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1830 Cuvier–Geoffroy debate between Georges Cuvier and Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire on on animal structure. [1] 1860 Oxford evolution debate between several scientists on Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species. [2] 1860-1862 Great Hippocampus Question, between Thomas Henry Huxley and Richard Owen on the importance of hippocampus minor. [3]
The series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Senator Stephen A. Douglas for U.S. Senate were true, face-to-face debates, with no moderator; the candidates took it in turns to open each debate with a one-hour speech, then the other candidate had an hour and a half to rebut, and finally the first candidate closed the debate with a half-hour response.
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From foreign policy to immigration to the economy, NBC News logged the subjects the candidates touched on during the September 2024 presidential debate.
The 1960 United States presidential debates were a series of debates held during the 1960 presidential election. Four presidential debates were held between Republican nominee Richard Nixon and Democratic nominee John F. Kennedy. All four presidential debates were the first series of debates conducted for any US presidential election. [1]
Douglas said that the Compromise of 1850 replaced the Missouri Compromise's ban on slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north and west of the state of Missouri, while Lincoln said—a topic he went back to in the Jonesboro debate—that Douglas was mistaken in seeing "Popular Sovereignty" and the Dred Scott decision as being in harmony ...
In the closing moments of the debate, Walz and Vance sparred over the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack and former President Trump’s continued claims the 2020 election was influenced by widespread ...
Pacificus-Helvidius Debates; Panalo; Participation of Ukrainians in the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising; Porter–MacKenzie debate; Pre-Māori settlement of New Zealand theories; Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935