Tag: Scholar’s

04 NOV

There’s a 30-person college in the California desert where students work off their tuition on a cattle ranch — and it produces Rhodes Scholars and Pulitzer Prize winners

Deep Springs College Facebook Deep Springs College is a two-year school with only 12 to 15 students per class. Student attend for free, but must work 20 hours a week to pay their way. Students hold jobs on the farm and ranch, and cook, clean, and maintain vehicles. Deep Springs College is a tiny 30-person-or-less […]

03 MAY

China is bringing together 20,000 scholars and academics to launch an online encyclopedia that can rival Wikipedia

AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan Shanghai (AFP) – China plans to launch its own online encyclopaedia next year, hoping to build a “cultural Great Wall” that can rival Wikipedia as a go-to information source for Chinese Internet users who Beijing fears are being corrupted by foreign influences. China is under pressure to write its own encyclopaedia […]

28 JAN

‘Virgin Mary Will Marry Prophet Mohammed In Heaven’: Egyptian Scholar’s Statement Leave Christians Fuming

A controversial statement made by an Egyptian scholar has left several Christian people in the country fuming. According to Russia Today, the Egyptian cleric named Dr. Salem Abdel Galil made the controversial remark on a TV show beamed live on a local television network. In the TV show, he is reportedly heard claiming that Prophet […]