Chronological/Geographical View to Important Aspects/Events

You can have a chronological and yet geographical view to Religion, Middle East and some other important events/aspects from:
http://www.mapsofwar.com/maps.html

This site is a well-prepared, informative site with good visualizations.

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University Rankings

I believe that the below information is really useful for prospective students searching master or phd studies/schools

1) First Anglosaxon country universities rankings as they are doing education as a business (earn money) and work more profesionally:
-US universities are ranked on the USNews

US News conducts periodical research on rankings and publishes the results annually on http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php

-UK University Rankings on
http://www.thes.co.uk/worldrankings/
You can also find special subject rankings on this web site (such as computer science ranking etc.)

2) German university Rankings can be found on:
http://www.daad.de/deutschland/hochschulen/hochschulranking/06543.en.html
You can also use this web site to customize the search criteria

3) International university ranking from China:
http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ranking.htm
This ranking is making a good progress on the acceptance and respect.

4) Rankings according to the university web sites (and some other criteria):
http://www.webometrics.info/

That is all for now.