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.
The national university of the Church, founded by the nation's bishops in 1887, is The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. The first Catholic institution of higher learning established in the United States was Georgetown University in 1789.he Archdiocese of Baltimore was the first diocese established in the United States, in 1789, with John Carroll (1735â1815) as its first bishop. It was, for many years, the most influential diocese in the fledgling nation.