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- 2891: Stephon Marbury
- ... in Brooklyn. New York City can be unforgiving toward its phenoms. The starmakers ballyhooed former playground legend Dwayne (Pearl) Washington, who never lived up to his precious nickname while playing at Syracuse, and struggling St. John's guard Felipe Lopez, who sat for Richard Avedon's camera while still in high school, only to turn their backs on both when they turned out to be anything short of great. This fear ...
- 2892: Berkeley
- ... this knowledge is processed by certain innate schema in the mind. Those that belonged to the empiricist school of thought developed quite separate and distinct ideas concerning the nature of the substratum of sensible objects. John Locke and David Hume upheld the belief that sensible things were composed of material substance, the basic framework for the materialist position. The main figure who believed that material substance did not exist is George ...
- 2893: The Enlightenment and the Role of the Philosophes
- ... either agnostic or left room for some kind of religious faith. All of the philosophes saw themselves as continuing the work of the great 17th century pioneers--Francis Bacon, Galileo, Descartes, Leibnitz, Isaac Newton, and John Locke--who had developed fruitful methods of rational and empirical inquiry and had demonstrated the possibility of a world remade by the application of knowledge for human benefit. The philosophes believed that science could reveal ...
- 2894: T.S. Eliot
- ... elite should rule. But don't confuse his politics as being anti-democratic, on the contrary he was very much a believer in democracy but felt his kind of democracy died with the defeat of John Quincy Adams by Andrew Jackson in 1828. To him, the common man should be allowed to vote, but not govern. Eliot went so far as to move to Britain and become a British subject, approving ...
- 2895: Native People in Modern Society
- ... normal life. Mr. Crawford is married on an Irish person and has two daughters. On my question if Bob knows many professional Native people, he said that he does and gave me an example of John Kimbell who is the first Native orchestra conductor he also said that there are 35 Native police officers on force right now. Bob said that there are not too many people who are educated and ...
- 2896: Thomas Hardy
- ... himself as a student in The Sun on the Bookcase. During this time he was studying architecture, and since his father couldn’t afford to send him to a university, he became an apprentice to John Hicks the local architect. While apprenticing Hardy became a skilled draftsman and sort of went to college at the same time. His neighbor was William Barnes, who Hardy considered a university in himself. Barnes was ...
- 2897: Thomas Hobbes
- ... and without government, we would be living in this state of nature. Hobbes ideas that people should decide how they should be ruled set the stage for the "social contract" proposed some years later by John Locke. Society makes a kind of contract with itself to give power to a ruling body. In "Leviathan" Hobbes also said that nations are like people in that they are selfishly motivated, and that every ...
- 2898: Preserving Flowers
- ... NY: Orange Judd Publishing, 1949. NAL Call No.: 96.04.P84 [Out of Print] Reilly, Ann. PARK'S SUCCESS WITH SEEDS. Greenwood, SC: George W. Park Seed Company, 1978. NAL Call No.: SB117.R46 Salinger, John P. COMMERCIAL FLOWER GROWING. Wellington, New Zealand: Butterworths Horticultural Books, 1985. (ISBN 0-409-70150-5). NAL Call No.: SB406.S34 Strider, David L. DISEASES OF FLORAL CROPS. 2 vols. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1985 ...
- 2899: Dinosaurs
- ... wide scale. Christians View "God created all the animals, including the first dinosaurs" - Genesis 1:20-25. "He made everything in the entire universe - people, stars, planets, and all that there is." - Exodus 20:11, John 1:3. Those are not the exact words of those verses, but it is a summary. What that says there is that God created everything on Earth and that includes Earth itself, therefore dinosaurs had ...
- 2900: Extra-Terrestrial Civilizations
- ... Moon was a another world, with a entire new civilization at heed. The first person that took advantage of this well spoken of legend, was a reporter for The New York Sun, whose name was John Herschel (1792-1871), Herschel was interested in life on other planets, so he went to South Africa with decent equipment. But what he saw was not what he wrote, when he returned to New York ...
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