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- 3881: Dinosaur History
- ... the heavens and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy." - Exodus 20:11, John 1:3. Those are the words from the Bible. What that says there is that God created everything on Earth and that includes Earth itself, therefore dinosaurs had to have been created by God, which ...
- 3882: Columbus 2
- ... returned to Lisbon. As early as 1484 Columbus got a plan to sail west from the Canary Islands to the Indies (now East Indies) and the island kingdom of Cipangu (modern day Japan). When King John II declined Columbus s Enterprises to the Indies he decided to go to the Spanish monarch. Columbus traveled to Cordoba, in 1488 he and his mistress had another son. Columbus presented his plan to King ...
- 3883: The Political Parties in the United States
- ... 1824, forming the Democratic republican party around Andrew Jackson which rapidly was called the Democrat party, and the National republican party, better know at the time as the Whig party, more aristocratic and formed around John Quincy Adams. In 1840, these two parties, together, took up more than 80% of the votes during the presidential elections. The slavery problem in the mid 1800's literally destroyed the system of parties in ...
- 3884: Down Syndrome
- ... approximately 1 out of 1000 all live births. Each year, 3,000 to 5,000 people are diagnosed with Down syndrome in the United States. The formal story began in 1866, when a physician named John Langdon Down first described a set of children with common features who were distinct from other children with mental retardation. Down was superintendent of an asylum for children with mental retardation in Surrey, England when ...
- 3885: The Presidential Primary of 2000
- The Presidential Primary of 2000 The people who are running in the primary on March 7, 2000 are Al Gore, Bill Bradley, for Democratic Party. George W. Bush, John McCain and Allen Keyes for Republican Party. With there parties presidential nominations firmly in hand after super Tuesday contest, Al Gore and George W. Bush turned yesterday toward a general election battle that will center ...
- 3886: Charles Darwin
- ... had dropped out of medical school and attended University of Cambridge to prepare to become a cler-gyman of the Church of England. There he met two stellar figures, Adam Sedg-wick, a geologist, and John Stevens Henslow, a naturalist. Henslow not only helped build Darwin s self-confidence, but also taught his student to be a meticulous and painstaking observer of natural phenomena and collector of specimens. After Char-les ...
- 3887: Charles W. Chesnutt
- ... colored girl who passed for white. The story brings out a problem that many Chesnutt's contemporary writers and politicians tried to cope with - the issue of racial identity. By introducing racially mixed characters like John and Rena Walden, Chesnutt advocates the right of mixed races to be accepted on equal terms with whites. In order to support his family, Chesnutt was forced to reopen his court reporting business which he ...
- 3888: David Belasco
- ... Other stars discovered and trained by Belasco include David Warfield and Ina Claire. By 1900, Belasco turned his attentions to developing the career of Blanche Bates. After reading a story in Century Magazine, and with John Luther Long's approval, Belasco put together one of his most enduring plays, Madame Butterfly. Belasco worked fast, and though he scrambled together a laughably bad script, he had an unerring instinct for strong theatrical ...
- 3889: David Hume
- David Hume, a Scottish philosopher and historian who lived from 1711-76, carried the empiricism of John Locke and George Berkeley to the logical extreme of radical skepticism. Although his family wanted him to become a lawyer, he felt an "insurmountable resistance to everything but philosophy and learning". Mr. Hume attended Edinburgh ...
- 3890: Daltons Atomic Theory
- John Dalton developed the first useful atomic theory of matter around 1803. In the course of his studies on meteorology, Dalton concluded that evaporated water exists in air as an independent gas. Solid bodies can't ...
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