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• n  a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed

• Scopes trial

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• New play to be highlight of Scopes Festival
  After a year’s hiatus, the Scopes Festival is scheduled for July 19-20 with the new Scopes Trial play, “Front Page News” as the highlight.
  July 9, 2013 - The Herald-News
• Traveling in Darwin's footsteps in Chile
  The name Darwin easily evokes a word association game moving from evolution to Galapagos Islands to turtles to apes to the Scopes Trial to Creationism and even Intelligent Design.
  July 7, 2013 - The Fort Collins Coloradoan