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Bicentennial blues.(first word)
African Arts
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September 22, 2004|
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I caught up with Marilyn Houlberg last November in Port-au-Prince. We had co-curated "The Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou" exhibition for the Fowler Museum in 1995 and subsequently stayed au courant of Vodou's ever-evolving scene. Now I was curating a couple of exhibitions at the Fowler in honor of the bicentennial of Haitian independence on January 1, 2004. I needed to appraise bicentennial plans and get some pulse on the disastrous turn of events in the Black Republic. I also needed to go shopping for drapo (Vodou flags), and no one keeps a keener eye on that market than ...
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Good Breeding.('A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics')
Magazine article from: National Review
; A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics, by Nicholas...35) Ninety years after his death, arguments still rage about Francis Galton's intellectual legacy. Galton fans abound, but so do calumniators...
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Sir Francis Galton and the roots of eugenics.(Science)
Magazine article from: Quadrant
; ...only he had lived long enough, Sir Francis Galton's enthusiastic promotion of eugenics...kept for its victims and for us. Galton was born in 1822 and died in 1911...occasions disabled, the mind of Sir Francis Galton was one of the most prodigious...
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Unnatural selection Anthony Daniels on the unwitting begetter of Nazi eugenics, Sir Francis Galton
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics by Nicholas...like fashion, the name of the Victorian scientific polymath Sir Francis Galton is frequently associated (by those who have heard of him at all...
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Galton on stage.(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: Quadrant
; SIR: For those tantalised by Roger Sandall's reference to Brian Lipson's performance as Sir Francis Galton in A Large Attendance in the Antechamber (March 2007), Malthouse Theatre...
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The Eugenic College of Kantsaywhere.
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies
; ...with his request]. by SIR FRANCIS GALTON, F.R.S. Critical...Edward [Galton Wheler-Galton] [Scrawled across salutation...Lucy Evelyne Biggs, Galton's great-niece and...ethbridge] Karl Pearson, "Francis Galton's Utopia...
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Social Darwinism revisited.
Magazine article from: History Today
; Sir Francis Galton, the founder of eugenics, was ever mindful...foreigners of calibre, while slavery (Galton implied) protected the racial purity...immigrants `of a heterogeneous class'. Galton's idiosyncratic reading of ancient history...
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Two scientists, different times.(BOOKS)(SCIENCE)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) was a one-man...former biological researcher at the Galton Laboratory of University College...Dark Visions and Bright Ideas of Francis Galton, Bloomsbury, $24.95...
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The bottom line
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...Victorian founder of eugenics, Sir Francis Galton, really did wish to discover something...but one can't help wondering. Galton, according to an amusing programme...portion to die out and disappear.' Galton himself was just as clear about...
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Biography of eugenics pioneer released.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: M2 Best Books
; ...C)2000-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD 'A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics...biography of the renowned Victorian polymath Sir Francis Galton. Galton - a cousin of Charles Darwin - was an explorer...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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HOW CHINA'S TAKING OVER AFRICA . .... and why we in the West should be VERY worried; For Africa, the sun is rising in the East: China's President Hu Jintao welcomes Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe to Beijing.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...1873, in a letter to The Times, Sir Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin...the inferior Negro race,' wrote Galton. 'I should expect that the African...even been 'discovered'. Yet Sir Francis Galton, it now appears, was ahead...
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