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The Hibbert Lectures were a course of lectures founded by Robert Hibbert in 1847 for the promotion of comprehensive learning and thorough research in relation to religion wholly apart from the interest of any particular church or system. The first course was given at Westminster in 1878 by Professor Max Muller, 'On the Origin and Growth of Religion, as illustrated by the Religions of India.' Subsequent lecturers were given by Renouf, Ernest Renan, Rhys Davids, Kuenen, Pfleiderer, Sayce, etc.
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Wacht am Rhein (Watch on the Rhine) is a German national song written in 1840 by Max Schneckenburger and composed in its popular form in 1854 by Karl Wilhelm. It was the battle-song of the German army in 1870 to 1871.
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The Barnacle Goose (Anser Bernicia or leucopsis) is a summer visitant of the northern seas, in size rather smaller than the common wild goose, and having the forehead and cheeks white, the upper body and neck black. A fable asserts that the crustaceans called barnacles changed into geese, and various theories have been framed to account for its origin. Max Muller supposes the geese were originally called Hiberniculoe or Irish geese, and that barnacle is a corruption of this; but the resemblance of a barnacle to a goose hanging by the head may account for it. The Brent Goose is also sometimes called the Barnacle Goose, but the two should be discriminated.
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Soya bean (Glycine max) or soybean as it is also known, is a cultivated annual herb native to eastern Asia, with an erect hairy stem and large trifoliate leaves. The flowers are white or violet-tinged and grow in clusters from the leaf axils. The fruit is a slightly curved and hairy pod containing the seeds.
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Eduard Douwes Dekker was a Dutch writer. He was born in 1820 at Amsterdam and died in 1887. He wrote the novel 'Max Havelaar' in 1860 and Minnebrieven/ Love Letters in 1861. Although born in Holland, he moved to Lebak in Java.
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Ernie Wise (real name Ernest Wiseman) was an English comedian. He was born in 1925 and died in 1999. He started his comedy career at the age of thirteen, being described as a 'thirteen year old Max Miller' before going on to partner Eric Morecambe.
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Erwin Neher is a German cell physiologist. He was born in 1944 at Landsberg in Germany and trained originally as a physicist in Munich and at the University of Wisconsin. While working at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, he took a year-long sabbatical to work with the physiologist Sakmann at Yale University. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1991 with Bert Sakmann for his studies on ion channels and beta-endorphin. Neher and Sakmann developed the patch-clamp technique in 1976 to measure the electrical activity of very small portions of cell membranes. This technique revolutionized the study of ion channels.
To perform the technique a glass pipette with a tip diameter of about one micrometer is pressed against a cell and slight suction is then applied to seal the cell membrane against the pipette. The technique allows the flow of ions through a single channel and transitions between different states of a channel to be monitored with a time resolution of microseconds. Using this method, Neher and Sakmann investigated the effect of beta-endorphin on the membrane of cells. Beta-endorphin is a neurohormone secreted by the pituitary gland and an opiate that has been found to play a clinical role in the perception of pain, behavioural patterns, obesity, diabetes, and psychiatric disorders. Neher and Sakmann demonstrated that beta-endorphin acts not only on nerves in the brain to regulate their secretion of neurotransmitters but also, via calcium channels, acts on the walls of arteries in the brain.
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Max Pechstein was a German expressionist painter. He was born in 1881 near Zwickau and died in 1955. Associated with both the Die Brucke group in Dresden and the Neue Sezession in Berlin, he painted landscapes, still lives, portraits, and beach scenes. Inspired by primitive art, he used bright undiluted colours and vigorous brushstrokes. His paintings tended to be more eclectic, more naturalistic, and less innovative than the work of other expressionists.
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Max Planck was a German scientist. He was born at Kiel in 1858 and died in 1947. He won the Nobel prize for physics in 1918.
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Max Weber was a German sociologist and economist. He was born in 1864 and died in 1920. He put forward the theory that there is a connection between Protestantism and the development of capitalism.
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