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Oxford / Reino Unido

Oxford , em português chamada Oxónia ou Oxônia ou Oxforde, é uma cidade e distrito de governo local do condado de Oxfordshire, Inglaterra, Reino Unido, com uma população de 134.248 habitantes . A Carfax Tower é normalmente considerada o centro da cidade. Está situada às margens do rio Tâmisa, que aí é chamado de rio Ísis. Oxford, a cidade dos "Dreaming Spires", é famosa mundialmente pela sua universidade e lugar na história. A universidade de Oxford é a mais antiga das universidades de língua inglesa, considerado uma das 10 melhores universidades do mundo. Um engano comum cometido por turistas recém-chegados é perguntar onde fica o campo da Universidade de Oxford que na verdade não existe, como em universidades modernas, mas sim é composto por cerca de 40 colégios espalhados pela cidade. Dentre os mais antigos e famosos colégios encontram-se Magdalen, New College, Christ Church, St. Johns, Somerville, Brasenose e All Souls. Entre seus famosos alumni destacam-se então-futuros reis, presidentes e outros famosos estadistas além de estudiosos, cientistas, escritores, ganhadores do Prêmio Nobel, atores e demais. Dentre esses Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Indira Gandhi, C. S. Lewis , J. R. R. Tolkien , Edmund Halley, que deu o nome ao famoso cometa, Robert Hooke, Dorothy Hodgkin, Lewis Carroll , Benazir Bhutto, Manfred von Richthofen , Oscar Wilde, Vera Brittain, Iris Murdoch, e Theo James . Por mais de 800 anos, foi um lar da realeza e estudiosos, e desde o século IX oficializada cidade. No século XVII, durante a segunda guerra civil Inglesa, foi sede da corte do rei Carlos I, então refugiado de Londres pelos parlamentaristas. Como consequência, houve diversas batalhas ao longo de 5 anos onde o exército roialista atacava ou defendia-se do parlamentarista e refugiava-se em Oxford até sua derrota e consequente fuga de Carlos I em 1646. A fama de cidade universitária inglesa é dividida com sua eterna rival, Cambridge. Recentemente, seus "colleges" foi escolhido para servir de cenário para filmagens do filme Harry Potter. Oxford também foi berço de livros importantes e famosos na literatura mundial, como Alice no País das Maravilhas de Lewis Carroll, O Senhor dos Anéis de J. R. R. Tolkien, e muitos outros. O pub The Eagle and The Child era até um dos lugares preferidos de Tolkien.

Museu de História Natural da Universidade de Oxford

Oxford / Reino Unido

O Museu de História Natural da Universidade de Oxford é um museu de história natural localizado na cidade de Oxford, no Reino Unido. Inaugurado em 1860, é conhecido como OUMNH, . Ele exibe coleções de fósseis, esqueletos, espécies de animais, entre outros objetos que fazem parte da coleção da instituição. O espaço conta também com um palco que é frequentemente utilizado pelos alunos de química, zoologia e matemática de Oxford.

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory (Oxford)

Oxford / Reino Unido

The Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory is a major chemistry laboratory at the University of Oxford, England. It is located in the main Science Area of the university on South Parks Road. Previously it was known as the Physical Chemistry Laboratory.

St Cross College, Oxford

Oxford / Reino Unido

St Cross College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1965, St Cross is an all-graduate college with traditional-style buildings on a central site in St Giles', just south of Pusey Street. It aims to match the structure, life and support of undergraduate colleges, with the relaxed atmosphere of an all-graduate college.In May 2016, it was announced that the Fellows of St Cross College had elected Carole Souter, Chief executive of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund, as the next Master of the college. In September 2016, she succeeded Sir Mark Jones, who had been Master of St Cross since 2011.

Oxford University Department for Continuing Education

Oxford / Reino Unido

Oxford University Department for Continuing Education is a department within the University of Oxford that provides continuing education mainly for part-time and mature students. It is located at Rewley House, Wellington Square, Oxford, England. Some 15,000 students comprise the department, of which roughly 5,000 study for an Oxford University award or credit-bearing course. Other types of course offered by the department include online courses, short courses, weekly classes, day and weekend courses and summer schools.

Green Templeton College, Oxford

Oxford / Reino Unido

Green Templeton College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. The college is located on the previous Green College site on Woodstock Road next to the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter in North Oxford and is centred on the architecturally important Radcliffe Observatory, an 18th-century building, modelled on the ancient Tower of the Winds at Athens. It is the university's second newest graduate college, after Parks College, having been founded by the historic merger of Green College and Templeton College in 2008.The college has a distinctive academic profile, specialising in subjects relating to human welfare and social, economic and environmental well-being, including medical and health sciences, management and business, and most social sciences.Green Templeton's sister college at the University of Cambridge is St Edmund's College.

Linacre College, Oxford

Oxford / Reino Unido

Linacre College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the UK whose members comprise approximately 50 fellows and 500 postgraduate students. The college is named after Thomas Linacre , founder of the Royal College of Physicians as well as a distinguished renaissance humanist—multidisciplinary interests that the college aims to reflect. It is located on St Cross Road at its junction with South Parks Road, next to the University Parks and opposite the Tinbergen Building. Linacre is a diverse college in terms of both the international composition of its members , as well as the disciplines studied. Linacre was the first graduate college in the UK for both sexes and all subjects. This egalitarian spirit is reflected by a lack of formal separation between fellows and students. The college also has a strong environmental and ethical ethos. It was the first carbon-neutral college as well as the first college in Oxford to achieve Fairtrade status.

St Antony's College, Oxford

Oxford / Reino Unido

St Antony's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1950 as the result of the gift of French merchant Sir Antonin Besse of Aden, St Antony's specialises in international relations, economics, politics, and area studies relative to Europe, Russia, former Soviet states, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Japan, China, and South and South East Asia.The college is located in North Oxford, with Woodstock Road to the west, Bevington Road to the south and Winchester Road to the east. As of 2018, St Antony's had an estimated financial endowment of £43.8m. Formerly a men's college, it has been coeducational since 1962.

Department of Social Policy and Intervention

Oxford / Reino Unido

The Department of Social Policy and Intervention is a leading interdisciplinary centre for research and teaching in social policy and the systematic evaluation of social intervention based in the Social Sciences Division of the University of Oxford. It dates back to ‘Barnett House’, a social reform initiative founded in 1914 and became a department of University of Oxford in 1961. The Department hosts two main research units: the Oxford Institute of Social Policy and the Centre for Evidence-Based Social Intervention . Since October 2017 Professor Bernhard Ebbinghaus is Head of Department.

Bate Collection of Musical Instruments

Oxford / Reino Unido

The Bate Collection of Musical Instruments is a collection of historic musical instruments, mainly for Western classical music, from the Middle Ages onwards. It is housed in Oxford University's Faculty of Music near Christ Church on St. Aldate's. The collection is open to the public and is available for academic study by appointment. The current curator is Andy Lamb, a former NCO who served in the Royal Artillery and was a trumpeter in their Junior Leaders band during his training as a Boy Soldier. There are frequent gallery events and special exhibitions. More than a thousand instruments by important English, French and German makers, are on display, showing the musical and mechanical development of wind and percussion instruments from the Renaissance to the current day.The collection is named after Philip Bate who gave his collection of musical instruments to the University of Oxford in 1968, on the condition that it was used for teaching and was provided with a specialist curator to care for and lecture on it. The collection also houses an archive of his papers. The Bate Collection is additionally the home of the Reginald Morley-Pegge Memorial Collection of Horns and other Brass and Woodwind Instruments; the Anthony Baines Collection; the Edgar Hunt Collection of Recorders and other instruments; the Jean Henry Collection, the Taphouse Keyboard Loans; the Roger Warner Keyboard Collection; the Michael Thomas Keyboard Collection; a number of instruments from the Jeremy Montagu Collection; a complete workshop of the English bow-maker William C Retford, as well as a small collection of Bows formed in his memory, the Wally Horwood Collection of books and recordings, and other instruments acquired by purchase and gift. An album, 'Voices From The Past, Vol. 2: Instruments of The Bate Collection' was released in 2015.

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