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Anyone who watches Milk is bound to be moved by the injustice suffered by the gay community and the courage of Harvey Milk.
Harvey J. Kaye is Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
Where other reporters make ten phone calls, Harvey makes a hundred.
Harvey understood that whatever the particular details of the tragedy, there was also a larger context.
“Anybody who makes a revenue source a line of a budget becomes dependent on it,” Harvey suggests.
Historical Examples of harvey
Harvey was as indefatigable a labourer as any we have named.
Self-HelpSamuel Smiles
“Of course I will, Harvey,” responded the operator in a matter-of-fact way.
The Mountain DivideFrank H. Spearman
Harvey bitterly disputed the Council's power to thwart his will.
Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660Wilcomb E. Washburn
Harvey had extended a helping hand to Baltimore's colonists.
Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660Wilcomb E. Washburn
Harvey was finally able to return to England, probably in 1641.
Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660Wilcomb E. Washburn
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Biography: In the second century ce, the Greek physician Galen theorized that blood is created in the liver, passes once through the heart, and is then absorbed by bodily tissues. Galen's ideas were widely accepted in European medicine until 1628, when William Harvey published a book describing the circulation of blood throughout the body. Through his observations of human and animal dissections, Harvey saw that blood flows from one side of the heart to the other and that it flows through the lungs and returns to the heart to be pumped elsewhere. There was one missing part of the cycle: How did the blood pumped to distant body tissues get into the veins to be carried back to the heart? As an answer, Harvey offered his own, unproven theory, one that has since been shown to be true: blood passes from small, outlying arteries through tiny vessels called capillaries into the outlying veins. Harvey's views were so controversial at the time that many of his patients left his care, but his work became the basis for all modern research on the heart and blood vessels.