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Thagomizer The arrangement of spikes originally had no distinct name; the term Thagomizer was coined in 1982 by cartoonist Gary Larson in his comic The Far Side, and thereafter became gradually adopted as an informal term within scientific circles, research, and education.
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thagomizer from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. Coined by Gary Larson in 1982. His comic strip shows a caveman giving a lecture illustrating this part of a dinosaur, with the caption Now this end is called the thagomizer... after the late Thag Simmons. See -ize, -er.
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History of quantum mechanics The phrase quantum mechanics was coined (in German, Quantenmechanik) by the group of physicists including Max Born, Werner Heisenberg, and Wolfgang Pauli, at the University of Goettingen göttingen in the early, 1920s and was first used In'born s 1924 Paper Zur . quantenmechanik
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âFather of eugenicsâ should not be erased from academic history Eugenics, a term coined by Galton, was the scientific pursuit of improving the human stock. Among membership of the Eugenics Society were John Maynard Keynes, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Cyril Burt, Julian Huxley and most of British psychiatry. Christians accused eugenicists of “playing God”, but there were also Anglican supporters.
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Tzaraath Ukrainian-Jewish born Yehuda L. Katzenelson, (1846–1917) devoted a portion of his work on talmudic medicine to the analysis of the parallels between vitiligo and biblical tzaraath, he concluded that the chazalic consensus was that they are synonymous.
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Homophobia Coined by George Weinberg, a psychologist, in the 1960s, the term homophobia is a blend of (1) the word homosexual, itself a mix of neo-classical morphemes, and (2) phobia from the Greek φόβος, Phobos, phóbos meaning fear or morbid. Fear weinberg is credited as the first person to have used the term in. speechoined by George Weinberg, a psychologist, in the 1960s, the term homophobia is a blend of (1) the word homosexual, itself a mix of neo-classical morphemes, and (2) phobia from the Greek φόβος, Phobos, phóbos meaning fear or morbid. fear
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Manifest destiny Newspaper editor John O'Sullivan coined the term Manifest Destiny in 1845 to describe the essence of this mindset, which was a rhetorical tone. It was used by Democrats in the 1840s to justify the war with Mexico and it was also used to divide half of Oregon with the United Kingdom. But Manifest Destiny always limped along because of its internal limitations and the issue of slavery, says Merk.
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- For example, the most extreme type of reform Darwinism was eugenics, a term coined by Sir Francis Galton in 1883 from the Greek word eügenáv, meaning well-born. Eugenists claimed that particular racial or social groups–usually wealthy Anglo-Saxons–were naturally superior to other groups.
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Raphael Lemkin Raphael Lemkin (June 24, 1900 – August 28, 1959) was a lawyer of Polonized-Jewish descent who is best known for coining the word genocide and initiating the Genocide Convention. Lemkin coined the word genocide in 1943 or 1944 from the rooted words genos (Greek for family, tribe, or race) and -cide (Latin for killing).
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Genetics William Bateson, a proponent of Mendel's work, coined the word genetics in 1905 (the adjective genetic, derived from the Greek word genesis—γένεσις, origin, predates the noun and was first used in a biological sense in 1860).
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Manifest Destiny / Expansion In 1845 John L. O'Sullivan, a newspaperman from New York, coined the phrase Manifest Destiny..
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Demigod The term demigod first appeared in English in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, when it was used to render the Greek and Roman concepts of semideus and daemon. Since then, it has frequently been applied figuratively to people of extraordinary ability.
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factoid We can thank Norman Mailer for the word factoid; he coined the term in his 1973 book Marilyn, about Marilyn Monroe. Mailer followed in a long tradition when he chose -oid; English speakers have been making words from -oid since at least the late 16th century.
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- Posted on by admin. The term ‘language acquisition device’ was coined by Noam Chomsky, and refers to a proposed innate human ability to construct and understand the syntactical structures of language.1  Abnormal.he term ‘language acquisition device’ was coined by Noam Chomsky, and refers to a proposed innate human ability to construct and understand the syntactical structures of language. 1  Abnormal.
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Gilded Age Herbert Spencer, not Darwin, coined the term Survival of the Fittest. Find this Pin and more on Social Justice by HealthyEatingCO. The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie . Herbert Spencer, not Darwin, coined the term Survival of the Fittest. See More
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Mysophobia Mysophobia, also known as verminophobia, germophobia, germaphobia, bacillophobia and bacteriophobia, is a pathological fear of contamination and germs. The term was coined by Dr. William Alexander Hammond in 1879 when describing a case of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) exhibited in repeatedly washing one's hands. Mysophobia has long been related to the OCD of constantly washing one's hands.
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Introduction to Sociology/Print version Figure 1: Auguste Comte, Father of Sociology. The term sociology was coined by French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798–1857), in 1838 from the Latin termsocius (companion, associate) and the Greek term logia (study of, speech). Comte is known as the “Father of Sociology.
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Communitarianism Terminology [edit]. The philosophy of communitarianism originated in the 20th century, but the term “communitarian” was coined in 1841, by John Goodwyn Barmby, a leader of the British Chartist movement, who used it in referring to utopian socialists, and other idealists, who experimented with communal styles of life.ommunitarianism has been traced back to early monasticism, but in the twentieth century began to be formulated as a philosophy by Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement. In an early article the Catholic Worker clarified the dogma of the Mystical Body of Christ as the basis for the movement's communitarianism.
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Thagomizer - the evolution of a word Thagomizer - the evolution of a word. Discussion in 'English Only' started by . 1, Aug 11, 2006. Loading... Hello fellow players with words. I am looking for an excuse to share a lovely niche word with you so I will ask for a description of the process of word creation. How would you describe the creation of a word in the following situation. In 1982 Gary Larson wrote a gorgeous cartoon depicting a caveman professor lecturing to a group while pointing to a drawing of a stegosaur.
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Vigo 4,489 pages on this wiki. Vigo the Carpathian (originally known as Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf) is an ancient 16th Century medieval tyrant and sorcerer, who later died in the 17th century. He's the main antagonist in Ghostbusters II and is portrayed onscreen by Wilhelm von Homburg, and voiced by Max Von Sydow.
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Maxim Gorky 16 March] 1868 – 18 June 1936), primarily known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky (/ˈɡɔːrki/; Russian: макси́м го́рькій or го́рький), was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Talk:Thagomizer an informal strongly implies that there are other informal names for the tailspikes-as-group (there aren't), and that there is a formal name (there isn't). They were just the spikes on the tail, or tail spikes, etc, before thagomizer was coined (afaik). -- Quiddity (talk) 04:19, 22 August 2012 (UTC)