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A monsoon by any other name . . .: ... would be as wet, but would a new name be as good?
AZ Daily Star (Tucson, AZ)
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July 12, 2007
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Byline: Tom Beal
Jul. 12--THE MONSOON HAS ARRIVED -- perhaps for the last time.
No, this isn't another global-warming, endless-drought, we're-all-gonna-die scare story -- just a possible name change being contemplated by the National Weather Service.
Meteorologists are searching for a more descriptive term for our second summer -- the wet one that features sometimes-violent thunderstorms. On Monday, weather service meteorologist Tony Haffer of Phoenix suggested a switch from "monsoon" to "summer thunderstorm season" with a set range of dates, ...
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Classified knowledge.(statue of Swedish scientist Carolus Linnaeus anecdote)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century
; ...of Carl von Linne, a.k.a. Carolus Linnaeus (1707-78), prompting Chicago...the university campus, should Linnaeus have his back to the classrooms...the genus statuary or the species Linnaeus, here is a reminder that the Swedish...
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Botanists remember Linnaeus
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
; ...the example of Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, the 'Father of Taxonomy...for", said Palni adding, "Linnaeus for the first time classified...the third birth centenary of Carolus Linnaeus, which falls on May 23. On...
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Amersham Biosciences Creates Linnaeus Chair At Muhlenberg College.
Business Wire
; ...2002 Dr. Sandy Weinberg has been named to the Linnaeus Chair at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA...acceptance of electronic records and signatures. The Linnaeus Chair, named for Carolus Linnaeus, the 18th Century Swedish biologist known as...
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Linnaeus's luck?
Magazine article from: Natural History
; ...and fascination of taxonomy? By Stephen Jay Gould Carolus Linnaeus (1707-78), the founder of modern taxonomy, frequently...the publication of the definitive tenth edition of Linnaeus's Systema Naturae in 1758. The current classification...
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In Search of Botanical Treasures
Magazine article from: Humanities
; Linnaeus sent two dozen of his best students to...EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, THE SWEDISH NATURALIST CAROLUS Linnaeus imposed order on what had been a chaotic...Philadelphia marks the tercentenary of Linnaeus's birth and examines his work and the...
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The Linnaean Enterprise: Past, Present, and Future1
Magazine article from: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
; ...devised during the mid-170Os by Carolus Linnaeus. The great Swedish biologist...and species. The basic unit Linnaeus recognized is the species, and...anatomical similarity. Although Linnaeus believed in special creation...
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Sweden and Finland. (mineral collectors in Sweden and Finland) (The History of Mineralogy: 1530-1799)
Magazine article from: The Mineralogical Record
; ...leadership of their greatest naturalist, Linnaeus: Linneaus (1707-1778) Among Sweden...academic circles by his latinized name, Carolus Linnaeus. Born the son of a country parson who loved flowers, Linnaeus set himself the task of establishing...
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Classified Information
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; Carolus Linnaeus loved plants. As a boy growing up in...came across. Today, science remembers Linnaeus as "the father of taxonomy," the study...classifying living organisms. In the 1750s, Linnaeus published two books containing his suggestions...
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Branching through a wormhole
Magazine article from: Natural History
; ...the founder of modern taxonomy, Carolus Linnaeus. At least we now recognize vertebrates...had only increased; he called Linnaeus's class of worms "une espece...genera, not the moral status, of Linnaeus's Vermes). Lamarck therefore...
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Mystery of the red rose
Magazine article from: Natural History
; ...and later the Swedish taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus, among others-had come up with a shocking answer: sex. In 1737 Linnaeus published his sexual system of...determined the class to which Linnaeus assigned it, while the number...
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