Carucage

Carucage: A Medieval Experiment in Taxation Imagine a time when taxes were as unpredictable and varied as the weather—such was ...
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Actuary

Actuaries of the 21st century require analytical skills, business knowledge, and an understanding of human behavior and information systems to ...
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Francis Willughby

Francis Willughby FRS was an English ornithologist and ichthyologist. He was born and raised at Middleton Hall, Warwickshire, the only ...
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Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He is best known for ...
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G. Ledyard Stebbins

George Ledyard Stebbins Jr. was an American botanist and geneticist. He is widely regarded as one of the leading evolutionary ...
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William T. Stearn

William Thomas Stearn was a British botanist. He is known for his work in botanical taxonomy and botanical history. His ...
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Meinhard Michael Moser

Meinhard Michael Moser was an Austrian mycologist. His work principally concerned the taxonomy, chemistry, and toxicity of the gilled mushrooms, ...
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Barbara McClintock

Barbara McClintock was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. She was the leader in the development of ...
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Marcus Ward Lyon Jr.

Marcus Ward Lyon Jr. was an American mammalogist, bacteriologist, and pathologist. He was the first to describe the Bornean white ...
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Georg Forster

Johann George Adam Forster was a German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary. He accompanied his father, Johann Reinhold ...
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