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Hace 1 día · By Matthew Ehret In 1865, a group of 12 scientists under the leadership of Thomas Huxley, Matthew Arnold, Joseph Hooker, and Herbert Spencer (founder of social Darwinism) was created under the name “X Club” with the mandate to reform global British Imperial strategy. At the time of this group’s formation, Lincoln’s north was on the…
Hace 5 días · After defeating the Union forces of Gen. Joseph Hooker at Chancellorsville, Virginia, in May, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee decided to invade the North in hopes of further discouraging the enemy and possibly inducing European countries to recognize the Confederacy.
Hace 2 días · Major General Joseph Hooker took the report seriously enough to move troops from Indianapolis and St. Louis to defend the city. Ultimately, though, the Johnsonville raid failed to impede the well-supplied Sherman on his march to the sea; nor did it prevent the destruction of Hood's forces at Franklin and Nashville.
Hace 3 días · Cabe mencionar aquí al zoólogo Thomas Huxley, al botánico Joseph Hooker y al geólogo Charles Lyell, todos ellos ingleses. Pero también a sociólogos como el ya mencionado Herbert Spencer o...
Hace 3 días · That army's XII Corps, under Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, drove toward Cleburne's position by way of Rossville. While elements of Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's Army of of the Tennessee operated northeast of Ringgold against Confederate communications, part of Sherman's XV Corps marched to Ringgold to dislodge Bragg's rear guard and reopen the road to Dalton.
Hace 3 días · On 1 February 1871 Charles Darwin wrote about these publications to Joseph Hooker, and set out his own speculation, suggesting that the original spark of life may have begun in a "warm little pond, with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, light, heat, electricity, &c., present, that a proteine compound was chemically formed ...
Hace 3 días · In a letter to Joseph Hooker, dated 11 January 1844, Darwin wrote, in contrast to his original belief, that he now believed “species are not immutable (it’s like confessing a murder).” In other words, species evolved, specifically from molecules to man, which is the title of one high school biology textbook.
