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  2. Continental drift - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Alfred Wegener - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Women's liberation movement in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Combining both a class-based and sexist based theory, but acknowledging that some of their members were not socialists, Bread and Roses had subgroups throughout the country. [ 119 ] In 1977 liberationists returned to the objectification of women and worked with other feminist organizations in the fight against pornography.

  5. Marxism and the Oppression of Women - Wikipedia

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    The book was first published in the United States in 1983 by Rutgers University Press. [3] It was published in the United Kingdom by Pluto Press. [4] In 2013, the work was republished by Brill Publishers, with a new introduction by the political scientist David McNally and Susan Ferguson, and as part of the Historical Materialism Book Series.

  6. Counter-Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    In Burke's opinion, the philosophes provided the revolutionary leaders with the theories on which their political schemes were based. [9] Augustin Barruel's Counter-Enlightenment ideas were well developed before the revolution. He worked as an editor for the anti-philosophes literary journal, L'Année Littéraire.

  7. Social degeneration - Wikipedia

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    Although rejected by Charles Darwin, the theory's application to the social sciences was supported by some evolutionary biologists, most notably Ernst Haeckel and Ray Lankester. As the 19th century wore on, the increasing emphasis on degeneration reflected an anxious pessimism about the resilience of European civilization and its possible ...

  8. Voters Didn't Reject Women, They Rejected Kamala Harris ... - AOL

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    That's why Harris has a reputation as a flip-flopper. That's why she spent much of her short 2024 campaign walking back positions she took during the quite-different political days of 2019 and 2020.

  9. Feminist theory - Wikipedia

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    Feminist legal theory is based on the feminist view that law's treatment of women in relation to men has not been equal or fair. The goals of feminist legal theory, as defined by leading theorist Clare Dalton, consist of understanding and exploring the female experience, figuring out if law and institutions oppose females, and figuring out what ...