Oxford University
About Oxford University
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation. It grew rapidly from 1167, when Henry II prohibited English students from attending the University of Paris. After escalating conflict between students and the Oxford townspeople, some Oxford academics fled northeast to Cambridge, where they established the University of Cambridge in 1209. The two universities share many common features and are jointly referred to as Oxbridge.
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On the Bayeux Tapestry, you can tell how important someone is by the size of their horse's penis. A professor at the University of Oxford has gone through the Bayeux Tapestry, rigorously counting the horses and their penises.
from 230: No Such Thing As Tinder For Sloths, 2018-08-17 at 00:18:29 · read transcript
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Pocahontas 3 is a bit dull. It's just her rotting in the ground. Yeah. Okay. Question number three, and that is Anna Chasinski. The reason that the first Oxford University students didn't study the Aztec Empire was because the Aztec Empire wouldn't exist for more than another 300 years. That is a great fact. Okay. There we go. Those are our three answers. If you were playing but thought, damn it, that would have been good if there was a prize.
NSTAAF International Factball: Germany v Portugal, 2014-06-15 · listen
The tablet said among those who bear the name Sinisianus to none grant health until he brings back the ring to the temple of Nodans and the bit that makes this really exciting is they contacted a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University to help them work out who this god was and that was one J.R.R.
377: No Such Thing As The Mole Street Journal, 2021-06-11 · listen
We should emphasize that this was a big deal, this book. He wasn't just a weirdo with a pamphlet. This was a book that was so believed that he lectured, he was advised to lecture on Formosan culture and language, Oxford University. He invented the entire language alphabet and all completely new alphabet. A linguist studied it to see how consistent it was and agreed it was definitely a language to the extent that it remained in lots of language books until the mid 19th century.
261: No Such Thing As A Chocolate Train, 2019-03-22 · listen
Thank you, Neil. I love this. For 500 years, if you wanted to get a Master of Arts degree from Oxford University, you had to swear an oath that you would never be reconciled with Henry Simeonis. Nobody knows or knew at the time who Henry Simeonis was, but you had to swear, swear on your life, you would never make up with him, never settle the argument.
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