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Trusted by the Royal Navy, Dent provided chronometers for some of the 19th century's most famous expeditions, including Charles Darwin's 1831 journey aboard the H.M.S. Beagle. In its heyday, the company held Royal Warrants from British kings and queens, Russian tsars and Japanese emperors. It was given the honor of making the Standard Astronomical Clock, a clock to which all others are measured, at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. And perhaps most notably, in 1859 Dent created what may be the world's most famous clock, the Great Clock (a.k.a. Big Ben) at London's Houses of Parliament...
...trial made him a martyr.THC: If Bryan hadn’t died, do you think Darrow would have been the moral victor?EA: Oh yeah I think so, but there is that great appeal to all that ocean of people out there who want to believe in miracles. Darwin could be viewed as Lucifer, if they wish, denying them potential for their hopes. At that time creationism was hope, and Darwinism was certainly the furthest thing from hope.THC: Do you feel that the play makes a political statement for or against the teaching of evolution?EA: I think it does...
...ends up being the party's nominee. And even in some of the most conservative states, the power of social issues may be on the ebb. Voters in South Dakota rejected a stern antiabortion law in November. A similar bill in Utah failed in early March. Kansas has restored Darwin to public school classrooms and tossed out the state attorney general who sought to examine abortion records...
Radically modern new modes of thought flowered as well. Charles Darwin was quietly and carefully constructing the theory of evolution that he would introduce to the dumbstruck world a decade later. In American politics, abolitionism was just beginning to move from the left wing into the mainstream. Feminism officially launched in August 1848 in upstate New York, at a convention of reformers who issued a shockingly stark declaration of women's rights, demanding suffrage...
...graduate of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, who stopped by the Museum of Fine Arts last Saturday to screen his first full-length documentary feature, “Flock of Dodos,” as part of a nation-wide, week-long screening tour in honor of Darwin Day. Olson is the kind of guy who banters about embryology over a hand of poker, and includes his mother, Muffy Moose, in a documentary about evolution versus intelligent design.Olson’s documentary is a hybrid of these two ways of life: armed with the science of evolution...