on camera.
Apparently quite a few people achieved this dubious feat and embarrass themselves in the process.
One of them is Chase Sampson from Nashville. He’s not the first Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’s player to go out at USD100 and certainly won’t be the last.
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As published by Newsweek, 13 Aug 2006
Criteria:
- 50% from equal parts:
- the number of highly-cited researchers in various academic fields,
- the number of articles published in Nature and Science
- the number of articles listed in the ISI Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities indices.
- 10%: percentage of international faculty
- 10%: percentage of international students
- 10%: citations per faculty member (using ISI data)
- 10%: ratio of faculty to students
- 10% from library holdings (number of volumes).
Top 10:
1. Harvard
2. Stanford
3. Yale
4. California Institute of Technology
5. Berkeley
6. Cambridge
7. MIT
8. Oxford
9. San Francisco
10. Columbia
Honourable mentions:
14 Duke
15 Princeton
16 Tokyo
17 Imperial College
19 Cornell
20 Chicago
21 UCL
Mine’s at no.70
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Tags: top 100 global universities, universities. top universities
http://www.suggestica.com
interesting discussion at /.
amongst others, attempts to answer the question:
“is it worth pursuing a computer science degree, and beyond, nowadays?”
