A colossal campaign opened to sell more sexual organs of plants and Mrs. Joseph ( `` Shadow of Greatness '' ) Douglas was quoted as saying: `` I would no more sit down without flowers on my table than without serviettes ''.

As Douglas and the other candidates went through with their campaigns, Lincoln was the only one of them who gave no speeches.

Froissart states that "... the Earl Douglas of Scotland, who fought a season valiantly, but when he saw the discomfiture he departed and saved himself ; for in no wise would he be taken by the Englishmen, he would rather there be slain ".

no: Douglas C. Engelbart

no: Douglas Adams

Historian Douglas Brinkley said gonzo journalism requires virtually no rewriting and frequently uses transcribed interviews and verbatim telephone conversations.

Douglas L. Holt, the State Extension Specialist for Food Safety at the University of Missouri, notes that no reported cases of potato-source solanine poisoning have occurred in the U. S. in the last 50 years, and most cases involved eating green potatoes or drinking potato-leaf tea.

Though Mary claimed that Sonny's drug use caused the accident, the autopsy performed by the Douglas County Coroner showed no indication of any substances or alcohol.

During the period there were many attacks on the troops, and an Aden Airlines Douglas DC-3 plane was destroyed in the air with no survivors.

Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe positioned the camera to ensure no satellite dishes would be visible.

no: Douglas County ( Colorado )

Douglas blogged regularly on his Myspace account but no longer does so.

Writes historian R. Douglas Hurt: " The Creeks had accomplished what no Indian nation had ever done or would do again — achieve the annulment of a ratified treaty.

Tommy Douglas, no southern Ontarian but from Scotland, arriving in the Canadian province of Manitoba at age 14 in 1918 and in an online vote conducted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ) in 2004 was voted the " Greatest Canadian.

no: John Sholto Douglas, 9. marki av Queensberry

Indonesia purchased over 30 Douglas A-4 Skyhawk s from Israel in the early 1980s, despite no recognition or diplomatic relations.

no: Douglas County ( Nevada )

However, Breckinridge received almost no support in most of the Northern states ( which Lincoln swept except for split electoral votes from New Jersey going to Douglas and Lincoln ) but, as the candidate of the Buchanan faction, did outpoll Douglas in Pennsylvania and won Delaware and received some support comparable to Douglas in Connecticut.

no: Douglas County ( Washington )

no: Douglas County ( Sør-Dakota )

With no airports of its own, Cherokee County is served by Charlotte / Douglas International Airport and Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport.

no: Douglas County ( Oregon )

A strange loop hierarchy, however, is " tangled " ( Hofstadter refers to this as a " heterarchy "), in that there is no well defined highest or lowest level ; moving through the levels, one eventually returns to the starting point, i. e., the original level.

no: Robert Hofstadter

Douglas Hofstadter suggests that, recognizing that the human brain's " ego " is nothing but a construct, no emotion is necessary.

While not publishing his harshest thoughts, Hofstadter said privately that Turner no longer was a useful guide to history, because he was too obsessed with the frontier and his ideas too often had " a pound of false-hood for every few ounces of truth ".

In the 1940s Hofstadter abandoned political causes, feeling that intellectuals were no more likely to " find a comfortable home " under socialism than they were under capitalism.

Some adopted New Left perspectives that he rejected, among them were Herbert Gutman, Eric Foner, Lawrence W. Levine, Linda Kerber, and Paula Fass, while others, such as Eric McKitrick and Stanley Elkins, were more conservative than he ; hence, Hofstadter had few disciples and founded no school of history writing.

Within philosophy familiar names include Daniel Dennett who writes from a computational systems perspective, John Searle known for his controversial Chinese room, Jerry Fodor who advocates functionalism, and Douglas Hofstadter, famous for writing Gödel, Escher, Bach, which questions the nature of words and thought.

Other thinkers, such as Douglas Hofstadter, dismiss this argument as incoherent.

For example, Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter argue that anything capable of passing the Turing test is necessarily conscious, while David Chalmers argues that a philosophical zombie could pass the test, yet fail to be conscious.

* The Mind's I ( Bantam, Reissue edition 1985, with Douglas Hofstadter ) ( ISBN 0-553-34584-2 )

Douglas Richard Hofstadter ( born February 15, 1945 ) is an American professor of cognitive science whose research focuses on consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics.

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A typical description of the problem is given in the book Gödel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter

Typical of these references is Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, which accords the paradox a prominent place in a discussion of self-reference.

A trivial example of the specific form of the Eliza effect, given by Douglas Hofstadter, involves an automated teller machine which displays the words " THANK YOU " at the end of a transaction.

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A January 1983 Metamagical Themas column by Douglas Hofstadter, in Scientific American, was influential as was his 1985 book of the same name.

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, published in 1979, discusses the ideas of self-reference and strange loops, drawing on a wide range of artistic and scientific work, including the art of M. C. Escher and the music of J. S. Bach, to illustrate ideas behind Gödel's incompleteness theorems.