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Wegener said that of all those theories, Taylor's had the most similarities to his own. For a time in the mid-20th century, the theory of continental drift was referred to as the "Taylor-Wegener hypothesis". [26] [29] [30] [31] Alfred Wegener first presented his hypothesis to the German Geological Society on 6 January 1912. [5]
Six months later, on 12 May 1931, Wegener's skis were discovered. Expedition members built a pyramid-shaped mausoleum in the ice and snow, and Alfred Wegener's body was laid to rest. Wegener had been 50 years of age and a heavy smoker, and it was believed that he had died of heart failure brought on by overexertion.
After the Texas primary in 1918, women became more politically active and started attending party conventions. [72] In August 1918, 233 different Democratic county conventions chose to support women's suffrage in Texas. [72] Cunningham began to lobby the United States Congress on a federal suffrage amendment.
Since he did publish his theory of continental creep prior to Wegener's first publications on the subject, I think a single paragraph is not "more eminence than warranted." This is an article on continental drift, not the article on Alfred Wegener, and Taylor contributed. Geoffrey.landis 02:37, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
Texas universities eliminated or changed hundreds of jobs in recent months in response to one of the nation's most sweeping bans on diversity programs on college campuses, school officials told ...
Up early as usual to water her plants, Martinez answered a knock at her door at 6 a.m. and in walked a group of armed men and women with police badges and riot shields and a search warrant, she ...
Harris was a weak candidate who struggled to define herself or explain how a Harris administration would differ from the Biden years.
Since women were first elected to the Texas Legislature in the 38th Session, women have comprised on average 8.5% of the Texas Legislature, with a low of 0.5% in 1923 and 1927 (excluding 1925 and 1937 when no women were elected to either chamber) and a high of 26.1% in 2021. Since the 38th Session, 8.7% of the House's 150 members have been ...