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Monkey trial: see Scopes trial Scopes trial, Tennessee legal case involving the teaching of evolution in public schools. A statute was passed (Mar., 1925) in Tennessee that prohibited the teaching in public schools of theories contrary to accepted interpretation of the biblical account of human ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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| This is followed by Shays' Rebellion in January 1787; the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on May 12 1848; the Battle of Antietam beginning on September 17, 1862; the infamous Homestead Strike in July 1892; President McKinley's assassination on September 6, 1901; the Scopes monkey trial in 1925; Elvis Presley's appearance on Ed Sullivan's television show; and, finally, the murder of three civil rights activists on June 21, 1964. Last month, during ``The Daily Show's'' weeklong skewering of the evolution ``debate,'' a sepia-toned image from the Scopes Monkey Trial was accompanied by a scratchy, tinny sound bite spewing homophobic venom. So Kansas is staging the monkey trial all over again ("Darwin On Trial? |
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