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...this slippery slide from "reason" to science, Sch?nborn is a direct descendant of the early 17th century Dutch clergyman and astronomer David Fabricius, who could not accept Johannes Kepler's discovery of elliptical planetary orbits. Why? Because the circle is so pure and perfect that reason must reject anything less. "With your ellipse," Fabricius wrote Kepler, "you abolish the circularity and uniformity of the motions, which appears to me increasingly absurd the more profoundly I think about it." No matter that, using Tycho Brahe's most exhaustive astronomical observations in history, Kepler had empirically demonstrated that the planets orbit elliptically...
...SENTENCED. MUHAMMAD BOUYERI, 27, Islamic radical who confessed to the November 2004 murder of controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh; to life in prison without the possibility of parole; in Amsterdam. Bouyeri, a Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent, said he killed van Gogh, a fervent critic of Islam, for insulting the religion and the Prophet Muhammad. Bouyeri remained unrepentant at his sentencing, telling van Gogh's mother, "I don't feel your pain...
...effectiveness of local authorities, who had been monitoring all but two of the families involved. The convicted will face between six months and 28 years in prison. See: Heavy Sentences for Angers Abusers Sentenced. Muhammad bouyeri, 27, Islamic radical who confessed to the November 2004 murder of controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh; to life in prison without the possibility of parole; in Amsterdam. Bouyeri, a Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent, said he had killed van Gogh, a fervent critic of Islam, for insulting the religion and the prophet Muhammad. Bouyeri remained unrepentant at his sentencing, telling van Gogh...
...Theodore "Dutch" J. Van Kirk, 84 Navigator...
...Theodore "Dutch" J. Van Kirk, 84 Navigator on the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima...