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31 relations: Bret Harte, Calaveras County, California, California, California Academy of Sciences, Clark University, Columbian mammoth, Creationism, Elephant, Fluorine absorption dating, Fossil, Frederic Ward Putnam, Geologist, Harvard University, Hoax, Holocene, Josiah Whitney, Lava, Mastodon, Museum of Hoaxes, North America, Paleontology, Piltdown Man, Pliocene, Radiocarbon dating, San Francisco Evening Bulletin, Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Skull, Smithsonian Institution, Theosophy (Blavatskian), Walt Brown (creationist), William Henry Holmes.
Bret Harte
Francis Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush.
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Calaveras County, California
Calaveras County, officially the County of Calaveras, is a county in the northern portion of the U.S. state, California.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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California Academy of Sciences
The California Academy of Sciences is a research institute and natural history museum in San Francisco, California, that is among the largest museums of natural history in the world, housing over 26 million specimens.
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Clark University
Clark University is an American private research university located in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Columbian mammoth
The Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) is an extinct species of mammoth that inhabited North America as far north as the northern United States and as far south as Costa Rica during the Pleistocene epoch.
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Creationism
Creationism is the religious belief that the universe and life originated "from specific acts of divine creation",Gunn 2004, p. 9, "The Concise Oxford Dictionary says that creationism is 'the belief that the universe and living organisms originated from specific acts of divine creation.'" as opposed to the scientific conclusion that they came about through natural processes.
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Elephant
Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea.
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Fluorine absorption dating
Fluorine absorption dating is a method used to determine the amount of time an object has been underground.
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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Frederic Ward Putnam
Frederic Ward Putnam (April 16, 1839 – August 14, 1915) was an American anthropologist.
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Geologist
A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes that shape it.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Hoax
A hoax is a falsehood deliberately fabricated to masquerade as the truth.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch.
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Josiah Whitney
Josiah Dwight Whitney (November 23, 1819 – August 18, 1896) was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University (from 1865), and chief of the California Geological Survey (1860–1874).
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Lava
Lava is molten rock generated by geothermal energy and expelled through fractures in planetary crust or in an eruption, usually at temperatures from.
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Mastodon
Mastodons (Greek: μαστός "breast" and ὀδούς, "tooth") are any species of extinct proboscideans in the genus Mammut (family Mammutidae), distantly related to elephants, that inhabited North and Central America during the late Miocene or late Pliocene up to their extinction at the end of the Pleistocene 10,000 to 11,000 years ago.
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Museum of Hoaxes
The Museum of Hoaxes is a website created by Alex Boese in 1997 in San Diego, California as a resource for reporting and discussing hoaxes and urban legends, both past and present.
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North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
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Paleontology
Paleontology or palaeontology is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).
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Piltdown Man
The Piltdown Man was a paleoanthropological hoax in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilised remains of a previously unknown early human.
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Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.
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Radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.
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San Francisco Evening Bulletin
The San Francisco Evening Bulletin was a newspaper in San Francisco, founded as the Daily Evening Bulletin in 1855 by James King of William.
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Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
The Sierra Nevada (snowy saw range) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.
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Skull
The skull is a bony structure that forms the head in vertebrates.
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Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.
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Theosophy (Blavatskian)
Theosophy is an esoteric religious movement established in the United States during the late nineteenth century.
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Walt Brown (creationist)
Walter T. Brown (b. Aug 1937) is a young Earth creationist, who is the director of his own ministry called the Center for Scientific Creation.
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William Henry Holmes
William Henry Holmes (December 1, 1846 – April 20, 1933) — known as W.H. Holmes — was an American explorer, anthropologist, archaeologist, artist, scientific illustrator, cartographer, mountain climber, geologist and museum curator and director.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calaveras_Skull
