University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom.

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Building on its reputation for science and technology, Cambridge has a partnership with MIT in the United States, the Cambridge-MIT Institute. The university is also closely linked with many of the high-tech businesses in and around Cambridge, which form the area known as Silicon Fen. Cambridge businesses and the university have also been financially supported by several prominent figures in the technology world, including Gordon Moore of Intel Corporation and Bill Gates of Microsoft. In 2000, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation set up the Gates Scholarships to help students from outside the UK study at Cambridge. The University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory is also housed in a building partly funded by Gates and named after him.

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MIT - United States - Cambridge-MIT Institute - Silicon Fen - Gordon Moore - Intel Corporation - Bill Gates - Microsoft - 2000 - Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Gates Scholarships - University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

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After Cambridge was recognised as a Studium Generale in the 13th century, it became common for researchers from other European medieval universities to come and visit Cambridge to study or to give lecture courses.

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Studium Generale - Medieval universities

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In the Meiji Era (1868-1912), several Japanese students studied at the university.http://www.dhs.kyutech.ac.jp/~ruxton/hatenkou.html. In Japan, there is a Cambridge and Oxford Societyhttp://www.camford.org/index.htm, a rare example of the name Cambridge coming before Oxford when the two universities are referred to together — traditionally, the order used when referring to both universities is "Oxford and Cambridge", even though "C" precedes "O" in the Latin alphabet. The probable reason for this inversion is that the Cambridge Club was founded first in Japan, and it also had more members than its Oxford counterpart when they amalgamated in 1905.

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Meiji Era - 1868 - 1912 - Japan - Latin alphabet

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Each Christmas Eve, BBC television and radio broadcasts The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols by the Choir of King's College Chapel, Cambridge - a national Christmas tradition which was first transmitted in 1928.

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Christmas Eve - BBC - The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols - Choir - King's College Chapel, Cambridge

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