AAA Going Places Magazine July-August 2005 Editor S Note A few states away in Darwin, MN, Francis Johnson had been rolling his own Letters to the Editor are welcome and may be addressed AAA Going Places, http://www.aaagoingplaces.com/pagesja05/editorsnote.shtm
Extractions: The Bigger the Better What possesses someone to build the world's largest office chair? Or make car formations that resemble Stonehenge? In the wacky world of America's Roadside Wonders, one finds even the most common items re-created to Green Giant-size proportions. The World's Largest Ball of Twine in Cawker City, KS, endures as one of stranger U.S. tourist attractions. This mind-boggling achievement and over-the-top silliness began in 1952 when farmer Frank Stoeber found it efficient to roll spare bits of sisal twine into a small ball in his barn. Over the years, he never reused or disposed of the twine, and by 1957 the ball weighed 2-1/2 tons and stood 8 feet tall. By the time he turned it over to the town for all to enjoy, Stoeber had over 1,600,000 feet of twine rolled into a sphere 11 feet in diameter. But a twine battle was brewing. A few states away in Darwin, MN, Francis Johnson had been rolling his own twine since 1950. Though twine ball battle statistics are sketchy from the early years, it's believed Stoeber's was larger. After Stoeber's death in 1974, Johnson surged back and broke the 11-foot diameter "Twine Barrier." He continued rolling until his own death in 1989. Cawker City is proud of its ball of twine, an obsession-driven achievement that we all can enjoy as we travel the roads of America. Where else can you eat a burger in the world's largest cattle skull, sit next to the world's largest office chair or take a picture next to the worlds largest peanut? They're all truly America's wonders.
Darwin's Deathbed Conversion? [unsigned] (Reply) (6-00) From Positive Atheism Editor@positiveatheism.org Sir Francis Darwin asrecently as January, 1916, had to refute a lying story about his father s http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/eml9725.htm
Extractions: Date: Thursday, June 08, 2000 2:00 AM Charles Darwin, or rather his profound and revolutionary scientific discovery, permeates several sections of our website. He became a skeptic, an atheistic agnostic, toward the end. He was a disbeliever in Christianity. His "Autobiography" contains some telling letters and conversations along these lines, written very late in life. That he recanted Darwinism on his deathbed is so unlikely as to be laughable. There are no records of this, and all the rumors along these lines are from extremely suspect sources.
Notes To Chapter 1 1 William Coleman, Biology In The Nineteenth For instance, the Editor of a recent, elaborate reference work permits theextraordinary 7 Letter to Darwin of 23 November 1859. Francis Darwin (ed. http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/PeterMorton/vs1_notes.htm
Extractions: Notes to Chapter 1 1 William Coleman, Biology in the Nineteenth Century: Problems of Form, Function and Transformation, p. 171. 2 Julian Huxley has offered this kind of sequence on several occasions. The dates quoted are as given in his 'The Emergence of Darwinism', Journal of the Linnean Society of London, vol. 44 (July 1958), p. 7. Conceptualisations of the early reactions against Darwinism as 'prejudice versus reason' may have a dated air about them, but they are still current. For instance, the editor of a recent, elaborate reference work permits the extraordinary judgement that Darwin's opponents were 'mainly members of the privileged upper classes who regarded the theory as a threat to the Establishment': Philip P. Wiener (ed.), Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas (New York: Scribner's 1973), 'Evolutionism'. 3 Coleman, Biology in the Nineteenth Century, p. 84. 4 Garland E. Allen Hugo de Vries and the reception of the"mutation theory"' ,Journal of the History of Biology, vol. 2 (Spring 1969), p. 57. Allen denies that sentiments such as Dennert's (which he cites) were of any major significance.
Darwin And Literature: A Bibliography Darwin, Francis (1887), The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Letter tothe Editor. Kingsley, Charles (1880), Scientific Lectures and Essays (London http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/PeterMorton/darwin_biblio.htm
Extractions: Darwinism and the Victorian Literary Imagination: A Bibliography The literature of Darwinism, especially the technical literature, is enormous. This bibliography is pretty much restricted to secondary sources which in some way deal explicitly with, or represent, or throw light on, the relations between Darwinism (or, more generally, evolutionary biology) and imaginative literature in the late nineteenth century. Some more obscure primary texts from the period are included. Readers are advised that I'm making this bibliography available on an 'as is' basis. There are many typographical errors caused by the scanning process. While it is fairly comprehensive within its limits, it is not up to date. I hope to add to it periodically. Details of other items for inclusion are very welcome; my contact details are here Do investigate David Clifford's site on neo-Lamarckism and nineteenth century writers . An extensive and up-to-date bibliography forms part of this on-going research project. Back to Peter Morton's homepage The Vital Science: Biology and the Literary Imagination (full text) Major Sources Appleman, Philip Dean (1955), 'Darwin and the literary critics', unpublished PhD thesis, Northwestern University. Deals with the biological data available to, and used by, Pater, Stephen, J.A. Symonds and others.
Darwin And Evolution Darwins son, Francis, later could not say enough about his mothers dedication to of the day and even became Editor of The Economist for several years. http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/evolution.html
Extractions: Darwin and Evolution Dr. C. George Boeree Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, England, on February 2, 1809. His father was Robert Waring Darwin, a physician and son of the famous Erasmus Darwin, also a physician, as well as a respected writer and naturalist. His mother was Susannah Wedgewood Darwin. She died when Charles was eight. It is said that even when he was a young man, he had a patient and open mind, spending many hours collecting specimens of one sort or another and pondering over new ideas. The idea of evolution was very much in the air in those times: It was increasingly clear to naturalists that species change and have been changing for many millennia. The question was, how did this happen? Upon returning, Darwin wrote several books based on his surveys on geology and the plant and animal species he had observed and collected. He also published his journal as Journal of a Naturalist . He notes that he was most impressed by the ways similar animals adapted to different ecologies. From early on, Darwin recognized that selection was the principle men used so successfully when breeding animals. What he needed now was an idea as to how nature could perform that task without the benefit of intelligence!
Mike Ruppert And Charles Galton Darwin The Editor was R. Gayre of Gayre. There were two associate Editors ProfessorHenry E. Garrett The eugenics legacy of Francis Galton, Darwin s bulldog http://www.questionsquestions.net/docs04/ruppert_darwin.html
Extractions: 31 January 2005 On August 31, 2004, Mike Ruppert gave a speech to the San Francisco Commonwealth Club to announce the publication of his book, Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. To support his claims that "peak oil" was the underlying factor behind 9/11 and US imperial aggression, he quoted a statement made by Charles Galton Darwin (grandson of Charles Darwin): "the fifth revolution will come when we have spent the stores of coal and oil that have been accumulating in the earth during hundreds of millions of years. . . . It is to be hoped that before then other sources of energy will have been developed . . . But without considering the detail [here] it is obvious that there will be a very great difference in ways of life. . . . Whether a convenient substitute for the present fuels is found or not, there can be no doubt that there will have to be a great change in ways of life. This change may justly be called a revolution, but it differs from all the preceding ones in that there is no likelihood of its leading to increases of population, but even perhaps to the reverse." http://www.fromthewilderness.com/PDF/Commonwealth.pdf
Extractions: Editors note: Many people are under the impression that Charles Darwin, the most well known promoter of evolutionism, died a Christian and renounced his theory. This is mainly due to rumors surrounding his death, and the fact that he studied at seminary as a young man and is buried in Westminster Abbey. This article reveals the truth. Page contents Darwin's early religious influences and thoughts The progress of his belief The role models of his forebears His descent into darkness ... Charles Darwin's thinking and writing on the subject of evolution and natural selection caused him to reject the evidence for God in nature and ultimately to renounce the Bible, God, and the Christian faith. Darwin's Early Religious Influences and Thoughts Darwin did not lack religious influences in his youth. Baptized an Anglican and steeped in his mother's Unitarianism, young Charles was brought up to pray. He used to run the mile or so from home to school, concerning which he wrote, "I often had to run very quickly to be on time, and from being a fleet runner was generally successful; but when in doubt I
Science In The 19th Century Periodical Editor. Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton, 186979. Publisher Darwin,Francis, ed. 1903. More Letters of Charles Darwin, 2 vols, London John Murray http://www.sciper.org/browse/AC_desc.html
Extractions: Prompted in part by the academic reforms demanded by Matthew Arnold and Mark Pattison, the Academy by means of a periodical subjected, after the English manner, to the economic conditions of supply and demand' (Appleton 1873, p. 462). The actual difficulty of returning a profit from such an uncompromisingly highbrow publication, however, would soon sour Appleton's relations with the Academy Academy , of which he was the sole proprietor for the next three years, at the very centre of British, and even European, intellectual life. With the circulation of the sixpenny monthly plummeting from an initial sale of 15,000 copies in October 1869 to just 3,000 copies by January 1871, the Academy was largely dependent on the income generated by advertisements, which occupied twenty pages in the opening number and led to complaints from scholarly readers inconvenienced by this 'overwhelming mass of advertisements' (quoted in Paston 1932, p. 214). Murray's acrimonious departure, as well as the Academy 's continuing failure to attract sufficient readers from beyond the academic community, squeezed even the revenue received from advertisers, and Appleton's self-proclaimed flagship of intellectual higher journalism relied on occasional subsidies from sympathetic subscribers and struggled to remain financially afloat throughout its existence.
Science Kit 3u II, Francis Darwin, Editor (D. Appleton and Co., New York, 1899), p. 105.With respect to the theological view of the question. This is always painful to me http://www.parentcompany.com/science_kit/sk3u.htm
Extractions: then hideFromBots="Email address witheld" else hideFromBots=strE end if end function %> Home Resources Science Kit Section 3: Quotations from Scientists Do Evolutionists Cherish Dogma? Atheism and Evolution G.G. Simpson, This View of Life ...It is a necessary condition and indeed part of the definition of science in the modern sense that only natural explanations of material phenomena are to be sought or can be considered scientifically tenable. Julian Huxley, et al., in
Design Kit 3b II, Francis Darwin, Editor (D. Appleton Co., New York, 1899), p. 90, a letterfrom C. Darwin to Asa Gray, 3 April 1860. I remember well the time when http://www.parentcompany.com/design_kit/dek3b.htm
Extractions: then hideFromBots="Email address witheld" else hideFromBots=strE end if end function %> Home Resources Design Kit Section 3: Quotations from Scientists Darwin Doubting Charles Darwin, Life and Letters of Charles Darwin ...I remember well the time when the thought of the eye made me cold all over, but I have got over this stage of the complaint, and now small trifling particulars of structure often make me very uncomfortable. The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick! Ibid ., vol. II, p. 174, a letter to Asa Gray, 11 Dec. 1961.
Extractions: Subscribe to MMN Mobile Edition @ Get MMN thru Answer to Omar Rehan's Refutation of Harun Yahya's "The Real Ideological Root of Terrorism is Darwinism and Materialism" by Dogan Tezer On November 12th, 2001, an article titled " Refutation of Harun Yahya s " ... by Omar Rehan was published on Media Monitors Network web-site . In Mr. Rehan's article, the central theme of Mr. Harun Yahya's article was criticized and it was claimed that Darwin s theory of evolution had completely different implications. Also a Muslim himself, Mr. Rehan stated that Darwin did not propose the idea of evolution as a concept opposing religion but that it is only a scientific theory that deals with the changes in plants and animals over time. Therefore, he claimed that Social Darwinism, fostered by the idea of theory of evolution and caused the dissemination of racism, disasters and human massacres, had nothing to do with Darwin and his teachings. Mr. Rehan also made some comments on general mechanisms of the theory of evolution and claimed that transitional form fossils, which are essential to prove the theory, exist in reality, that the physical similarities among living creatures provide evidence for evolution and that several examples of adaptation in creatures are examples of evolutionary progress.
Primary Faculty - Department Of History And Philosophy Of Science She is coEditor of Human by Nature Between Biology and the Social Sciences andCeteris Charles Darwin; Francis Crick. homepage. Research Professor. http://www.pitt.edu/~hpsdept/people/primary_faculty.html
Extractions: homepage University Professor (Adj. Philosophy). Before coming to Pittsburgh, he taught at UCLA, The Rockefeller University, and the University of Minnesota. He is the author of A Primer on Determinism; World Enough and Spacetime: Absolute vs. Relational Theories of Space and Time; Bayes or Bust: A Critical Examination of Bayesian Confirmation Theory; and Bangs, Crunches, Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles , Whimpers and Shrieks: Singularities and Acausalities in Relativistic Spacetimes. His research centers on the history, methodology, and foundations of modern physics. Aristotle, Ayn Rand, homepage Visiting Professor, under the university's new Fellowship for the Study of Objectivism (Member: Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Science Program). A specialist on Aristotle's biology and philosophy, and on the philosophy of Ayn Rand, Gotthelf is emeritus professor of philosophy at The College of New Jersey, and has taught on a visiting basis at Swarthmore, Oxford, Georgetown, Tokyo Metropolitan, and the University of Texas at Austin. He is a life member of Clare Hall Cambridge, and was a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Gotthelf is author of On Ayn Rand (Wadsworth Philosophers Series, 2000); co-editor of
Francis Galton And The Eugenics Society Erasmus Darwin was Francis Galton s maternal grandfather and also Charles Eliot TO Slater (19041983) was a psychiatrist, and Editor in 1972 of the http://www.eugenics-watch.com/roots/chap02.html
Extractions: Francis Galton (1822-1911) was an English scientist who studied heredity and intelligence. He was the person who coined the word eugenics, using Greek words to express what was originally a Greek concept. He was a cousin of Charles Darwin. Erasmus Darwin was Francis Galton's maternal grandfather and also Charles Darwin's paternal grandfather. Erasmus Darwin developed a theory of evolution that Charles Darwin later expanded and refined. Galton defined his new word this way: "Eugenics is the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, whether physically or mentally." But he wanted more than a little study. In 1905, he wrote about the three stages of eugenics ã first an academic matter, then a practical policy, and finally "it must be introduced into the national consciousness as a new religion." In Memories of My Life, Galton said that the publication of Darwin's book on evolution stirred a rebellion against religious dogma: "The publication in 1859 of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish a multitude of dogmatic barriers by a single stroke, and to arouse a spirit of rebellion against all ancient authorities whose positive and unauthenticated statements were contradicted by modern science."
ThePeerage.com - Person Page 7792 Commander Francis Wharton Darwin is the son of Colonel Charles Waring Darwin.1 Hemarried S8 Charles Mosley, Editor, Burke s Peerage and Baronetage, http://www.thepeerage.com/p7792.htm
Extractions: Citations ] Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 1. Hereinafter cited as Burkes Extinct Peerage ] Matthew H.C.G., editor, Dictionary of National Biography on CD-ROM (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1995), reference "Abercromby, Patrick 1656-1716". Hereinafter cited as Dictionary of National Biography
ThePeerage.com - Person Page 14525 Child of Colonel Charles Waring Darwin Commander Francis Wharton Darwin.Citations. S37 Charles Mosley, Editor, Burke s Peerage, Baronetage Knightage, http://www.thepeerage.com/p14525.htm
Extractions: Last Edited=14 Apr 2005 Beryl Georgina Louisa Orde-Powlett was the daughter of Colonel Thomas Charles Orde-Powlett and Harriet Georgiana Rooper She was born on 19 January 1891. She married Commander Francis Wharton Darwin , son of Colonel Charles Waring Darwin , on 14 September 1921. She died on 18 February 1952 at age 61.
Untitled-9 Francis Darwin, The Life of Charles Darwin. If technical terms are introduced,then they must be Richard Fifield, Executive Editor, New Scientist http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/rjbiology/Moorech4.html
Extractions: James Lowell Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) Library Of Congress Citations 551 Notes Preface signed Francis Darwin. First edition, 1842. Introductoryletter to the Editor from Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker.Darwin s predecessors http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/cit/citlcdarwin1.htm
Extractions: The Little Search Engine that Could Down to Name Citations LC Online Catalog Amazon Search Book Citations [First 20 Records] Author: Rolle, Friedrich, 1827-1887. Title: Chs. Darwin's Lehre von der entstehung der arten im pflanzen- und thierreich in ihrer anwendung auf die schhopfungsgeschichte, dargestellt und erlhautert von Dr. Friedr. Rolle. Mit holzschnitten. Published: Frankfurt am Main, J.C. Hermann, 1863. Description: 4 p.l., 274 p. illus. 21 cm. LC Call No.: QH367 .R74 Subjects: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. On the origin of species. Control No.: 02020707 //r86 Author: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. Title: More letters of Charles Darwin, a record of his work in a series of hitherto unpublished letters, ed. by Francis Darwin ... and A.C. Seward ... Published: New York, D. Appleton and company, 1903. Description: 2 v. front., port. 22 cm. LC Call No.: QH31.D2 A5 Microfilm 33763 QH Notes: Microfilm. Washington, D.C., Library of Congress. Subjects: Evolution (Biology) Other authors: Darwin, Francis, Sir, 1848-1925, ed. Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles), 1863-1941, ed. Control No.: 03009639 //r922 Author: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. Title: The structure and distribution of coral reefs, by Charles Darwin ... Edition: 3d ed., with an appendix by Prof. T.G. Bonney ... Published: New York, D. Appleton and company, 1901. Description: xx, 366 p. illus., 3 fold. pl. (incl. map) 21 cm. LC Call No.: QE565 .D2 1901 Dewey No.: 551 Notes: Preface signed: Francis Darwin. First edition, 1842. Subjects: Coral reefs and islands. Other authors: Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George), 1833-1923, ed. Control No.: 03022940 //r86
Default Table View Autobiography of Charles Darwin and Selected Letters, Darwin, Francis (Editor),Dover Pubns, Biographies Memoirs General http://homepage.mac.com/john_kruper/mybooks.html
Extractions: Thanks to Readerware software and a CueCat , I've started cataloguing my books. I'm nearly through with work-related non-fiction, and have my architecture and fiction titles remaining. TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER CATEGORY Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding: An Inquiry into Human Knowledge Structures Abelson, Robert Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Microbial Genetics Abou-Sabe, M. A. (Editor) Van Nostrand Reinhold Microbial genetics Souvenirs Fresh and Rancid Adler, Alfred Grove Press Biography / Autobiography PAIDEIA PROGRAM Adler, Mortimer MacMillan Publishing Company Nonfiction : Education : General A Guidebook to Learning: For the Lifelong Pursuit of Wisdom Adler, Mortimer Jerome MacMillan Publishing Company Nonfiction : Education : General Haves Without Have-Nots: Essays for the 21st Century on Democracy and Socialism Adler, Mortimer Jerome MacMillan Publishing Company Nonfiction : Politics : General Paideia Problems and Possibilities Adler, Mortimer Jerome
Extractions: [SW: N. H. N History] Details DARWIN, (Charles) [Francis Darwin]. THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF CHARLES DARWIN. Including an Autobiographical Chapter. Edited by his Son Francis Darwin. NY: Appleton, 1887. First US edition. Two volumes, octavo, hardcover, original terra cotta cloth stamped in blind and gilt, cream endpapers. (2), viii, 558, (2, ads), (2, blank); (4), vi, 562, (2, ads), (2, blank) pp. Frontispiece portrait and 3 plates inserted in volu me I. Frontispiece portrait and one facsimile inserted in volume II. Freeman 1456. Spines lightly age-darkened with minor rubbing to spine tips, lower edges of covers, spine folds, outer corners; very small remains of a label to each rear pastedown; age-darkening to top page edges; else a fine, bright pair, inner hinges not cracked.
