* 1769 – Georges Cuvier, French biologist ( d. 1832 )

Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus from the 1834 Czech edition of Georges Cuvier | Cuvier's Discours sur les revolutions de la surface du globe.

Georges Cuvier applied his principle of the correlation of parts to describe an animal from fragmentary remains.

Moving to Paris he fell under the tutelage of Alexander von Humboldt and Georges Cuvier, who launched him on his careers of geology and zoology respectively.

Agassiz was influenced by philosophical idealism and the scientific work of Georges Cuvier.

These naturalistic ideas led to disagreements with Georges Cuvier.

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a controversy exported from Geology, between supporters of James Hutton ( uniformitarianism Thesis ) and Georges Cuvier ( catastrophism ) strongly influenced the field of geography, because geography at this time was a natural science since Human Geography or Antropogeography had just developed as a discipline in the late nineteenth century.

Georges Cuvier first suggested that pterosaurs were flying creatures in 1801, and coined the name " Ptero-dactyle " in 1809 for the specimen recovered in Germany.

Georges Cuvier strongly disputed such ideas, holding that unrelated, fixed species showed similarities that reflected a design for functional needs.

* May 13 – Georges Cuvier, French zoologist ( b. 1769 )

The fact that the plesiosaur's long neck had an unprecedented 35 vertebrae raised the suspicions of the eminent French anatomist Georges Cuvier when he reviewed Anning's drawings of the second skeleton, and he wrote to Conybeare suggesting the possibility that the find was a fake produced by combining fossil bones from different kinds of animals.

Georges Cuvier had argued for the reality of extinction in the late 1790s based on his analysis of fossils of mammals such as mammoths.

Close to the dawn of the nineteenth century, Marcus Elieser Bloch of Berlin and Georges Cuvier of Paris made an attempt to consolidate the knowledge of ichthyology.

Within the Articulata concept developed by Georges Cuvier, the velvet worms therefore formed an evolutionary link between the annelids and the arthropods: worm-like precursors first developed parapodia, which then developed further into stub feet as an intermediate link in the ultimate development of the arthropods ' appendages.

Baron Georges Cuvier maintained that, as the unicorn was cloven-hoofed, it must therefore have a cloven skull ( making the growth of a single horn impossible ); as if to disprove this, Dr. W. Franklin Dove, a University of Maine professor, artificially fused the horn buds of a calf together, creating the external appearance of a one-horned bull.

The genus Erithacus was created by French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1800, giving the bird its current binomial name of E. rubecula.

It was supported by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire as part of his ideas of idealism, and became a prominent part of his version of Lamarckism leading to disagreements with Georges Cuvier.

A fossil tooth found in one of these was identified by Georges Cuvier as an extinct equine, which he dubbed Palaeotherium, the " ancient animal ".

* Georges Cuvier, " Lecture Ninth-Theophrastus " in Baron Cuvier's Lectures on the Natural Sciences, Edinburgh new philosophical journal, ( 1830 ), Volume 18, pages 76 – 83

He also came into conflict with the widely respected palaeontologist Georges Cuvier, who was not a supporter of evolution.

His favorite studies were geology and meteorology, and according to Georges Cuvier, he ranked among the first geologists of his age.

He was a fervent advocate of the theory of the catastrophes ( as taught by Georges Cuvier ), thus opposing Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Georges Chrétien Léopold Dagobert Cuvier or Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier ( sources differ on his name ) ( August 23, 1769 – May 13, 1832 ), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist.

The only serious expression of interest came from Georges Doriot and his American Research and Development Corporation ( AR & D ).

In 1903 there was a substantial increase in the number of women film several minutes long unclear, as a result of the great popularity of Georges Méliès ’ le Voyage dans la lune ( A Trip to the Moon ), which came out in early 1902, though such films were still a very minor part of production.

Lt. Col. Georges Picquart came across evidence that implicated another officer, Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy and informed his superiors.

Little towns sprang up along the Georges Creek Valley, attracting new settlers who came to dig the coal.

Fighters who came into prominence after Zuffa's takeover include Anderson Silva, Georges St-Pierre, Rich Franklin, B. J.

In 1919, Oignies saw the arrival in the town of Georges Clémenceau who came to bestow the " Croix de guerre ".

In his critical exhibition catalogue of Early Flemish Masters in Bruges in 1902, the Ghent great connoisseur of early Flemish Art and art historian Georges Hulin de Loo, came to the conclusion that Isenbrandt was actually the anonymous Master of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin and the author of a large body of paintings previously attributed to Gerard David and Jan Mostaert by the German art historian Gustav Friedrich Waagen.

After this he studied at the École Pratique des Hautes Études where he came into contact with thinkers such as Georges Dumézil, Alexandre Kojève, and Marcel Mauss.

While in Paris, he came into contact with some of the most learned scholars of the age, such as Georges Cuvier, René Just Haüy, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Jérôme Lalande, Gaspard Monge, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and many more.

The subject of religion is also discussed, including Georges ' gradual disillusioned view of the Catholic church, and the opposition he came up against due to Wolff's sacrifice in Explorers on the Moon.

Protests came from intellectuals of various political ideologies, including Georges Duhamel, Charles Vildrac, Boris Souvarine, André Gide and Romain Rolland.

Next came another private law jurist, Georges Durry, followed by Philippe Ardant, former president of the Constitutional Court of the Principality of Andorra and former president of the Arab World Institute.

Opperman then came third to Georges Ronsse of Belgium and to Frantz in Paris-Brussels.

The effects of surrealism would later also be felt among authors who were not strictly speaking part of the movement, such as the poet Alexis Saint-Léger Léger ( who wrote under the name Saint-John Perse ), the poet Edmond Jabès ( who came to France in 1956 when the Jewish population was expelled from his native Egypt ) and Georges Bataille.

However, she had been a shame when she lost to Anastasia Myskina and Vera Zvonareva in penultimate deciding doubles match at FED Cup 2004 with Marion Bartoli ; as a result France could not defend their championships & their team leader Guy Forget had to resign ; also she was not chosen by the new leader Georges Goven to play in next year ( 2005 ) of this tournament ; but she came back to the team on 2006.

The clubs highst achievement came in the 2002 – 03 season when they won the Manx FA Cup at The Bowl stadium in Douglas, beating St Georges 2 – 1.

However, this never came about because Spears played his ace card – the close relationship which he enjoyed with Georges Clemenceau.

The idea of the C & D Canal Bridge came about in the late 1980s when former Governor Michael N. Castle investigated a new canal crossing to replace the aging St. Georges Bridge.

Again apeing Sir Georges developments at Lynton, a cliff railway was also mooted, to connect with the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, although neither plan ever came to fruition.

The organisation's chief secretary Georges Durand, together with magazine editor Charles Faroux of La Vie Automobile and tyre manufacturer Emile Coquille, came up with the idea for a 24-hour race.

In 1993, six works by Picasso and two by Georges Braque totaling more than £ 40m were stolen from the museum in a renowned coup where the burglars came in through the roof by night, copying the method from the 1955 French movie Rififi ( French: Du rififi chez les hommes ).