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Merchant Family In Bologna: GREGORY XIII (1502-1585) was pope from 1572 to 1585. He was born Ugo Boncompagni, of an affluent merchant family in Bologna, on Jan. 1, 1502. Boncompagni was awarded a degree in civil and canon law from the University of Bologna in 1530. At about this time he had an illegitimate son, Giacomo. In 1539 he went to Rome; he was ordained priest about three years later and soon assumed important positions in the service of the popes.
Four years earlier Marconi had read about Heinrich Hertz' discovery of electromagnetic waves. With help from Righi at the University of Bologna, Marconi built a transmitter and receiver based mainly on the designs of Hertz, Righi, and Lodge. By the end of 1895 he had signaled 1.2 miles (2 km) across the family estate near Bologna and had acquired a fanatical faith in the unlimited potentialities of Hertzian waves for worldwide communications.
PURDUE, per-du' or pur-du', John, American merchant: b. Huntingdon County, Pa., Oct. 31, 1802; d. Lafayette, Ind., Sept. 12, 1876. As a boy, he went to Ohio with his family, and for four years taught school in Pickaway County. Obtaining land in Marion County about 1830, he became a commission merchant. In 1837 he moved to Lafayette, Ind., where he became a prominent merchant and civic leader. Purdue was particularly interested in education, and he donated $150,000 to the land grant college established in Lafayette in 1869. It was renamed in his honor Purdue University.
PURDUE UNIVERSITY, pur-du', first created in 1865 as the Indiana Agricultural College, it was named Purdue University in 1869 and located at Lafayette, Ind., opening to students in 1874. |
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