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  1. Tyrannosaurus rex (20653 bytes)
    3: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = pink}}
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    15: ... three complete skulls. The first specimens found played an important role in the [[Bone Wars]]. ''T. ...
    19: {{Dino_template}}
    27: ...ved together, or simply died together, is open to argument.
  2. Agnosticism (14359 bytes)
    34: ...ting [[Charles Kingsley]] and [[Asa Gray]] as examples, and for himself, he had "never been an Atheist...
    36: ...uld the world be? Surely "his own illustrious example" encouraged freethinkers to proclaim truth "abro...
    40: ...s out Russell’s objections to some of the [[arguments for the existence of God]] before discussing his...
    42: ...'Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?'' (subtitled ''A Plea For Tolerance In The Face Of New Dogmas''), he ...
    46: ...le. In ''[[Language, Truth and Logic]]'' Ayer explicitly rejects agnosticism on the grounds that an ...
  3. Erasmus (18332 bytes)
    6: ... by his parents till their early death from the [[plague]] in [[1483]], and then given the best educat...
    12: ... petty criticism, from those hostile to the principles of literary and religious progress to which he ...
    14: ... regenerated [[Europe]] through sound criticism applied frankly and without fear to the Catholic Churc...
    23: ... on human freedom. He lays down both sides of the argument impartially. His position was that Man was bound ...
    25: ...o offer any tangible method of applying its principles to the existing church system. When Erasmus was...
  4. Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
    10: | place of birth=[[Tampico, Illinois]]
    13: | place of death=[[Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California | ...
    25: ...n was [[baptism|baptized]] in his mother's [[Disciples of Christ]] church in Dixon, and in [[1924]] he...
    29: ...for the next seven years, reportedly saving 77 people from drowning. Reagan would later joke that none...
    31: ...d. Reagan smoothly improvised a fictional play-by-play (in which hitters on both teams fouled off pitc...
  5. John F. Kennedy (36524 bytes)
    10: | place of birth=[[Brookline, Massachusetts]]
    13: | place of death=[[Dallas]], [[Texas]]
    24: ...at rank presidents, but his agenda was still incomplete at his death — with most of his [[civil ...
    28: ... of the lower lumbar spine [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1276266].
    40: ...orations of the Second World War include the [[Purple Heart]], [[Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal]], and...
  6. Harry S. Truman (30022 bytes)
    12: | place of birth=[[Lamar, Missouri|Lamar]], [[Missouri...
    15: | place of death=[[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]]...
    35: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Lamar, Missouri|Lamar]]...
    37: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Kansas City, Missouri|K...
    48: Editors- Please do not remove the period "." after Truman's m...
  7. Alberto Santos-Dumont (14938 bytes)
    4: public flight of an [[airplane]] in [[Paris]] in October of [[1906]].
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    11: ...f [[Brazil]] in the long, sunny afternoons at the plantation.
    14: ...me a [[paraplegic]]. He decided then to sell the plantation and move to Europe with his wife and his ...
    32: ...e off the ground by its own means. With this accomplishment, he won the [[Archdeacon Prize]] founded b...
  8. William Kidd (4938 bytes)
    8: ...ut with one William Moore. Gilbert describes this argument as being over whether to pursue a [[Dutch]] ship ...
    16: ... New York City, he was arrested with his crew and placed in [[Stone Prison]]. He was later sent to En...
  9. Thomas Aquinas (12692 bytes)
    7: ...'s castle of [[Roccasecca]] in the [[kingdom of Naples]]. Landulf's brother, Sinibald, was abbot of th...
    9: ...rly medieval Europe. This change of heart did not please the family; on the way to Rome, Thomas was se...
    14: ...such place as he should choose, and he selected Naples.
    16: ... When asked why he had stopped writing, Aquinas replied, "I cannot go on...All that I have written see...
    18: ...express for others systematically, clearly and simply. Because of the keen grasp he had of his materia...
  10. Rene Descartes (17976 bytes)
    1: ...inventing the Cartesian coordinate system used in plane geometry and algebra.
    4: ... to [[Teleology|ends]]—divine or natural—in explaining natural phenomena. In his theology, he insi...
    6: ...g test]] and [[John Searle]]'s "[[Chinese room]]" argument.
    14: ...eling, visiting courts and armies, mixing with people of diverse temperaments and ranks, gathering var...
    18: ...ege of La Rochelle]] by Cardinal [[Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu|Richelieu]] in [[1627]]....
  11. Pierre Abelard (18114 bytes)
    11: ...en dominant in the early [[Middle Ages]] (to be replaced by Abélard's [[Conceptualism]], or by [[Nomi...
    13: ...ectures of Anselm at [[Laon]]. His triumph was complete; the pupil was able to give lectures, without ...
    22: ...had helped her run away, wanted to be rid of her, plotted revenge. He and some others broke into Abél...
    25: ...and he was finally allowed to leave. In a desert place near [[Nogent-sur-Seine]], he built himself a ...
    29: ...ems to be some dissent as to their actual resting place.
  12. Confucius (21352 bytes)
    30: ...agator of Culture Ultimate<br>Sage and Great Accomplisher" (</small>&#22823;&#25104;&#33267;&#32854;&#...
    37: ...us' thoughts have been changed into a vast and complete philosophical system known in the west as [[Co...
    39: ...s a short collection of his discussions with disciples, compiled posthumously. These contain the gist ...
    50:
    52: ...of his life teaching an increasing number of disciples, trying to share his experiences with them and ...
  13. Buddhist philosophy (14386 bytes)
    14: ...ht contest either part of such an argument. Other arguments for Buddhism "as" philosophy may claim that Budd...
    16: Arguments against Buddhism as a philosophy might call atte...
    33: ... epistemological category equal to perception and argument. Thus, in the orthodox schools, if a claim was ma...
    43: ... metaphysical essence or [[being]] underlying the play of phenomenal experience is rejected. No "[[sou...
    48: ...d events of the universe, how ''could'' they be explained? What gave them their existence? And if ther...
  14. Islam (36809 bytes)
    6: ...y]], it is derived from the same root as, for example, ''Sal&#257;m'' meaning "peace" (also a common s...
    12: ...ahamic]] roots, whilst the Qur'an calls them [[People of the Book]]. Islam has three primary branches ...
    35: ...''). This monotheism is absolute, not relative or pluralistic in any sense of the word.
    38: ... to polytheism. As it says in the Qur'an, ''"O People of the Scripture! Do not exaggerate in your reli...
    84: ...cripts, which write consonants only and do not supply the vowels, and because there were differing ora...
  15. Chimpanzee (10645 bytes)
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    26: ...latively weak [[alpha male|alpha]], and highly complex social relationships; Bonobos, on the other han...
    30: ...cient Greek god of [[nature]]. Biologists would apply ''Pan'' as the genus name of the animal. Chimps ...
  16. Tennis (24557 bytes)
    1: ...ourt tennis''), an older form of the game that is played indoors on a very different kind of a court. ...
    3: ...long with its millions of players, millions of people follow tennis as a spectator sport, especially t...
    5: ==Manner of play==
    12: ...r space around the court is required in order for players to reach overrun balls. A net is stretched a...
    20: ...es keep rallies short, and powerful, hard-serving players have an advantage. Grass courts add an addit...
  17. New Deal (82408 bytes)
    2: ...lass conflict. The opponents of the New Deal, complaining of the cost and the shift of power to Washi...
    7: ...ation."<ref>Parker 2002, Friedman, ''Two Lucky People'' (1998) p. 59.</ref>
    11: ...market.<ref>Parker 2002, Friedman, ''Two Lucky People'' (1998) p. 59.</ref> Sixty years later Friedma...
    15: ...l laws. By 1942, the Supreme Court had almost completely abandoned its "judicial activism" of strikin...
    18: ...orldwide economic crisis. In 1929&ndash;1933, unemployment in the U.S. soared from 4% of the workforce...
  18. Jury (14851 bytes)
    8: ... there is always the possibility of jurors not completing the trial for health or other reasons, often...
    22: ...r]]s, [[Physician|doctor]]s, [[firefighter]]s, people who themselves work in the [[criminal justice sy...
    24: ...in waiting is exhausted without the jury being completed the clerk of the court is required to ask the...
    26: ...m of examination whereby both the prosecution (or plaintiff, in a civil case) and defense can object t...
    29: ... quite deliberately get out of jury duty (for example by mentioning knowledge of legal concepts).
  19. Scythia (22520 bytes)
    1: ...a in [[Eurasia]] inhabited in ancient times by people probably speaking [[Indo-Iranian languages]], kn...
    5: ...he [[Dnieper]] and [[Don]] rivers. The subject peoples in the periphery [[steppe]]s were also commonly...
    13: ...putation for their [[archer]]s, and many gained employment as [[mercenary|mercenaries]]. Scythian elit...
    17: ...rs, literally Amazons. It didn't offend the principles of nomadic society", according to one of the [[...
    21: To date, no certain explanation exists to account for the origin of the Sc...
  20. Time (15299 bytes)
    27: ...art of the measurement system?" The same debate applies also to [[space]].
    29: ...g this on a rather [[Time/Parmenides| interesting argument]]. More recently [[Ellis McTaggart|McTaggart]] he...
    45: ...space into [[spacetime]]. Einstein showed that people travelling at different speeds will measure diff...
    49: ...al in this section specific to time? much of it applies also to perception of space-->
    50: Different people may judge identical lengths of time quite differ...

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