Timeline for Words or phrases that describe a person who knows the answer to a problem but is not believed
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| Mar 18, 2021 at 12:16 | history | edited | gbh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added link to a relevant visualization.
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| Oct 3, 2016 at 10:02 | history | edited | gbh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
I now think my ref to Copernicus was incorrect as he faced no consequences when he was alive (as he died shortly after publishing his book). Galileo, on the other hand, was tried by the Inquisition and kept under house arrest until his death. Moved "ignored" to last paragraph beside other consequenc
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| Jun 11, 2016 at 8:24 | vote | accept | gbh | ||
| May 24, 2016 at 20:45 | history | edited | gbh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 266 characters in body
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| May 24, 2016 at 20:37 | answer | added | gbh | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 21, 2016 at 19:50 | comment | added | ab2 | We need more context. The person could be "ineffectual" or "ahead of her time" or "inarticulate" or something else. Please clarify. Also, you should write a sentence into which the word will be inserted. | |
| May 20, 2016 at 0:12 | comment | added | Baard Kopperud | May I suggest "Like a scientist at a GOP-convention"? | |
| May 19, 2016 at 23:18 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | Also possibly relevant is the phrase "a prophet without honor"—the reference being to Jesus's observation in Mark 6 that often a prophet is without honor [that is, is not honored] in his own land, despite his being a prophet. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 21:59 | answer | added | user176105 | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 19, 2016 at 21:47 | answer | added | andrew oxenburgh | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 19, 2016 at 20:24 | answer | added | Joce | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 19, 2016 at 20:01 | answer | added | Greg | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 19, 2016 at 18:38 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 19, 2016 at 16:33 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/733334740984594433 | ||
| May 19, 2016 at 14:39 | answer | added | KRyan | timeline score: 22 | |
| May 19, 2016 at 11:55 | answer | added | Spagirl | timeline score: 13 | |
| May 19, 2016 at 11:10 | answer | added | DavidR | timeline score: 14 | |
| May 19, 2016 at 8:43 | answer | added | NVZ♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 19, 2016 at 8:38 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 19, 2016 at 8:36 | history | asked | gbh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |