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George MacGinitie
George Eber MacGinitie (5 April 1889 – 6 September 1989) was an American marine biologist and a professor at the California Institute of Technology. He married the marine biologist Nettie Murray MacGinitie and the couple conducted research together and helped produce films on marine life. MacGinitie was born in Sparta, Nebraska to Laura Ella (McElhany) and John Maurice MacGinitie. He went to graduate AB at Fresno State College where his older brother, the paleobotanist Harry Dunlap MacGinitie (1896-1987) also went to. In 1926 he moved to Stanford University for his master's and began to study the shores of Monterey Bay and his thesis on ''Ecological aspects of Elkhorn Slough'' was produced in 1927. He married Nettie Lorene Murray, another marine biologist on 19 February 1927 at Fresno and they conducted research together. In 1929 he became an instructor at the Hopkins Marine Station. He conducted field instruction courses on marine biology and later joined the Kerckhoff Marine ...
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California Institute Of Technology
The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; the institution considers other spellings such a"Cal Tech" and "CalTech" incorrect. The institute is also occasionally referred to as "CIT", most notably in its alma mater, but this is uncommon. is a private research university in Pasadena, California. Caltech is ranked among the best and most selective academic institutions in the world, and with an enrollment of approximately 2400 students (acceptance rate of only 5.7%), it is one of the world's most selective universities. The university is known for its strength in science and engineering, and is among a small group of institutes of technology in the United States which is primarily devoted to the instruction of pure and applied sciences. The institution was founded as a preparatory and vocational school by Amos G. Throop in 1891 and began attracting influential scientists such as George Ellery H ...
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Nettie Murray MacGinitie
Nettie Lorene Murray MacGinitie (February 27, 1899 – June 16, 1993) was an American marine biologist and malacologist. She worked for a while as a director of the Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory between 1957 and 1959. She also wrote books and helped in producing films on marine life. Nettie was born in Falls City, Polk County, Oregon to Catherina Kurz and Lindley Byron Murray. She grew up in a homestead and went to study at Oregon State College. In 1925, during a summer at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University she met George MacGinitie for the first time at a tidepool and they married in 1927. George later became a director at the Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory serving as its director from 1932 to 1957. Upon his retirement Nettie became the director working there for two years. Together they also served on a naval marine study at Point Barrow in Alaska and she described numerous species of molluscs from the collections made there. Nettie was involved in producing films on mar ...
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Sparta, Nebraska
Sparta is an unincorporated community in Knox County, Nebraska, United States. History A post office was established at Sparta in 1880, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1912. The community was likely named after Sparta, Wisconsin Sparta is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County, Wisconsin, United States, along the La Crosse River. The population was 10,025 at the 2020 census. History Sparta is located on former Ho-Chunk territory acquired by the United States i .... 1925 editionis available for download aUniversity of Nebraska—Lincoln Digital Commons./ref> References Unincorporated communities in Knox County, Nebraska Unincorporated communities in Nebraska {{KnoxCountyNE-geo-stub ...
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Harry Dunlap MacGinitie
Harry Dunlap MacGinitie (29 March 1896 – 31 January 1987) was an American paleobotanist. The fossil plant genus ''Macginitiea'' is named after him. MacGinitie was born in Lynch, Nebraska to Laura Ella McElhaney and John Maurice MacGinitie (originally as "McGuintie") I (1850-1933). He went to high school in Sturgis and then went to Fresno State College to receive an A.B. in 1926. His brother George Eber MacGinitie went on to study marine biology. He studied briefly at Stanford University and then taught at a high school before joining Humboldt State College, Arcata in 1928, working there until 1960. In between, he worked on his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley receiving his doctorate in 1935. He married Beatrice Hess on February 2, 1935. He taught the US Army Corps meteorology between 1943 and 1945. He worked as a research associate at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and after retirement he worked at the California Museum of Paleontology. He died at Napa. Ma ...
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Monterey Bay
Monterey Bay is a bay of the Pacific Ocean located on the coast of the U.S. state of California, south of the San Francisco Bay Area and its major city at the south of the bay, San Jose. San Francisco itself is further north along the coast, by about 75 miles, accessible via Highway 1 and Highway 280. Santa Cruz is located at the north end of the bay, and Monterey is on the Monterey Peninsula at the south end. The "Monterey Bay Area" is a local colloquialism sometimes used to describe the whole of the Central Coast communities of Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. Toponymy The first European to discover Monterey Bay was Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo on November 16, 1542, while sailing northward along the coast on a Spanish naval expedition. He named the bay ''Bahía de los Pinos'', probably because of the forest of pine trees first encountered while rounding the peninsula at the southern end of the bay. Cabrillo's name for the bay was lost, but the westernmost point of the penin ...
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Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney (; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film producer, he holds the record for most Academy Awards earned and nominations by an individual, having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations. He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award, among other honors. Several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress and have also been named as some of the List of films considered the best, greatest films ever by the American Film Institute. Disney was the first person to be nominated for Academy Awards in six different categories. Born in Chicago in 1901, Disney developed an early interest in drawing. He took art classes as a boy and got a job as a commercial illustrator at the age of 18. He moved to California in the early ...
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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954 Film)
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1889 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the Dakotas. * January 4 – An Act to Regulate Appointments in the Marine Hospital Service of the United States is signed by President Grover Cleveland. It establishes a Commissioned Corps of officers, as a predecessor to the modern-day U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. * January 5 – Preston North End F.C. is declared the winner of the inaugural Football League in England. * January 8 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine in the United States. * January 15 – The Coca-Cola Company is originally incorporated as the Pemberton Medicine Company in Atlanta, Georgia. * January 22 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C. * January 30 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and his ...
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1989 Deaths
File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing a large Exxon Valdez oil spill, oil spill; The Fall of the Berlin Wall begins the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and heralds German reunification; The United States United States invasion of Panama, invades Panama to depose Manuel Noriega; The Singing Revolution led to the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the Soviet Union; The stands of Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, Yorkshire, where the Hillsborough disaster occurred; 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, Students demonstrate in Tiananmen Square, Beijing; many are killed by forces of the Chinese Communist Party., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1989 Loma ...
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American Marine Biologists
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American Centenarians
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Men Centenarians
A man is an adult male human. Prior to adulthood, a male human is referred to as a boy (a male child or adolescent). Like most other male mammals, a man's genome usually inherits an X chromosome from the mother and a Y chromosome from the father. Sex differentiation of the male fetus is governed by the SRY gene on the Y chromosome. During puberty, hormones which stimulate androgen production result in the development of secondary sexual characteristics, thus exhibiting greater differences between the sexes. These include greater muscle mass, the growth of facial hair and a lower body fat composition. Male anatomy is distinguished from female anatomy by the male reproductive system, which includes the penis, testicles, sperm duct, prostate gland and the epididymis, and by secondary sex characteristics, including a narrower pelvis, narrower hips, and smaller breasts without mammary glands. Throughout human history, traditional gender roles have often defined ...
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