[Pdr] Nature fakers

Fri Jul 20 08:49:46 UTC 2012

YES looks great , i'll get on it.. Fanks!!

On 20 July 2012 09:53, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:

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> The nature fakers controversy was an early 20th-century American
> literary debate highlighting the conflict between science and sentiment
> in popular nature writing. Following a period of growing interest in the
> natural world beginning in the late 19th century, a new literary
> movement, in which the natural world was depicted in a compassionate
> rather than realistic light, began to take shape. Works such as Ernest
> Thompson Seton's Wild Animals I Have Known (1898) and William J. Long's
> School of the Woods (1902) popularized this new genre and emphasized
> sympathetic and individualistic animal characters. In March 1903,
> naturalist and writer John Burroughs published an article entitled "Real
> and Sham Natural History" in the Atlantic Monthly. Lambasting writers
> for their seemingly fantastical representations of wildlife, he also
> denounced the booming genre of realistic animal fiction as "yellow
> journalism of the woods". Burroughs' targets responded in defense of
> their work in various publications, as did their supporters, and the
> resulting controversy raged in the public press for nearly six years.
> Dubbed the "War of the Naturalists", the controversy effectively ended
> when President Theodore Roosevelt publicly sided with Burroughs,
> publishing his article "Nature Fakers" in the September 1907 issue of
> Everybody's Magazine. Roosevelt popularized the negative colloquialism
> by which the controversy would later be known to describe one who
> purposefully fabricates details about the natural world.
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> Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_fakers_controversy>
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> Today's selected anniversaries:
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> 1779:
>
> Tekle Giyorgis I began the first of his five reigns as Emperor
> of Ethiopia.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekle_Giyorgis_I_of_Ethiopia>
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> 1807:
>
> French brothers Claude and Nicéphore Niépce received a patent
> for their Pyréolophore (diagram pictured), one of the world's first
> internal combustion engines.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyr%C3%A9olophore>
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> 1922:
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> The German protectorate of Togoland was divided into the League
> of Nations mandates of French Togoland and British Togoland.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togoland>
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> 1969:
>
> The Apollo 11 lunar module landed on the Sea of Tranquillity,
> where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the
> moon six-and-a-half hours later.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11>
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> 1992:
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> Czechoslovak President Václav Havel resigned, saying that he
> would not preside over the country's breakup.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel>
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> 2001:
>
> Twenty-three-year-old Italian anti-globalist Carlo Giuliani was
> shot dead by a police officer while protesting during the 27th G8 summit
> in Genoa, Italy.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Carlo_Giuliani>
>
> 2005:
>
> The Civil Marriage Act received its Royal Assent, legalizing
> same-sex marriage in Canada.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Marriage_Act>
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> Wiktionary's word of the day:
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> punctilious:
> 1. Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to
> codes or conventions.
> 2. Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky.
> <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/punctilious>
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