Erika Eiffel, nÃ©e LaBrie, is a US citizen of Italian descent. She has also lived in Japan during the early stages of her career in world-class archery, and trained as an offiâ¦cer in the US military until her career was cut short by a serious sexual assault when she famously defended herself with a Japanese training sword.
First universities in the Western Hemisphere. The first universities in the Western Hemisphere were established by the Spaniards: the University of Santo Domingo (1538) in what is now the Dominican Republic and the University of MichoacÃ¡n (1539) in Mexico.
Report Abuse. the University of Al-Karaouine located in Fes, Morocco (founded in 859 by Fatima al-Fihri) is considered the oldest continuously-operating degree-granting university in the world by the Guiness Book of World Records.s with all matters medieval, historical facts and figures are up to academic interpretation. Qarawiyyin Mosque in Fez, Morroco, has also laid claim to the title of oldest university in the world. Europe's oldest university was founded in 1088 in the northern Italian city of Bologna.