The Rhode Island State House is a neoclassical building that houses the Rhode Island state government offices.
The dome of the State House is the fourth-largest self-supporting marble dome in the world, after St. Peter's Basilica, the Taj Mahal, and the Minnesota State Capitol. On top of the dome is a gold-covered bronze statue of the Independent Man, originally named "Hope".
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university. Founded in 1764, Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges established before the American Revolution.
At its foundation, Brown was the first college in the United States to accept students regardless of their religious affiliation. Its engineering program, established in 1847, was the first in the Ivy League.
Brown's faculty and alumni include--
1) Eight Nobel Prize laureates,
2) Five National Humanities Medalists,[
3) Ten National Medal of Science laureates.
4) 55 Rhodes Scholars,[
5) 19 Pulitzer Prize winners,
6) A U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice,
7) Four U.S. Secretaries of State and other Cabinet officials,
8) 53 members of the United States Congress, members of royal families, as well as leaders and founders of major companies.
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