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Iconoclastic Controversy
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geological controversies
geological controversies Geology emerged as a distinctive science only about two centuries ago. From its earliest days the subject has been associated with controversy. Focusing on controversy can be illuminating because issues tend to become dramatized and the underlying assumptions and attitudes... Read more |
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Common School Movement
COMMON SCHOOL MOVEMENT The ubiquity of "common" schools in the United States belies both the long effort to establish a system of publicly supported elementary and secondary schools and the many controversies that have attended public schools before and since their creation. The belief that... Read more |
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October Revolution
OCTOBER REVOLUTION During the October 1917 Russian Revolution, the liberal, western-oriented Provisional Government headed by Alexander Kerensky, which was established following the February 1917 Russian Revolution that overthrew Tsar Nicholas II, was removed and replaced by the first Soviet... Read more |
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Alice Childress
Alice Childress 1920–1994 Actress, playwright, novelist Left School for Acting Career Miscegenation Play Stirs Controversy Young Adult Book Is Banned Selected writings Sources Read more |
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Federal Courts
FEDERAL COURTS The U.S. judicial tribunals created by Article III of the Constitution, or by Congress, to hear and determine justiciable controversies. The Constitution created the Supreme Court and empowered Congress, in Article I, Section 8, to establish inferior federal courts. The authority... Read more |
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Pina Bausch
Pina Bausch The most controversial dancer/choreographer of her era was Pina Bausch (born 1940). She created the Theatertanz, an approach to dance expression, which became a trend. Born July 27, 1940, in the industrial city of Solingen in Germany, Pina Bausch once said, "I am no one's pupil."... Read more |
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Johann Bernhard Basedow
Johann Bernhard Basedow , 1723-90, German educator, b. Hamburg, educated in Hamburg and at the Univ. of Leipzig. Later he taught in Denmark (1753) and Germany (1761) but became involved in controversies aroused by his unorthodox religious writings. In 1774 his Elementarwerk was published with... Read more |
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Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree (1931-1990) Controversial Indian spiritual teacher, known since 1988 within the movement he established as "Osho." From modest beginnings in India, he built up a worldwide following, which experienced a major crisis in 1985 when the community he was building in Oregon fell... Read more |
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Seneca
Seneca the elder (Lucius, or Marcus, Annaeus Seneca) , c.60 BC-c.AD 37, Roman rhetorician and writer, b. Corduba (present-day Córdoba), Spain; grandfather of Lucan and father of Seneca the younger. He spent most of his life in Spain but made frequent trips to Rome, where he observed the... Read more |
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