Word: theodosius
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...happened quite accidentally. Dr. Theodosius Dobzhansky, one of the world's foremost genetic researchers, was experimenting with an amber-colored South American fruit fly known as Drosophila paulistorum at Manhattan's Rockefeller University. He was interested in one particular strain of the fly from the Llanos district of Colombia, and he isolated it from other strains in 1958. Five years later he and his assistant, Dr. Olga Pavlovsky, routinely attempted to interbreed the Llanos flies with similar strains and observe the results of the mating...
...vigorous anti-Communist who in 1958, while in Damascus for the election of a new Patriarch, exposed a Soviet plot to seat its own Communist-oriented candidate by bribing some delegates with cash, gifts and free trips to Moscow, then led the fight to elect non-Red Patriarch Theodosius VI; of cancer; in Boston...
...intriguing is the research that Dr. Theodosius Dobzhansky of the Rockefeller institute was moved to warn that molecular genetics may be getting too popular. "It is both inevitable and good that the achievements of molecular genetics have gotten so much attention, but it is less good that a bandwagon effect has made some say that molecular work is all there is or should be to genetics...
...amethyst bead, a gem, and a beautiful gold coin of the Byzantine emperor Theodosius II (408-450 A.D.)--found hidden under a stone weight in the collonade on the opposite side of the street --hint that the "Jewellers' Row" of Sardis was nearby...
...Crucifixion, when the Emperor Theodosius made it the religion of the Roman Empire...