Remembering A Life Cut Short: A Tribute To The Individual Behind The PNJ Obituary

Joan Pottinger died in a tragic accident, trapped under a moving float in Saturday's St. Patrick's Day Parade. Her friends are remembering a life cut short too soon.

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Yahoo: A Life Cut Short: The Tragic End of a TV Darling—Remembering 'Family Affair' Star Anissa Jones

A Life Cut Short: The Tragic End of a TV Darling—Remembering 'Family Affair' Star Anissa Jones

walb: A life cut short: 9-year-old killed by impaired driver on her birthday

A life cut short: 9-year-old killed by impaired driver on her birthday

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Yardbarker: Andre Bell: A Promising Life Cut Short on a Nashville Highway

Here’s how LIFE described the social life there in a story in its issue: …At Connecticut College, girls have more boyfriends than in the palmy days when the college derived critical advantage from its strategic location between Harvard and Yale.

There are moments in sports, and in life, that stop us cold. They aren’t the buzzer-beaters or the championship victories. They are the phone calls no parent should ever receive, the empty lockers ...

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Lamarck believed that the long necks of giraffes evolved as generations of giraffes reached for ever higher leaves. Lamarck was struck by the similarities of many of the animals he studied, and was impressed too by the burgeoning fossil record. It led him to argue that life was not fixed.

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Lamarckism, a theory of evolution based on the principle that physical changes in organisms during their lifetime—such as greater development of an organ or a part through increased use—could be transmitted to their offspring.

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, an influential French naturalist, was an early proponent of evolutionary change in the early 19th century. He presented one of the first comprehensive theories on how life forms could evolve and adapt over time.