The Butler Act was a 1925 Tennessee law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the book of Genesis account of mankind's origin. The law also prevented...
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England and Wales. It is also known as the Butler Act after the President of the Board of Education, R. A. Butler. Historians consider it a "triumph for progressive...
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Butler had a distinguished academic career before he entered Parliament in 1929. As a junior minister, he helped to pass the Government of India Act 1935...
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school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any...
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Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee schools...
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Austin Robert Butler (born August 17, 1991) is an American actor. Butler began his career on television, first in roles on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon...
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The Butler (full title Lee Daniels' The Butler) is a 2013 American historical drama film directed and co-produced by Lee Daniels and written by Danny Strong...
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Tripartite System of education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (redirect from Tripartite Act)
reform. The 1944 Butler Education Act radically overhauled education in England and Wales, and the Education (Northern Ireland) Act 1947 set out a similar...
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A butler is a person who works in a house serving and is a domestic worker in a large household. In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into...
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Reconstruction, Butler authored the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and coauthored the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1875. In Massachusetts, Butler was often at...
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(Antarctica) Butler Nunataks Butler Passage Butler Peaks Butler Rocks Butler Summit Butler, South Australia Butler, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth Butler, Manitoba...
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member of the small War Cabinet. His Education Act of 1944 for England and Wales, widely known as "the Butler Act", helped reshape postwar society. It responded...
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Judith Pamela Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American feminist philosopher and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy...
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Trousdale, and Sumner counties. He is most noted for introducing the Butler Act, which prohibited teaching of evolution in public (i.e. state) schools...
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Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer who won several awards for her works, including Hugo...
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Tennessee Senate approved the Butler Act with a vote of 24–6. On March 21, 1925, Governor Austin Peay signed the Butler Act into law, and it took effect...
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Major-General Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940) was a United States Marine Corps officer and writer. During his 34-year military...
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publicized Scopes Trial. The defendant, John T. Scopes, had violated the Butler Act, a Tennessee law barring the teaching of evolution in public schools,...
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developed a shooting act with his performing partner John Graham, and when Graham fell ill the sharpshooter Annie Oakley stood in for him. Butler and Oakley began...
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Kansas-Nebraska Act with Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois. In 1856, abolitionist senator Charles Sumner gave a speech in which he insulted Butler's character...
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Rab Butler . Known as "the Butler Act", it defined the modern split between primary education and secondary education at age 11. The Butler Act was also...
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January 2024, Butler voted for a resolution proposed by Bernie Sanders to apply the human rights provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act to U.S. aid to...
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held in effect that the Butler Act was constitutional under the state Constitution's Religious Preference Clause, because the Act did not establish one...
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work on music he is an actor, having acted in several plays, being best known for the musicals Soon and Hair. Butler would replace the bands original drummer...
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Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler (born 17 July 1949) is a retired English musician, best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of the heavy metal...
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Black Butler (Japanese: 黒執事, Hepburn: Kuroshitsuji) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yana Toboso. It has been serialized in Square...
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According to the Internet Adult Film Database, Butler acted in 656 adult films during his lifetime. In 1987, Butler married former child actress Lisa Loring...
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from the state legislature to the governor. In 1925, Peay signed the Butler Act into law. The law barred the teaching of the theory of evolution in public...
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mail-order company by Charles Hamblet Butler, George H. Butler and Edward Burgess Butler. In the 1920s, Butler Brothers moved into retailing with a chain of "Scott"...
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Lieutenant-General James FitzThomas Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond, KG, PC (19 October 1610 – 21 July 1688), was an Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier, known...
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