Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel were amateur scientists who never held a position in their field of study.

He is best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory.

The ship on which Charles Darwin made the voyage which provided much of the inspiration for On the Origin of Species was named HMS Beagle after the breed, and, in turn, lent its name to the ill-fated British Martian lander Beagle 2.

* Charles Robert Darwin

Charles Darwin proposed the theory of universal common descent through an evolutionary process in On the Origin of Species, twice stating the hypothesis that there was only one progenitor for all life forms and ending with " There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one ".

In 1795, Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, asked:

During Charles Darwin's studies on the Galápagos Islands, Darwin observed 13 species of finches that are closely related and differ most markedly in the shape of their beaks.

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Charles Darwin ( 1809-1882 )

It has been hypothesized that Charles Darwin might have suffered from Chagas disease as a result of a bite of the so-called great black bug of the Pampas ( vinchuca ) ( see Charles Darwin's illness ).

* Creation ( 2009 film ), a 2009 film by Jon Amiel about the life of Charles Darwin

Lyell was a close and influential friend of Charles Darwin.

Lyell's interpretation of geologic change as the steady accumulation of minute changes over enormously long spans of time was a powerful influence on the young Charles Darwin.

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* Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 ), English naturalist and writer, best known as the originator of the theory of biological evolution by natural selection

** Anne Darwin ( 1841 – 1851 ), daughter of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

** Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 ), English naturalist and writer

** Charles Darwin ( 1758 – 1778 ) physician and scientist, uncle of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

** Charles Galton Darwin ( 1887 – 1962 ), physicist and activist

Scientists who have worked in this area include Raymond Moody, Susan Blackmore, Charles Tart, William James, Ian Stevenson, Michael Persinger and Pim van Lommel among others.

* 1969 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.

In 1796, as chief of all Austrian forces on the Rhine, Charles out-generaled Jean-Baptiste Jourdan at Amberg and Würzburg, and forced Jean Victor Marie Moreau to withdraw across the Rhine, and followed these victories with others at Zürich, Ostrach, Stockach, and Messkirch in 1799.

Over the years, numerous painters were employed at Balmoral, including Edwin and Charles Landseer, Carl Haag, William Wyld, William Henry Fisk, and many others.

1973 ); Charles Berlitz ( The Bermuda Triangle, 1974 ); Richard Winer ( The Devil's Triangle, 1974 ), and many others, all keeping to some of the same supernatural elements outlined by Eckert.

However, quite a few cartoonists ( e. g.: George Herriman and Charles Schulz, among others ) have done their strips almost completely by themselves ; often criticizing the use of assistants for the same reasons most have about their editors hiring anyone else to continue their work after their retirement.

During WWII, an alpine team composed of Pierre Chevalier, Fernand Petzl, Charles Petit-Didier and others explored the Dent de Crolles cave system near Grenoble, France which became the deepest explored cave in the world (- 658m ) at that time.

It may also refer specifically to the role of Charles Darwin as opposed to others in the history of evolutionary thought — particularly contrasting Darwin's results with those of earlier theories such as Lamarckism or later ones such as the modern synthesis.

Victor Yannacone, Charles Wurster, Art Cooley and others associated with inception of EDF had all witnessed bird kills or declines in bird populations and suspected that DDT was the cause.

In the 1960s, theologian Charles Hartshorne scrupulously examined and rejected both deism and pandeism ( as well as pantheism ) in favor of a conception of God whose characteristics included " absolute perfection in some respects, relative perfection in all others " or " AR ", writing that this theory " is able consistently to embrace all that is positive in either deism or pandeism ", concluding that " panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations ".

In a partnership with Microsoft, Steele connected 28 of the top Independent Art Houses in the United States including many Landmark Theaters, The Angelikas in New York and Houston, The Charles in Baltimore and many others.

In the 20th century, Theosophy was further developed by Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater, while people like Alice Bailey, Rudolf Steiner and many others, became the source for a whole range of post-theosophical movements such as The Summit Lighthouse.

Most notable international actors acted in this genre of films such Alain Delon, Henry Silva, Fred Williamson, Charles Bronson, Tomas Milian and others international stars.

Basing his ideas on those of predecessors such as Williamson, Edward Frankland, William Odling, Auguste Laurent, Charles Adolphe Wurtz and others, Kekulé was the principal formulator of the theory of chemical structure ( 1857 – 58 ).

Patience ( 1881 ) satirised the aesthetic movement in general and its colourful poets, in particular, combining aspects of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler and others in the rival poets Bunthorne and Grosvenor.

His television program, Championship Bridge with Charles Goren, was broadcast from 1959 to 1964 on the ABC network, and, in addition to numerous appearances by top players, included segments with celebrity guests such as Chico Marx, Alfred Drake and Forest Evashevski, among others.

Charles Quint, under the titles of Count of Burgundy, Holy Roman Emperor, and King of Aragon, Castile and Germany, among others, encircled France.

For this role Edgerton and Charles Wykoff and others at EG & G developed and manufactured the Rapatronic camera

For his appearance on the heavily collaborative track " Back on the Block ", a composition by jazz musician Quincy Jones that " attempt to bring together black musical styles from jazz to soul to funk to rap ", Ice-T won a Grammy Award for the Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, an award shared by others who worked on the track including Jones and fellow jazz musician Ray Charles.

The republican theory also suggests that the Long Parliament would have been successful in these necessary reforms except through the forceful intervention of Oliver Cromwell ( and others ) in removing the loyalists party, the unlawful execution of King Charles II, later dissolving the Rump Parliament ; and finally the forceful dissolution of the reconvened Rump Parliament by Monck when less than a fourth of the required members were present.

Besides Frege and Russell, others credited for having preceding ideas of truth-tables include Philo, Boole, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Ernst Schröder.

On March 29, 1928, a radio show was broadcast from Pickford's bungalow, featuring Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, Norma Talmadge, Gloria Swanson, John Barrymore, D. W. Griffith and Dolores del Rio, among others, to speak on the The Dodge Brothers Hour to prove they could meet the challenge of talking movies.

This emphasis is, in part, a reflection of the Methodist movement's earliest roots in The Oxford Holy Club, founded by John Wesley, his brother Charles, George Whitefield and others as a response to what they saw as the pervasive permissiveness and debauchery of Oxford University, and specifically Lincoln College when they attended.

In the West, Meher Baba met with a number of celebrities and artists, including Hollywood notables Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, Tallulah Bankhead, Boris Karloff, Tom Mix, Maurice Chevalier, Ernst Lubitsch and others.

Although Baba had initially begun gaining public attention in the West as early as 1932 as the result of contacts with some celebrities of the time ( such as Charles Laughton, Tallulah Bankhead, Boris Karloff and others ) and from the rather disillusioned account of Paul Brunton ( A Search in Secret India, 1934 ), he achieved additional attention over three decades later through the work of Pete Townshend of The Who.