• the term Rashtrapati, the native word in India to refer the nation's President, was first suggested by the Kannada poet, scholar T.N. Srikantaiah?
• although scholars have studied revolutions (depiction) for over a century, there are still many competing theories explaining those key events in human history?
• Karl Graul, former director of Leipzig Lutheran mission and a Tamil scholar, believed that Christian missionaries in India should not interfere with the local traditions including the caste system?
• Kavirajamarga, the earliest extant literary work in the Kannada language, was written by King Amoghavarsha I who was a famous poet and a scholar?

Facts on topics related to Scholar

Professor

• Air Vice-Marshal John Ernsting became a professor at King's College London and Imperial College, London after a successful military career of 35 years with the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine?
• astronomy professor Jens Fredrik Schroeter first learned his subject during childhood when his father, a sea captain, taught him how to use the sextant?
• Duke University Fuqua School of Business Professor, financial economist and regular CNBC Closing Bell guest, John Graham was nominated for four Journal of Finance best paper awards before winning?
• Georgia Tech professor Mark Guzdial was the inventor of Swiki, one of the earliest wiki engines?
• labour law expert Ron McCallum is the first totally blind person to have been appointed to a full professorship at any university in Australia or New Zealand?
• Macquarie University made its site's architect, Walter Abraham, a professor to give his opinions the same weight as those of the academic staff?
• Norwegian philology professor Peter Olrog Schjøtt interrupted his academic career in 1888 in favor of a fifteen-month career in politics?
• professor Malcolm Grant, the Provost and President of University College London, agreed to shave off his moustache if UCL students raised £1500 for Comic Relief, on Red Nose Day in 2005?
• Russian-born Israeli mathematician Aryeh Dvoretzky is the first graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to become a full professor there?
• Anne-Lise Seip was appointed at the Institute of History, University of Oslo in 1975, the same year as her husband Jens Arup Seip retired from his professorship there?

Academia

• academic Anastasios Christodoulou was named 'Anastasios' ('Resurrection') by his parents as he was born on Easter Day?
• Jessie Webb, an Australian academic and historian, was the first female teacher at the University of Melbourne?
• Open Access movement, a social movement in academia dedicated to the principle of open access—information sharing for the common good—traces its history to 1960s or earlier?
• Tore Lindholt became involved in politics and worked in the Norwegian State Railways after leaving an academic career he declared himself too "restless" to pursue?
• college mathematics professor David Bressoud chose to major in mathematics because that was the quickest way to complete his degree and get away from college and academia?
• the parents of Chicana fiction writer and Cornell University English professor Helena Maria Viramontes met while working in the fields, and that the impact of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers later influenced her fiction?
• there is no statutory body in India to investigate academic misconducts such as scientific plagiarism?

Intellectual

• Romany Marie's café was a bohemian hangout in Greenwich Village for artists, authors, explorers, scientists, visionaries, and other intellectuals from the 1910s through the 1950s?

Academic dress

• the University of Bristol's gowns are said to have been designed by its first Vice Chancellor in the colour of the rocks of the Avon Gorge after rain?