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Who does he remind us of?
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David Carlton compares Boris Yeltsin with a previous sick leader of a declining power
THE was the last prime minister to believe Britain was a great power and the first to confront a crisis that proved she was not.' These words first appeared in the Times's obituary of Anthony Eden. Boris Yeltsin must fear today that the same verdict will presently be delivered on his time as head of government. Like Eden in 1956 faced with Colonel Nasser's challenge, he knows that in deciding whether boldly to confront Nato in the Balkans, he will probably be damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
So ...
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The ghost of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: frog and fly genes revive the ridiculed idea that vertebrates resemble upside-down insects.(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...the clash between eminent French zoologists Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Georges Cuvier. In 1822, decades before Darwin propounded his theory of evolution, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire wrote a provocative essay in which he linked...
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Travelling objects: the story of two natural history collections in the nineteenth century.
Magazine article from: Portuguese Studies
; ...assembled by the naturalists Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844) and Friedrich...The famous French naturalist Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire came to Portugal in 1808 when...in Portugal. With him was Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire...
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Long-legged beauty that wowed Paris.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...celebrated French naturalist, Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, who dressed Zarafa in a black...French Revolution, Saint-Hilaire had rescued the Paris Zoo from...Although exhausted, Sainte-Hilaire wrote afterwards, 'the giraffe...
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Gentle giant's epic journey much more than tall tale
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times
; ...life to science. We come to know well the savant Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire who lovingly walked and tended Zarafa the 550 miles from Marseilles to Paris. It was Saint-Hilaire who had created the world's first municipal...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...military commander, 1721; Etienne-Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, naturalist, 1772; Friedrich...mathematician, 1809; Pierre-Etienne Theodore Rousseau, painter...Today is the Feast Day of Saints Anastasia and Basilissa, St...
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The Rise and Fall of Rosa Bonheur
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...part of the utopian socialist Saint-Simon movement and a friend...of the Jardin de Plantes zoo, Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, both early influences, as was...Gericault had done. Also, the Saint-Simonians had preached
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A tale of two cities & two towns: Part II
Magazine article from: The American Biology Teacher
; ...Naturelle which was built at the Jardin; these include Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, Jean Baptiste Lamarck, Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Georges Cuvier. There was also a great deal of chemical research done at the Jardin; this was where...
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Transformism, Evolution, and Romanticism.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies
; ...to the efforts of such "evolutionists" as Etienne and Isidore Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, Etienne Serres, Julien-Joseph Virey, Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent and many more besides; and, one...
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France. (mineral collection in France) (The History of Mineral Collecting: 1530-1799)
Magazine article from: The Mineralogical Record
; ...Lassone (1717-1788) and Charles Leoffroy de Saint-Yves (1717-1804). Prominent naturalists included...1733-1793), Jacques Milbert (1766-1840) and Etienne Geoffroy de St.-Hilaire (1772-1844). Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743...
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