Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Richard Dawkins across 6 places, from 1941 to 2015.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, science communicator and author.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Richard Dawkins was documented, and when
26 March 1941exact date
Nairobiattested“Dawkins was born Clinton Richard Dawkins on 26 March 1941 in Nairobi, Colonial Kenya.”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
1962year
Balliol College, Oxfordattested“He studied zoology at Balliol College, Oxford (the same college his father attended), graduating in 1962; while there, he was tutored by Nikolaas Tinbergen, a Nobel Prize-winning ethologist.”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
1967 to 1969period
University of California, Berkeleyattested“From 1967 to 1969 Dawkins was an assistant professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley.”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
1995year
Oxfordattested“In 1995, he was appointed Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, a position that had been endowed by Charles Simonyi with the express intention that the holder "be expected to make important contributions to…”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
19 December 2015exact date
Wembley Arenaattested“He subsequently performed his parts live with Nightwish on 19 December 2015 at the Wembley Arena in London; the concert was later released as a part of a live album/DVD titled Vehicle of Spirit.”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
19 December 2015exact date
Londonattested“He subsequently performed his parts live with Nightwish on 19 December 2015 at the Wembley Arena in London; the concert was later released as a part of a live album/DVD titled Vehicle of Spirit.”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
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1949year
Englandmentioned“His father was called up into the King's African Rifles during the Second World War and returned to England in 1949, when Dawkins was eight.”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
1949year
Nyasalandmentioned“On his arrival in England from Nyasaland in 1949, at the age of eight, Dawkins joined Chafyn Grove School in Wiltshire, where he says he was molested by a teacher.”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
1949year
Wiltshirementioned“On his arrival in England from Nyasaland in 1949, at the age of eight, Dawkins joined Chafyn Grove School in Wiltshire, where he says he was molested by a teacher.”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
1954 to 1959period
Northamptonshirementioned“From 1954 to 1959 he attended Oundle School in Northamptonshire, an English public school with a Church of England ethos, where he was in Laundimer House.”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
19 August 1967exact date
Annestownmentioned“On 19 August 1967 Dawkins married the ethologist Marian Stamp in the Protestant church in Annestown, County Waterford, Ireland; they divorced in 1984.”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
1970year
University of Oxfordmentioned“He returned to the University of Oxford in 1970 as a lecturer.”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
1 June 1984exact date
Oxfordmentioned“On 1 June 1984 he married Eve Barham (1951–1999) in Oxford.”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
1986year
Oxford Unionmentioned“In 1986 Dawkins and the biologist John Maynard Smith participated in an Oxford Union debate against A.”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
1992year
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelseamentioned“In 1992 he married the actress Lalla Ward in Kensington and Chelsea.”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
2005year
Galápagosmentioned“In 2005, during a pilgrimage to the Galápagos, Dawkins wrote three new tales.”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
30 September 2007exact date
Washington, D.C.mentioned“On 30 September 2007 Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett met at Hitchens's residence in Washington, D.C., for a private, unmoderated discussion that lasted two hours.”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
2008 to 2009period
Londonmentioned“He supported a UK atheist advertising initiative, the Atheist Bus Campaign in 2008 and 2009, which aimed to raise funds to place atheist advertisements on buses in the London area.”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
2011year
Londonmentioned“In 2011 Dawkins joined the professoriate of the New College of the Humanities, a private university in London established by A.”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
May 2014month
Walesmentioned“In May 2014, at the literary Hay Festival in Wales, Dawkins explained that while he does not believe in the supernatural elements of the Christian faith, he still has nostalgia for the ceremonial side of religion.”source: Wikipedia: Richard Dawkins
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