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Thursday, she said, is the 200th birthday of both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin...
...more than 80 years, Dayton, Tenn., has had a monkey on its back. That monkey is the English naturalist Charles Darwin, whose 200th birthday is being celebrated on Feb. 12 in hundreds of cities around the world. Darwin's treatise On the Origin of Species was instrumental to the town's famous 1925 Scopes trial, which pitted noted trial lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan against each other in a fight to determine whether evolution should be taught in Tennessee public schools. (Read TIME's original 1925 story on the Scopes "monkey trial...
...Lincoln myth. Harvard professor of African-American studies Henry Louis Gates Jr. served as the moderator. “Every generation of Americans since 1865 has fashioned a Lincoln to its own needs,” said Gates, who called the event a “celebration of the 200th birthday of our 16th and greatest President.” The panelists presented varying portraits of Lincoln while debating issues ranging from Lincoln’s true role in freeing the slaves to his sexual orientation. Kushner, who is currently working on a screenplay about Lincoln’s life...
...most physical teams we’ll play all year.”Matching Penn’s toughness and disrupting its inexperienced signal-caller will also be crucial in Harvard’s attempt to ruin Bagnoli’s chance for his 200th career...
...After a tough 3-0 loss against American (5-3) in the opening match, the Crimson (1-3) came back to secure a 3-1 victory against CCSU (3-5), marking its first win of the season as well as head coach Jen Weiss’ 200th career victory.But Harvard’s success was short-lived, as No. 22 Long Beach State (8-1) overpowered the Crimson, 3-1, in the finale.LONG BEACH STATE 3, HARVARD 0The 49ers proved to be too much, sweeping Harvard in the final event of the Invitational, 25-17, 25-11, 25-8.Long Beach landed...