John Tyler
John Tyler
John Tylerwas the tenth President of the United States. He was also, briefly, the tenth vice president, elected to that office on the 1840 Whig ticket with William Henry Harrison. Tyler became president after Harrison's death in April 1841, only a month after the start of the new administration. Known to that point as a supporter of states' rights, which endeared him to his fellow Virginians, his actions as president showed that he was willing to back nationalist policies as...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPresident
Date of Birth29 March 1790
CountryUnited States of America
This is an exciting day for the City of Tyler,
Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquettethe more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.
But many people around the state and even around the country are going to get to experience that for the next three years.
It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection.
In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that was planted inside the womb. Development consisted of the miniature homunculus enlarging and passing through birth and on to maturity-just like inflating a balloon.
As in all of biology, comparative studies showing differences among species are often helpful for a better understanding of the basic mechanisms; with all its advantages, there is a danger of clinging exclusively to one model organism.
My prime interests are in evolution and development. I use the cellular slime molds as a tool to seek an understanding of those twin disciplines.
The sudden appearance of mushrooms after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world.
Changes in size are not a consequence of changes in shape, but the reverse: changes in size often require changes in shape. To put it another way, size is a supreme regulator of all matters biological. No living entity can evolve or develop without taking size into consideration. Much more than that, size is a prime mover in evolution.
Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette-the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.
The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.
I can never consent to being dictated to.
If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course.
When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?