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  Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace (January 8, 1823-November 7, 1913) was a British naturalist and biologist.
Wallace noted a line seemed to run through the Malay Archipelago, between Borneo and Celebes and east of Bali.
In the mid 20th Century, geological studies of plate tectonics showed there is an Indo-Australian plate that has Wallace's line as a border, resulting in a large drop in the sea floor at precisely the same point.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wa/Wallace_line.html   (293 words)

  
 Wallace Nutting Library - Wallace Nutting Family Tree
Wallace Nutting was the only son of Albion Nutting and Eliza Sanborn Fifield.
Wallace Nutting writes, "Mother was Elizabeth Fifield, New Hampshire stock." She married Albion Nutting in 1854 in Saugus, Massachusetts.
In 1865 after the death of Wallace Nutting's father, and when the house he built burned, Wallace's mother moved the family north to live with her brother, Joseph S. Fifield, ("Uncle Joe"), who by now had his own farm in Industry, Maine.
www.wallacenuttinglibrary.com /wnfamily.htm   (542 words)

  
 Mr. Wallace’s Line - - science news articles online technology magazine articles Mr. Wallace’s Line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Wallace’s line is one of many biogeographic borders in the world, zones separating geographic regions with dissimilar groups of plants and animals.
That is, Wallace’s line marks the former eastern margin of the Asian continent.
Corresponding to Wallace’s line at the former eastern margin of ice age Asia is a similar line at the former western margin of ice age Australia/New Guinea, beyond which kangaroos and bowerbirds couldn’t spread westward.
www.discover.com /issues/aug-97/features/mrwallacesline1198   (3987 words)

  
 Rocky Road: Alfred Russel Wallace
Wallace co-founded the theory of natural selection with the country gentleman Charles Darwin, but though Wallace enjoyed recognition during his own lifetime, his contributions were largely overlooked for much of the 20th century.
Among Wallace's discoveries in the South Pacific was a breakthrough in biogeography: the Wallace Line, the recognition of distinctly different organisms living in close proximity to each other in similar environments.
Wallace's paper and Darwin's various notes and correspondence on the subject were read at the same Linnaean Society meeting, in London on July 1, 1858.
www.strangescience.net /wallace.htm   (1068 words)

  
 The American Experience | George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire | Timeline (1952 - 1972)
Wallace enters the Democratic presidential primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland, and Indiana, showing surprising strength as a national candidate, winning as much as a third of the vote.
July 7: Confined to a wheelchair, Wallace is released from the hospital and speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Miami.
Wallace serves a third term as governor, possible because of the passage of an amendment permitting a governor to serve two consecutive terms.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/wallace/timeline/index_2.html   (1236 words)

  
 On the Zoological Geography of the Malay Archipelago, by Alfred Russel Wallace
On the Zoological Geography of the Malay Archipelago, by Alfred Russel Wallace
Wallace describes the bird and mammalian evidence on which his discontinuity thesis is based, but does not discuss insect or plant data which would not have supported it.
Wallace's connection of the biological concept of "difference equals time" with the geological concept that "ocean depth equals separation" led him to propose that biological evidence could be used to help elucidate Earth history.
www.wku.edu /~smithch/wallace/S053.htm   (3956 words)

  
 Wallacea - a transition zone from Asia to Australia, specially rich in marine life (Zubi)
The Wallace Line, named after the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace who explored the islands between 1854 and 1862 runs between Bali and Lombok, extending north through the Makassar Strait between Kalimantan (Borneo) and Sulawesi.
On the eastern side of the Wallace line the animals are of Australian descent with a lot of endemic species.
Wallace was a contemporary of Charles Darwin and he sent his paper for appraisal to him.
www.starfish.ch /dive/Wallacea.html   (1676 words)

  
 PBS - The Voyage of the Odyssey - Voice from the Sea
This is known as Wallace's line after a contemporary of Charles Darwin's, Alfred Russell Wallace, who came up with the theory of Evolution by Natural Selection independently.
Wallace's line runs through the deep water between Bali and Lombok, and between Sulawesi and Kalimantan.
This is Roger Payne talking to you from near Wallace's line in the waters to the north of New Britain.
www.pbs.org /odyssey/voice/20010516_vos_transcript.html   (754 words)

  
 Wallace's Line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Alfred Wallace, a famous biogeographer, was traveling around the Malay archipelago, when he noticed the sudden difference in bird species when he sailed from Bali to Lombok, which was only twenty miles away.
Wallace noticed that Lombok's birds and animals were more similar to those on Australia and New Guinea.
Wallace said the channel between Bali and Lombok was the divide between two zoogeographic regions, the Oriental and Australian.
library.thinkquest.org /J002558F/wallace's_line.htm   (141 words)

  
 Alfred Russel Wallace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wallace was born at Usk, Monmouthshire in Wales.
Wallace subsequently became a spiritualist, and later maintained that natural selection cannot account for mathematical, artistic, or musical genius, as well as metaphysical musings, and wit and humor; and that something in "the unseen universe of Spirit" had interceded at least three times in history: 1.
Wallace was the first to propose a "geography" of animal species, and as such is considered one of the precursors of ecology and biogeography.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_Russel_Wallace   (1333 words)

  
 Mueller
Wallace, as a psychologist, focuses on how present on-line behavior can be understood as validating principles derived from research in social psychology and related areas, or alternatively why on-line behavior may be at variance with such expectations.
Actually, Wallace discusses how internal locus of control individuals may be more attracted to the resources to be found on-line and thus vulnerable to the time sink effect, and this hypothesis seems worthy of further attention.
Wallace notes the repetition of history here, in the way that the Polaroid camera, the personal video camera and player, etc., have allowed people to indulge, at least as observers, in areas of sexual experience where otherwise they would not have dared to go.
www.acs.ucalgary.ca /~iejll/volume4/mueller.html   (1674 words)

  
 Another Chapter For Gordon And Wallace
Wallace came to Bristol Motor Speedway in the spring of 1997 on a mission.
Wallace won the pole position and led 229 of the 500 laps and had the lead of the race as the laps wound down.
Wallace admitted that lapped traffic played a role, but it took a bump pass to beat him at one of his favorite tracks.
www.gordonline.com /archive/082702.html   (1212 words)

  
 Wallace International Silversmiths, Inc. v. Godinger Silver Art Co., Inc. (1990)
Wallace International Silversmiths ("Wallace") appeals from Judge Haight's denial of its motion for a preliminary injunction under Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a) (1988), prohibiting Godinger Silver Art Co., Inc. ("Godinger") from marketing a line of silverware with ornamentation that is substantially [**2] similar to Wallace's GRANDE BAROQUE line.
The Wallace pattern also tapers from the top of the handle to the stem while the Godinger pattern appears bulkier overall and maintains its bulk throughout the decorated portion of the handle.
Florence whether Wallace had licensed the design to Godinger or whether "the Godinger product was simply a 'knock-off.'" Two days after this conversation, Wallace filed the complaint in the instant matter stating various federal trademark and state unfair competition claims.
www.law.uconn.edu /homes/swilf/ip/cases/wallace.htm   (3413 words)

  
 Alfred Wallace
Alfred Wallace was a famous biologist and zoogeographer.
ed Wallace was born in England 1823, and died in 1913.
In 1858 Wallace’s contribution was entitled “On the tendency of varieties to depart indefinitely from the original type”.
library.thinkquest.org /J002558F/alfred_wallace.htm   (153 words)

  
 Biogeography: Wallace and Wegener
Today Alfred Russel Wallace (left) is a prisoner of scientific parentheses, as in, "the theory of evolution by natural selection proposed by Charles Darwin (and also by Alfred Russel Wallace)." Yet Wallace was a great naturalist in his own right, particularly in the way he used evolutionary theory to interpret the natural world.
Wallace came to much the same conclusion that Darwin published in the Origin of Species: biogeography was simply a record of inheritance.
As he traveled through Indonesia, for example, he was struck by the sharp distinction between the northwestern part of the archipelago and the southeastern, despite their similar climate and terrain.
evolution.berkeley.edu /evolibrary/article/_0/history_16   (738 words)

  
 wilmington_wallace_nc_csx   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This line was built in 1840 as part of the Wilmington & Raleigh, which actually went from Wilmington to Weldon, NE of Raleigh.
The line became part of the Seaboard Coast Line in 1967 when the ACL and SAL merged.
CSX still operates the line from Wallace north to Goldsboro and Wilson, where it hits the old A-line.
abandonedrailroads.homestead.com /wilmington_wallace_nc_csx.html   (365 words)

  
 William Wallace
Documented historical evidence of the line of Wallace is confusingly split.
The Scotland that William Wallace was raised in during the late 1200's was a wealthy country far removed from the beggarly picture of a nation which English propagandists were to paint.
Where, and when, exactly William Wallace gained his education is a long and in-depth story which involves the telling of a rather long tale.
www.martinmchale.com /clan/flower.html   (1362 words)

  
 Wallace, Alfred Russel - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
His research in this field is commemorated in the name Wallace's line.
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913): English naturalist and anthropologist who developed a theory of evolution at the same time as Darwin, but received little recognition because of his low social and scientific standing.(Late Great Geographers #60)(Biography)
Wallace, Alfred Russel.(In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Walllace.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-wallca1r1.html   (312 words)

  
 Detroit Pistons, Rasheed Wallace, Ben Wallace, Chauncey Billups, National Basketball Association, Indiana Pacers - CBS ...
As has become his trademark, Wallace turned up his game after the technical, scoring 11 of his game-high 28 points in a key fourth-quarter surge to lift the Detroit Pistons to an 88-83 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Thursday night.
Wallace picked up the technical after he was called for elbowing Indiana rookie Danny Granger.
After Jackson split a pair from the line, Rasheed Wallace hit a jumper and followed it with three straight 3-pointers for an 11-0 run and a 81-64 lead with 7:40 left.
cbs.sportsline.com /nba/gamecenter/recap/NBA_20060223_IND@DET/rs   (809 words)

  
 The Wallace: Selections, Notes
Wallace's former wet nurse (also referred to as his "foster modyr" at line 270) retrieves his "body" from the castle walls and arranges for him to be carried across the river to Newtown on the north bank of the Ayr river.
Wallace's courtship of a maiden in Lanark is also told by Wyntoun, who briefly relates how Wallace's "lemman" in Lanark dies at the hands of the town's sheriff for assisting the hero's escape from the town (8.13.2075 ff.).
Wallace resists her overtures by recounting instances of English aggression which have provoked and perpetuated the war, from the arbitration between the competitors for the throne through the injustices done to Scotland and the personal injustice to Wallace, particularly the murder of his wife, to the truce breaking, and the atrocity at Ayr.
www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/teams/wallnts.htm   (14746 words)

  
 Ice Age ModuleThe Origin of the Wallace Line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Wallace's work was a major innovation, providing the first plausible mechanism to explain the process of evolution.
On a map, Wallace could separate the two groups of islands by a line (later called the Wallace line) but he was not certain why the communities were so clearly distinct.
First try to guess where the Wallace Line lies on the modern image, then run the model back in time.
jesse.usra.edu /articles/iceagemodule/iceagemodule-20.html   (317 words)

  
 Wallace's line — Infoplease.com
Wallace's line, imaginary line postulated by A. Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace - Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823–1913, English naturalist.
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 Wallace's line - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Wallace's line imaginary line postulated by A. Wallace as the dividing line between Asian and Australian fauna in the Malay Archipelago.
Wallace's Selects Oracle To Help Create 'Next Generation' On-Line College Bookstore.
Wallace's solid performance lost in shadow of turnovers
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-wallcsln.html   (183 words)

  
 Alfred Russel Wallace biography
The outcome of Wallace's ruminations was that he went on to propound a theory of the evolutionary origin of species by natural selection.
Wallace's paper was presented under the title "On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type."
  Wallace contributed greatly to the scientific foundations of zoogeography, including his proposal, based on his observations in the Malay Archipelago, for the evolutionary distinction between the fauna of Australia and Asia (Wallace's line).
www.age-of-the-sage.org /philosophy/wallace.html   (403 words)

  
 Wallace's Line - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Wallace's Line was recently featured on a Cincinnati TV show called, "The Rock Bands Reality Show" and they have plans to do the music for..
Wallace's Line was recently featured on a Cincinnati TV show called, "The Rock Bands Reality Show" and they have plans to do the music for New York based movie this winter.
Wallace's Line blends mellow electric piano sounds with aggressive guitar licks and jazz rhythms to create interesting moods and emotions.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,2664846,00.html   (239 words)

  
 The Hindu Business Line : Shaw Wallace back on growth curve
SHAW Wallace & Co Ltd, the second largest Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) company, stated its spirits sales were up 15 per cent in 2003-04.
It must be mentioned that Royal Challenge along with Director's Special is crucial to Shaw Wallace's IMFL business in terms of profit generation and distribution clout.
However, it is not exactly clear to what extent the current growth is driven by the frontline brands, especially since the company has been actively pushing volumes in the cheap to medium priced segment through franchised brands.
www.thehindubusinessline.com /2003/12/17/stories/2003121700280600.htm   (323 words)

  
 Wallace's Line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Alfred Russel Wallace, the so-called father of animal geography, formulated his ideas on evolution by natural selection while observing and collecting wildlife in the islands of Southeast Asia.
He was particularly impressed by the sudden difference in bird families he encountered when he sailed some twenty miles east of the island of Bali and landed on Lombok.
In his honor this dividing line, which extends northward between Borneo and Sulawesi, is still referred to today as Wallace's Line.
www.runet.edu /~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/zoogeog/walline.html   (231 words)

  
 Biography: Sanford Wallace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
By 1997 Wallace's junk email business, through his companies Promo Enterprises and Cyber Promotions, had enraged Internet users around the world.
As a measure of defiance, Wallace adopted the most-used name "spamford" as a domain identity for his ISP service.
Wallace likened himself to Madonna and Howard Stern in terms of being a rebellious type, taking steps to evade the various e-mail filtering mechanisms designed to block his mailings
www.annonline.com /interviews/970522/biography.html   (157 words)

  
 Alfred Russel Wallace - The Great Unknown, The Greath Explorers
Wallace noticed many plants and animals had special features enabling them survive the conditions which they lived.
These observations led Wallace to develop a theory about how species of plants and animals gradually change through a process known as 'evolution' or "natural selection".
Scientific explorers as Wallace was, often gave exciting accounts of their exploits – with their letters and journals sometimes being serialized in newspapers and magazines.
www.phfawcettsweb.org /wallace.htm   (743 words)

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