Wiktionary Wager can refer to Gambling A scientific wager A legal wager under the Roman legal system WAGR syndrome a rare genetic syndrome Specific wagers Atheist s Wager Pascal s wager Loki s wager People Given name Wager Swayne November 10, 1834 December 18, 1902 , American military Governor Surname Sir Charles Wager 1666 1743 , British Admiral David Wager c. 1804 1870 , New York politician Gregg Wager born 1958 , American composer Harold Wager 1862 1929 , British botanist Lawrence Wager 1904 1965 , British geologist, explorer and mountaineer Michael Wager Born 1925 , American actor Walter Wager 1924 2004 , American novelist films The Wager 1998 film The Wager 1998 film , a short film The Wager 2007 film The Wager 2007 film , a feature film disambig Surname de Wager es Apuesta desambiguaci n ... more details
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Multiple issues cleanup link rot February 2012 refimprove February 2012 A wager of law is essentially ... 11 to 12 men, and was a way to give credibility to the oath of a defendant at a time when the wager of law had more credibility than account books. Compare to legal wager , which is the provision of surity at the beginning of legal action to minimize frivolous litigation. Wager of Law, Wager of Battle, Trial by Ordeal The wager of law, also called compurgation , is an old legal practice, dating ... by battle wager of battle, trial by combat , or judicial dual , and of trial by ordeal . ref http ... of Glanvill Determining Fact Wager of law was replaced by jury, from early times, to determine ... title Featured Document The Magna Carta publisher Archives.gov date accessdate 2012 02 19 ref Wager ... were called compurgators, and the wager of law was called compurgation. As the kings consolidated their power, suppressing violence and increasing the authority of the courts, the wager of law lost some ... the door to false swearing. Different Forms of Action developed that did not permit the wager of law as a defense, and plaintiffs used them as much as possible. The procedure of wager of law had long ... http legal dictionary.thefreedictionary.com Wager of law title Wager of law legal definition of Wager ... give different dates and eras for the end of wager of law according to jurisdiction and strength of repeal. Abolition of Wager of Law Trial by ordeal was abolished by order of the Lateran Council of 1215. Trial by battle and wager of law were not formally abolished until 1819 and 1833, respectively ... PDF date accessdate 2012 02 19 ref Wager of law survived to recent centuries, and, in many jurisdictions ... makes direct reference to the abolition of wager of law. From 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica The procedure in a wager of law is traced by Blackstone to the Mosaic law, Ex. xxii. 10 but it seems historically ... stages of law. In the wager of law the defendant, with eleven compurgators, appeared in court, and the defendant ... more details
, during the early Roman Republic Republic , both parties had to lay down a wager at the preliminary hearing , probably to discourage frivolous litigation . In some cases, if the party lost, the wager ... costs. There were three different types of legis actiones , and the wager differed in each. Sacramentum ... down a wager of 50 as coin asses , or 500 if the matter under dispute was worth 1000 or more. The wager ... down by statute, and did not require any wager at all. It was therefore much less risky for the plaintiff ... or specific sum of money such as from a debtor . It did not require a wager as such, but the parties ... one third of the sum if he won. From 1911 Britannica WAGER derived, through Fr. wagier, gagier ... here. The determination of cases, civil and criminal, by means of wager or analogous forms of procedure ..., then a fictitious, wager and the wagers of battle and of law in England , of the highest antiquity ... of the wager survived long after its reason had been forgotten. The general prevalence of the wager ... casually called in see Maine disambiguation Maine , Ancient Law, c. x. . Wager of battle ..., the appellee was free. The right of wager of battle was claimed as late as 1818 by a man named ... year appeals for felony or treason were abolished by statute.2 Wager of Law vadiatio legis was a right ..., 1891 . ancient constitutional records . The procedure in a wager of law is traced by Blackstone .... The technical term sacramentum is the bond of union between the two stages of law. In the wager of law ... at the merits of a claim, and it is therefore not surprising to find that the policy of the law was in favour ... form of action other than those named, even though the cause of action were the same. No wager of law ... a common form to insert a proviso that no wager of law was to be allowed in an action for the penalty. Wager of law was finally abolished in 18 33 3 & 4 William Iv William IV . c. 42 . Another form of judicial wager in use up to 1845 was the feigned issue, by which questions arising in the course ... more details
Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Wager . Another was planned but later cancelled HMS Wager 1739 was a 24 gun sixth rate purchased in 1739 and wrecked in 1741. HMS Wager 1744 was a 24 gun sixth rate launched in 1744 and sold in 1763. HMS Wager was to have been a modified V and W class destroyer W class destroyer . She was laid down in 1918 but was cancelled later that year. HMS Wager R98 was a W and Z class destroyer W class destroyer launched in 1943. She was sold to the Yugoslav Navy in 1956 and renamed Pula , and was withdrawn from service in 1971. More information about the ship and her crew and pictures can be found at http www.hms wager.org.uk www.hms wager.org.uk . Shipindex DEFAULTSORT Wager, Hms Category Royal Navy ship names ... more details
Use British English date March 2012 BLP IMDB refimprove only yes date September 2007 Anthony A. Wager ... grew up in Mill Hill , Hendon . Wager s father was a plumber , though Wager himself was not well skilled in that area. Wager and his sister grew up during the Second World War and were often looked after by neighbours. It could be said that Anthony and his sister were inseparable. Wager studied at Christ s College, one of the top schools in the area. Career Wager s step mother found the audition call for the role of Pip in the film Great Expectations 1946 film Great Expectations . Wager went to the audition ... II Princess Elizabeth . In the late 1940s, Wager would have tea with a young Michael Caine . During ... was more young actor friendly, and Wager was approached by studios there. However, due to his father s control, he was not able to take them up on their offer. As Wager spent time in the West End, he lived with Brian Desmond Hurst who was associated with the production in which Wager was also involved to eliminate travel between the West End and Wager s home, as the means of transport in that area were not particularly good. In the late 1960s, Wager moved to Sydney, Australia. He suffered a heart attack and, due to the weather, Wager made the move to Perth, Western Australia Perth , Western Australia. Wager, out of acting work, had several jobs to keep money in his pocket. During this time ... on stage. Wager was credited with having very sharp wit . During his time spent in Australia, Wager would work mainly television shows and would often be spotted making cameo appearances. Wager was a gambler as had been his grandmother. Death On 23 December 1990, Wager died. By this time, he had moved to Bali , Indonesia again for health reasons. Wager was given a Bali nese funeral, considered ... links IMDb name id 0905697 name Anthony Wager Use dmy dates date March 2012 http anthonywager.blogspot.com A Tribute to Anthony Wager by Wager s great nephew and sister Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia ... more details
Infobox person image Leifwager1946.jpg imagesize 250px name Leif Wager birth date Birth date df yes 1922 2 11 df yes birth place Helsinki , Finland death date Death date and age df yes 2002 3 23 1922 2 11 df yes death place Helsinki, Finland othername occupation Actor yearsactive 1940 2001 Leif Wager 11 February 1922 &ndash 23 March 2002 was a Finnish actor. He appeared in 75 films and television shows between 1940 in film 1940 and 2001 in film 2001 . He starred in the film Kaks tavallista Lahtista , which was entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival . ref name imdb Cite web url http www.imdb.com title tt0053981 awards title IMDB.com Awards for Kaks tavallista Lahtista accessdate 2010 01 17 work imdb.com ref Selected filmography Sven Tuuva the Hero 1958 Kaks tavallista Lahtista 1960 References Reflist External links IMDB name 0905706 Leif Wager Use dmy dates date September 2010 Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Wager, Leif ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Actor DATE OF BIRTH 1922 2 11 PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki , Finland DATE OF DEATH 2002 3 23 PLACE OF DEATH Helsinki , Finland DEFAULTSORT Wager, Leif Category 1922 births Category 2002 deaths Category People from Helsinki Category Finnish people of Norwegian descent Category Finnish film actors Finland actor stub gl Leif Wager se Leif Wager fi Leif Wager sv Leif Wager ... more details
Infobox bay bay name Wager Bay image bay caption bay location Hudson Bay coords coord 65 30 N 89 00 W region CA NU type waterbody scale 500000 display inline,title name Wager Bay rivers Sila River oceans countries Canada length width area cities Uninhabited references Wager Bay previously Wager River ref cite book last Hayes first Derek title Canada An Illustrated History publisher Douglas & McIntyre date 2008 pages 55 isbn 1553652592 url http books.google.com ?id hrkq7t 4080C&pg PA55&lpg PA55&dq 22Wager Bay 22 river language Hayes ref is a waterway in Kivalliq Region , Nunavut , Canada . It is located in Hudson Bay . Ukkusiksalik National Park surrounds it. Wager Bay was first charted by Christopher Middleton navigator Christopher Middleton during his Arctic explorations of 1742. ref cite journal doi 10.2307 196418 title Geographical Discoveries in the Arctic Regions last Charles Francis Hall Hall, Charles Francis date 1871 04 09 journal Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York volume 3 work American Geographical Society publisher jstor.org pages 216 221 author1 Hall, C. F jstor 196418 ref Geography The bay is a long inlet stretching through tundra its shoreline measures convert 93 mi abbr on in length. ref name Struzik cite book last Struzik first Edward coauthors ... 2005 title Postglacial marine deposits and marine limit determinations, inner Wager Bay area, Kivalliq ... 2005 B3E.pdf ref Gallery gallery Image Sila Lodge 1996 07 24.jpg Sila Lodge, Wager Bay, July 1996 Image Eisb r 1996 07 23.jpg Polar bear on ice floe , br Wager Bay, July 1996 Image Erignathus barbatus 1996 08 04.jpg Bearded seal on ice floe, br Wager Bay, July 1996 Image Sila River & Wager Bay 1996 07 26.jpg Sila River and Wager Bay, July 1996 gallery References Reflist 2 Bays of Nunavut Subdivisions ... Category Former populated places in the Kivalliq Region KivalliqNU geo stub de Wager Bay es Bah a Wager ... more details
wikify date August 2011 William Wager floruit fl. 1566 , writer of interludes, is known only by his works. These were 1. A very mery and pythie Commedie, called, The longer thou livest, the more foole thou art. A myrrour very necessarie for youth, and specially for such as are like to come to dignitie and promotion as it maye well appeare in the matter folowynge. Newly compiled by W. Wager. Imprinted at London, by William How for Richard Johnes and are to be solde at his shop under the Lotterie House, b.l. n.d. 4to. An account of this interesting interlude is given by Collier in his History of Dramatic Poetry ii. 248 253 . The play is remarkable for the list of old songs quoted by the character Moros in the opening scene. 2. The Cruell Debtter. Thomas Colwell s license to print this interlude is entered in 1566 in the Stationers Register Arber, i. 307 . One leaf survives in Bagford s collection of title pages and scraps now in the British Museum Harl. MS. 5919, leaf 18, back . Two more leaves are in W. B. Scott s black letter fragments, separately bound, also in the British Museum C. 40 .... Bullen s Old English Plays iii. 263 , has been doubtfully attributed to Wager. More probable is the attribution .... It is given to Wager in the British Museum Catalogue on the authority of the appended exact catalogue, which gives him the Trial of Chivalry also. William Wager has sometimes been erroneously identified ..., late in the sixteenth century. William Wager has also been confused with Lewis Wager floruit fl ... Magdalene . . . made by the learned clarke Lewis Wager. This was licensed for publication to John Charlewood ... page. The enterlude was acted at the universities. To Lewis Wager is often attributed the Cruell Debtter, which is stated in the Stationers Registers to be by Wager without Christian name , but its ... DNB wstitle Wager, William Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wager, William ALTERNATIVE ... DEFAULTSORT Wager, William Category Year of birth missing Category Year of death missing Category ... more details
Wager Glacier is a small, heavily crevassed glacier on the east coast of Alexander Island . It occupies a trench like valley and flows east into George VI Sound immediately south of Marr Bluff . Surveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey FIDS and named by them for Lawrence R. Wager , professor of geology at Oxford University . usgs gazetteer coord 69 48 S 69 23 W display title Category Glaciers of Alexander Island AlexanderIsland geo stub ... more details
no footnotes date February 2011 Walter Herman Wager September 4, 1924 July 11, 2004 was an United States American novelist . Early life Walter Wager grew up in the East Tremont section of The Bronx , the son of Russian people Russian Jewish immigrants his father, Max, was a doctor, and his mother, Jessie, was a nurse. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School , he received a master s degree in aviation law from Northwestern University in 1949. Career Wager was best known as an author of mystery and spy fiction his works included 58 Minutes 1987 , whose story was used as the basis of the action film Die Hard 2 in 1990. Two of his other novels became major motion pictures in 1977 Viper Three 1972 , which was released as Twilight s Last Gleaming , and Telefon 1975 . Wager wrote a number of original novels in the 1960s under the pseudonym John Tiger that were based on the TV series I Spy 1965 TV series I Spy and Mission Impossible . Prior to making his reputation as a novelist, Wager was a Fulbright Fellow at the Sorbonne in Paris and diplomatic adviser to Israel s Director of Civil Aviation. He was also a writer and producer for CBS Radio , CBS television, and NBC television and was editor in chief of Playbill from 1963 to 1966. In addition, Wager worked in public relations ... House, a home for the elderly in Manhattan . Spouses Winifred McIvor Wager married June 4, 1975 July 11, 2004 his death br Sylvia Leonard Wager married May 6, 1952 May , 1975 divorced one child ... www.independent.co.uk news obituaries walter wager 550125.html The Independent Obituary July 20 2004 br External links http www.fantasticfiction.co.uk w walter wager fantasticfiction.co.uk Biography & Book ... Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wager, Walter ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American ... Wager, Walter Category 1924 births Category 2004 deaths Category American people of Russian ... 1920s stub it Walter Wager fi Walter Wager ... more details
Infobox NFL player name John Wager currentposition Center American football Center birth date birth date 1905 4 28 birth place Massillon, Ohio heightft 5 heightin 11 weight 203 college Carthage College Carthage debutyear 1931 finalyear 1933 debutteam Portsmouth Spartans finalteam Portsmouth Spartans pastteams nowiki nowiki Portsmouth Spartans 1931 NFL season 1931 1933 NFL season 1933 statlabel1 Games played statvalue1 30 nfl 2528045 John Wager born John Byron Wager ref cite web url http www.pro football reference.com players W WageJo20.htm title John Wager publisher Pro Football Reference.com accessdate 2011 07 01 ref was a Center American football center in the National Football League . He played three seasons for the Portsmouth Spartans . Previously, he played four seasons at Carthage College . ref cite web url http www.carthage.edu athleticspages mens football letter.html title All Time Carthage Football Letterwinners since 1895 publisher Carthage College accessdate 2011 07 01 ref References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wager, John ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American football player DATE OF BIRTH 1905 04 28 PLACE OF BIRTH Massillon, Ohio DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wager, John Category People from Massillon, Ohio Category Portsmouth Spartans players Category American football centers Category Carthage College alumni Category 1905 births Category Year of death missing Offensive lineman 1900s stub ... more details
Refimprove date December 2009 Harold William Taylor Wager Fellow of the Royal Society FRS 11 March 1862 17 November 1929 was a UK British botanist and mycologist . ref cite journal title obit. Dr. Harold Wager, F.R.S. journal Nature year 1929 month 21 Dec. volume 124 pages 953 954 doi 10.1038 124953a0 issue 3138 ref He was the uncle of the geologist Lawrence Rickard Wager . He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1904. ref cite journal title WAGER, Harold W. T. journal Who s Who, year 1907 volume 59 pages p. 1812 url http books.google.com books?id yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg PA1812 ref ref cite web url http www2.royalsociety.org DServe dserve.exe?dsqIni Dserve.ini&dsqApp Archive&dsqCmd Show.tcl&dsqDb Persons&dsqPos 0&dsqSearch 28Surname 3D 27Wager 27 29 title Wager Harold William Taylor 1862 1929 accessdate 4 March 2011 ref He was President of the British Mycological Society in 1910 ref cite book title Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists author Desmond, Ray year 1994 page 708 isbn 0850668433 url http books.google.com books?isbn 0850668433 ref and again in 1919. ref cite journal title Presidential address . The significance of sex and nuclear fusion in the fungi. journal Trans. British Mycol. Soc. volume 6 year 1920 pages 305 17 ref Wager was first a lecturer in botany at the Yorkshire College, then at Victoria University, then later he took the role of an Inspector of Schools for the Board of Education. ref cite web url http www2.royalsociety.org DServe dserve.exe?dsqIni Dserve.ini&dsqApp Archive&dsqDb Catalog&dsqSearch RefNo 27EC 2F1904 2F15 27&dsqCmd Show.tcl title Certificates of Election and Candidature accessdate 4 March 2011 ref References reflist External links wikisource author inline Harold W. T. Wager Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wager, Harold William Taylor ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION British mycologist DATE OF BIRTH 11 March 1862 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 17 November 1929 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wager ... more details
Michael Wager born April 29, 1925 is an United States American film and television actor . He appeared in the war film, Hill 24 Doesn t Answer , and he appeared in a recurring role, as Jonas Roving, on the soap opera Ryan s Hope . One of his memorable roles is Thomas the Apostle in King of Kings 1961 film King of Kings starring Jeffrey Hunter as Jesus . Personal life Born as Emanuel Weisgal and nicknamed Mendy , Wager, April 29, 1925, in New York, NY son of Meyer W. and Shirley Hirshfeld Weisgal married Mary Jo Van Ingen, December 21, 1948 divorced, 1955 married Susan Blanchard socialite Susan Blanchard Fonda , June 9, 1962 after her divorce from Henry Fonda . divorced children first marriage one daughter second marriage one son. External links imdb name 905707 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wager, Michael ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American actor DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1925 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wager, Michael Category 1925 births Category American film actors Category American soap opera actors Category American television actors Category Living people Category Place of birth missing living people Category Actors from New York City US tv actor 1920s stub ... more details
Refimprove date April 2011 See talk. Loki s Wager is a form of logical fallacy . ref cite book title Concise Handbook of Literary and Rhetorical Terms first Michael S. last Mills page 126 location Lexington, KY isbn 9780615271361 publisher Estep Nichols year 2010 ref It is the unreasonable insistence that a concept cannot be defined, and therefore cannot be discussed. Loki is a trickster god in Norse mythology , who, wikisource Prose Edda Sk ldskaparm l Loke s Wager With the Dwarves legend has it , once made a bet with some dwarves. It was agreed that the price, should Loki lose the wager, would be his head. Loki lost the bet, and in due time the dwarves came to collect the head which had become rightfully theirs. Loki had no problem with giving up his head, but he insisted they had absolutely no right to take any part of his neck. Everyone concerned discussed the matter certain parts were obviously head, and certain parts were obviously neck, but neither side could agree exactly where the one ended and the other began. As a result, Loki keeps his head indefinitely although in the specific example, he got his lips stitched shut as payback for getting out of the bet with tricky wordplay . The fallacy s focus on over specification makes it in some ways the opposite of hasty generalization and could be considered an extreme form of equivocation . The fallacy can be dealt with by attempting to establish a reasonable working definition of the term at play or by showing that the other party is being unreasonable and avoiding the argument. ref cite web url http www.toolkitforthinking.com critical thinking anatomy of an argument denial arguments loki s wager title Loki s Wager publisher Toolkit For Thinking ref See also Draupnir Brokkr No true Scotsman The Merchant of Venice A similar argument over a pound of flesh erupts at the end of the play. Quibble plot device Quibble the use of the fallacy as a plot device. Vagueness References reflist Informal Fallacy Category Verbal ... more details
Image Blaise Pascal Versailles.JPG thumb Blaise Pascal Philosophy of religion sidebar Pascal s Wager ... of the matter can t actually be known. Pascal formulated the wager within a Christianity Christian ..., were assembled to form an incomplete treatise on Christian apologetics . Historically, Pascal s Wager ... wager index.html Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy ref The Wager The philosophy uses the following ... must wager. It s not optional. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without ... risks of gain and of loss, and the infinite to gain. Context The wager builds on the theme of other ... if the ontological question is inconclusive. In Pascal s assessment, participation in this Wager ... be independently confirmed or denied, nevertheless the Wager is necessary and the possible scenarios must be considered and decided upon pragmatically. Explanation The wager is described in Pens es this way ... where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager? According to reason, you can do neither ... who chooses tails are equally at fault, they are both in the wrong. The true course is not to wager at all. Yes but you must wager. It is not optional. You are embarked. Which will you choose then? Let ... chances. If you gain, you gain all if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is. That is very fine. Yes, I must wager but I may perhaps wager too much. Let us see. Since ... might still wager. But if there were three lives to gain, you would have to play since you are under ... options, one must wager by weighing the possible consequences. Pascal s assumption is that, when ... that God does not exist. He points out that if a wager was between the equal chance of gaining ... of gaining nothing. The wise decision is to wager that God exists, since If you gain, you gain ... Analysis with decision theory The possibilities defined by Pascal s Wager can be thought of as a decision ... more details
Use dmy dates date April 2012 Infobox military person name Sir Charles Wager birth date 24 February 1666 death date 24 May 1743 image Image SirCharlesWager.jpg 220px caption Sir Charles Wager birth place ... awards relations Sir Charles Wager 24 February 1666 24 May 1743 was a British Admiral and First ... and diplomatic service, Wager s reputation has suffered from a profoundly mistaken idea that the navy ... than at any other time in the century, and its dockyard facilities, overseas bases Wager was much ... 60 gun ships, a class that Wager s Admiralty had chosen to augment during the 1730s but, as wartime ... of his father Captain Charles Wager b. 1630 , on 24 February 1666. His father had started life in the merchant ... of the time. Wager remarked in 1731, On both sides I am related to the navy . ref Coxe, 3.116 ref His paternal grandfather was John Wager d. 1656 of St Margaret s, Rochester, who became a mariner after ... 2 Nov 1665 ref Two years after the elder Wager s death, Samuel Pepys heard a friend who had been ... himself like poor Charles Wager, whom the very Moores do mention with teares sometimes . ref ... s dismissal from the navy following the restoration and his father s untimely death. Wager was apprenticed ... who operated a transatlantic shipping service. Wager s mother was a witness when John Hull merchant ... Sir Charles Wager was educated . ref Kimball, 1.215 ref It was while working with the Quaker John Hull that Wager displayed the strength of character that ultimately brought him to the attention of the Navy. During one of many transatlantic voyages the vessel which Hull was commanding with Wager as understudy ... and so he turned to his right hand man. The young Wager did not share his patron s religion and had no such compunctions, and so it was Wager, who accepted the encounter, and falling to work with the Frenchman ... 1709 The earliest record of Wager s naval service is his listing as lieutenant of the frigate HMS ... after 1660 and died while captain of the George in the Indian Ocean. Wager was in the HMS Britannia ... more details
atheism2 The Atheist s Wager is an Atheism atheistic response to Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal s Pascal s WagerWager regarding the existence of God . While Pascal suggested that it is better to take the chance of believing in a god that might not exist rather than to risk losing infinite happiness by disbelieving in a god that does, the Atheist s Wager suggests that Quote You should live your life and try to make the world a better place for your being in it, whether or not you believe in god. If there is no god, you have lost nothing and will be remembered fondly by those you left behind. If there is a benevolent god, he will judge you on your merits and not just on whether or not you believed in him. ref name AW http www.abarnett.demon.co.uk atheism wager.html Atheist s Wager ref The premise for the wager is often expressed in terms of an alleged quote from Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Quote Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. However, there is no indication that he ever wrote the quote attributed to him. Explanation The Wager states that if you were to analyze your options in regard to how to live your life, you would come out with the following possibilities ref name AW You may live a good life and believe in a god, and a benevolent god exists, in which case you go to heaven your gain is infinite. You may live a good life without believing ... s Wager, the Atheist s Wager seemingly suffers from the logical fallacy of the false dichotomy , relying ... according to one s actions, or a benevolent god does not exist. The Atheist s Wager equates a benevolent ... that acts otherwise such as the god of Pascal s wager, which rewards faith instead is not a benevolent ... more details
Use dmy dates date April 2012 Lawrence Rickard Wager , commonly known as Bill Wager , 5 February 1904 20 November 1965 was a United Kingdom British geology geologist , explorer and mountaineering mountaineer ... on Mount Everest in 1933. Early career Born in Batley , Yorkshire , Wager attended Leeds Grammar ... in the geology department at the University of Reading . ref name Vincent Greenland In 1930, Wager ... . Early in the expedition, Wager identified and named the Skaergaard intrusion at the mouth of the Kangerdlugssuaq ... an endeavour which took 39 days. ref name Glasby Glasby ref Wager also made an attempt to climb ... The research carried out in Greenland would form the basis of Wager s subsequent career, and he made ... had known Wager at Cambridge, and when Noel Odell was forced to drop out for business reasons, Wager was selected as a late replacement. On 30 May, Wager and Wyn Harris made the team s first attempt ... service and post war career During the Second World War , Wager worked for the Royal Air Force in the photographic ... German battleship Tirpitz Tirpitz . Wager was Mentioned in Despatches for his work. ref name Glasby ... Wager was appointed to the chair of geology at the University of Durham , and after being elected ... and Chemistry of the Earth s Interior awards the Wager Medal in his honour. ref name Glasby Notes reflist References cite journal title L.R. Wager and the geology of East Greenland author Brooks ... title Laurence Rickard Wager. 1904 1965 author Deer, W. A. journal Biographical Memoirs of Fellows ... 02 16 last first Vincent, E. A., http www.oxforddnb.com view article 36675 Wager, Lawrence Rickard ... Units 97.html http gnews.wustl.edu gn131 wager1.htm L. R. Wager Explorer, Mountaineer, Geologist http www.geochemsoc.org The Geochemical Society Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wager ... 1904 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 20 November 1965 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wager, Lawrence Rickard ... Batley Category British polar explorers Category Lyell Medal winners de Lawrence Rickard Wager ja ... more details
David Wager c. 1804 July 26, 1870 was an American politician from New York . Life He was a member of the New York State Assembly Oneida Co. in 56th New York State Legislature 1833 and 58th New York State Legislature 1835 . He was a member of the New York State Senate 5th D. from 1836 to 1840, sitting in the 59th New York State Legislature 59th , 60th New York State Legislature 60th , 61st New York State Legislature 61st , 62nd New York State Legislature 62nd and 63rd New York State Legislature s. In 1840, he married Mary Eliza Williams c. 1811 1904 , daughter of Judge Nathan Williams New York politician Nathan Williams 1773 1835 . Their daughter Mary Wager married in 1863 Alexander T. Goodwin d. 1899 , a New York State Senator from 1878 to 1879, and Mayor of Utica in 1892. David Wager and his wife were buried at the Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica . Gen. Henry Halleck 1815 1872 and Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple 1822 1901 were his nephews. Sources http books.google.com books?id E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg PA131 The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough pages 131f, 147, 214, 217 and 313 Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858 http query.nytimes.com mem archive free pdf?res FA0E10FF3B5913738DDDAD0894D9405B848CF1D3 Death notice of his widow, in NYT on January 4, 1904 http books.google.com.br books?id KltJAAAAYAAJ&pg PA151 Marriage notice in American Masonic Register and Literary Companion issue of January 11, 1840 pg. 151 External links Find a Grave 77428075 s start s par us ny sen succession box before John G. Stower title New York State Senate br Fifth District Class 2 years 1836 1840 after Henry A. Foster s end Persondata NAME Wager, David ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American politician DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1870 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wager, David Category 1800s births Category 1870 deaths Category New York State Senators Category People from Utica, New York Category New York Democrats Category Members of the New York State Assembly NewYork politician ... more details
BLP sources date July 2006 Gregg Wager born September 16, 1958 in Adrian, Michigan Adrian , Michigan is an United States American composer , pianist , and music critic . He studied musical composition composition at the University of Southern California and the California Institute of the Arts . His teachers included Morton Subotnick and Morten Lauridsen . His piano teachers included Yuriy Oliynyk , Doris Stevenson , and Chester Swiatkowski . In 1996, he earned a Ph.D. in musicology at the Free University Berlin . As a critic, he specializes in contemporary classical music and postmodern music . From 1985 to 1991, he contributed regularly to the Los Angeles Times . In an article for the New York Times , Going the Way of the Victrola, Wager became an important early advocate of the Peer to peer file sharing P2P community and the fall of the importance of the recording studio. Wager s musical influences vary from traditional forms of American and european classical music classical music to minimalism , jazz , rock music , and even serialism . He especially draws influence from Karlheinz Stockhausen and the relationships between Pitch music pitch and tempo , timbre and rhythm . Books Symbolism as a Compositional Method in the Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen 1998 . ISBN 0 9665850 0 3 Publications selective list Symbolische Aspekte der Formel Komposition. Neue Zeitschrift f r Musik . No. 4, Jul. Aug. 2003 42 4. Going the Way of the Victrola. New York Times . Vol. 150, No. 51,661, 11 Feb. 2001 Sec. 2, 32 . Tracing the Origins of Alabama Song A look at the meaning of a song by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill as interpreted by The Doors. Doors Collectors Magazine . Ed. Kerry Humphreys ... High Fidelity April 1986 MA 12. External links http www.angelfire.com music2 greggwager Gregg Wager ... Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Wager, Gregg ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION American composer DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1958 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Wager, Gregg Category ... more details
Infobox NRHP name Wager House image Wagerhouse.jpg caption location Titusville, Florida Titusville , Florida lat degrees 28 lat minutes 36 lat seconds 29 lat direction N long degrees 80 long minutes 48 long seconds 23 long direction W locmapin Florida area added January 10, 1990 visitation num visitation year governing body Private refnum 89002165 ref name nris NRISref version 2010a ref mpsub Titusville MPS The Wager House is a historic home in Titusville, Florida Titusville , Florida , United States . It is located at 621 Indian River Avenue. On January 10, 1990, it was added to the United States U.S. National Register of Historic Places . References reflist External links http www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com FL Brevard state.html Brevard County listings at http www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com National Register of Historic Places http www.flheritage.com facts reports places index.cfm?fuseaction ListAreas&county brevard Brevard County listings at http www.flheritage.com Florida s Office of Cultural and Historical Programs Category Houses in Brevard County, Florida Category National Register of Historic Places in Brevard County, Florida Florida NRHP struct stub ... more details
A scientific wager is a Gambling wager whose outcome is settled by scientific method . They typically consist of an offer to pay a certain sum of money on the scientific proof or disproof of some currently uncertain statement. Some wagers have specific date restrictions for collection, but many are open. Wagers occasionally exert a powerful galvanizing effect on society and the scientific community. Notable scientists who have made scientific wagers include Stephen Hawking and Richard Feynman . Stanford Linear Accelerator has an open book containing about 35 bets in particle physics dating back to 1980 many are still unresolved. Notable scientific wagers In 1684, Christopher Wren announced that he would give a book worth 40 shilling s equivalent to about inflation UK 2 1684 r 1 in present day terms inflation fn UK to anyone who could deduce Kepler s laws from the inverse square law . ref cite book last Newton first Isaac title The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton Volume 6 editor Whiteside, D. T. publisher Cambridge University Press location Cambridge, England pages 16 isbn 0521045851 ref ref http books.google.co.uk books?id 9fQ4AAAAMAAJ&pg PA145&lpg PA145&dq Christopher Wren Kepler book Newton shillings&source bl&ots PGF7BTJD1t&sig WSsyYK5ffyUuEt5ytXfUXKdqKwk&hl en&ei g6BlSobgGNmOjAf976WkAQ&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 4 Google books ref Isaac Newton s musings on this problem eventually grew into his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Principia . However, Newton was too late to qualify for the book. Historian Alan Shapiro historian Alan Shapiro University of Minnesota has stated that this episode was undoubtedly one of the most crucial wagers in scientific ..., then, the bet was a type of hedge finance hedge . The Simon Ehrlich wager . In 1980, biology ... must be lost in a black hole Preskill bet that it must not. The formal wager was When ... horse were not part of a wager, contrary to popular opinion. Pascal s wager is not a wager ... more details
Infobox military person name Wager Swayne birth date Birth date 1834 11 10 death date Death date and age 1902 12 18 1834 11 10 image File WSwayne.jpg 200px caption Medal of Honor recipient birth place Columbus, Ohio death place New York City placeofburial Arlington National Cemetery placeofburial label Place of burial allegiance United States United States of America br Union American Civil War Union branch United States Army br Union Army serviceyears 1861 spaced ndash 1870 rank Major general United States Major General unit 43rd Ohio Infantry commands Military List of Governors of Alabama Governor of Alabama battles American Civil War Battle of Iuka Siege of Corinth Atlanta Campaign awards Medal of Honor relations Noah Haynes Swayne Wager Swayne November 10, 1834 spaced ndash December 18, 1902 was a Union Army general during the American Civil War who received America s highest military decoration the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Second Battle of Corinth . He was also appointed military List of Governors of Alabama Governor of Alabama during the early days of Reconstruction era of the United States Reconstruction , serving from 1867 to 1868. Biography Image Swayne Hall Talladega.jpg 200px thumb left Built in 1857, and eventually named for Wager Swayne, Swayne Hall, Talladega College Swayne Hall is the oldest building on the campus of Talladega College , Alabama s oldest ... S Z Swayne, Wager date url http americancivilwar.com medal of honor8.html accessdate 2007 11 09 ref ref name AMOHW2 Cite web publisher army.mil title Medal of Honor website M Z Swayne, Wager date ... H. Smith S end Governors of Alabama Persondata NAME Swayne, Wager ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION ..., Ohio DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1902 PLACE OF DEATH New York City DEFAULTSORT Swayne, Wager Category ... Union Army generals Category Burials at Arlington National Cemetery de Wager Swayne fi Wager Swayne sv Wager Swayne ... more details
Professional Basketball League . College career Prior to his professional career, Wager played basketball ... punting , Wager managed to kick himself in the head resulting in a fractured skull. The incident knocked ...?hof 16&path &kiosk St. Mary s Athletics Hall of Fame profile DEFAULTSORT Wager, Clint Category ... Wager ... more details
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