Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS ( 8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913 ) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist.

Wallace was one of the leading evolutionary thinkers of the 19th century and made a number of other contributions to the development of evolutionary theory besides being co-discoverer of natural selection.

Wallace was a prolific author who wrote on both scientific and social issues ; his account of his adventures and observations during his explorations in Indonesia and Malaysia, The Malay Archipelago, was one of the most popular and influential journals of scientific exploration published during the 19th century.

Alfred Wallace was born in the Welsh village of Llanbadoc, near Usk, Monmouthshire.

He was the seventh of nine children of Thomas Vere Wallace and Mary Anne Greenell.

Thomas Wallace was of Scottish ancestry.

The wife of Scoop Beal, the editor of the Humboldt Standard, which later combined with the Humboldt Times, in which Genzoli's story had appeared, has stated that her husband was in on the hoax with Wallace.

The crew was overseen by Wilbur L. Wallace, brother of Raymond L. Wallace.

The story was written for the screen and then as a novel by Randall Wallace.

The anniversary was also celebrated with a 40-page issue ( instead of 32 pages ; the 60th birthday issue also had extra pages, 48 instead of 24 ) guest edited by Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park, price £ 1. 50 ( not 99p ) and an issue of Classics from the Comics devoted to the Beano.

* In 1927, a feature-length silent film Casey at the Bat was released, starring Wallace Beery, Ford Sterling, and ZaSu Pitts.

Writing in 1889, Alfred Russel Wallace remarks " It was formerly a very general belief, even amongst geologists, that the great features of the earth's surface, no less than the smaller ones, were subject to continual mutations, and that during the course of known geological time the continents and great oceans had again and again changed places with each other.

The building was designed by the famed architect Wallace Harrison, who would later design the similar-looking façade of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center.

In May 2000, he later had surgery to repair a leaking heart valve, and was forced to take a three month break from Parliament, with Deputy First Minister, Jim Wallace taking over as Acting First Minister.

His later author discoveries included Tanith Lee, Jennifer Roberson, Michael Shea, Ian Wallace, Tad Williams, Celia S. Friedman, and C. J. Cherryh, whose Downbelow Station ( 1982 ) was the first DAW book to win the Hugo Award for best novel.

Dolores Fuller's autobiography, A Fuller Life: Hollywood, Ed Wood and Me, co-authored by Winnipeg writer Stone Wallace and her husband Philip Chamberlin, was published in 2008.

It was based on a novel by Edgar Wallace, starring Donald Calthrop, Benita Home and Fred Raines, made by British Lion at their Beaconsfield Studios.

In a 1996 interview with Michael Silverblatt, David Foster Wallace admitted that the structure of the first draft of Infinite Jest he gave to his editor Michael Pietsch was inspired by fractals, specifically the Sierpinski triangle ( aka Sierpinski gasket ) but that the edited novel is " more like a lopsided Sierpinsky Gasket ".

The following year William Wallace and Andrew de Moray raised forces to resist the occupation and under their joint leadership an English army was defeated at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

Yoakum left home when he was 9 years old, to join the Great Wallace Circus.

Bill Wallace was also a great user of this kick, as seen in his fight with Bill Briggs, where he KO'd his opponent with the clocked 60 mph kick.

In June 1996, Henry Wallace was appointed President, and he set about restructuring Mazda and setting it on a new strategic direction.

Although the party's conservatives could not stop FDR from winning the nomination, the obvious physical decline in the President's appearance, as well as rumors of secret health problems, led many delegates and party leaders to strongly oppose Henry A. Wallace.

Compared with Thurmond and Wallace, who polled very strongly in a small number of states, Perot's vote was more evenly spread across the country.

Seizing on the distinctly postmodern techniques of digression, narrative fragmentation and elaborate symbolism, and strongly influenced by the works of Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace began his writing career with The Broom of the System, published to moderate acclaim in 1987.

True to his strongly leftist views, Harburg supported the 1948 presidential campaign of Henry Wallace, and wrote the lyrics of the campaign song " Everyone Likes Wallace, Friendly Henry Wallace.

Wallace campaigned strongly by expressing his opposition on integration and a tough approach to crime.

Many expected that Byrnes would be the Democratic nominee for vice president with Roosevelt in 1944 replacing Henry A. Wallace, whom party officials strongly felt was too eccentric to replace an ailing President who likely going to die before his next term ended.

He strongly applauded Wallace, in contrast with many others present, who heckled and taunted the speaker.

Darwin's views on sexual selection were opposed strongly by his co-discoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace, though much of his " debate " with Darwin took place after Darwin's death.

Fred Jerome in his Einstein on Israel and Zionism: His Provocative Ideas About the Middle East argues that Einstein was a Cultural Zionist who supported the idea of a Jewish homeland but opposed the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine “ with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power .” Instead, he preferred a bi-national state with “ continuously functioning, mixed, administrative, economic, and social organizations .” However Ami Isseroff in his article Was Einstein a Zionist argues that Einstein was not opposed to the state of Israel given that Einstein declared it “ the fulfillment of our dreams .” Perceiving its vulnerability after independence, he again set aside his pacifism in the name of human preservation, when president Harry Truman recognized Israel in May 1948. In the November 1948 presidential election Einstein supported former vice-president Henry A. Wallace ’ s Progressive Party, which advocated a pro-Soviet foreign policy – but which also at the time ( like the USSR ) strongly supported the new state of Israel.

Of this step we highly approved, provided Mr. Darwin did not withhold from the public, as he was strongly inclined to do ( in favour of Mr. Wallace ), the memoir which he had himself written on the same subject, and which, as before stated, one of us had perused in 1844, and the contents of which we had both of us been privy to for many years.

Darwin's first impression had been that though it meant losing priority, it would be dishonourable for him to be " induced to publish from privately knowing that Wallace is in the field ", but Lyell quickly responded strongly urging him to reconsider.

Jennifer tries hard to seduce Wallace without magic, but though he is strongly attracted to her, he refuses to put off his marriage.

Others would follow with their own works, elaborating on Gaddis's ideas: John Wallace Spencer ( Limbo of the Lost, 1969, repr.

These ideas were replaced by more complex " maps " of affinities in works by Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alfred Russell Wallace.

Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough that I could be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins which will boil along there till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest.

While this was being constructed, von Miller was also working at the Zeiss factory with German astronomer Max Wolf, director of the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl observatory of the University of Heidelberg, on a new and novel design, inspired by Wallace W. Atwood's work at the Chicago Academy of Sciences and by the ideas of Walther Bauersfeld at Zeiss.

Wallace, whose presidential ambitions would have been destroyed by a defeat for governor, has been said to have run " one of the nastiest campaigns in state history ," using racist rhetoric while proposing few new ideas.

His ideas find an echo in the philosophy of the modernist poet Wallace Stevens who suggests that we live in the tension between the shapes we take as the world acts upon us, and the ideas of order that our imagination imposes upon the world.

Wallace's own diary described the writing process for this draft: Cooper fed aspects of the story ( inspired partly by an aspiration to use as much footage of an abandoned RKO picture with a similar premise, Creation, as possible ) in story conferences and phone conversations ; Wallace then executed Cooper's ideas, the latter approving the developing script on a sequence-by-sequence basis.

* Multi-Sensory Church-Ready-to-use ideas for creative worship using, art, liturgies, rituals by Sue Wallace.

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Lyell's immediate response urged Darwin to publish his own ideas, and in his reply of 25 June Darwin agreed that he could point to his own Essay of 1844 which Hooker had read in 1847, and a letter to Asa Gray of 1857 showing that he was still developing the ideas, " so that I could most truly say and prove that I take nothing from Wallace.

However, Matthew failed to develop or publicise his ideas, and both Darwin and Wallace were unaware of Matthew's work when they published their ideas in 1858.

Meeting on a train, during the journey the known agnostic Ingersoll quizzed Wallace about the history of Christ and the ideas of the religion.

Darwin's reply of 25 June was a plea for advice, noting that the points in Wallace's sketch had been fully covered in his own Essay of 1844 which Hooker had read in 1847, and that he had also set out his ideas in a letter to Asa Gray in 1857, " so that I could most truly say and prove that I take nothing from Wallace.

In addition to examining such seemingly technical ideas as descriptive linguistics versus prescriptive grammar, Wallace digresses to discuss the legitimacy of Ebonics as opposed to " white male " standard English.

In the aftermath of the publication of On the Origin of Species through Natural Selection in 1859, Charles Darwin's allies Charles Lyell, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace and Asa Gray in America worked to spread acceptance of its ideas despite difficulty in coming to terms with natural selection and man's descent from animals.

Back at Downe, a letter from Wallace promoted the socialist ideas of Henry George's Progress and Poverty proposing to " make land common property " as morally just.

The study of habitat fragmentation found its roots early, with Aldo Leopold ’ s ideas on “ edge effect ” and Alfred Russel Wallace ’ s and E. O. Wilson ’ s studies and models of island biogeography laying a foundation for the field ( Laurance and Bierregaard 1997 ).