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.
It is a historical scientific center of Russia, where the 1st Russian University and Russian Academy of Sciences were founded in 1724. Among first professors of Saint Petersburg University were Leonhard Euler (who lived in Saint Petersburg for 30 years and wrote about 500 of his 865 papers there) and Daniil Bernoulli.