Ermine Cowles Case
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Ermine Cowles Case was an American paleontologist known for his work on Permian and Triassic vertebrate fossils and for helping establish the field of vertebrate paleontology in North America.
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| Ermine Cowles Case canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: Ermine Cowles Case Context triple: [Case, hasNotableBearer, Ermine Cowles Case]
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Thaw–White murder case
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Shadrach Minkins case
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Dollree Mapp
Dollree Mapp was the Cleveland woman whose challenge to an unlawful police search led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Mapp v. Ohio, which applied the exclusionary rule to the states.
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Leopold and Loeb murder trial
The Leopold and Loeb murder trial was a 1924 American criminal case in which famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow argued against the death penalty for two wealthy University of Chicago students who had committed a highly publicized "thrill killing" of a young boy.
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Helen Palsgraf
Helen Palsgraf was the injured passenger at the center of the landmark 1928 New York tort law case that reshaped the doctrine of proximate cause in American negligence jurisprudence.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Ermine Cowles Case Target entity description: Ermine Cowles Case was an American paleontologist known for his work on Permian and Triassic vertebrate fossils and for helping establish the field of vertebrate paleontology in North America.
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A.
Thaw–White murder case
The Thaw–White murder case was a sensational early 20th-century American scandal in which millionaire Harry K. Thaw fatally shot famed architect Stanford White over White’s relationship with actress Evelyn Nesbit, captivating the public and press with its mix of sex, jealousy, and high society.
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B.
Shadrach Minkins case
The Shadrach Minkins case was a landmark 1851 legal and political battle in Boston over the capture and rescue of an escaped enslaved man, which galvanized Northern resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act and intensified sectional tensions before the Civil War.
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C.
Dollree Mapp
Dollree Mapp was the Cleveland woman whose challenge to an unlawful police search led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Mapp v. Ohio, which applied the exclusionary rule to the states.
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D.
Leopold and Loeb murder trial
The Leopold and Loeb murder trial was a 1924 American criminal case in which famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow argued against the death penalty for two wealthy University of Chicago students who had committed a highly publicized "thrill killing" of a young boy.
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E.
Helen Palsgraf
Helen Palsgraf was the injured passenger at the center of the landmark 1928 New York tort law case that reshaped the doctrine of proximate cause in American negligence jurisprudence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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| instanceOf |
American
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academic ⓘ paleontologist ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1871-11-10 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionCurated | vertebrate fossil collections at the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1953-02-08 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Kansas
NERFINISHED
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Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | University of Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Case NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Permian vertebrates
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Triassic vertebrates ⓘ paleontology ⓘ vertebrate paleontology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Ermine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
geology
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zoology ⓘ |
| influenced | development of vertebrate paleontology in North America ⓘ |
| knownFor |
helping establish vertebrate paleontology in North America
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work on Permian vertebrate fossils ⓘ work on Triassic vertebrate fossils ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Geological Society of America
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Paleontological Society NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Lewis B. Kellum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Revision of the Pelycosauria of North America
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The Permo-Carboniferous red beds of North America and their vertebrate fauna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
geologist
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paleontologist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
curator of vertebrate paleontology
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professor of historical geology and paleontology ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
Pelycosaurs
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Permo-Carboniferous red beds ⓘ early synapsids ⓘ |
| studied |
Permian terrestrial vertebrate faunas
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Triassic terrestrial vertebrate faunas ⓘ fossil amphibians ⓘ fossil reptiles ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Ann Arbor
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North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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