It is not clear whether Bacon means North or South America.

" In the same article, the Reverend Al Sharpton ( whose fictional analogue in the novel is " Reverend Bacon ") asserts that " twenty years later, the cynicism of The Bonfire of the Vanities is as out of style as Tom Wolfe's wardrobe.

* The song is used to humorous effect in Michael Moore's film Canadian Bacon as ill-informed Americans prepare for an invasion by Canada.

The term became useful in order to describe differences perceived between two of its founders Francis Bacon, described as empiricist, and René Descartes, who is described as a rationalist.

One of their films is screened in the KahBang Off Screen Category, " Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon " which connects the honored back to the man himself.

Aubrey's vivid account, which portrays Bacon as a martyr to experimental scientific method, had him journeying to Highgate through the snow with the King's physician when he is suddenly inspired by the possibility of using the snow to preserve meat: " They were resolved they would try the experiment presently.

Bacon is also considered to be the philosophical influence behind the dawning of the Industrial age.

It is also believed by the Rosicrucian organization AMORC, that Bacon would have influenced a settlement of mystics in North America, stating that his work " The New Atlantis " inspired a colony of Rosicrucians led by Johannes Kelpius, to journey across the Atlantic Ocean in a chartered vessel called Sarah Mariah, and move on to Pennsylvania in late XVII Century.

In brief, Bacon is considered by some jurists to be the father of modern Jurisprudence.

However others, including Daphne du Maurier ( in her biography of Bacon ), have argued there is no substantive evidence to support claims of involvement with the Rosicrucians.

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His Bacon number is 2.

While empirical investigations of the natural world have been described since classical antiquity ( for example, by Thales, Aristotle, and others ), and scientific methods have been employed since the Middle Ages ( for example, by Ibn al-Haytham, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī and Roger Bacon ), the dawn of modern science is generally traced back to the early modern period, during what is known as the Scientific Revolution that took place in 16th and 17th century Europe.

Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory.

Kevin Norwood Bacon ( born July 8, 1958 ) is an American film and theater actor whose notable roles include Animal House, Diner, Footloose, Flatliners, Wild Things, A Few Good Men, JFK, The River Wild, Murder in the First, Apollo 13, Hollow Man, Stir of Echoes, Trapped, Mystic River, The Woodsman, Friday the 13th, Death Sentence, Frost / Nixon, X-Men: First Class and Tremors.

The importance of Machiavelli's influence is notable in many important figures in this endeavor, for example Bodin, Francis Bacon, Algernon Sidney, Harrington, John Milton, Spinoza, Rousseau, Hume, Edward Gibbon, and Adam Smith.

1972 ), a near-23-minute epic song laden with religious and mythological imagery, refers to the myth of Narcissus as follows: A young figure sits still by the pool / He's been stamped " Human Bacon " by some butchery tool / ( He is you ) / Social Security took care of this lad.

He also ordered the Franciscan scholar Roger Bacon to write the Opus maius, which is addressed to him.

Testing a hypothesis using the data that was used to specify the model is a fallacy, according to the natural science of Bacon and the scientific method of Peirce.

* 1676 – Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.

:" The assumption of spatial and temporal invariance of natural laws is by no means unique to geology since it amounts to a warrant for inductive inference which, as Bacon showed nearly four hundred years ago, is the basic mode of reasoning in empirical science.

* With much legal strife and the encouragement of Sir Francis Bacon, Chief Justice Edward Coke is dismissed from the King's Bench, and the royal prerogatives of King James I triumph over English common law.

On 21 July 1908 Captain Reginald Bacon, who was a member of the Aerial Navigation sub-committee, submitted to the First Sea Lord Sir John Fisher that a rigid airship based on the German Zeppelin be designed and constructed by the firm of Vickers.

Bacon was the co-founder of the LugRadio podcast and live events and the only member to appear on every show.

Born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, to William Benjamin Bacon and Emily Crosby Low, he was graduate of Harvard University, where he was a member of the A. D. Club and Delta Kappa Epsilon.

" Streaky Bacon " became a regular feature, in which Richard Bacon would get a member of the public out of their house to ' streak ' along their street wearing nothing but bacon-covered underwear in order to win their weight in bacon from their local butcher.

Charles Joseph Bacon, Jr. ( January 9, 1885 – November 15, 1968 ) was an American athlete and a member of the Irish American Athletic Club and the New York City Police Department.

As a member of Parliament, Coke participated in the impeachment of Francis Bacon as lord chancellor and helped draft the Protestation of December 1621.

Unwilling to give up on the band, Steve Howe tried to continue GTR with Bacon, Spalding, ex-Saxon drummer Nigel Glockler and a second singer / guitarist-former Hush member Robert Berry.

Aurico, played by David Bacon, is the Red Aquitian Ranger and arguably the best known member of his team, being the Red Ranger ( who receives the most focus of any series ) and the only one of the five to appear in four different seasons of Power Rangers.

Bacon was also an early member of the City Policy Committee, a grassroots movement of young Philadelphians, established by future civic leader Walter M. Phillips, that was instrumental in Philadelphia's political reform movement.

That same year, Bacon was appointed by President Johnson to serve as a member of the White House's Conference on Recreation and Natural Beauty.

The Center City Commuter Connection, a seemingly radical idea at the time, was conceived during the 1950s by Planning Commission staff member, R. Damon Childs, who succeeded Bacon as Executive Director.

Perry and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Kenneth Bacon and Linda Kozaryn, American Forces Press Service reporter, during a flight to Europe, 1995

1955: Public Discussion on the Works of Francis Bacon with Lawrence Alloway and Victor Willing

Shortly before Tripp was scheduled to appear before the grand jury in the Lewinsky investigation, in March 1998, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Kenneth Bacon, and his deputy, Clifford Bernath, leaked to reporter Jane Mayer of The New Yorker magazine, Tripp ’ s answer to the arrest question on her security clearance form.

* The Law of Public Communication Kent R. Middleton, William E. Lee, and Bill F. Chamberlin ( Allyn & Bacon ) 2003 A general survey of the current US law.

Bacon held several committee chairmanships ( Committee on Engrossed Bills, Committee on Private Land Claims, Committee on Foreign Relations ).

In 1916, he won the Republican primary, defeating Robert Bacon, and was elected to the United States Senate over Democratic National Committee chairman William F. McCombs in the general election.

The role of judgment and disagreement in science has been recognized since Aristotle and even more clearly with Francis Bacon.

Each year they honor one notable actor, actress, or filmmaker with the " Kevin Norwood Bacon Award for Achievement in Cinema ", acknowledging the success the recipient has achieved in being so closely connected to Kevin Bacon.

Bacon has been called the creator of empiricism.

Bacon has been accused of servility, of dissimulation, of various base motives, and their filthy brood of base actions, all unworthy of his high birth, and incompatible with his great wisdom, and the estimation in which he was held by the noblest spirits of the age.

Professor Forker for example has explored the " historically documentable sexual preferences " of both King James and Bacon – and concluded they were all oriented to " masculine love ", a contemporary term that " seems to have been used exclusively to refer to the sexual preference of men for members of their own gender.

Bacon has won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards, was nominated for an Emmy Award, and was named by The Guardian as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.

Bacon has been married to actress Kyra Sedgwick since September 4, 1988 ; they met on the set of the PBS version of Lanford Wilson's play Lemon Sky.

Bacon has spoken out for the separation of church and state, and told The Times in 2005 that he did not " believe in God.

As early as 1620, the English statesman and philosopher Francis Bacon could write that typographical printing has " changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world ".

At several points throughout the commentary, Bacon alludes to his connections to Hollywood stars via other actors with whom he has worked.

The Bacon number of an actor or actress is the number of degrees of separation he or she has from Bacon, as defined by the game.

* Kevin Bacon has a Bacon number of 0.

* If the lowest Bacon number of any actor with whom X has appeared in a movie is N, X's Bacon number is N + 1.

Therefore Asner has a Bacon number of 1, and Presley ( who has never appeared in a film with Bacon ) has a Bacon number of 2.