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Charles Benedict Davenport
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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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Unusual Counting Systems
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Is Zero an Even or an Odd Number?
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10 Ways of Looking at Cells
Endoplasmic reticulum. cell biology
6 Cell Organelles
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Battle of Puebla. Cinco de Mayo. General Porfirio Diaz leads Mexican cavalry to victory against the French lead by General Charles Lorencez at Puebla, Mexico April 2, 1867. Oil on canvas, 1902. May 5, 1862. General Ignacio Zaragoza
Cinco de Mayo
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Flags That Look Alike
Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.
7 Deadliest Weapons in History
African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
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What Is the Most Widely Practiced Religion in the World?
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Did Marie-Antoinette Really Say “Let Them Eat Cake”?

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Born June 1, 1866 • Stamford • Connecticut
Died February 18, 1944 (aged 77) • New York
Notable Works “Heredity in Relation to Eugenics”
Subjects Of Study eugenics • heredity
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Charles Henry Turner.
Charles Henry Turner
American scientist
Cornelia Maria Clapp
American zoologist
William Brooks
William Keith Brooks
American zoologist
Clarence E. McClung
American zoologist
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English scientist
Weismann, August
August Weismann
German biologist
Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson
British mathematician
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Bateson, William
William Bateson
British biologist
Élie Metchnikoff.
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
Cyril Dean Darlington
British biologist
Félix Dujardin
French biologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist

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