Wells concludes by suggesting four alternatives for writing teachers interested in helping students move their rhetoric into the public sphere: classroom as one type of public sphere itself, analysis of public and academic discourses, writing with and for public / community needs, and analysis of academic discourses as they intervene in the public sphere.

Pigliucci also wrote an article-length review in BioScience and concludes, " Wells, as much as he desperately tries to debunk what to him is the most crucial component of evolutionary theory, the history of human descent, is backed against the wall by his own knowledge of biology.

* The fictitious Kingsbridge Cathedral in TV miniseries, The Pillars of the Earth ( 2010 ) based on a historical novel by the same name by Ken Follett is modeled on the cathedrals of Wells and Salisbury.

His translation from the see of Wells set a precedent for the future, and marks a break with historical practice.

Wells believed that the Jesus of these earliest Christians is not based on a historical character, but a pure myth, derived from the mystical speculations based on the Jewish Wisdom tradition.

According to Wells, the Gospel tradition was a later stage of the development of the Jesus myth, which was given a concrete historical setting and subsequently embellished with more and more details.

Wells allows for the possibility that certain elements of the Gospel traditions might be based on a historical figure from the first-century Palestine: " he Galilean and the Cynic elements ... may contain a core of reminiscences of an itinerant Cynic-type Galilean preacher ( who, however, is certainly not to be identified with the Jesus of the earliest Christian documents ).

In his book The Jesus Myth ( 1999 ), Wells departed from his earlier insistence that there was no historical figure behind the Jesus of the gospels, acknowledging the Q document as early historical evidence.

Wells, whose historical society continues to refer to his work as ' scientific romances ' today.

And the debates continue, e. g. Wells changed his views over time and while he used to argue that there was no historical evidence supporting the existence of Jesus, he later modified his position, and in his later book The Jesus Myth accepted the possible existence of Jesus based on historical sources, although still disputing the gospel portrayals of his life.

When Wells was still denying the existence of Jesus, he criticized the Pauline epistles for not mentioning items such as John the Baptist or Judas or the trial of Jesus and used that argument to conclude that Jesus was not a historical figure.

James D. G. Dunn addressed Wells ' statement and stated that he knew of no other scholar that shared that view, and most other scholars had other and more plausible explanations for the fact that Paul did not include a narrative of the life of Jesus in his letters, which were primarily written as religious documents rather than historical chronicles at a time when the life story of Jesus could have been well known within the early Church.

Wells ’ 1892 speech, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases is important as a historical document and as the initiating event in what became a social movement ; as a rhetorical work, it is significant in three respects.

Some ten years later, the Dewey Commission was cited in great detail, when in an open letter to the British press dated 25 February 1946, written by George Orwell and signed by Arthur Koestler, C. E. M. Joad, Frank Horrabin, George Padmore, Julian Symons, H. G. Wells, F. A. Ridley, C. A. Smith and John Baird, among others, it was suggested that the Nuremberg Trials then underway were an invaluable opportunity for establishing " historical truth and bearing upon the political integrity " of figures of international standing.

Wells continued his studies at Yale University, earning a Ph. D. in religious studies in 1986, focusing on historical reactions to Darwinism.

* In 1934 Arnold J. Toynbee dismissed the criticism of The Outline of History and praised Wells's work in his A Study of History: Mr. H. G. Wells ’ s The Outline of History was received with unmistakable hostility by a number of historical specialists.

* In John Huston's 1941 film The Maltese Falcon Kasper Gutman played by Sydney Greenstreet says " These are facts, historical facts, not schoolbook history, not Mr. Wells ' history, but history nevertheless.

Frame is known for his critical view of historical modes of theology, including his criticism of scholars such as David F. Wells, Donald Bloesch, Mark Noll, George Marsden, D. G.

Since much of Wells ' thesis stemmed from the modern church's abandonment of historical confessions of faith ( such as The Westminster Confession and the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith ), the Alliance was based upon Evangelicals who not only adhered to these Reformed confessions of faith, but were able to direct their ministries accordingly.

In more recent criticism, critics have tended to focus on the novel's historical context, but The Wells reputation as " the most depressing lesbian novel ever written " persists and is still controversial.

Princess Caraboo is a 1994 British-American historical comedy-drama film co-written ( with John Wells ) and directed by Michael Austin, based on the real-life 19th-century character Princess Caraboo, who passed herself off in British society as an exotic princess who spoke a strange foreign language ; she is portrayed by Phoebe Cates.

He also contributed all the illustrations and the mast-head figure of Little Nitty ( who still appears on the cover, a blended caricature of John Wells and the Daily Express standard-head ).

Scholars are hesitant to ascribe definitive parents to the philosopher but Fastred, a tenant of the Bishop of Wells, is mostly plausibly identified as this figure.

However, Wells still argues that Paul's Jesus was " a heavenly, pre-existent figure who had come to earth at some uncertain point in the past and lived an obscure life, perhaps one or two centuries before his own time.

H. G. Wells's ( 1866-1946 ) writing career began in the 1890s with science fiction novels like The Time Machine ( 1895 ), and The War of the Worlds ( 1898 ) which describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians, and Wells is seen, along with Frenchman Jules Verne ( 1828-1905 ), as a major figure in the development of the science fiction genre.

The person and figure of Albizu Campos in his quest for freedom has been compared Nelson Mandela, Nat Turner, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Patrick Henry, Ida Barnett Wells, John Brown, W. E. B.

Wells became a public figure in Memphis when she wrote a newspaper article for The Living Way, a black church weekly, about her treatment on the train.

In 1938 a radio broadcast version of War of the Worlds by Orson Welles, using a contemporary setting for H. G. Wells ’ Martian invasion, created some public panic in the U. S. This would later figure into some commentary on what was happening in 1947 when “ flying saucers ” finally hit the U. S.

Wells, a professor of German rather than of theology or history, whose view is that Jesus was a mythical figure and that Christianity was in good part invented by Paul.

Among them are the former residences of: Charles Manuel " Sweet Daddy " Grace, flamboyant founder of the United House of Prayer For All People ; John A. Lankford, the first African American architect in Washington, D. C .; Belford Lawson, Jr., lead attorney in the landmark case New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co .; Alain LeRoy Locke, the first African American Rhodes Scholar and central figure in the Harlem Renaissance ; Mary Jane Patterson, the first African American woman to earn a bachelor's degree ; Ella Watson, subject of Gordon Parks's famous photograph American Gothic, Washington, D. C .; and James Lesesne Wells, noted graphic artist and longtime art instructor at Howard University.

Wells was also famous for being the third person to fill the role of the " gongman "-the figure seen striking the gong in the introduction to J. Arthur Rank films.

Father Bill Shergold, remembered by Len Paterson, an original Rocker, 59 Club member and founder of the Rocker Reunion movement, as being like “ a father figure that many of the boys never had ”, was the president until he died aged 89 in Wells, Somerset in May 2009 The chairman is currently Father Scott Anderson.

Others carried pemmican from `` the Forks '' to St. Paul and goods from St. Paul to Red River, as in the summer of 1847 when one trader, Wells, transported twenty barrels of whisky to the British settlement.

Loew's theater presents `` Where The Boys Are '', an MGM picture produced by Joe Pasternak and directed by Henry Levin from a screenplay by George Wells.

* 2002 – Soham murders: 10 year old school girls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells go missing from the town of Soham, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.

In April 2012, Marc Jenner from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, ran in the Virgin London Marathon dressed in a Bagpuss costume to raise money for the charity, supported by Emily Firmin and Oliver Postgate's family.

Close-up of shatter cones developed in fine grained dolomite from the Wells Creek crater, USA.

Cheddar Wood and the smaller Macall's Wood form a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest from what remains of the wood of the Bishops of Bath and Wells in the 13th century and of King Edmund the Magnificent's wood in the 10th.

It ran from Yatton to Wells.

A First Somerset and Avon bus picks up passengers at the Market cross on service 126 from Weston-super-Mare to Wells, the principal bus service through Cheddar

It ran from Yatton railway station through to Wells ( Tucker Street ) railway station and joined the East Somerset Railway to make a through route via Shepton Mallet ( High Street ) railway station to Witham.

The earliest known use of an expert witness in English law came in 1782, when a court that was hearing litigation relating to the silting-up of Wells harbour in Norfolk accepted evidence from a leading civil engineer, John Smeaton.

Joseph Wells managed to earn a meagre income, but little of it came from the shop ; Joseph received an unsteady amount of money from playing professional cricket for the Kent county team.

In 1883 Wells persuaded his parents to release him from the apprenticeship, taking an opportunity offered by Midhurst Grammar School again to become a pupil-teacher ; his proficiency in Latin and science during his previous, short stay had been remembered.

It was not until 1890 that Wells earned a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology from the University of London External Programme.

In 1927, Florence Deeks sued Wells for plagiarism, claiming that he had stolen much of the content of The Outline of History from a work, The Web, she had submitted to the Canadian Macmillan Company, but who held onto the manuscript for eight months before rejecting it.

Wells, as president of the International PEN ( Poets, Essayists, Novelists ), had already angered the Nazis by overseeing the expulsion of the German PEN club from the international body in 1934 following the German PEN's refusal to admit non-Aryan writers to its membership.

In the interview, Wells admitted his surprise at the widespread panic that resulted from the broadcast, but acknowledged his debt to Welles for increasing sales of one of his " more obscure " titles.

* " Mr H. G. Wells and the Giants ", by G. K. Chesterton, from his book Heretics ( 1908 ).

* " Wells ' Autobiography ", by John Hart, from New International, Vol. 2 No. 2, Mar 1935, pp. 75 – 76

Other luminaries include Keith Johnstone, the British teacher and writer – author of Impro, who founded the Theatre Machine and whose teachings form the foundation of the popular shortform Theatresports format, Dick Chudnow, founder of ComedySportz which evolved its family-friendly show format from Johnstone's Theatersports, Stan Wells, creator of the " Clap-In " longform style and founder of The Empty Stage Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles, and Bill Johnson, creator / director of The Magic Meathands, who pioneered the concept of " Commun-edy Outreach " by tailoring performances to non-traditional audiences, such as the homeless and foster children.

Studies of Charles Darwin's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natural selection which he set out in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, but it has been speculated that he may have had some half-forgotten memory from his time as a student in Edinburgh of ideas of selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and by William Charles Wells and Patrick Matthew who had both been associated with the city before publishing their ideas on the topic early in the 19th century.

Wells, on the other hand, has stated that in view or Origen's statements these variations from the Christian accounts may be signs of interpolation in the James passage.

Shot from a script approved by H. G. Wells, the film was a blend of horror, humor and confounding visual effects.

Robb Wells, the actor who plays Ricky on the Showcase hit comedy Trailer Park Boys hails from Moncton, along with Julie Doiron, an indie rock musician and Holly Dignard the actress who plays Nicole Miller on the CTV series " Whistler ".