Royal Society a compliment to Lord Brouncker, a peer and the first President of the Royal Society. The society's motto, "Nullius in verba", is Latin for "Take nobody's word for it". It was adopted to signify the fellows' determination to establish facts via experiments and comes from Horace's "Epistles", where he compares himself to a gladiator who, having retired, is free from control. The society's core members are the fellows: scientists and engineers from the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth selected based on having made "a substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science". Fellows
The N Word: One Man's Stand The N Word: One Man's Stand The N Word: One Man's Stand is an autobiography of the author, Aboriginal activist Stephen Hagan, and it is also an account of his fight to have the word "Nigger" removed from a sign at the Toowoomba sports oval, with an apparent pun with the word "stand". "The E. S. 'Nigger' Brown Stand" was so named in 1960 to honour the rugby league player Edwin Stanley Brown (1898–1972) as a distinguished local sportsman. The government at the time, the Howard Government, would reject decision by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial