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Watch Out For That Thagomizer! Stegosaurus had a formidable tail. Studded with four long spikes, this dinosaur's business end would have given Allosaurus and other Jurassic predators plenty of incentive to keep moving. But do we have any evidence that Stegosaurus really used its tail this way? Among paleontologists, the four-spiked tail of Stegosaurus is called a  thagomizer.. It is one of a few terms inspired by one of Gary Larson's beloved  Far Side cartoons: a caveman points to a slide of a Stegosaurus tail and names the nasty-looking structure in honor of the late Thag Simmons..
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Thagomizer The tail arrangement is believed to have been a defensive weapon against predators. The term thagomizer was coined by Gary Larson in a 1982 Far Side comic strip, in which a group of cavemen in a faux-modern lecture hall are taught by their caveman professor that the spikes were named for the late Thag Simmons.
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Demigod The English term demigod is a calque of the Latin semideus, half-god, which was coined by the Roman poet Ovid in reference to less important gods, such as dryads. In the ancient Greek and Roman world, the word did not have a consistent definition and was rarely used.
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Vigo 4,489 pages on this wiki. Vigo the Carpathian (originally known as Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf) is an ancient 16th Century medieval tyrant and sorcerer, who later died in the 17th century. He's the main antagonist in Ghostbusters II and is portrayed onscreen by Wilhelm von Homburg, and voiced by Max Von Sydow.
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Ignaz Semmelweis According to Wikipedia*, Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (July 1, 1818 - August 13, 1865) was the Hungarian physician who demonstrated that puerperal fever (also known as childbed fever) was contagious and that its incidence could be drastically reduced by enforcing appropriate hand-washing behavior by medical care-givers.
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Who coined the phrase âthe survival of the fittestâ? Who coined the phrase “the survival of the fittest”? Herbert Spencer. Spencer was an engineer, philosopher, and psychologist, who in his day was as famous as Darwin. He first coined the phrase “survival of the fittest” in his Principles of Biology (1864), having been inspired by Darwin’s theory of natural selection.
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Definitions &Translations The term was coined in 1710 by German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz in his work, Théodicée, though various responses to the problem of evil had been previously proposed.
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Introduction to Sociology/Print version Figure 1: Auguste Comte, Father of Sociology. The term sociology was coined by French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798–1857), in 1838 from the Latin termsocius (companion, associate) and the Greek term logia (study of, speech). Comte is known as the “Father of Sociology.
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Who coined the term E.T.? Answer Wiki. , Professional writer and editor, Master's in Linguistics. I hadn't come across the abbreviation before it was the title of the Steven Spielberg movie in 1982. Unless someone can locate an earlier citation, my guess is that Spielberg, who co-wrote the script and produced and directed the movie, also coined the term.
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Game of Thrones' Dothraki: meet the man who invented a language Game of Thrones' Dothraki: meet the man who invented a language. David J Peterson, the linguist who turned a handful of author George RR Martin’s words into a living, evolving tongue, reveals how to deal with cast ad-libs and which character swears the most. Emilia Clarke and Iain Glen in the first series of Game of Thrones.
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Cold War Baruch should be regarded as the originator of the term Cold War within the meaning in which it became universally accepted. Influential author Walter Lippmann wrote many books, including Cold War, which in 1947 aided in coining its name.
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Biography forThalia Grace (Character)from Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters  (2013) Thalia is the daughter of Zeus and Ms. Grace, a beautiful actress in her prime, but who had spiraled into alcoholism in later years. After Thalia's birth, Zeus left the Grace household (as is custom for gods) and Ms. Grace became unstable. When Thalia was about seven, Zeus returned using his second name, Jupiter. Thalia noted that Zeus using the Jupiter name was more fatherly and sterner towards her and spoke Latin very often. Within the year, Jason Grace, a demigod, was born.
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- How to reference a Website using the Chicago Manual of Style. The most basic entry for a website consists of the author name(s), page title, website title, web address, and date accessed. Last Name, First Name. “Page Title.” Website Title.
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- The term cold war first appeared in a 1945 essay by the English writer George Orwell called You and the Atomic Bomb.. The containment strategy also provided the rationale for an unprecedented arms buildup in the United States.
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Hitler and 'Lebensraum' in the East The term Lebensraum was coined by the German geographer, Friedrich Ratzel (1844-1904). During the last two decades of the 19th century, Ratzel developed a theory according to which the development of all species, including humans, is primarily determined by their adaptation to geographic circumstances.
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13 Words You Probably Didnât Know Were Coined By Authors Nowadays we use pandemonium to mean simply chaos or noisy confusion, but given that its literal translation is place of all demons this is a pretty watered-down version -- in fact it was coined in 1667 by the English poet John Milton, who used it as the name of the capital of Hell in his epic Paradise Lost.
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Thagomizer - the evolution of a word Thagomizer - the evolution of a word. Discussion in 'English Only' started by . 1, Aug 11, 2006. Loading... Hello fellow players with words. I am looking for an excuse to share a lovely niche word with you so I will ask for a description of the process of word creation. How would you describe the creation of a word in the following situation. In 1982 Gary Larson wrote a gorgeous cartoon depicting a caveman professor lecturing to a group while pointing to a drawing of a stegosaur.
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- One example of this trend comes from a 1982 panel he penned wherein a caveman professor is giving a lecture to his caveman pupils about the dangers of the Stegosaurus’s tail, explaining “Now this end is called the Thagomizer after the late Thag Simmons”.
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How Joseph Stalin Invented 'American Exceptionalism' The phrase is often attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville, but the real author was the Soviet dictator -- and it wasn't a compliment. Reuters (Gingrich); Wikimedia Commons (Tocqueville and Stalin) Rick Santorum and the rest of GOP presidential gang all have a man-crush.
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âFather of eugenicsâ should not be erased from academic history Eugenics, a term coined by Galton, was the scientific pursuit of improving the human stock. Among membership of the Eugenics Society were John Maynard Keynes, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Cyril Burt, Julian Huxley and most of British psychiatry. Christians accused eugenicists of “playing God”, but there were also Anglican supporters.
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Introduction to Sociology/Print version Auguste Comte, Father of Sociology. Figure 1: Auguste Comte, Father of Sociology. The term sociology was coined by French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798–1857), in 1838 from the Latin termsocius (companion, associate) and the Greek term logia (study of, speech). Comte is known as the “Father of Sociology. He first publicly used the term in his work Positive Philosophy (1896, orig.
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Live fast, die young, and... the rest? It was Motley who actually coined the phrase in his book as the slogan that his main character Nick Romano lived by. Actor John Derek played the role of Nick Romano in the film. So the person who originally 'said' it was Willard Motley.
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Who coined the Maxwell House Coffee phrase âgood to the last dropâ? In 1915 Cheek-Neal began using a Good to the last drop slogan to advertise their Maxwell House Coffee. The advertisements claimed that former President Theodore Roosevelt had taken a sip of Maxwell House Coffee, and proclaimed it to be good to the last drop. Coca-Cola also used the slogan Good to the last drop. For several years, Cheek-Neal ads made no mention of Roosevelt as the phrase's originator. Maxwell House distanced itself from its original claim, admitting that the slogan was written by Clifford Spiller, former president of General Foods Corporation, and did not come from a Roosevelt remark overheard by Cheek-Neal.
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Talk:Thagomizer Given that it's the same wording, [2], [3], and now [4], and the pointed edit summary in that last edit, it's probably the same individual. I previously discussed it with that individual at User talk:Quiddity/Archive 10#Thagomizer. This is just a note, for future reference.
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Therapist Who Coined Term: 'Affluenza' Doesn't Excuse DUI Teen More ways to share... Jessie O'Neill, a mental health therapist who coined the term affluenza, doesn't buy its use by a Texas teenager to justify killing four people in a drunk-driving case. I don't think it's a valid defense, O'Neill told The Steve Malzberg Show on Newsmax TV.
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Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life The term racial microaggressions, was first coined by psychiatrist Chester Pierce, MD, in the 1970s. But the concept is also rooted in the work of Jack Dovidio, Ph.D. (Yale University) and Samuel Gaertner, Ph.D.he term racial microaggressions, was first coined by psychiatrist Chester Pierce, MD, in the 1970s. But the concept is also rooted in the work of Jack Dovidio, Ph.D. (Yale University) and Samuel Gaertner, Ph.D.
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10 Awful Realities Behind The Lobotomy Craze 8Patient Follow-Up. Moniz was the pioneer of the lobotomy and Freeman’s zeal quickly made it popular in the US, but the two of them often did not see eye to eye. Moniz felt that the ice pick method popularized by Freeman was not the most responsible way to perform surgery on someone’s brain.