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- Top definition. Thagomizer. Term coined by Gary Larson that is most commonly used to describe the arrangement of spikes at the tip of a stegosaur's tail. can be used to describe any such spike arrangement. Paleolithic teacher: This end is called the 'Thagomizer'...after the late Thag Simmons..
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Demigod According to the Roman author Cassius Dio, Julius Caesar was declared a demigod by the Roman Senate after his victory at Thapsus. However, Dio was writing in the third century—centuries after the death of Caesar—and modern critics have cast doubt on whether the Senate really did this.
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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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Genetics William Bateson, a proponent of Mendel's work, coined the word genetics in 1905 (the adjective genetic, derived from the Greek word genesis—γένεσις, origin, predates the noun and was first used in a biological sense in 1860).
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Palindrome The word palindrome was coined by the English playwright Ben Jonson in the 17th century from the Greek roots palin (πάλιν; again) and dromos (δρoμος; δρóμος, way). direction
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Pyrokinesis The word 'pyrokinesis' was coined by horror novelist Stephen King in his 1980 novel Firestarter to describe the ability to create and control fire with the mind. The word is intended to be parallel to telekinesis, with S.T. Joshi describing it as a singularly unfortunate coinage..
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- Society's rethinking of sexual orientation was crystallized in the term homophobia, which heterosexual psychologist George Weinberg coined in the late 1960s.Weinberg used homophobia to label heterosexuals' dread of being in close quarters with homosexuals as well as homosexuals' self loathing.ociety's rethinking of sexual orientation was crystallized in the term homophobia, which heterosexual psychologist George Weinberg coined in the late 1960s.
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Microbio Exam 1: Lecture 1.1 Lazzaro Spallanzani. Italian physiologist who disproved the theory of spontaneous generation (1729-1799), disproved the theory of spontaneous generation with the 1st broth experiment- showed that microorganisms contaminated the boiled broth only when the flask containing the broth was left open to the air. this showed that microorganisms did not come from the broth but from the air
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10 Facts About Stegosaurus, the Spiked, Plated Dinosaur Back in 1982 (around the same time Gary Larson was coining the word thagomizer), the governor of Colorado signed a bill making Stegosaurus the official state dinosaur, after a two-year write-in campaign spearheaded by thousands of fourth-grade students.
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Keith Olbermann Reminds the Teabaggers that They Coined Their Own Name Keith Olbermann Reminds the Teabaggers that They Coined Their Own Name. On his MSNBC show Countdown, host Keith Olbermann reminded the teabaggers, who just now seem to have figured out what the name means, where the term teabagger came from. Hint: it wasn’t Maddow or Olbermann but the teabaggers themselves who coined the term.
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- The Italian scientist Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729-1799) is probably best known for his contributions to the debunking of the theory of spontaneous generation. Yet, among his various scientific interests, Spallanzani also investigated in great detail the ability of various animals to regenerate missing body parts.
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- Word Origin & History. blurb 1907, coined by U.S. humorist Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) to mock excessive praise printed on book jackets. But also sometimes attributed to U.S. scholar Brander Matthews (1852-1929).
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- When Richard Dawkins coined the word meme he spoke about a soup of human culture where cultural units leap from brain to brain by processes of interpretation and imitation. Rajiv Naresh: Meme Wars and the Death of the Underground.
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Charles E. Osgood Charles E. Osgood. For the broadcaster, see Charles Osgood. Charles Egerton Osgood (November 20, 1916 – September 15, 1991) was a distinguished American psychologist who developed a technique for measuring the connotative meaning of concepts, known as the semantic differential.
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Giants in the field of microbiology seriesDr. Robert Koch:: a founding father of biology Robert Koch was one of the founding fathers of biology. His contributions to the field of infectious disease are rivaled only by those of Pasteur and Lister. Koch rose from humble beginnings, working as a country doctor, and catapulted to the pinnacle of a scientific career to receive the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1905.
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Svante Arrhenius Svante Arrhenius was a Swedish physicist and physical chemist who formulated the theory of electrolytic dissociation. One of the founding fathers of physical chemistry, Arrhenius also present a revolutionary model of the greenhouse effect.He won the 1903 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his brilliant contributions.ontributions and Achievements: Svante Arrhenius sent his 150-page thesis regarding the conductivities of electrolytes to several famous scientists across Europe. Wilhelm Ostwald was very much impressed, who even made a trip to Uppsala to recruit Arrhenius for his research team.
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Science Diction: The Origin Of The Word 'Robot' It was the brainchild of the Czech playwright, novelist and journalist Karel Čapek, who introduced it in his 1920 hit play, R.U.R. , or Rossum's Universal Robots. Science historian Howard Markel discusses how Čapek thought up the word.
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thaumaturge 1620s (implied in thaumaturgical), from Modern Latin, from Greek thaumatourgos wonder-working, conjurer, from thauma (genitive thaumatos) wonder, wonderous thing, literally a thing to look at (from root of theater) + ergon work (see urge (v.)).
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Raphael Lemkin Raphael Lemkin (June 24, 1900 – August 28, 1959) was a lawyer of Polonized-Jewish descent who is best known for coining the word genocide and initiating the Genocide Convention. Lemkin coined the word genocide in 1943 or 1944 from the rooted words genos (Greek for family, tribe, or race) and -cide (Latin for killing).
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How To Get a Word into the Dictionary But writers aren’t the only ones who tend to have coinages. Politicians also tend to do very well. Abraham Lincoln coined the word neologize, among other words, and Winston Churchill has the first citation in the OED for many words, including fluffily and fly-in. Maybe you’re a blogger.
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thagomizer Coined by Gary Larson in 1982. His comic strip shows a caveman giving a lecture illustrating this part of a dinosaur, with the caption Now this end is called the thagomizer... after the late Thag Simmons.
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10 Awful Realities Behind The Lobotomy Craze 10The Procedure Won A Nobel Prize. Today, the lobotomy is seen as an embarrassing failure of recent psychiatry, but during the craze it was a very respected procedure. It was first developed by Egas Moniz, a Portuguese doctor who had first tried something he called a prefrontal leucotomy.
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Brinkmanship (Cold War) The Detente détente was essentially a stilling of the waters between THE us and THE. Ussr it was started By Richard, nixon Elected president of The United states in, 1968 and His National Security, Advisor Henry kissinger and continued on through to 1980 and the start of 'the Second Cold'. warhe term brinkmanship was originally coined by United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles during the height of the Cold War. The term came from the political Hungarian theory of pushing the military to the brink of war in order to convince another nation to follow your demands.
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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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Neoconservatism Irving Kristol was called godfather of neoconservatism. The term neoconservative was popularized in the United States during 1973 by Socialist leader Michael Harrington, who used the term to define Daniel Bell, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Irving Kristol, whose ideologies differed from Harrington's.
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The FBI Investigator Who Coined The Term 'Serial Killer' He and another man, John Douglas, were the first individuals who actually conducted research on serial killers, Hazelwood says. He says together they coined the term, giving serial killers their namesake. Ressler's research also required thorough and fearless investigation.