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  The Royal Society - the UK's national academy of science
Major advances in cancer research and the development of advanced computer memories are among the scientific breakthroughs recognised today in the election of 44 new Fellows of the Royal Society.
To celebrate its 350th Anniversary Year in 2010, the Royal Society is seeking meeting proposals in all areas of science, engineering and technology that address global issues and map the future of the area over the next 20-30 years.
The Royal Society has produced an overview of the current state of scientific understanding of climate change to help non-experts better understand this complex area of science.
royalsociety.org   (360 words)

  
  Royal Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A formal Royal Charter of incorporation passed the Great Seal on 15 July 1662, creating "The Royal Society of London", with Lord Brouncker as the first President, and Robert Hooke was appointed as Curator of Experiments in November 1662.
A second Royal Charter was sealed on 23 April 1663, naming the King as Founder and changing the name to "The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge".
Desaguliers, a demonstrator for the Royal Society, was a prominent Freemason.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Society   (1366 words)

  
 British Royal Family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Likewise, The Duke of Gloucester, The Duke of Kent, Princess Alexandra, the Hon.
The wives of royal peers are known as "HRH The Duchess of..." or " HRH The Countess of..." Thus, the wives of the Duke of Kent, the Duke of Gloucester, and the Earl of Wessex are "HRH The Duchess of Kent," "HRH The Duchess of Gloucester," and "HRH The Countess of Wessex," respectively.
Royal Family (1969) is a celebrated and reverential BBC documentray made by Richard Cawston to accompany the investiture of the current Prince of Wales.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Royal_Family   (3072 words)

  
 The Royal Society Digital Journal Archive
The Royal Society Digital Archive is easily the most comprehensive archive in science and contains some of the most significant scientific papers ever published.
Royal Society Editorial Board Members highlight their favourite articles from the Archive
Be the first to know about all new Royal Society articles.
publishing.royalsociety.org /index.cfm?page=1373   (276 words)

  
 UCLA Physiologist Elected to Prestigious British Royal Society   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Royal Society is the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, and has been at the forefront of research since its foundation in 1660.
Each year, the British society applies a rigorous peer review process to elect a maximum of 44 new fellows and six foreign members who are citizens of the United Kingdom, other Commonwealth countries or Ireland.
The lifetime honor pays tribute to the society's most distinguished members who have demonstrated excellence in research and made a substantial contribution to advancing understanding in their field of science, medicine, engineering or mathematics.
i-newswire.com /goprint22679.html   (529 words)

  
 British Strategy fo Global Conquest - - voxnyc
The British reasoned that if they could conquer the Eurasian interior, they would then be able to apply force from this region against the neighboring countries while the British fleet would attack as usual against their coastal regions.
The British reasoned that Russia was their primary rival for world dominance, partly because of it occupied much of the strategic heart of the Eurasian land mass, and partly because it huge population and abundant natural resources gave it vast military potential.
The British aristocrats fear that if they fail, they will be overthrown because they are utterly useless parasites, and the British people will rise in the wake of so many of them being used up in a war whose only goal is to preserve the dominance of the useless aristocrats.
www.voxfux.com /features/global_conquest.html   (2089 words)

  
 Rise of Materialistic Scientism - England
Herbert Spencer, British Philosopher (1820-1903): The Social Darwinist [i.e., one who applied Darwinian biology and evolutionary theory to social and political institutions] most influential in the United States, Spenser was an exceedingly ambitious self-made materialistic philosopher who endeavored to unify all scientific knowledge, the record of this endeavor being his multi-volumed work, Synthetic Philosophy.
The full title of the organization was "The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge." It was incorporated with the sanction of Charles II in 1662.
The fact that the British Empire was able to become so all-pervasive and all-powerful as it was, was due in no small measure to its superior intelligence system, the Royal Society being an important component.
www.cco.net /~trufax/avoid/scieng.html   (1084 words)

  
 Royal Insight > October 2006 > Focus > Supporting the Sciences
The Society was founded with the aim of promoting the natural sciences, as well as recognising and rewarding excellence in scientific research and encouraging the sharing of ideas amongst the international scientific community.
Like the Royal Society, the post of Astronomer Royal had its origins during the reign of Charles II when a warrant was issued to arrange payment of the salary of the first post-holder, John Flamsteed in 1675.
Royal interest continued, Queen Charlotte in particular took a great interest in the growing collection of plant life, and the bird of paradise flower, Strelitzia reginae, which was brought to Kew from South Africa, was named after her.
www.royal.gov.uk /output/page5684.asp   (1408 words)

  
 Depleted uranium
In response to these concerns, the Royal Society convened an independent expert working group in 2000 to review the present state of scientific knowledge on the subject.
Study of DU in the urine of veterans from the Gulf War and the Balkans conducted by the Depleted Uranium Oversight Board, which included a Royal Society representative, showed no sign of DU, suggesting any battlefield exposures were low and unlikely to cause health effects.
Royal Society calls on coalition forces to reveal where DU has been used in Iraq - 24 Apr 2003
royalsociety.org /landing.asp?id=1243   (329 words)

  
 UCLA Physiologist Elected to Prestigious British Royal Society / UCLA Newsroom
The Royal Society is the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, and has been at the forefront of research since its foundation in 1660.
Each year, the British society applies a rigorous peer review process to elect a maximum of 44 new fellows and six foreign members who are citizens of the United Kingdom, other Commonwealth countries or Ireland.
The lifetime honor pays tribute to the society's most distinguished members who have demonstrated excellence in research and made a substantial contribution to advancing understanding in their field of science, medicine, engineering or mathematics.
www.newsroom.ucla.edu /portal/ucla/UCLA-Physiologist-Elected-to-Prestigious-6187.aspx?RelNum=6187   (460 words)

  
 Michigan Humane Society: History
In New York, The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) had been granted a charter eleven years earlier, and other societies followed, modeled after the British Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), which was founded in 1824.
Today the Michigan Humane Society is one of the largest sheltering societies in the country, offering a broad range of services and operating three animal shelters and charitable veterinary hospitals, which together impact the lives of tens of thousands of animals each year.
The mission of the Michigan Humane Society is to provide the highest quality service and compassion to the animals entrusted to our care, to measurably reduce companion animal overpopulation and to take a leadership role in promoting humane values for the benefit of all animals.
www.michiganhumane.org /site/PageServer?pagename=aboutHistory   (4979 words)

  
 The British Hernia Society
In the 19th century British surgeons made outstanding contributions to herniology, both in terms of understanding the functional anatomy of the groin and in developing sound surgical techniques.
British surgeons have tended to view specialists in this field with some degree of scepticism and until recently there had been no specialist society, although they have existed in other countries for more than 25 years.
The British Hernia Society was founded on 6th December 2003 with the aim of re-establishing British hernia surgery in the forefront of this specialty through a programme of innovative meetings and workshoips in collaboration with industry.
www.british-hernia-society.org   (182 words)

  
 British Academy: Response to the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property (April 2006)
The British Academy seeks to promote the interests of scholarship and research in the humanities and social sciences, and is composed of eminent scholars who are elected to its Fellowship on the basis of their scholarly standing and achievement.
The British Academy therefore recently set up an inquiry under the chairmanship of Professor John Kay, to examine the role of copyright exemptions in the promotion of scholarship.
The British Academy believes that the right approach is a new set of guidelines which, while they could not represent a statement of the law, would clarify the current situation and would have considerable moral force in the event of dispute.
www.britac.ac.uk /reports/gowers/gowers.html   (3539 words)

  
 Press Release: Cowie elected FRS
The Royal Society is dedicated to promoting excellence in science and is the national scientific academy of the United Kingdom and British Commonwealth.
Upon learning of Cowie's election to the Royal Society, IfA Director Rolf-Peter Kudritzki remarked that he was "extremely pleased that one of the IfA's faculty members has received this honor" and "it shows that the Institute's faculty is of the highest caliber possible".
The British Royal Society is one of the oldest scientific societies in the world, dating from 1660.
www.ifa.hawaii.edu /info/press-releases/cowie-7-23-04.html   (438 words)

  
 Welcome to the Anacostia Watershed Society Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: )
“The British Royal Society, the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences founded in 1660, released a report in June, 2000 which states that all sewage effluents in the UK have the ability to feminize fish.
The Royal Society has discovered that some fish in all UK rivers are now intersex– having characteristics of both males and females.
The Royal Society notes that estrogens were present in sewage effluent at ‘extremely low concentrations (parts per trillion)’ - but these extremely low levels were sufficient to feminize male fish.
www.anacostiaws.org /newssewage.html   (310 words)

  
 Eberly College of Science | Grenfell Elected Fellow of British Royal Society
Founded in 1660, the Royal Society is an independent organization that serves as the United Kingdom's academy of science by advising the British government and promoting the natural and applied sciences both nationally and internationally.
Election to the fellowship of the Royal Society is recognized worldwide as a sign of the highest regard in science.
He was associate editor of American Naturalist from 1997 to 2000, was on the editorial council of the British Society for Parasitology from 1992 to 1994, and was the editor of a special issue of Parasitology on wildlife diseases in 1995.
www.science.psu.edu /alert/Grenfell2-2005.htm   (732 words)

  
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A recent report from the British Royal Society confirms that some common industrial chemicals, released into the environment, can interfere with hormones in living things with devastating effect.[1] Such chemicals are "cause for grave concern," the report says.
The Royal Society's report says that we should take EDCs seriously because there is irrefutable evidence that some EDCs have had devastating effects on wildlife, and the endocrine system of humans is similar to that of wildlife.
The Royal Society goes on: "Studies on wild populations of freshwater fish have shown that intersex fish are present in most rivers.
www.rachel.org /bulletin/bulletin.cfm?Issue_ID=1851   (1910 words)

  
 Royal Society tells Exxon: stop funding climate change denial | Environment | The Guardian
In an unprecedented step, the Royal Society, Britain's premier scientific academy, has written to the oil giant to demand that the company withdraws support for dozens of groups that have "misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence".
In a letter earlier this month to Esso, the UK arm of ExxonMobil, the Royal Society cites its own survey which found that ExxonMobil last year distributed $2.9m to 39 groups that the society says misrepresent the science of climate change.
The Royal Society's move emerged as Chris Rapley, director of the British Antarctic Survey, warned that the polar ice caps were breaking up at a faster rate than glaciologists thought possible, with profound consequences for global sea levels.
www.guardian.co.uk /environment/2006/sep/20/oilandpetrol.business   (870 words)

  
 The Mediadrome - History
Two years later the king granted "The Royal Society" its first charter, followed by another a year after that when he granted them their arms.
The motto chosen by the Society, Nullius in Verbia (nothing by words), strove to summarize what had always been their aim - to prove everything with facts, and not to rely on anyone's word or opinion alone.
In addition to their own experiments, The Society assigned someone each year as "itinerant," whose job it was to travel the country and report back on new discoveries.
www.themediadrome.com /content/articles/history_articles/royal_society.htm   (1037 words)

  
 British royal family, british academy, british heritage   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The royal family was not free to embrace this social change,.
This is exactly what the British royal family is also designed to do and for.
A:, The British Royal Family website is a comprehensive site that includes history of the Royal family and previous Monarchs, as well as the role of the.
www.coincollectingweb.com /british/british_royal_family.html   (356 words)

  
 UH astronomer elected to the British Royal Society | HonoluluAdvertiser.com | The Honolulu Advertiser
Nicholas Kaiser, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, was elected a fellow of the British Royal Society on May 16.
According to a news release from the Institute for Astronomy, the society chose Kaiser because he "is distinguished for initiating and developing several fields of research in large scale structure and cosmology.
He won the Helen Warner Prize of the American Astronomical Society in 1989, the Herzberg Medal of the Canadian Association of Physicists in 1993 and the Rutherford Medal of the Royal Society of Canada in 1997.
www.honoluluadvertiser.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080524/BREAKING01/80524007/-1/RSS01   (456 words)

  
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Philip Power, professor of chemistry at UC Davis who has done groundbreaking work in chemical bonding, has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the British equivalent of the National Academy of Science.
Power was one of 44 new fellows announced by the society on May 27.
Power will be the third fellow of the Royal Society at UCD, but the first to be elected while on the faculty.
www.dailydemocrat.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2806237   (310 words)

  
 Royal Historical Society (RHS)
The Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868 and remains the foremost society in Great Britain promoting and defending the scholarly study of the past.
The Society promotes discussion of history by means of a full programme of public lectures and conferences, and disseminates the results of historical research and debate through its many publications.
The Society produces the Bibliography of British and Irish History, a database of over 400,000 records, by far the most complete online bibliographical resource on British and Irish history, including relations with the empire and the Commonwealth.
www.royalhistoricalsociety.org   (252 words)

  
 Phillip D. Collins -- The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship, Part 1
Jim Keith provides a brief summation of the Royal Society's role in years to come: 'The British Royal Society of the late seventeenth century was the forerunner of much of the media manipulation that was to follow' (Keith, Saucers of the Illuminati, 79).
With the British Royal Society acting as their headquarters of propaganda, the elite had created an institution to provide credibility for their specially designed 'science.' Now, they needed to introduce the 'science.' Recall that the founding members of the Royal Society were all Freemasons.
According to author Ian Taylor, the Lunar Society was active from about 1764 to 1800 and its prominent influence 'continued long afterwards under the banner of The Royal Society.' The group's name owed itself to the fact that members met monthly at the time of the full moon.
www.newswithviews.com /Collins/phillip24.htm   (5222 words)

  
 Pauline Sutton - Royal Society of British Sculptors
Pauline Sutton - Royal Society of British Sculptors
April 1994 saw the beginning of a close working relationship and friendship with the late John Skelton FRBS MBE: nephew to Eric Gill and President of The Royal Society of British Sculptors in the late 70's.
Pauline became a member of the The Royal Society of British Sculptors in 1998.
www.paulinesutton.com /biography.php   (439 words)

  
 British Sleep Society
The British Sleep Society is a registered British charity that aims to improve public health by promoting education and research into sleep and its disorders.
The British Sleep Society consists of healthcare workers (medical, non-medical, nursing and technical) and scientists who have a particular interest in sleep and its disorders.
The British Sleep Society is an English charity registered with the Charity Commission, number: 1009880.
www.neuronic.com /british.htm   (249 words)

  
 International News | British Royal Society Calls for U.N. Ban on Reproductive Cloning, Not Research Cloning - ...
The U.N. General Assembly in December 2003 agreed without a vote to delay until the U.N. General Assembly's 59th session discussion about a treaty that would recommend banning human cloning.
Members of the Royal Society said that banning all forms of human cloning would "place a major obstacle in the way of stem cell research," which some scientists say could provide treatment or cures for diseases such as juvenile diabetes, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, according to
The Royal Society has sent a letter to its member academies encouraging them to lobby their governments to support a ban on reproductive cloning that excludes cloning for research purposes, according to
www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=2&DR_ID=25520   (395 words)

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