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We all are made of stars, as Moby says, but also apes, lizards and long-extinct species. For Darwin Day, fgr and Viva Evolution!
Debussy's String Quartet In G Minor wins the day
While Mr. Horace B. Starcher’s story soon came to an end (kicked in the head by a mule some 3 months after the ‘incident with the Daguerreotypes’) Mr. Dodgeson story was just beginning. Not long after he was chased out of town by the Panamint Springs Chamber of Commerce ethics committee, the feverish artist wandered out into the desert and through the most renowned desert bloom of the age. He forthwith fell into an abandoned mine shaft, where his head and several other parts of his anatomy were also kicked, as it were, by the rock of the mountain. Unwilling to die and convinced he was not meant to end as snake food in some forsaken pit, he crawled deeper into the network of abandoned tunnels and chambers…Soon he had left the caverns of man made origin fell again into a mineral pool of strange healing properties. He fell into a deep sleep and when he awoke his body was quite healed and whole. The problem remained however to as to how to escape the labyrinth. He continued on…and had many adventures to numerous to mention here. But the upshot is that when he emerged into daylight it was into the cool waters of Coastal sea cave. Instead of 1896 it was in fact 1966, a fact to which he was oddly eager to adapt. Dodgeson took up residence with three beautiful hipppy women living in a Big Sur art colony and went on to live a prolific and happy life. Today his works fill the museums and galleries of prominent institutions throughout the world. He is not known by the name Dodgeson of course, and alas, for reasons of baroque legality, his true identity must remain anonymous.
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 20: Scot McFadyen, Darby Wheeler, Sam Dunn, Shadrach Kabango, and Rodrigo Bascunan from Hip Hop Evolution pose backstage during The 76th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony at Cipriani, Wall Street on May 20, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Stephanie Moreno/Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications for Peabody Awards/University of Georgia)
Lancair Evolution N818SJ. Built and owned by William J Edwards.
AirVenture 2019 - Day 1. Wittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Sunday, 21st July 2019.
twilight of evolution, adam has ancestors ....Adam and Eve are you monkeys ....
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.For other people named Buffon, see Buffon
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, by François-Hubert Drouais Born7 September 1707 Montbard, Burgundy (in present-day Côte-d'Or)Died16 April 1788 (aged 80)
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ lwi ləklɛʁ kɔ̃t də byfɔ̃]; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopedic author.
His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists, including Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier. Buffon published thirty-six quarto volumes of his Histoire naturelle during his lifetime; with additional volumes based on his notes and further research being published in the two decades following his death.
It has been said that "Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century".
Buffon held the position of intendant (director) at the Jardin du Roi, now called the Jardin des Plantes; it is the French equivalent of Kew Gardens.
Georges Louis Leclerc (later Count de Buffon) was born at Montbard, in the Province of Burgundy to Benjamin Leclerc, a minor local official in charge of the salt tax and Anne-Christine Marlin also from a family of civil servants. Georges was named after his mother’s uncle (his godfather) Georges Blaisot, the tax-farmer of the Duke of Savoy for all of Sicily. In 1714 Blaisot died childless, leaving a considerable fortune to his seven-year-old godson. Benjamin Leclerc then purchased an estate containing the nearby village of Buffon and moved the family to Dijon acquiring various offices there as well as a seat in the Dijon Parlement. Georges attended the Jesuit College of Godrans in Dijon from the age of ten onwards. From 1723–1726 he then studied law in Dijon, the prerequisite for continuing the family tradition in civil service. In 1728 Georges left Dijon to study mathematics and medicine at the University of Angers in France. At Angers in 1730 he made the acquaintance of the young English Duke of Kingston, who was on his grand tour of Europe, and traveled with him and a large and expensive entourage for a year and a half through southern France and parts of Italy. There are persistent but completely undocumented rumors from this period about duels, abductions and secret trips to England. In 1732 after the death of his mother and before the impending remarriage of his father, Georges left Kingston and returned to Dijon to secure his inheritance. Having added “de Buffon” to his name while traveling with the Duke, he repurchased the village of Buffon, which his father had meanwhile sold off. With a fortune of about 80 000 livres Buffon set himself up in Paris to pursue science, at first primarily mathematics and mechanics, and the increase of his fortune.
In 1732 he moved to Paris, where he made the acquaintance of Voltaire and other intellectuals. He first made his mark in the field of mathematics and, in his Sur le jeu de franc-carreau, introduced differential and integral calculus into probability theory; the problem of Buffon's needle in probability theory is named after him. In 1734 he was admitted to the French Academy of Sciences. During this period he corresponded with the Swiss mathematician Gabriel Cramer.
His protector Maurepas had asked the Academy of Sciences to do research on wood for the construction of ships in 1733. Soon afterward, Buffon began a long-term study, performing some of the most comprehensive tests to date on the mechanical properties of wood. Included were a series of tests to compare the properties of small specimens with those of large members. After carefully testing more than a thousand small specimens without knots or other defects, Buffon concluded that it was not possible to extrapolate to the properties of full-size timbers, and he began a series of tests on full-size structural members.
In 1739 he was appointed head of the Parisian Jardin du Roi with the help of Maurepas; he held this position to the end of his life. Buffon was instrumental in transforming the Jardin du Roi into a major research center and museum. He also enlarged it, arranging the purchase of adjoining plots of land and acquiring new botanical and zoological specimens from all over the world.
Thanks to his talent as a writer, he was invited to join Paris's second great academy, the Académie française in 1753. In his Discours sur le style ("Discourse on Style"), pronounced before the Académie française, he said, "Writing well consists of thinking, feeling and expressing well, of clarity of mind, soul and taste .... The style is the man himself" ("Le style c'est l'homme même").Unfortunately for him, Buffon's reputation as a literary stylist also gave ammunition to his detractors: The mathematician Jean le Rond D'Alembert, for example, called him "the great phrase-monger".
In 1752 Buffon married Marie-Françoise de Saint-Belin-Malain, the daughter of an impoverished noble family from Burgundy, who was enrolled in the convent school run by his sister. Madame de Buffon’s second child, a son born in 1764, survived childhood; she herself died in 1769. When in 1772 Buffon became seriously ill and the promise that his son (then only 8) should succeed him as director of the Jardin became clearly impracticable and was withdrawn, the King raised Buffon’s estates in Burgundy to the status of a county – and thus Buffon (and his son) became a Count. Buffon died in Paris in 1788.
Mama said my day would come!
Then I realized that DIAPER spelled backward is REPAID
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