Word: julians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Julian M. Whitaker, M.D. Huntington Beach, Calif...
Moshe Dayan recalls his fight for peace with Sadat, Hussein, and Carter. Julian Simon predicts the earth's energy and natural resources will never run out. And James Fallows reveals a bureaucratic horror story: the M-16 rifle...
Moshe Dayan recalls his fight for peace with Sadat, Hussein, and Carter. Julian Simon predicts the earth's energy and natural resources will never run out. And James Fallows reveals a bureaucratic horror story: the M-16 rifle...
...time, was to house the Vatican's own astronomy laboratory, known as the Meridian Room. Here the progress of the light of the sun, on its eternal course around the earth, was measured as it entered through a slit in the wall. By the mid-1500s, the Julian calendar worked out by astronomers in Alexandria in 45 B.C. had fallen grievously into error. The spring solstices, for example, kept occurring two weeks early. So the same Vatican that denied Copernican theory used data compiled by a Jesuit in the Tower of the Winds to draw up the Gregorian calendar...
Somehow. Mendel and Darwin joined forces. By 1950, their ideas were assimilated into a "modern synthesis." as Julian Huxley called...