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Shawn Keefer

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  • would be used in his school as starting points for discussion; these discussions
    and Plato's final word on the dialogues have all been lost to us. The Platonic
    dialogues consist of Socrates
  • of the soul, and finally what (if any) divine sanctions and afterlife should be
    thought to exist. The dialogue, then, covers just about every aspect of Plato's
    thought. There are several central aspects to the dialogue that sum up Platonic
    thought extremely well: a.) what the nature of justice is; b.) the nature of an
    ideal republic; and c.) the allegory of the cave and the divided line, both of
    which explain Plato's theory of forms.
  • strength, and courage. Those who are not overly bright, or strong, or brave, are
    suited to various productive professions: farming, smithing, building, etc.
    Those who are somewhat bright, strong, and especially courageous are suited to
    defensive and policing professions. Those who are extraordinarily intelligent,
    virtuous, and brave, are suited to run the state itself; that is, Plato's ideal
    state is an aristocracy, a Greek word
    which means
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  • contains the eternal "Forms" (in Greek, idea ) of things; the
    visible world is the imperfect and changing manifestation in this world of these
    unchanging forms. For example, the "Form" or "Idea" of a horse is intelligible,
    abstract, and applies to all horses; this Form never changes, even though horses
    vary wildly among themselves—the Form of a horse would never change even if
    every horse in the world were to vanish. An individual horse is a physical,
    changing object that can easily cease to be a horse (if, for instance, it's
    dropped out of a fifty story building); the Form of a horse, or "horseness,"
    never changes. As a physical object, a horse only makes sense
Hyle Daley

BBC - History - Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) - 0 views

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  • Charles Robert Darwin was born on 12 February 1809 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
    into a wealthy and well-connected family. His maternal grandfather was china
    manufacturer Josiah Wedgwood, while his paternal grandfather was Erasmus Darwin,
    one of the leading intellectuals of 18th century England.

Bryan Landis

Charles Darwin | Naturalist - 0 views

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  • his return to London Darwin conducted thorough research of his notes and
    specimens. Out of this study grew several related theories: one, evolution did
    occur; two, evolutionary change was gradual, requiring thousands to millions of
    years; three, the primary mechanism for evolution was a process called natural
    selection; and four, the millions of species alive today arose from a single
    original life form through a branching process called “speciation.”

Miranda Applebee

Don Freeman (1908-1978) - Illustrator, Lithographer, Painter - 0 views

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  • Great Depression hit home
  • Miranda Applebee
    Miranda Applebee on 19 Feb 09
     
    Don Freeman
    (1908-1978)
    Illustrator, Lithographer, Painter
    by Frank Goss
Brandon Nichols

AboutDarwin.com - Home Page - 0 views

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  • It is my opinion
    that Charles Darwin has contributed more to our understanding of the world
    around us than any other person in the last 2,000 years of Human
    History.






  • It is my opinion
    that Charles Darwin has contributed more to our understanding of the world
    around us than any other person in the last 2,000 years of Human
    History.


     
  • This February 12th
    marks the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin.
Tyler Wallace

Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States - 0 views

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  • Lincoln was a master politician, leading by persuasion and humor
  • Lincoln was a master politician, leading by persuasion and humor
  • In his inaugural address he urged merciful treatment for the defeated rebel
    states.
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      Tyler Wallace on 19 Feb 09
       
      this is cool
Michael Wienczkowski

The Henry Ford: The Life of Henry Ford - 0 views

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  • Henry Ford, born July 30, 1863, was the first of William
    and Mary Ford's six children. He grew up on a prosperous family farm in what is
    today Dearborn, Michigan. Henry enjoyed a childhood typical of the rural
    nineteenth century, spending days in a one-room school and doing farm chores. At
    an early age, he showed an interest in mechanical things and a dislike for farm
    work.

Brittany Geertson

Archimedes biography - 0 views

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  • Archimedes' father was Phidias, an astronomer.
  • Archimedes was a native of Syracuse, Sicily.
Jacob Soliwoda

Darwin's Living Legacy--Evolutionary Theory 150 Years Later: Scientific American - 0 views

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  • undertook a lifetime pursuit of slow, meticulous observation and thought
    about the natural world, producing a theory 150 years ago that still drives the
    contemporary scientific agenda


    By Gary Stix

  • Darwin’s famed finches play a continuing role in providing answers. The
    scientist had assumed that evolution proceeded slowly, over “the lapse of ages,”
    a pace imperceptible to the short lifetime of human observers. Instead the
    finches have turned into ideal resear
  • The Grants are just one among many groups that have embarked on missions to
    witness evolution in action, exemplars of how evolution can at times move in
    frenzied bursts measured in years, not eons, contradicting Darwin’s
    characterization of a slow-and-steady progression.
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  • Ruminations on evolution—often musings on how only the fittest prevail—carry an
    ancient pedigree, predating even Socrates.
brandan brooks

Biography of Abraham Lincoln - 0 views

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  • Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural Address: "In your hands, my
    dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil
    war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in
    Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to
    preserve, protect and defend it."

  • The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to
    destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve,
    protect and defend it."
  • learning. Five months before receiving his party's nomination for President, he
    sketched his life
Chad Toplovich

Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • SHAPE retained its traditional name with reference to Europe for legal
    reasons although the geographical scope of its activities was extended in 2003.
    At that time, NATO's command in Lisbon, historically part of the Atlantic
    command, was reassigned to ACO. The commanding officer of Allied Command
    Operations has also retained the title "Supreme Allied Commander Europe"
    (SACEUR), and continues to be a U.S. four-star general officer or flag officer who also serves as Commander, U.S. European Command.

Taryn Pieper

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  • revolutionary, Karl Marx, is without a doubt the most influential socialist
    thinker to emerge in the 19th century. Although he was largely ignored by
    scholars in his own lifetime, his social, economic and political ideas gained
    rapid acceptance in the socialist movement after his death in 1883. Until quite
    recently almost half the population of the world lived under regimes that claim
    to be Marxist. This very success, however, has meant that the original ideas of
    Marx have often been modified and
  • Arriving in Paris at the end of 1843, Marx rapidly made contact with organized
    groups of émigré German workers and with various sects of French socialists. He
    also edited the short-lived Deutsch-Französische
    Jahrbücher     which was intended to bridge French socialism and the German
    radical Hegelians. During his first few months in Paris, Marx became a communist
    and set down his views in a series of writings known
  • with Engels, moved to Brussels where he remained for the next three years,
    visiting England where Engels' family had cotton spinning interests in
    Manchester. While in Brussels Marx devoted himself to an intensive study of
    history and elaborated what came to be known as the materialist conception of
    history. This he developed in a manuscript (published posthumously as The
    German Ideology    ), of which the basic thesis was that "the nature of
    individuals depends on the material conditions determining
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  • Marx was expelled from Paris at the end of 1844 and
taylor shrock

Frédéric Chopin: Biography from Answers.com - 0 views

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  • His birth date is a matter of controversy; the town registration of his birth
    specifies February 22, but Chopin always gave the date as March 1.
  • In 1838 he began an affair with French novelist George Sand. The couple, along
    with Sand's children, spent a harsh winter in Majorca, where Chopin's health
    plummeted and he was diagnosed with consumption (tuberculosis).
christian taylor

St. Augustine of Hippo Biography from Who2.com - 0 views

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  • Augustine was born in a Roman province and educated at Carthage. As a young
    man he became interested in philosophy, with little interest in Christianity
    until a religious experience in his early thirties. By 396 he had become bishop
    of Hippo, and his sermons and writings gained fame, notably his
    Confessions and the treatise City of God. His notions of God's
    grace, free will and Original Sin had a great influence on Christian
    theology.

  • By 396 he had become bishop of Hippo, and his sermons and writings gained fame,
    notably his Confessions and the treatise City of God. His notions
    of God's grace, free will and Original Sin had a great influence on Christian
    theology.
Ashley Borland

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  • In his use of critical reasoning, by his unwavering commitment to truth, and
    through the vivid example of his own life, fifth-century Athenian Socrates set
    the standard for all subsequent Western philosophy. Since he left no literary
    legacy of his own, we are dependent upon contemporary writers like Aristophanes
    and Xenophon for our information about his life
    and work
  • For the rest of his life, Socrates devoted himself to free-wheeling discussion
    with the aristocratic young citizens of Athens, insistently questioning their
    unwarranted confidence in the truth of popular opinions, even though he often
    offered them no clear alternative teaching.
  • Our best sources of information about Socrates's philosophical views are the
    early dialogues of his student Plato, who
    attempted there to provide a faithful picture of the methods and teachings of
    the master. (Although Socrates also appears as a character in the later
    dialogues of Plato, these writings more often express philosophical positions
    Plato himself developed long after Socrates's death.) In the Socratic dialogues,
    his extended conversations with students, statesmen, and friends invariably aim
    at understanding and achieving virtue {Gk. areth
    [aretê]    } through the careful application of a dialectical method that employs critical inquiry to
    undermine the plausibility of widely-held doctrines.
Larry Sewell

Albert Einstein - Biography - 0 views

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  • Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14,
    1879.
  • During his stay at the Patent Office, and in his spare time, he produced much of
    his remarkable work and in 1908 he was appointed Privatdozent in Berne.
  • At the start of his scientific work, Einstein realized the inadequacies of
    Newtonian mechanics and his special theory of relativity stemmed from an attempt
    to reconcile the laws of mechanics with the laws of the electromagnetic field.
Devin Fielding

Wright brothers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • They gained the mechanical skills essential for their success by working for
    years in their shop with printing presses, bicycles, motors, and other
    machinery.
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