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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (September 7, 1707 – April 16, 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author. Buffon's views influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin. Buffon's legacy is as direct and powerful as that of his monarch, Louis XVI. Buffon is best remembered for his great work Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière (1749-1788: in 36 volumes, 8 additional volumes published after his death by Lacépà ...

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• Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon - Endnotes

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The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR; AAR reporting marks CP, CPAA, CPI), known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a Canadian Class I railway operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited. Its rail network stretches from Vancouver to Montreal, and also serves major cities in the United States such as Minneapolis, Chicago, and New York City. Its headquarters are in Calgary, Alberta. The railway was originally built between eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885, fulfilling a pr ...

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• Canadian Pacific Railway - Before the Canadian Pacific Railway 1871-1881
• Canadian Pacific Railway - Building the railway 1881-1885
• Canadian Pacific Railway - 1886-1900
• Canadian Pacific Railway - 1901-1928
• Canadian Pacific Railway - The Great Depression and World War II 1929-1945
• Canadian Pacific Railway - 1946-1978
• Canadian Pacific Railway - 1979-present
• Canadian Pacific Railway - Freight trains
• Canadian Pacific Railway - Passenger trains
• Canadian Pacific Railway - Special trains
• Canadian Pacific Railway - Silk trains
• Canadian Pacific Railway - Funeral trains
• Canadian Pacific Railway - Royal trains
• Canadian Pacific Railway - School cars
• Canadian Pacific Railway - Holiday Train
• Canadian Pacific Railway - Royal Canadian Pacific
• Canadian Pacific Railway - Steam Train
• Canadian Pacific Railway - Locomotives
• Canadian Pacific Railway - Steam locomotives
• Canadian Pacific Railway - Diesel locomotives
• Canadian Pacific Railway - The Canadian Pacific Railway in Canadian culture
• Canadian Pacific Railway - Facilities

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A rainforest is a forested biome with high annual rainfall. Tropical rainforests arise due to the Intertropical Convergence Zone, but temperate rainforests also exist. As well as prodigious rainfall, many rainforests are characterized by a high number of resident species and tremendous biodiversity. The largest tropical rainforests exist in the Amazon basin (the Amazon Rainforest), in Nicaragua (Los Guatuzos, Bosawás and Indio-Maiz), in much of equatorial Africa from Cameroon to the Democratic Republic of Congo, in much of sou ...

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• Rainforest - Characteristics
• Rainforest - Trees
• Rainforest - The canopy
• Rainforest - The rainforest as a source of drugs
• Rainforest - Degradation of the rainforests
• Rainforest - Bibliography

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The Americas commonly refers to the landmass in the Western Hemisphere consisting of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands. Americas - Naming of America. The earliest known use of the name America for the continents of the Americas dates from 1507. It appears on a globe and a large map created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. An accompanying book, Cosmographiae Introductio, explains that the name was derived fr ...

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• Americas - Usage
• Americas - Demography
• Americas - Languages

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Simple living (similar but not identical to voluntary simplicity or voluntary poverty) is a lifestyle individuals may pursue for a variety of motivations, such as spirituality, health, or ecology. Others may choose simple living for reasons of social justice or a rejection of consumerism. Some may emphasize an explicit rejection of "western values", while others choose to live more simply for reasons of personal ...

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• Simple living - Practice
• Simple living - Politics
• Simple living - Technology
• Simple living - Other non-religious approaches

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Charles Bonnet (March 13, 1720 – May 20, 1793), Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer, was born at Geneva, of a French family driven into Switzerland by the religious persecution in the 16th century. He made law his profession, but his favourite pursuit was the study of natural science. The account of the ant-lion in Noël-Antoine Pluche's Spectacle de la nature, which he read in his sixteenth year, turned his attention to insect life. He procured RAF de Réaumur's work on insects, and with the help of live specime ...

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Baron Dr. Carl (Karl) Ludwig von Reichenbach (February 12, 1788 - January 19, 1869) was a recognized chemist, metallurgist, naturalist and philosopher, a member of the prestigious Prussian Academy of Sciences. He is best known for his discoveries of kerosene (essential to rocket fuels), paraffin (a waxy solid added to many foods), and phenol (an antiseptic and anesthetic, used against sore throats). He spent the last part of his life developing the now popular vitalist theory of the Odic force, the life principle which he belie ...

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Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS) is named after the Swiss naturalist Charles Bonnet. In 1760 he described a condition in which vivid, complex visual hallucinations (fictive visual percepts) occur in mentally healthy people. He first documented it in his 87 year old grandfather, who was nearly blind from cataracts in both eyes but perceived men, women, birds, carriages, buildings, tapestries and scaffolding patterns. Most who are affected by this are people with visual imp ...

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The culture of human beings can be defined as follows: One common understanding of culture is to see it as consisting of three elements: values, social norms, and artifacts. Values are ideas about what is important. Norms are expectations of how people ought to behave. Each human culture has different methods, often called laws and legal systems, of describing and enforcing its norms, though there are unwritten expectations and informal sanctions too. Artifacts – things, or material culture – derive from the culture's value ...

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• Culture of human beings - Race and ethnicity
• Culture of human beings - Religion
• Culture of human beings - Animism
• Culture of human beings - Mysticism
• Culture of human beings - Polytheism
• Culture of human beings - Monotheism
• Culture of human beings - Humanism
• Culture of human beings - Society

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W(ilhelm) N(ero) P(ilate) Barbellion was the nom-de-plume of Bruce Frederick Cummings (September 7, 1889 - October 22, 1919), an English diarist who was responsible for what is usually considered one of the greatest diaries of all time, The Journal of a Disappointed Man. Cummings was born in Barnstaple in 1889. He was a naturalist at heart and ended up working at the British Museum's department of Natural History in London. Having begun his journal at the age of thirteen, Cummings continued to record his observati ...

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The Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish is the largest freshwater invertebrate in the world. The species in only found in Tasmania, and is listed as a vulnerable species due to habitat loss and illegal fishing. Individuals of over 5 kg in weight and over 80 cm long have been known in the past, but now, even individuals over 2 kg are rare. The species is only found below 400 m above sea level in Tasmanian rivers flowing north into the Bass Strait (with the exception of the Tamar). The specifi ...

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Pieter Boddaert (1730 - 1795 or 1796) was a Dutch physician and naturalist. Boddaert was a lecturer on natural history at the University of Utrecht. In 1783 he published fifty copies of an identification key of Edmé-Louis Daubenton's Planches enluminees, assigning scientific names to the plates. As many of these were the first scientific names to be proposed they remain in use. In 1785 he published Elenchus Animalium, which included the first binomial names for a number of mmamals, including the Quagga and ...

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (September 7, 1707 – April 16, 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author. Buffon's views influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin. Buffon's legacy is as direct and powerful as that of his monarch, Louis XVI. Buffon is best remembered for his great work Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière (1749-1788: in 36 volumes, 8 additional volumes published after his death by Lacépà ...

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• Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon - Wood tests
• Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon - Endnotes

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Bigfoot, also called Sasquatch, is described as a large, bipedal apelike creature living in the remote wilderness areas of the United States and Canada, specifically those in southwestern Canada, the Great Lakes, the Pacific Northwest, the Rocky Mountains, the forests of the U.S. Northeast, and the U.S. Southern states. The majority of mainstream scientists reject the posibility of the creature's existence, and consider the stories of Bigfoot to be a combination of myth and hoax. Bigfoot - Description. < ...

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• Bigfoot - Description
• Bigfoot - Bigfoot phenomenon
• Bigfoot - Etymology
• Bigfoot - Bigfoot
• Bigfoot - Sasquatch
• Bigfoot - Evidence - arguments for and against
• Bigfoot - Eyewitness reports
• Bigfoot - Problems with eyewitness reports
• Bigfoot - Native American culture
• Bigfoot - Problems with Native American culture as evidence
• Bigfoot - Physical evidence
• Bigfoot - Problems with physical evidence
• Bigfoot - Audio and visual evidence
• Bigfoot - Problems with audio and visual evidence
• Bigfoot - Psychological explanations
• Bigfoot - Hoaxes
• Bigfoot - Arguments against the hoax explanation
• Bigfoot - Conclusion
• Bigfoot - Mainstream response
• Bigfoot - Proposed creatures
• Bigfoot - Gigantopithecus
• Bigfoot - Paranthropus
• Bigfoot - Meganthropus
• Bigfoot - Alternative theories
• Bigfoot - Formal studies of Bigfoot
• Bigfoot - Bigfoot in popular culture
• Bigfoot - Alleged Bigfoot sightings
• Bigfoot - Footnotes
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2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military personal). Agen is a town and commune located in the Aquitaine région in southern France, on the river Garonne, 84 miles above Bordeaux. It is the préfecture of the Lot-et-Garonne département. Agen - Sights. The 12th century cathedral of Agen, St. Caprais, is one of the barest handful of large churches in Fran ...

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Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, Baron von Humboldt, (September 14, 1769, Berlin–May 6, 1859, Berlin), was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt. Alexander von Humboldt - Introduction. Alexander von Humboldt - Brief description of Humboldt's travels. Between 1799 and 1804, von Humboldt travelled South and Central America, exploring and describing it from a scientific point of view for the ...

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• Alexander von Humboldt - Introduction
• Alexander von Humboldt - Brief description of Humboldt's travels
• Alexander von Humboldt - Species and places named after Humboldt
• Alexander von Humboldt - The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• Alexander von Humboldt - Dedications and recognitions
• Alexander von Humboldt - Humboldt's life and travels
• Alexander von Humboldt - Early life and education
• Alexander von Humboldt - Travels and work in Europe
• Alexander von Humboldt - The Latin American expedition
• Alexander von Humboldt - Achievements of the Latin American expedition
• Alexander von Humboldt - Humboldt acclaimed
• Alexander von Humboldt - Explorations in Russia
• Alexander von Humboldt - Humboldt as diplomat
• Alexander von Humboldt - The Kosmos
• Alexander von Humboldt - Illness and death
• Alexander von Humboldt - Personal life
• Alexander von Humboldt - Publications
• Alexander von Humboldt - Biographies
• Alexander von Humboldt - Humboldt's correspondence

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Alfred Russel Wallace, OM , FRS (January 8, 1823 – November 7, 1913) was a British naturalist, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. Wallace's independent proposal of a theory of evolution by natural selection prompted Charles Darwin to reveal his own more developed and researched, but unpublished, theory sooner than he had intended. Alfred Russel Wallace - Early life. Wallace was born at Usk, Monmouthshire. He was the eighth of nine children of Thomas Vere Wallace and Mary Anne Greenell. He attended ...

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• Alfred Russel Wallace - Early life
• Alfred Russel Wallace - Exploration and study of the natural world
• Alfred Russel Wallace - Theory of evolution
• Alfred Russel Wallace - Religious views and application of the theory to mankind
• Alfred Russel Wallace - Precursor of ecology and awards
• Alfred Russel Wallace - Awards
• Alfred Russel Wallace - Publications
• Alfred Russel Wallace - Books about Wallace

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The Eastern Orthodox Church (encompassing national Orthodox jurisdictions such as Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, etc.—see Eastern Orthodox Church organization) is a body of Christians which claims origins extending directly back to Jesus and his Apostles through unbroken Apostolic Succession. Its doctrines were formalized through a series of church councils, the most authoritative being the Seven Ecumenical Councils held between the 4th and 8th centuries. These councils were convened out of the necessity to resolve conflicts that ...

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• Eastern Orthodox Church - Beliefs
• Eastern Orthodox Church - The Trinity
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Salvation
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Tradition
• Eastern Orthodox Church - The Bible
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Sin and redemption
• Eastern Orthodox Church - The Incarnation
• Eastern Orthodox Church - The Theotokos
• Eastern Orthodox Church - The Resurrection
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Saints relics and the deceased
• Eastern Orthodox Church - The Last Things
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Art and Architecture
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Church buildings
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Icons
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Traditions
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Chanting
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Incense
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Monasticism
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Fasting
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Almsgiving
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Baptism
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Chrismation
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Holy Communion
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Repentance
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Marriage
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Holy Orders
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Anointing with Holy Oil
• Eastern Orthodox Church - History
• Eastern Orthodox Church - The early Church
• Eastern Orthodox Church - The Roman/Byzantine Empire
• Eastern Orthodox Church - The Seven Ecumenical Councils
• Eastern Orthodox Church - The Great Schism
• Eastern Orthodox Church - Conversion of the Slavs
• Eastern Orthodox Church - The Church in North America
• Eastern Orthodox Church - The Church today

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Novelist, poet, playwright, dramatist, essayist and statesman, Victor-Marie Hugo (February 26, 1802–May 22, 1885) is recognized as one of the most influential French Romantic writers of the 19th century. His most well-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). Though conservative in his youth, he later became a passionate supporter of republicanism, and his work touches upon many of the major political and social issues and artistic trends of his time. < ...

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• Victor Hugo - Early poetry and fiction
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• Victor Hugo - Mature fiction
• Victor Hugo - Political life and exile
• Victor Hugo - Religious views
• Victor Hugo - Declining years and death
• Victor Hugo - Drawings
• Victor Hugo - Works
• Victor Hugo - Published during Hugo's lifetime
• Victor Hugo - Published posthumously
• Victor Hugo - Online texts

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Anthropological linguistics is the study of language through human genetics and human development. This strongly overlaps the field of linguistic anthropology, which is the branch of anthropology that studies humans through the languages that they use. Whatever one calls it, this field has had a major impact in the studies of visual perception (especially colour) and bioregional democracy, both of which are concerned with distinctions ...

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• Anthropological linguistics - Recent work

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