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The Butler Act was a 1925 Tennessee law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the book of Genesis account of mankind's origin. The law also prevented the teaching of the evolution of man from what it referred to as lower orders of animals in place of the Biblical account.
Summary of the November 5, 2024 Tennessee House of Representatives election results Party Candidates Votes Seats No. % No. +/– Republican: 85 1,853,837 66.70 75 Democratic: 74 873,533 31.43 24 Independent: 13 51,704 1.86 0 Write-in: 4 282 0.01 0 Total: 176 2,779,356 100.00 99 Source:
The 5th congressional district of Tennessee is a congressional district in Middle Tennessee.It has been represented by Republican Andy Ogles since January 2023.. In the past, the fifth district has been nearly synonymous with Tennessee's capital city, Nashville, as the district has almost always been centered on Nashville throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Insubordination is the act of willfully disobeying a lawful order of one's superior. It is generally a punishable offense in hierarchical organizations such as the armed forces , which depend on people lower in the chain of command obeying orders.
The Commodores won the first matchup in Nashville on Jan. 18, 76-75. Tennessee gets a week off before traveling to No. 8 Texas A&M (20-5, 9-3) next Saturday for a 12 p.m. ET matinee.
Bruce I. Griffey (born February 1963) is an American attorney and politician from the state of Tennessee. A Republican, Griffey has represented the 75th district of the Tennessee House of Representatives, based in Henry, Benton, and Stewart Counties, since 2019. [1] [2]
For the next two weeks the Tennessee Department of Transportation will be repairing the I-75 bridge over the Tennessee River near mile marker 74 in Loudon County. Bridge repair on I-75 causes ...
The Scopes trial, formally The State of Tennessee v.John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. [1]