Phrenology or craniology (from Ancient Greek φρήν (phrēn) 'mind' and λόγος (logos) 'knowledge') is a pseudoscience that involves the measurement of bumps...
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Phrenology is the fifth studio album by American hip hop band the Roots, released on November 26, 2002, by MCA Records. Recording sessions for the album...
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Franz Joseph Gall (section Contributions to phrenology)
functions in the brain. Claimed as the founder of the pseudoscience of phrenology, Gall was an early and important researcher in his fields. His contributions...
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The American Phrenological Journal was a periodical in the United States devoted to the racist pseudoscience of phrenology, a collection of theories correlating...
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phrenology. Phrenology maintains that an individual's character can be divined from the shape of his head as well as the sizes of the phrenological organs...
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Phrenology has been a cultural factor in the Latter Day Saint movement (informally Mormons) since around the time of its founding in 1830. Phrenology...
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The Edinburgh Phrenological Society was founded in 1820 by George Combe, an Edinburgh lawyer, with his physician brother Andrew Combe. The Edinburgh Society...
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With the Aid of Phrenology is a lost 1913 short silent film comedy directed by Edward Dillon and starring Charles Murray. It was produced by the Biograph...
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1832) was a German physician who became one of the chief proponents of phrenology, which was developed c. 1800 by Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828). Spurzheim...
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an office in New York City, and were the recognized leaders in the phrenological, physiological, and hygienic sciences. For half a century, they were...
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