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...Josiah Nott, a respected physician in the1840s, who was then considered one of the foundersof the American school of anthropology, tookKames' hypothesis further. He asserted that Blackswere of a different species, and called mixed-racepeople 'hybrids.' He warned against intermarriagebetween white and Black, predicting it would bringthe fall of both 'species...
Barnum brought the feejee mermaid to Charlestonin the 1840s, and played right into the hands ofNott and his contemporaries. Nott used themermaid, and many of Barnum's other oddities, toshow that the human species can diverge. Themermaid, which he professed to be genuine, provedthat this half-human was of a different species,as were the different races. The mermaid wascaught up in the intense debate over the unity ofthe human species...
...Mary and other folk stuff." Their group was called the Upshaw Family Singers. Her youthful idols were Barbra Streisand, Joni Mitchell and Aretha Franklin, and she dreamed of a career in musical theater. At Illinois Wesleyan University, though, she studied voice with her future father-in-law, David Nott, and he introduced her to classical song, starting with Schubert and Debussy. "His emphasis was on the words," she says. "I don't think my voice is all that beautiful. If I have any strength, it's connecting the text and the music." That is far too modest: Upshaw's light...
Defense Secretary John Nott also came under renewed fire last week, as he presented the government's annual White Paper on defense. The document reaffirmed that Britain's major military priority was to protect the country from the Soviet Union within the NATO alliance. It underlined the Thatcher government's intention to go ahead with the controversial $13.5 billion purchase of Trident submarine-launched nuclear missiles at the expense of surface ships of the kind that proved valuable but also vulnerable in the South Atlantic. Nott's critics argued that the country needed stronger conventional naval...
...Tristram, carrying members of the Fifth Infantry Brigade who were establishing a second British beachhead only 17 miles from Port Stanley. That brought to seven the total of major British ships lost since a Royal Navy task force reached the wintry South Atlantic archipelago on April 29. Defense Secretary Nott somberly refused to disclose to the House of Commons the number of casualties on the ground that the information "could be of assistance to the enemy." Finally, British officials privately disclosed that 60 men had died and 120 were wounded, which would bring the war's toll to some...