Done this way, dowsing is very similar to playing with an Ouija board — although, within spiritual circles, dowsing is considered to be much more reliable.
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Over It. and Dowsing, and embracing their snarkier alter egos.
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"I think it's some kind of dowsing device," he said, looking pleased.
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Dowsing is another example of the ideomotor effect being exploited for financial gain.
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On the face of it, focus groups have as much credibility as water dowsing.
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I'm guessing: falconry, home brewing, dowsing and opening a food truck, in that order.
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We stood in a dark room with the dowsing rods and an EMF meter and waited.
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As is often the case with divinatory and intuitive practices, there isn't really science behind dowsing.
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Back outside on the streets of Portland, I spun around as uselessly as a dowsing rod.
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He studied Gestalt therapy and picked up dowsing, the art of divining energy with copper rods.
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And, in the Middle Ages, dowsing (or divining) rods were used to find water and metals in the ground.
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Her technique is less wispy here, as she depicts some form of broomstick dowsing rod combo on which five women ride.
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The fork jerked and then veered like a dowsing rod toward the right pocket where it found the bulge of the .22.
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Depending on your familiarity with the practice of dowsing, you can perform a reading using nothing but a pendulum and your own intuition.
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Pendulum dowsing can be as informative and spiritually fulfilling as a daily tarot practice if you go into it with an open mind.
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If she seemed to be, as Mr. Lubow puts it, "a dowsing rod for anguish," there were also many satisfactions in her life.
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If you don't know what dowsing is, you're in for a real treat: It's the act of using witchcraft to locate something with sticks.
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He first gave us dowsing rods and asked us to wander the walks waiting for these metal sticks to come together or fall apart.
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While I was out cold in my bunk last night, eyes in the sky were dowsing for covert data farms: telltale transmissions near the dew point.
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Being a dowsing rod for disappointments, moreover, appears to be a curiously stable attribute, a "sticky" trait that is transported but not transmitted and doesn't bow to shifting social norms.
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Pity the title character in "The Astonished Woodchopper" who finds himself — while eavesdropping like "a dowsing rod, having located water" — in the crossfire of a fraternal argument at a wedding.
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Dowsing can be traced back to ancient China, Egypt, and Rome, where it's believed people used pendulums to ask divine entities questions like where they should plant crops or where spirits come from.
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Geller worked with Puharich, the astronaut Edgar Mitchell, and others in the development of the Defense Department's remote viewing labs, before going on to make millions "dowsing" for oil corporations in the 1980s.
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The actual content of these doctrines became widely popular in Germany and Austria, and many were tolerated or even tentatively adopted by the Third Reich: parapsychological belief in telepathy, astrology, water dowsing, for example.
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Her interactions with the community's mediums and psychics include a ceremony to cleanse her home of a suspected ghost, a session of table talking in which the oak-legged furniture apparently dances around the room and an experiment in dowsing.
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Since April, Gaza militants have been turning kites and balloons into improvised firebombs, burning hundreds of acres of Israeli farmland and forcing firefighting crews from all over the country to race from fire to fire dowsing flames before they can spread.
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In one episode, Gum appears to make contact with a dead nun called Madeleine—but instead of playing the encounter for dramatic thrills, Gum is positively overjoyed when the apparition appears to move the dowsing rods to profess that she was in a relationship with another sister.
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"Looks forward to the next spring?" could mean that one is weary of the other seasons and is hoping for the season of rebirth, but in today's puzzle, the answer is DOWSES, because dowsing is all about trying to find water sources and other things through divination.
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If you've read your horoscope and tarot cards for the year ahead but want to get an even clearer idea of what might happen in 2018, it may be time to expand your spiritual practice to include pendulum dowsing, an ancient discipline that you can do by yourself.
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The practice, whose stated purpose is to divine water or other things located underground or concealed within something else, involves holding a special device (like a dowsing rod or a divining rod) and letting the ideomoter effect cause your hand to "mysteriously" point to the location of the desired object or substance.
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The usual disciplines are explored: ESP, clairvoyance, traveling clairvoyance (or out-of-body experiences), psychometry (divining information from objects), skin reading, dowsing, eyeless sight, mental telepathy, synthetic telepathy (using microwaves), outbounder-beaconry (don't ask), mind projection, psychoenergetics, remote viewing, E.H.B.F. (extraordinary human body function), spoon bending, remote action, remote perturbation (a gentler version of the former), precognition, divination, automatic writing, cryptomnesia (unconsciously evoking latent memories) and premonition/intuition (a.k.a.
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"It could be a demon, but more likely and more common, it's the manifestation of a bad situation, perhaps a murder or a rape or some other trauma, and that energy has stuck to the doll vessel," Blowers said that to determine whether the doll is haunted, the Madonias could've used a K-II EMF (electromagnetic field) meter, a pendulum, or a dowsing rod, as each of those instruments are believed to react to vessels that contain spirits.
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In 2013, Soft Speak Records released a split with Dowsing, Haverford, Run, Forever, and Captain, We're Sinking. In May 2014, Dowsing released a 7" split with Annabel via Count Your Lucky Stars. In July 2015, Count Your Lucky Stars Records released a 7" split with The Cardboard Swords, Dowsing, Long Knives, and Sinai Vessel. On April 29, 2016, Dowsing released their third studio album entitled Okay via Asian Man Records.
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Within two years of their marriage, Dowsing was divorced, and dropped out of medical school in his third year. This was probably largely due to a secret: Dowsing was gay. Dowsing then worked for Bell Telephone in California, until he was diagnosed with AIDS in the late 1980s. He died of the disease in 1994.
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In 2010, Dowsing was inducted into the Mississippi Hall of fame, where he was nicknamed "The Jackie Robinson of Mississippi". In 2017, Mississippi State dedicated a plaza at the football stadium to Dowsing.
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Hitching has written on earth mysteries, dowsing, paranormal and ley lines. In his book Pendulum: The Psi Connection (1977), he came to the conclusion that dowsing is genuine, listing a number of alternative explanations such as electromagnetism and psychic ability that he thought were associated with dowsing.New Scientist, 10 November 1977 OnlineWebb, Hilda Eggleston. (1980). Dowsing: The Psi Connection by Francis Hitching.
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Dowsing was retired from racing to become a breeding stallion. The best off his offspring was probably Tedburrow, who won twenty-one races including the Flying Five and the Chipchase Stakes. Dowsing died in Japan on 1 January 1993.
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The Guardian. and also by some in the dowsing community. The dowsing apparatus is known to amplify slight movements of the hands caused by a phenomenon known as the ideomotor response: people's subconscious minds may influence their bodies without consciously deciding to take action. This would make the dowsing rod susceptible to the dowsers's subconscious knowledge or perception; but also to confirmation bias.Hyman, R; Vogt, E. Z. (1968).
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He was also known as "Basher Dowsing". His portrait survives in the Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich.
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This began his exile from "the contentfull little kingdom" at Peterhouse that he cherished. Shortly after Crashaw's departure from the city, Little St Mary's was ransacked on 29 and 30 December 1643 by William Dowsing, an iconoclast who was ordered by Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, a parliamentary commander during the Civil War, to rid Anglican churches in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire of any ornaments or images connected to Roman Catholic "superstitions" or "popery". Dowsing faithfully kept a journal of his destructive efforts at over 250 churches, recording that at Little St Mary's "we brake downe 60 superstitious pictures, some popes, and crucifixes, and God the Father sitting in a chayer, and holding a globe in his hand".Edmund Carter, The History of the Country of Cambridge (Cambridge: T. James, printer, 1753), 37; William Dowsing, "The Journal of William Dowsing", William Dowsing (website).
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Dowsing for metal ore, from 1556 "De re metallica libri XII" book. Use of a divining Rod observed in Great Britain in the late 18th century. right Dowsing as practiced today may have originated in Germany during the 16th century, when it was used in attempts to find metals.Baring-Gould, Sabine.
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Camila Domonoske, U.K. Water Companies Sometimes Use Dowsing Rods To Find Pipes, The Two-Way, NPR, 21 November 2017.
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Frank Dowsing was the first African-American to play football for both Tupelo High School and Mississippi State University.
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In August Dowsing was sent to France to contest the Prix de Meautry at Deauville Racecourse and finished fourth behind Cricket Ball. On 12 September, Dowsing was one of ten horses to contest the Group One Vernons Sprint Cup over six furlongs at Haydock Park. The Irish colt Big Shuffle started favourite ahead of Handsome Sailor, Caerwent (National Stakes) and Silver Fling with Dowsing next in betting at odds of 15/2. The other five runners were Ghariba (Nell Gwyn Stakes), Print, Umbelata, Sharp Romance and Polykratis.
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Pseudoscience and the Paranormal. Prometheus Books. pp. 418-421. Hyman, Ray. (2007). Ouija, Dowsing, and Other Selections of Ideomotor Action.
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The greatest disaster to befall the church was the visit of William Dowsing in 1643. The Puritan Parliament decreed the demolition of altars, removal of candlesticks, and defacement of pictures and images. 'Basher' Dowsing, a fanatical anti-Romanist, was appointed as 'Parliamentary Visitor for the East Anglian counties for demolishing the superstitious pictures and ornaments of churches'.
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The Ghost Club Society The Ghost Club later expanded its remit to include the study of UFOs, dowsing, cryptozoology and similar topics.
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In "Dowsing the Dead", when Dax, Lisa, Mia and Gideon dowse for Luke, she watches over them to ensure they are safe.
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Dowsing is considered to be a pseudoscience.Regal, Brian. (2009). Pseudoscience: A Critical Encyclopedia. Greenwood. pp. 56–57. Pigliucci, Massimo; Boudry, Maarten. (2013).
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Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem. University Of Chicago Press p. 38. Radford, Benjamin. (2013). "Dowsing: The Pseudoscience of Water Witching".
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McCormick told the BBC in 2010 that "the theory behind dowsing and the theory behind how we actually detect explosives is very similar".
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The passage is the first written description of how dowsing is done. Finally he comments on the practice of naming veins or shafts.
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He usually appears with JK. ;JK : :JK is an occult dowser who specializes in using dowsing rods to locate supernatural phenomena. Like Kozue, he is also an occult maniac and often accompanies the other characters when occult-related events occur. He is able to engage in combat using his dowsing rods, but usually relies on Smile to get him out of trouble.
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The Lynn wind farm and the Inner Dowsing wind farm were initially developed as separate projects by AMEC and Renewable Energy Systems. The projects received planning consent in 2003. At the planning stage the development was opposed by fishermen. In 2003 Centrica Renewable Energy acquired the Lynn and the Dowsing wind farm projects and merged them into a single development.
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On 28 July 1959, she ran aground off Lowestoft, Suffolk. Although she was refloated, she capsized and sank off the Inner Dowsing Light Vessel.
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In 2016, Dowsing featured a demo version of "Feeling Better" on "Forever Beautiful, A compilation of love for Orlando" after the Pulse Nightclub shooting.
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Rob Dowsing (born 3 September 1947) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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Tricker (2011), p. 19 Simon Jenkins writes: "Hadleigh suffered sorely from a Dowsing visitation. In February 1644 he 'brake down thirty superstitious pictures and gave orders for taking down the rest which were about seventy'... We must long for a modern Dowsing to dispose of the present glass in the [south] chapel's east window."Jenkins, S. (2000), England's Thousand Best Churches, Penguin Books, pp. 751-752.
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London is a River City was a series of public walks exploring London's underground rivers through dowsing and re-mapping. The largest of these was Walbrook.
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In the next fuel stops, the Bentley's engine caught fire. Despite Clement dowsing it with his seat-cushion, the damage was too severe to carry on.
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Francis Alfred Ernest Dowsing (10 November 1882 – 14 March 1963) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the South Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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She is the principal antagonist of Running the Risk and Dowsing the Dead as she seeks to permanently obtain the abilities of all the COLAs (by killing them). At the end of Dowsing the Dead she is shot, but she leeches Mia's healing power, and manages to escape into sanctuary with the French authorities. She is killed at the end of Stirring the Storm by Mia, who burns her to death using pyrokinesis.
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Maby with physicist T. Bedford Franklin wrote the book The Physics of the Dowsing Rod (1939).Gardner, Martin. (1957). Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. Dover Publications. p. 103.
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Dowsing Point is a locality of the greater area of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is part of the City of Glenorchy and encompasses the area of land North-East of Goodwood protruding into the River Derwent. It includes the land feature Dowsings Point which marks the north of the entrance to Prince of Wales Bay. Dowsing Point is best known as the western land-end of the Bowen Bridge (Goodwood Road), an arterial road linking the Brooker Highway with the East Derwent Highway.
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In the Group Three Diadem Stakes at Ascot Racecourse Dowsing started the 8/1 third favourite behind Hallgate (winner of the race in 1986) and Print PHopeful Stakes. Ridden as in most of his previous races by Pat Eddery, he tracked the leaders before moving up to challenge the pace-setter Governor General a furlong out. After a protracted struggle, Dowsing got the better of Governor General and won by a length despite flashing his tail in the closing stages.
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Dowsing began his third season in the Duke of York Stakes at York on 12 May and finished fifth of the thirteen runners behind Handsome Sailor. At Royal Ascot in June he started the 9/2 second favourite for the Cork and Orrery Stakes and finished fifth behind Posada. On 26 July Dowsing ran for the second time in the Stewards' Cup and carried top weight of 140 pounds. He finished third of the twenty-eight runners behind Rotherfield Greys and Glencroft.
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Billy has escaped, leaving only zip ties. Melinda begins dowsing the store with gasoline. She hears Billy come from the back and hides behind shelves. He kills the power, which locks the front doors.
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At the 2011 Australian Census the suburb recorded no people living there. While the Glenorchy City Council classes it as a suburb, there are only a small number of residences within the area located between the Commonwealth land situating the Derwent Barracks, and the Elwick Racecourse. Dowsing Point is the site of the Tasmanian Technopark, a Qantas call centre, an army barracks and various Park Lands. In 2007, Mayor Adriana Taylor proposed to have Dowsing Point as the new site of the Royal Hobart Hospital.
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A 1990 double-blind studyGWUP-Psi-Tests 2004: Keine Million Dollar für PSI-Fähigkeiten (in German) and English version .The Kassel Dowsing Test – Part 1The Kassel Dowsing Test – Part 2 was undertaken in Kassel, Germany, under the direction of the Gesellschaft zur Wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften (Society for the Scientific Investigation of the Parasciences). James Randi offered a US$10,000 prize to any successful dowser. The three-day test of some 30 dowsers involved plastic pipes through which water flow could be controlled and directed.
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At MSU, Dowsing was an all-American as a defensive back, an academic all-American, and was elected Mr. Mississippi State by his fellow students. This was the first time a black student had won any sort of election at the school. Just before graduation, he married LaFawn Gilliam in the Chapel of Memories at Mississippi State. Upon graduation, Dowsing was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles, but instead chose to fulfill a lifelong dream by attended medical school at the Mississippi University School of Medicine.
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Opposition to the removal of images was widespread—so much so that when during the Commonwealth, William Dowsing was commissioned to the task of image breaking in Suffolk, his task, as he records it, was enormous.
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Pendulums are also seen at many gatherings in eastern Mexico where they mark the turning of the tides on the day which the tides are at their highest point. See also pendulums for divination and dowsing.
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The south porch was rebuilt by Gilbert Scott in 1877. William Dowsing mutilated the church screen in 1644. The parish is now held with that of Fowlmere and no vicar has lived in Thriplow since 1936.
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Live Science. Science writers such as William Benjamin Carpenter (1877), Millais Culpin (1920), and Martin Gardner (1957) considered the movement of dowsing rods to be the result of unconscious muscular action.Carpenter, William Benjamin. (1877). Mesmerism, Spiritualism, &c.
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In 2012, Annabel released their second full-length album titled Youth In Youth. In 2014, Annabel released a split with Chicago emo band Dowsing. In 2015, Annabel released their third full-length album titled Having It All.
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William Dowsing the iconoclast gave his associate Francis Jessup charge of visiting the churches of Bungay, Blythburgh and Yoxford, but he made Sir Robert Brooke responsible for levelling the chancel steps at Bramfield.T. Cooper (ed.), The Journal of William Dowsing: Iconoclasm in East Anglia (Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2001), p. 82 (Google). In 1645 Brooke was created an Elder of the Halesworth Congregational classis (one of the fourteen precincts or divisional committees organized for Suffolk), representing the Blything Hundred with Dunwich and Southwold, together with his son John Brooke, Esq.
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Dowsing was conducted in South Dakota in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to help homesteaders, farmers, and ranchers locate water wells on their property.Grace Fairchild and Walker D. Wyman, Frontier Woman: The Life of a Woman Homesteader on the Dakota Frontier (River Falls: University of Wisconsin-River Falls Press, 1972), 50; Robert Amerson, From the Hidewood: Memories of a Dakota Neighborhood (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1996), 290–98. In the late 1960s during the Vietnam War, some United States Marines used dowsing to attempt to locate weapons and tunnels.
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Aymar-Vernay dowsing with a divining rod. Jacques Aymar-Vernay (born in 1662) was a stonemason from the village of Saint Marcellin in Dauphiné, France, who reintroduced dowsing with a divining rod into popular usage in Europe. He claimed to have discovered springs and treasures hiding in the earth using his rod, and even tracked down criminals using it. According to some accounts, when he neared the scene of a murder using a divining rod, he would break into a sweat, shudder and, in some instances, even faint.
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A strict materialist, Sladek subjected the occult and pseudoscience to merciless scrutiny in The New Apocrypha. The book critically examined the claims of dowsing, homeopathy, parapsychology, perpetual motion and Ufology.Priest, Christopher. (1974). "The New Apocrypha by John Sladek".
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After being "driven along" by Eddery in the last quarter mile, Dowsing gained the advantage in the final strides and won by a head from Silver Fling with a gap of four lengths back to Caerwent in third place.
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In 2015, Count Your Lucky Stars Records released a split with the bands Dowsing, Sinai Vessel, Long Knives, and The Cardboard Swords. On January 27, 2017, Sinai Vessel released their second full-length album after signing to Tiny Engines titled Brokenlegged.
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H.D.) degree from Whittier College. He published the next book in the Martinus series, The Commodore, in 1986, while living in "The Walled Garden" in Somerset, England, and it was followed by The Centurion (1989), which explored an interest that he and his wife had become involved in: dowsing. In the novel, Martinus Harinxma dabbled with dowsing and was led on a journey that followed in the footsteps of a Roman centurion. The real story, in terms of researching and writing this book, was not much different from the book itself, with the exception of fictional elements used to carry the story along.
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Eleven-year-old Coraline Jones and her parents, Mel and Charlie, move into an old mansion that has been divided up and is now known as the Pink Palace Apartments. Due to her parents struggling to complete their gardening catalog, Coraline is often left alone. While using a dowsing rod she plucked from a bush in the garden, attempting to find a well nearby, she meets the landlady's grandson, Wyborne "Wybie" Lovat, and the feral Black Cat who follows him around. Wybie informs Coraline that her dowsing rod is poison oak, which gives her a rash on her palm.
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Retrieved 14 January 2015; and Dowsing, The Journal of William Dowsing: Iconoclasm in East Anglia During the English Civil War, edited by Trevor Cooper (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2001), 192-194. Crashaw's poetry took on decidedly Catholic imagery, especially in his poems written about of Spanish mystic St Teresa of Avila. Teresa's writings were unknown in England and unavailable in English. However, Crashaw had been exposed to her work, and the three poems he wrote in her honor—"A Hymn to Sainte Teresa," "An Apologie for the fore-going Hymne," and "The Flaming Heart"— are, arguably, his most sublime works.
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Dowsing (21 April 1984 - 1 January 1993) was an American-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. A specialist sprinter, he excelled over six furlongs and won four of his fourteen races between 1986 and 1988. After failing to win in two starts as juvenile, Dowsing showed improved form is 1987 when he won three races including a valuable handicap at Doncaster Racecourse and the Diadem Stakes on his final appearance. In the following year he took time to reach his best form but again ended his season triumphantly as he recorded his biggest win in the Group One Vernons Sprint Cup.
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In the fall of 1967, Tupelo instituted a "choice" system, whereby students at all-white Tupelo High School and all-black Carver High School were given the opportunity to choose which school to attend. While no white students chose Carver, Dowsing was one of five African-American students who chose to attend Tupelo High School, and was the first to play football. Unlike school integration in many other areas of Mississippi and the South, this was a peaceful event. Because of a broken jaw, which had been wired shut, Dowsing was unable to speak or practice football at the beginning of school.
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In recent years, the long-neglected cemetery has been cleaned up and a fence was built around the stone memorial. A cooperative effort between local genealogical societies has recently discovered the approximate boundaries of the burial plot by dowsing for grave sites.
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There is evidence of the oral use of Latin formulas in dowsing, ordeals and ceremonies. Leo Levi found some Hebraisms in a few epigraphs in Italy.Leo Levi, "Ricerca di epigrafia ebraica nell'Italia meridionale," La Rassegna mensile di Israel, vol. 28 (1962), pp.
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Nature 119: 310-311. Barrett rejected any physical theory for dowsing such as radiation. He concluded that the ideomotor response was responsible for the movement of the rod but in some cases the dowser's unconscious could pick up information by clairvoyance.Gardner, Martin.
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Laura M. (Brachear) Nation. Butcher briefly worked as a travelling salesman for a grain and flour mill. However, he abandoned this for less practical schemes. He invented what he described as an "electromagnetic oil detector", applying the principles of dowsing to the discovery of oil.
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For example, an object with a distinguishing feature may be spun between two diverging paths or disparate objects, and the one closest to the feature is chosen. The party game Spin the Bottle is loosely based on this concept. Cyclomancy is sometimes used in Dowsing.
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Also, Thomson and Thompson accompany Tintin and Captain Haddock on their quest to rescue Professor Calculus, whereas in the books their only role is attempting to use dowsing in order to find Tintin and his friends (and their arrival in the Incan village delays the planned execution).
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In 1979, Randi tested four people in Italy for dowsing ability. The prize at the time was $10,000. The conditions were that a 10 meter by 10 meter test area would be used. There would be a water supply and a reservoir just outside the test area.
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Alongside its usage as a sacred site amongst Pagans, the prehistoric monument has become a popular attraction for those holding New Age beliefs, with some visitors using dowsing rods around the site in the belief that they might be able to detect psychic emanations.Burl 1979. p. 18.
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In early 2015, The Cardboard Swords signed to Count Your Lucky Stars Records. Not long after, they were featured on a split released by the label alongside Dowsing, Sinai Vessel, and Long Knives. In late 2015, The Cardboard Swords released their self-titled first full-length album.
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In contrast to his unquestionable scientific merits, Calculus is a fervent believer in dowsing, and carries a pendulum for that purpose. Hergé himself was a believer in the subject: dowser Victor Mertens had used a pendulum to find the lost wedding ring of Hergé's wife in October 1939.
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They postulated that dowsing occurred due to some form of radiation. A review in Nature noted that there is "no direct evidence for such waves and the author's discussion of their polarization cannot be justified on our present physical knowledge."Anonymous. (1940). The Physics of the Divining Rod. Nature 146: 150.
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The college also escaped the worst excesses of the puritan Commonwealth. When William Dowsing inspected the college he found "nothing to amend". St Bene't's Church was not so lucky and indeed there was much disturbance in the fellowship as many were forced out and reinstated as circumstances changed through the period.
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Beginning around the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE), the fuji method and written characters changed from "support the sieve" (spirit-writing using a suspended sieve or winnowing tray) to "support the planchette" (directing a stick or stylus, typically made from a willow or peach branch, and roughly resembling a dowsing-rod).
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Often the branches are grasped palms down. The dowser then walks slowly over the places where he suspects the target (for example, minerals or water) may be, and the dowsing rod is expected to dip, incline or twitch when a discovery is made. This method is sometimes known as "willow witching".
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Beside atomic physics Betz searched on Sferics, where he leads a science-group on the Munich Ludwig- Maximilians-University.Sferics-science-group der Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität München Betz also investigates Radiesthesia and Dowsing, ten years in Order by the German Government.In der Sache Wünschelrute on ARTE 2007 For example the extensive Munich Scheunenexperimenten.
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The Lincs Wind Farm is a 270 MW offshore wind farm off Skegness on the east coast of England. The total cost of the project is estimated at £1 billion including electrical transmission links. The farm was completed in 2013. It is adjacent to the smaller Lynn and Inner Dowsing Wind Farm.
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Support from on high for gutter project! , press release at maintainyourbuilding.org.uk, accessed 23 July 2008 In Restoration, she toured the United Kingdom looking for exciting restoration projects, repairing old buildings, mixing building mud and even dowsing. On her own account, she restored a derelict thatched cottage in Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire, with a friend.
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Swettenham described how the supposed victim of a bajang would employ a pawang to use various methods to determine the identity of their attacker, such as scraping an iron bowl with a razor to produce a corresponding loss of hair in the guilty party, divination by use of a water bowl or dowsing.
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Foulsham & Company Limited.' In this book about pendulum dowsing, he refers to the Odic force. Like most authors on esoteric or magical subjects, he presents a mixture of the old with some original innovations of his own. To some extent the innovations may have been drawn from the eclectic teachings of the Fraternitas Saturni.
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Two Arnolds were exhibited at Crystal Palace in 1896. One Arnold from 1896 was fitted with one of the world's first self-starters, by electrical engineer Herbert John Dowsing. This was a dynamotor coupled to the flywheel, designed to assist the car on hills and well as starting the engine. Two Arnold cars survive.
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Dowsing made his racecourse debut in the Houghton Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse in October when he finished tenth of the twelve runners after struggling against his jockey's attempts to restrain him. In November he started second favourite for a maiden race over six furlongs at Doncaster Racecourse but finished sixth of the twenty-two runners.
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The hired armed lugger Royalist served the Royal Navy from 1798 to 1800 and she was armed with eight guns. She may have been built in 1798. Royalist apparently served at Jersey with Aristocrat and Daphne in a small squadron under the command of Commodore Philippe d'Auvergne in . Royalists commander, as of 1 January 1799, was Lieutenant Jackson Dowsing.
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"Just like any other kind of fortune-telling with cards or dowsing. One should not consider every drum owner a magician."As quoted by Mebius 2007 A common practice was to let the vuorbi move across the membrane, visiting the different symbols. The noaidi would interpret the will of the Gods by the way of the vuorbi.
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Oh No, Ross and Carrie! joined the Maximum Fun network in January 2014. The hosts, Ross Blocher and Carrie Poppy, personally investigate claims about spirituality, fringe science, religion, and the paranormal, then discuss their findings on the show. They have investigated a number of religious groups, fringe science claims, and alternative medicine modalities, including Mormonism, dowsing, and Reiki healing.
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Pet Symmetry was formed in 2012 by Erik Czaja and Marcus Nuccio (both members of Chicago-based emo band Dowsing) and Evan Thomas Weiss (who performs solo material under the name Into It. Over It.). The band released its first EP, Two Songs About Cars. Two Songs With Long Titles. in May 2013 via Asian Man Records.
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He was born on July 22, 1872 to Emil Edler von Graeve (1826–1904), a Major in the Prussian army. In 1913, he published a manuscript on dowsing. He visited the United States on January 27, 1914 aboard the USS George Washington, passing through New York City on his way to Vancouver Island to divine for radium.
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Scrivener was the son of barrister and city bailiff Ralph Scrivener of Ipswich and of Belstead, in Suffolk, England. His mother was Mary Dowsing Smith. He arrived on the first supply ship after the colony had been established. Listed as "Matthew Scrivener, gentleman" in early Virginia records, he was a supporter and friend of Captain John Smith.
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In the brochure Leicester Gataker has an assistant, a Mr A W Wills. Alfred William Wills was the son of another Alfred Wills and their business was Alfred Wills & Son, a plumbing business. Alfred first met Leicester Gataker in 1896. The partnership enabled Leicester Gataker to provide the actual water extraction in addition to the dowsing.
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Science writer Peter Daempfle has noted that when dowsing is subjected to scientific testing, it fails. Daempfle has written that although some dowsers claim success, this can be attributed to the underground water table being distributed relatively uniformly in certain areas.Daempfle, Peter. (2013). Good Science, Bad Science, Pseudoscience, and Just Plain Bunk: How to Tell the Difference.
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Agricola describes searching streams for metals and gems that have been washed from the veins. He also suggests looking for exposed veins and also describes the effects of metals on the overlying vegetation. He recommends trenching to investigate veins beneath the surface. He then describes dowsing with a forked twig although he rejects the method himself.
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Dawkins now describes the history of scientific knowledge of echolocation, and points to the cumulative build-up of corroborating evidence for scientific explanations of the phenomena. He visits psychologist Chris French, who is performing a double-blind test of dowsing. None of the dowsers perform better, in a statistically significant sense, than is expectable by chance alone. While the dowsers are surprised, Dawkins and French note that their confidence is untouched, and they prefer explanations (French states some may call them excuses) that retain the hypothesis that they have paranormal dowsing powers. Dawkins next attempts his own explanation of belief in the paranormal in a combination of evolutionary and psychological terms, saying: "we don’t want to believe things just happen", and he suggests superstition is just the sort of animal error committed by Skinner’s pigeons.
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FIX ME (could not access entire article) As late as in 1986, when 31 soldiers were taken by an avalanche during an operation in the NATO drill Anchor Express in Vassdalen, Norway, the Norwegian army attempted to locate soldiers buried in the avalanche using dowsing as a search method. Dowsing is still used by some farmers and by water engineers in the UK, however many of the UK's water utilities have since tried to distance themselves from the practice.California Farmers Hire Dowsers to Find Water , ABC newsThe Water Witch of WyomingScientist finds UK water companies use 'magic' to find leaks, BBC Oxford, 21 November 2017. (retrieved 21 November 2017)Matthew Weaver, UK water firms admit using divining rods to find leaks and pipes, The Guardian, 21 November 2017.
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In 2008, Resolution was used in the construction of the Lynn and Inner Dowsing Wind Farm for Centrica. It was announced in July 2008 that two more ships were to be built, based on MPI Resolution but slightly larger. They will be built by Cosco, at their Nantong shipyard. The two new ships will be named MPI Adventure and MPI Discovery.
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Perfect Flow Jack Faucet is a faucet-themed Choujin. Using the spouts on his body, he is able to blast hot and cold water. At the step pyramid battle, he fights Black Hole, fresh after his fight with Dalmatiman. By using his dowsing ability and using mist to obscure the sunlight, he is able to shut down Black Hole's 4th-dinmension wrestling.
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Soon, he and Beate fall in love. One night, they see Svetelenz looking for the treasure with a dowsing rod. Beate convinces Arno that he should find the treasure in order to marry her. Arno deducts that a treasure dating from the Ottomans time can only be hidden in the foundations and soon finds the place where it seems to be hidden.
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The rod is labelled "Virgula Divina – Glück-Rüt" (Latin: Rod Divine; German: Luck-Rod), but there is no text accompanying the woodcut. By 1556, Georgius Agricola's treatment of mining and smelting of ore, De Re Metallica, included a detailed description of dowsing for metal ore.William Barrett and Theodore Besterman. The Divining Rod: An Experimental and Psychological Investigation. (1926) Kessinger Publishing, 2004: p.
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Pilote was under the command of Lieutenant Jackson Dowsing when she captured the French vessel Maria Theresa. Pilote was among the many vessels that benefited from the proceeds of the Dutch men of war, East Indiamen, and other merchant vessels that the navy seized at Plymouth on 20 January 1795. In 1795 Pilote was under the command of Lieutenant Farmery Predam Epworth.
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Josh becomes close with a local woman, Glory, and her son Aaron. Swan and Robin begin to fall in love. Aaron figures out how to use the dowsing rod, Crybaby, and it indicates a source of fresh untainted water. The man with the apple tree drives into town with a truckload of ripe apples and tosses them to a happy crowd.
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Conan tracks the princess and chases the pair on his skateboard, but Fujiko loses him and disappears. Meanwhile, hidden beneath the kingdom is a mineral that thanks to its "complete stealth powers" may be totally invisible to radar. Using dowsing rods, Lupin locates the mineral and appropriates a piece of it to help him facilitate his theft of the crown. Princess Mira has since returned to Vespania.
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Barnaby p.155-156The Times, "Wreck of a torpedo boat destroyer" (including survivors accounts), 20 September 1901, Issue 36565 p.8. John Smith, master of the steam fishing lighter '15' left Great Yarmouth harbour at 08:00 and heading towards the South Dowsing light. About 16:30, he picked up two dead men from the sea and seeing the wreck of Cobra went towards it.
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He supposedly dies in the process of saving his fellow students' lives from his evil sister Catherine. After realising he is still alive, Dax and his friends save him from Catherine in Dowsing the Dead and bring him back into the COLA Club, but his parasitic sister has been using him as a source of energy, rendering him mute. He later learns sign language to communicate.
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Randi removed the photo and subsequently used a caricature of DuBois when mentioning her on his site, beginning with his December 23, 2005, commentary. Sniffex, producer of a dowsing bomb detection device, sued Randi and the JREF in 2007 and lost. Sniffex sued Randi for his comments regarding a government test in which the Sniffex device failed. The company was later investigated and charged with fraud.
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Prince of Wales Bay viewed from Lost World Prince of Wales Bay is located on the western shore of the River Derwent in southern Tasmania, Australia. It is located between the suburbs of Dowsing Point, Goodwood and Lutana. The area is home to two public parks, Giblin Reserve and Prince of Wales Bay Reserve.It is also home to a softball/baseball ground and hockey courts.
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Geller gained notice for demonstrating on television what he claimed to be psychokinesis, dowsing, and telepathy. His performance included bending spoons, describing hidden drawings, and making watches stop or run faster. Geller said he performs these feats through willpower and the strength of his mind. Magicians and sceptics state that Geller has been caught cheating and his performances can be duplicated by stage magic tricks.
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Key items are rarer than regular items and are usually given to the player rather than found. These include fishing rods which are used to find water-dwelling Pokémon, a bicycle which allows the protagonist to move around faster, a dowsing machine, and keys which open locked doors leading to important areas. These items cannot be thrown away, sold, or given to a Pokémon.
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The Split Sword sculpture is a handmade steel sword. Its shape is inspired by the medieval divination tool known as the Y-rod that was traditionally employed as an alternative means for discovering natural resources such as water, oil, or gold. This process is known as dowsing. The Split Sword artwork has previously been exhibited at Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY and Ramapo College, NJ.
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"The Divining Rod", Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, London. Rivington's, 1877 As early as 1518, Martin Luther listed dowsing for metals as an act that broke the first commandment (i.e., as occultism).Decem praecepta Wittenbergensi populo praedicta, Martin Luther The 1550 edition of Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia contains a woodcut of a dowser with forked rod in hand walking over a cutaway image of a mining operation.
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Nicholson devised a topmast that slotted atop the mainmast, and fitted with a track to fasten the topsail luff. This design eliminated the need for a topsail yard, thus permitting a lighter and loftier rig as well as easier hoisting and dowsing. Nicholson produced similar rigs for Pamela and Paula III and the rig was dubbed "Marconi mast" because the elaborate standing rigging reminisced a radio mast.
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His doctor's office was decorated with photographs from Albania, and had copies of Roter Morgen and of Dritëro Agolli's Commissar Memo available, until he left the KPD/ML in the mid-eighties. While Gedeon initially remained active in Germany's anti-nuclear and peace movement as a member of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), he gradually turned to pendulum dowsing and other esoteric practices.
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Since most of these LRL devices are powered by low voltage, low current AA, AAA or 9v cells, the resultant power available for emissions is quite minuscule at best, and the return signal would suffer even greater attenuation. Examples exist of LRL devices having no internal power source at all, and these are advertised as being self-powered or powered by ambient static electricity; these are indistinguishable from dowsing rods.
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It is surmounted by a pelican pecking its breast to feed its chicks, a symbol of Christ feeding the faithful with his own body. The notorious 17th-century iconoclast William Dowsing left the structure intact after visiting the church in 1644, noting in his diary, it was "gorgeous... like a pope's triple crown."Christopher Winn: I Never Knew That about England's Country Churches. Random House, 2014.. p. 264.
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It is probably one of the St Marys mentioned in the Domesday Book.Medieval English urban history - Ipswich The original nave (now the north aisle) has a medieval single hammer beam roof, with moulded wall plates, angels with shields at the ends of the hammer beams, and figures underneath.Ipswich Churches Ancient & Modern, Roy Tricker, 1982, The angels are Victorian replacements for those destroyed by iconoclasts. The church was visited by William Dowsing.
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He was born at Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, the son and grandson of Anglican clergymen, who were both named John Tenison; his mother was Mercy Dowsing. He was educated at Norwich School, going on to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, as a scholar on Archbishop Matthew Parker's foundation. He graduated in 1657, and was chosen fellow in 1659. For a short time he studied medicine, but in 1659 was privately ordained.
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See note by J.M. Blatchly in Trevor Cooper (Ed.), The Journal of William Dowsing: Iconoclasm in East Anglia during the English Civil War (Ecclesiological Society/Boydell & Brewer 2001), notes to pp. 142–43, Note 31, pp. 458–59. In 1751 he issued proposalsIpswich Journal, 21 September 1751. for a quarto volume on Brook Taylor's Perspective, made easy, both in Theory and Practice, to have a frontispiece by William Hogarth.
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In 2014 she performed at the Royal Institution. In 2015 she became the General Electric Creator in Residence. She joined them at South by Southwest, where she discussed the neuroscience of taste. In 2017 she was invited by BNP Paribas Foundation to make a science video studying coral reefs in Polynesia, and later in the year criticized UK water suppliers for their use of dowsing to find water.
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The show was independently distributed until it became part of the Maximum Fun network in January 2014. Funding for the hosts' investigations comes from listener donations. Blocher and Poppy have since investigated a number of religious groups, fringe science claims, and alternative medicine modalities, including Mormonism, dowsing, and Reiki healing. The podcast has been ranked among the top 100 podcasts on iTunes in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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A glamourist who has the power to vanish from sight. However, this power is not very useful in making him inconspicuous, in the respect that he is rather clumsy and has a permanently stuffed nose which creates a whistling sound whenever he exhales. Again, Dax can detect him but only through the usual mediums of hearing and smell. A friend of Dax and Gideon, and in Dowsing the Dead the best friend of Clive.
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Straniak claimed to have a special gift for map pendulum dowsing. Straniak would dangle a pendulum over a given map and "locate" things. As a test, leaders of the German Navy requested him to locate the pocket battleship Prinz Eugen, then at sea. The Navy provided him with charts and were reportedly amazed that he had pinpointed the warship even though it was on a completely secret mission off the coast of Norway.
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They are disappointed in that Mrs Tyson does not permit them to cook over a campfire, owing to drought conditions and her fear of fires, meaning that they have to keep in time with her meal-schedules. Titty eventually finds a spring by dowsing, and they move closer to the Topps. They send daily messages home by pigeon. While exploring the ground, they notice a rival prospector whom they call 'Squashy Hat'.
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He was in contact with spiritistas (exorcists), faith-healers, and youths who were thought to be possessed. His focus on studying these phenomena was not readily accepted, but his work paved the way for the "Bulatao Method", which combined the supernatural and theological questions. Bulatao always carried a pair of L-shaped dowsing rods he called the “Rod of Moses” in order to answer questions from students, find concentration energy fields, and locate missing objects.
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Coathangers can be used to make dowsing rods. After sanding, wire hangers also find uses as conducting wire for uses as varied as hot-wiring cars to gamesNeuroscience for Kids University of Washington to testing hand steadiness. They are commonly used to gain forcible entry into older automobiles whose locks and entry systems are not protected from such methods. There is a long history of using wire coat hangers as replacement car radio antennas.
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At the request of his patron Friedrich Spieser, he studied the subject of dowsing. After his detention in a British camp between November 1944 and July 1945, he returned to Freiburg im Breisgau, where he was got a lectureship for psychology. In 1950, he founded the non-university Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health. From 1946 to 1949, he acted for the Chair for Psychology and Pedagogy and was a Diätendozent afterwards.
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At this time, it was rededicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. In 1632 Peterhouse built a separate Chapel and St Mary the Less reverted to being a Parish Church. Richard Crashaw, the metaphysical poet, was a priest there from 1638 to 1643, at the same time that he was a Fellow of Peterhouse. In 1643, after his departure, many of the Church's ornaments and statues were damaged or destroyed by the Puritan iconoclast William Dowsing.
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In Islamic literature, the main features of huhhud were to collect the information and report it to Sulayman. It is also suggested that the bird was primarily involved in dowsing such as locating underground water. It has been referred to as in Turkish literature one of the sacred birds known as "Mürg-i Süleyman". The bird, according to Turkish philosophy, is given long silk on his head for his loyalty and compassion.
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The ship-to-ship fuel transfer resulted a fire explosion and spread across the both ships; Tanzanian-flagged Turkish ships' Maestro and Kandy.The vessel Kandy is also known as Candy or Venice. The Russian multi- purpose salvage vessel Spasatel Demidov led the fire-fighting effort but despite dowsing both ships, the fire continued to rage for five more days. The crew rescue operation was conducted by ten ships, including a Russian rescue vessel.
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Several years after Richard's death, Sarah emigrated to Melbourne, Victoria, with all nine of her children. Charles Dorrington accompanied them, and in 1892 Charles and Annie were married in St. Alban's Church of England in Armadale, a suburb of Melbourne. Sarah had not wanted Annie to marry Dorrington and cut her off entirely as a result. Many years later, Annie's niece Kath Dowsing would recall that her name was never mentioned in the family.
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In addition to selling vitamins and health food Kroeger offered health advice. She sometimes used a method called “dowsing’ whereby she would suspend a pendulum and observe its motions to diagnose illness. Kroeger also started the Kroeger Herb Wholesale Product Company (still operating as Kroeger Herb Products Co., Inc.) that sold hundreds of lines of herbs and homeopathic treatments carried in stores all over the world. She developed over 200 homeopathic remedies.
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Initially published as Toutes voiles dehors in 1986. The gags included in this volume are: Naval Program, An Eye for an Eye, The Dog That Came Back, Locution, Back to School, Problem, Dowsing, Happy Easter!, Happy New Year!, A Picturesque Spot, Knowing How to Light a Fire, Demonstrative, A Good Picture, Lost in the Night, A Record, Penalty, Barely Believable, The Follies, Demand, The Tunnel, Winter Sports, New Year, and Peaceful Idleness.
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In March 2005, longtime collaborator and former MOTW member Sam Gutterman left the group to pursue other musical ventures. Tom Malone signed on to replace Gutterman in 2005. Kayo Dot then signed to Robotic Empire Records and released its second album, Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue in January 2006. The album was released to good reviews, receiving a 7.7 from Pitchfork, and garnering the band more recognition in the indie metal circle.
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The dock was supplied with power from a 6,000 V supply from the LNER's power station at Immingham. Electricity substations were supplied by Metropolitan- Vickers, and lighting by the General Electric Company Ltd. No.3 Fish Dock was opened 4 October 1934 by Sir Henry Betterton. In 2012 Centrica opened an operations and maintenance base on the north wall (fish dock), for use with the Lynn and Inner Dowsing Wind Farm and the Lincs Wind Farm.
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And if we can't fit something into an existing pattern, > then by golly we'll come up with one. Within the marketing world, Cayce is portrayed not as an outside rebel, but rather a paragon of the system. Inescapably within the system, she seeks an epistemological perspective to objectively interpret patterns. The review in The Village Voice calls this search "a survival tactic within the context of no context—dowsing for meaning, and sometimes settling for the illusion of meaning".
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This impressed the Navy leaders enough to take the workings of the occult unit of the SS more seriously. This also inspired the character "Captain Jack Sparrow" in 'Pirates of the Caribbean'. According to Karl Spiesberger in his book Reveal the Power of the Pendulum, Straniak believed that brass was the most suitable material for all kinds of dowsing and that even fruits such as apples, oranges, pears and lemons demonstrate a polarity at each end.
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On June 9, 2015, Ratboys released their debut studio album via Topshelf Records titled AOID. The band embarked on their first full United States tours in support of the album, touring the United States and Europe with American bands like Pinegrove, Sorority Noise, Free Throw, Dowsing, and others. In late 2016, Neumann officially joined the band. Sagan and Neumann knew each other from growing up in Chicago's south suburbs and have played music together since their teens.
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These were reliable and robust weapons, but their effectiveness was severely reduced in poor weather. In addition, keeping the slow match burning at all times resulted in the consumption of a vast amount, while dowsing it rendered the musket useless. Balancing combat readiness against logistical capability called for fine judgement from a regiment's officers. A small number of musketeers on each side were equipped with the more reliable flintlock muskets, known at the time as firelocks.
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Handsome Sailor ran twice in the autumn and was well-beaten on both occasions. In the Haydock Sprint Cup on 5 September he was ridden by his trainer's son Michael Hills and finished third behind Ajdal and Sharp Romance, with Interval in fifth. On his final appearance of the season he ran disappointingly when unplaced behind Dowsing in the Diadem Stakes. Timeform gave him an end-of-year rating of 117, thirteen pounds behind their top- sprinter Ajdal.
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The Classis Britannica Bath-house at Beauport Park, East Sussex, 1988, Britannia Volume 19, p. 217. Although he never published anything on the subject, he was also involved in researching the Roman roads in the area, especially the road leading north from Beauport Park.Working papers, Battle Museum His use of dowsing to locate archaeological sites was not always well received in the archaeological community, a fact that was highlighted when archaeological television programme Time Team excavated at Beauport Park.
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On 10 May 1941 Tower Field was steaming in ballast from London to Newcastle when a German aircraft attacked and damaged her off the Outer Dowsing Buoy in the Thames Estuary. She was repaired and returned to service. On 19 October 1941 she was entering Workington Channel off Hull with a cargo of iron ore when she ran aground and fractured her hull. She broke in two but her cargo was discharged and she was refloated and repaired.
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These were reliable and robust weapons, but their effectiveness was severely reduced in poor weather. In addition, keeping the slow match burning at all times resulted in the consumption of a vast amount, while dowsing it rendered the musket useless. Balancing combat readiness against logistical capability called for fine judgement from a regiment's officers. A small number of musketeers on each side were equipped with the more reliable flintlock muskets, known at the time as firelocks.
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The earliest documentary record of the church is in 1180, when it was a chapel of ease to St Gregory's church. The church was built in three stages, beginning with the first two bays of the chancel and the base of the tower in about 1330–48. The later stages of building were in about 1360, and in about 1425–50. In 1643, during the Civil War, the iconoclast William Dowsing damaged many of the items in the church.
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His first action was for the B team, where he scored a touchdown on the opening play. Dowsing earned all conference honors in football, basketball, and track, and graduated sixth in his class. He also set a state record by running the 100 yard dash in 9.5 seconds. Due to recruitment efforts by former Tupelo resident and future Mississippi State basketball coach Kermit Davis, he enrolled at Mississippi State, where he was also the first black football player.
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Up until 2011, the lineup was constantly shifting, and Kayo Dot's sound consistently changed over the years, featuring a wide variety of instrumentation including guitar, drums, bass, violin, saxophone, vibraphone, synthesizers, clarinets and flutes. Underground metal audiences warmly received the group upon its early existence, with the 2003 album Choirs of the Eye and the 2006 album Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue both becoming underground hits in the progressive metal scene. Over the years, in addition to the rotating lineup and constantly changing sounds, Kayo Dot has been signed to a number of different record labels, Tzadik, Robotic Empire, Hydra Head, Driver's self-release imprint, Ice Level Music, and most recently signing to The Flenser in 2014. As of 2016, Kayo Dot has released eight studio albums, one EP and one split: Choirs of the Eye in 2003, Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue as well as Kayo Dot/Bloody Panda split in 2006, Blue Lambency Downward, Coyote in 2010, an EP titled Stained Glass in 2011, Gamma Knife in 2012 and a double-album Hubardo in 2013.
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Kendrick Frazier, editor of Skeptical Inquirer and Committee for Skeptical Inquiry fellow, has suggested that: > The JSE, while presented as neutral and objective, appears to hold a hidden > agenda. They seem to be interested in promoting fringe topics as real > mysteries and they tend to ignore most evidence to the contrary. They > publish "scholarly" articles promoting the reality of dowsing, neo- > astrology, ESP, and psychokinesis. Most of the prominent and active members > are strong believers in the reality of such phenomena.
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Wind from the NNW and a rough sea caused the ship to roll heavily, so that there was difficulty feeding coal to the boilers and two had to be extinguished, reducing speed to by around 22:00. Stoker John Collins reported that in the early morning of the 18th, the crew could hardly stand in the stokehold. By dawn on the 18th, it was possible to increase speed to . At 07:00, the 'Outer Dowsing' lightvessel was seen about away.
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To Spiesberger, they were just one more tool to be used by any individual magician. After the war he also wrote Der erfolgreiche Pendel-PraktikerAntiquario – Handelsplattform für antiquarische Buecher published in 1963. Although still far more readily available in its original German text, it is now also available in its 1989 English translation entitled Reveal the Power of the Pendulum.Reveal the Power of the Pendulum: Secrets of the Sidereal Pendulum, A Complete Survey of Pendulum Dowsing , it was published in England 'W.
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Moreover, increasingly larger engines with higher compression ratios made hand cranking a more physically demanding endeavour. The first electric starter was installed on an Arnold, an adaptation of the Benz Velo, built in 1896 in East Peckham, England, by electrical engineer H. J. Dowsing. In 1903, Clyde J. Coleman invented and patented the first electric starter in America . In 1911, Charles F. Kettering, with Henry M. Leland, of Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company (DELCO), invented and filed for an electric starter in America.
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Stravinsky's dam Fire The Groom won the Grade I Beverly D. Stakes in 1991 and was a half sister of the Haydock Sprint Cup winner Dowsing. Stravinsky was sent to the Keeneland Sales as a yearling in July 1997, where he was bought for $625,000 by the bloodstock agent Dermot "Demi" O'Byrne, acting on behalf of John Magnier and his Coolmore organisation. He was sent into training with Aidan O'Brien at Ballydoyle and was ridden in all of his races by Michael Kinane.
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Jessica Burns (Carolyn Kearney), a young woman who claims to have psychic powers, lives on a remote dude ranch with her Aunt Flavia (Peggy Converse). An ancient box is discovered while digging a well discovered by Jessica while dowsing. Against Jessica's warnings, her Aunt takes it back to their house. Gordon (William Reynolds), a young man who has shown interest in Jessica, goes for an archaeologist, arguing the box should be kept intact for appraisal and opening by an expert.
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Valves would select which of the pipes water was running through, and only one would be selected at a time. At least 5 liters per second of water would flow through the selected pipe. The dowser must first check the area to see if there is any natural water or anything else that would interfere with the test, and that would be marked. Additionally, the dowser must demonstrate that the dowsing reaction works on an exposed pipe with the water running.
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"In the Spring of 1925, William M. Dowsing and J. L. Hannan discovered a huge deposit thick just west of Suckow's shaft, which they kept a secret until its extent was proven. Sold to the Pacific Coast Borax Company in early 1926, it became known as the Baker Mine. Beginning production in 1927, it yielded a substantial percentage of the borates produced in the Kramer District until 1935. "Production began in December, 1929, at the Suckow Mine, located near the Baker Mine.
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Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff by Eduard Eichens, 1841 A dowser by Pierre le Brun Title of the magazine Wünschelruthe, 1818 Lead page with editorial poem Leaf and golden cover from the first Edition of Eichendorff’s Poems (Gedichte), 1837 Wünschelrute (dowsing rod) is one of the most famous poems by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, major poet of the German Hochromantik ("High Romantics").J. A. Cuddon: The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms & Literary Theory, revised by C. E. Preston. England 1999, p. 770.
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As soon as Fasold saw the site, he exclaimed that it was a ship wreck. Fasold had brought a state-of-the-art frequency generator, set on the wavelength for iron and searched the formation for internal iron loci. This technique was later compared to dowsing by the site's detractors. Fasold and the team measured the length of the formation as 538 feet, close to the 300 cubits of the Bible if the Egyptian cubit of 20.6 inches is used.
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ATSC claimed that the device could, from long range, effectively and accurately detect various types of explosives, drugs, ivory, and other substances. The device has been sold to 20 countries in the Middle East and Asia, including Iraq and Afghanistan, for as much as US$60,000 each. The Iraqi government is said to have spent £52 million on the devices. Investigations by the BBC and other organisations found that the device is little more than a "glorified dowsing rod" with no detecting ability.
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"The first significant "scientific" study of the subject was made in 1891 by Sir William F. Barrett, professor of physics at the Royal College of Science, Ireland. The Dowsing Rod, by Barrett and Theodore Besterman, published in 1926, is one of the leading references on the subject. The book's thesis is that the turning of the rod is due to unconscious muscular action on the part of the dowser, who possesses a clairvoyant ability to sense the presence of water."Stein, Gordon. (1996).
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Karl Spiesberger (29 October 1904 – 1 January 1992) was a German mystic, occultist, Germanic revivalist and Runosophist. He is most well known for his revivalism and usage of the Sidereal Pendulum for divination and dowsing and for his anti-racialist stance and revivalist usage of the Armanen Futharkh runic system after the second world war, removing its negative connotations. During his involvement with the Fraternitas Saturni Spiesberger was also known as Frater Eratus. Under this name he published several articles in the Blätter für angewandte okkulte Lebenskunst.
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A psychic detective is a person who investigates crimes by using purported paranormal psychic abilities. Examples have included postcognition (the paranormal perception of the past), psychometry (information psychically gained from objects), telepathy, dowsing, clairvoyance, and remote viewing. In murder cases, psychic detectives may purport to be in communication with the spirits of the murder victims. Although there are documented cases where individuals claiming psychic abilities have assisted police in solving crimes, there is considerable skepticism in regard to the general use of psychics under these circumstances.
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They arrived at Plymouth on 22 October and were deployed in the South Western Approaches. Glowworm carried out convoy escort duties and anti-submarine patrols until 12 November when she was transferred to the 22nd Destroyer Flotilla, based at Harwich, for North Sea patrol and escort duties. On 22 February 1940 she was hit by the Swedish ship Rex in fog whilst at anchor off Outer Dowsing. Glowworm suffered significant structural damage and was under repair at a commercial dockyard in Hull until late March.
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In the 1940s, Roberts became acquainted with Henry Gross, a retired Maine game warden and amateur water dowser. He and Gross began a long association to use Gross's claimed dowsing abilities to find deposits of water, petroleum, uranium, and diamonds, through a corporation named Water Unlimited, Inc. Roberts documented his experiences in three nonfiction books that were popular successes but received much criticism from the scientific community. He joked that he should have given The Seventh Sense the subtitle Or How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.
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In the churchyard South of the church are the remains of a medieval cross consisting of a square base with angle stops and the bottom of shaft, square to octagonal. This was used in medieval times for preaching sermons and was destroyed following a visit from William Dowsing on 16 March 1643 because it was considered idolatrous. The church has a number of stone coffin lids including in the North porch built into stone benches; various other fragments can be found about the church.
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The McKenzie Well still stands, near Boulder, and Isaac Canfield found it in 1901, by dowsing, first producing oil, on February 5, 1902. The McKenzie Well was found, on the ranch or farm, of Neil McKenzie. It is highly unusual, extraordinary, that the original site of the discovery of Boulder Oil Field remained the last producing oil well. Of note, before the McKenzie Well was found, Florence oil driller Canfield noticed Boulder's topographic features resembled those of Florence; in Boulder area there were oil seeps, odors.
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During 2010 Siemens changed bearing on the Burbo Bank wind farm due to corrosion problems, and examined bearings at Lynn and Inner Dowsing; subsequently the company decided to replace bearings on all 53 machines in 2011. In 2012 Centrica established a maintenance base for the wind farm at No.3 Fish Dock at the Port of Grimsby.See No.3 Fish Dock in Port of Grimsby. In the first four years of full operation (2009–12) the farm had a capacity factor of between 31 and 36%.
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The instruments and methods that the couple employed in their mineral exploration have led to his being associated with dowsing, astrology and alchemy. From around 1600 du Chatelet had undertaken a commission from the King of France to prospect within France and develop mines there. The semi-occult methods he used brought him a brush with the ecclesiastical authorities in 1627 while in Brittany. He and his wife were forced to flee to Germany and lost much of their records and equipment in the process.
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From 1947 he became scientific advisor to the French military on the subject of atomic energy, eventually taking over from Frédéric Joliot-Curie after his dismissal. In 1951, he became scientific head of the programme that eventually led to the development of nuclear arms, and is often known as the father of the French A-Bomb and H-bomb. Later in his career, he studied subjects ranging from semiconductors to seismology. Eventually, his professional reputation became tarnished by his increased research in less conventional subjects such as biomagnetism, dowsing and UFOs.
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He is later recognized by Lady Sati as one of the Five Elemental Warriors and returns to being one of Yoh's allies. In the anime, he is one of the last surviving members of the X-Laws after their failed assault on Hao by attempting to open the Gate of Babylon. After Meene Montgomery returns Morphine to Lyserg, she forces him to leave the group and rejoin Yoh and his friends. As a shaman, Lyserg specializes in dowsing, which allows him to use his powers to locate people or objects.
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The group later joined with the Skeptical Inquirers of New England (SINE) and the New Hampshire Skeptical Resource to form the New England Skeptical Society (NESS). The NESS was actively involved in investigating claims of the paranormal; Satanism, homeopathy, dowsing, cults and UFOs all have been given attention by NESS. In October 1996, Novella had been on a Ricki Lake show that talked about vampires, one claimed to be a psychic vampire and could drain people's minds. DeAngelis stood up in the audience spread his arms and said "Drain Me".
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Joe's mental status only worsens after his father runs out on him for a second time. Lorraine becomes desperate, but her attempts at getting Joe professional help do nothing to help matters. Joe eventually becomes so fearful of the outside world that he refuses to leave his flat and this culminates in him holding Lorraine hostage one night, dowsing himself in petrol and threatening to kill himself or anyone that comes near him. Grant manages to rescue Lorraine, but Joe is sectioned as a result and later diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia.
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His commission, backed up by the ability to call on military force if necessary, meant that he usually got his way. He charged each church a noble (a third of a pound) for his services. When his patron, Manchester, fell out with Oliver Cromwell in late 1644, his commission ceased. Dowsing is unique among those who committed iconoclasm during this period because he left a journal recording much of what he did, with many detailed entries such as this one dated Haverhill, Suffolk, 6 January 1644: This has been published, and is available on-line.
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Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue is the second studio album by Kayo Dot, released on Robotic Empire in 2006. The album received high praise from Pitchfork, Lambgoat, and Sputnikmusic, the last of whom named it the #2 album of 2006.Sputnikmusic Top 15 Albums of 2006 Shortly before the recording of the album, longtime collaborator and former maudlin of the Well member Sam Gutterman left to pursue outside projects, and was replaced by Tom Malone. It was the group's first and only release on the Robotic Empire label.
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William Hone, (London: 1827) p. 337."The Mountain Ash, or Wicken or Wiggen Tree", in Lancashire Folk-lore: Illustrative of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices, Local Customs and Usages of the People of the County Palatine, edited by John Harland and T. T. Wilkinson, (London: 1867) p 72-74. The plant was called "the witch" in England and dowsing rods to find ores were made out of its wood. Twigs of S. aucuparia were used to drive cattle to the pasture for the first time in spring to ensure their health and fertility.
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Being the birthplace of the intolerant William Dowsing as well as the home of many of his kin, it was natural enough that Laxfield became a puritan parish. By the mid-1630s, the Fiske family and others had departed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony as part of the wave of emigration that occurred during the Great Migration.Thompson, Roger, Mobility & Migration, East Anglian Founders of New England, 1629-1640, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. Laxfield was the final station on the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, which ran from the Great Eastern Railway line at Haughley.
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88 In February 1896 Herbert John Dowsing and H. S. Keating of England patented a mercury vapor lamp, considered by some to be the first true mercury vapor lamp.Mercury vapour lamps and action of ultra violet rays – Transactions of the Faraday Society (RSC Publishing) The first mercury vapor lamp to achieve widespread success was invented in 1901 by American engineer Peter Cooper Hewitt. Hewitt was issued on September 17, 1901. In 1903, Hewitt created an improved version that possessed higher color qualities which eventually found widespread industrial use.
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The nave roof is original medieval timber, and features rows of beams carved into angels, but with heads cut off during the Civil War by Puritan iconoclasts led by William Dowsing. The east end has three stained glass lancet windows, and between chancel and nave a small door and features in the walls indicate the position of a pre-Reformation rood screen. A large royal arms, painted on a diamond- shape timber board, and a 16th-century helmet, are among contents which were stolen – or removed because of the risk of theft – in the 1970s.
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Immediately after their funeral, two attempts were made to kidnap and murder Palestinian children, and the second kidnapping succeeded, leading to the petrol-dowsing and torching of Mohammad Abu Khdeir. Discovery of his body led to massive Palestinian protests, with chants of "Enough of the suffering, enough of the pain," in East Jerusalem, and calls for a third intifada.Ruth Eglash and Griff Witte, 'burial revive intifada fears for Middle East,' The Washington Post, July 5, 2014. Police used live fire, rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse protesters at his funeral.
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Over two years, the dowsers performed 843 such tests and, of the 43 pre-selected and extensively tested candidates, at least 37 showed no dowsing ability. The results from the remaining 6 were said to be better than chance, resulting in the experimenters' conclusion that some dowsers "in particular tasks, showed an extraordinarily high rate of success, which can scarcely if at all be explained as due to chance ... a real core of dowser-phenomena can be regarded as empirically proven."Wagner, H., H.-D. Betz, and H. L. König, 1990.
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Tours of the house often make reference to the possibility of ghostly activity, and in their book The Ghost Chronicles, self-proclaimed "medium" Maureen Wood and self-proclaimed "paranormal scientist" Ron Kolek describe experiencing ghostly events in the house. However, investigator of claims of the paranormal Joe Nickell reports that these claims are based upon either unverifiable personal feelings of a ghostly presence or the use of well-known and well-understand techniques like table-tipping that, like ouija board and dowsing rod effects, involve the ideomotor effect rather than the presence of a ghostly spirit.
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Research that took place in 2014 found that various Druids and other Pagans believed that there were ley lines focusing on the Early Neolithic site of Coldrum Long Barrow in Kent, southeast England. In the U.S. city of Seattle, a dowsing organisation called the Geo Group plotted what they believed were the ley lines across the city. They stated that their "project made Seattle the first city on Earth to balance and tune its ley-line system". The Seattle Arts Commission contributed $5,000 to the project, bringing criticisms from members of the public who regarded it as a waste of money.
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The present lighthouse ceased operations in 1921, and the lantern storey was removed from the top of the tower the following year. To compensate for its closure, improvements were made to the light of the Inner Dowsing lightvessel. In 1922 the lighthouse was sold at auction for £1,300; the tower was left unused, but the adjacent cottages were converted into tearooms. Between 1934 and 1957 the tower was used as an observation post by the Royal Observer Corps (it was at this time that an additional storey was added to the top of the tower where the lantern had formerly stood).
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Several times, laymen have unsuccessfully tried to prove what they consider important aspects of the Götaland theory. The barrow at Skalunda was thus claimed to be the burial site of the hero Beowulf known from the Beowulf epic; by applying the dowsing technique with a pendulum, they established that the barrow was indeed the burial site of this Geatish hero.Larsson 2002:90 Later, professional archaeologists drilled into the barrow to extract a sample for C14 dating. The barrow was from around 700 A.D., about 150 years too late for being a candidate for Beowulf's burial site.
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His ring finger, , has a ball on the end used for dowsing and normal defensive and offensive purposes. Kurapika entered into a Nen contract for the chain on his middle finger, ; in order to have an unbreakable chain that will hold members of the Phantom Troupe no matter what, he offered his life should he use it on anyone other than its members. His thumb chain, , heals any injury with the crucifix on the end. His little finger, , stabs an enemy's heart with the little blade on the end while Kurapika sets a rule, if the enemy violates that rule they die.
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Shostak is an active participant in the Institute's observation programs and has been hosting SETI's weekly radio show Big Picture Science since 2002. Each week, Shostak interviews guests about the latest scientific research on a variety of topics: cosmology, physics, genetics, paleontology, evolutionary biology and astrobiology. Big Picture Science is distributed on the Public Radio Satellite System and the Public Radio Exchange and is available for download at the SETI Institute's website and through podcasts. Shostak also hosts the monthly "Skeptic Check" episodes of Big Picture Science, focused on debunking pseudoscience, UFOs and practices such as astrology and dowsing.
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In 1998, Ron Nelson and Gary DeNeal local historians in Hardin County, Illinois researched the former location of Sturdivant's Fort using surviving early 19th century land ownership records. The former site of the Sturdivant Gang fort is now on private property where it is located in the undeveloped backyard lot of a residential house, just north of the present-day water tower in Rosiclare. Nelson and DeNeal got permission from the owner to investigate. To physically locate the fort site they use dowsing rods and red flags to mark the perimeters and layout of the structures where they had stood in the past.
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On 19 August 1914, the destroyer , part of the 7th Destroyer Flotilla, reported being chased by an enemy three-funnelled cruiser of the or off the Outer Dowsing. After investigation, it was found that the "hostile cruiser" was in fact Speedy. On the night of 25 August 1914, the German minelayer , accompanied by the light cruiser and the torpedo-boats of the 3rd Half Flotilla, laid a minefield off the mouth of the Humber estuary, while laid another minefield off the River Tyne. When the minefield was discovered, Speedy and the gunboat were ordered to clear the minefield off the Humber.
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Cowdery is commanded to "[a]sk that you may know the mysteries of God, and that you may translate all those ancient records, which have been hid up...." ; April: Cowdery begins to translate (perhaps by dowsing), then returns to acting as Smith's scribe. Smith dictates a revelation indicating that God took away his gift to translate for the time being because he was not persistent, and misunderstood the nature of translation, which requires the translator to "study it out in your mind". After the golden plates were translated, the revelation says, Cowdery could assist with translating "other records". ; abt.
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Claimants were able to influence all aspects of the testing procedure and participants during the initial negotiation phase of the challenge. Applications for any challenges that might cause serious injury or death were not accepted. To ensure that the experimental conditions themselves did not negatively affect a claimant's ability to perform, non-blinded preliminary control tests are often performed. For example, the JREF had dowsers perform a control test, in which the dowser attempts to locate the target substance or object using their dowsing ability, even though the target's location has been revealed to the applicant.
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The lighthouse was decommissioned in 1984 (just two years after its conversion to automatic operation). The revolving sealed beam array was reused two years later (in reduced form) on the Inner Dowsing light platform in the North Sea, as part of its conversion to become 'the first major lighthouse to be run using solar power'. A few years later, St Mary's was opened as a visitor attraction by the local council. In place of the original optic, Trinity House offered a smaller one from their decommissioned lighthouse at Withernsea, and this can still be seen at the top of the tower.
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On 11 February 2009, Geller purchased the uninhabited 100-metre-by-50-metre Lamb island off the eastern coast of Scotland, previously known for its witch trials, and beaches that Robert Louis Stevenson is said to have described in his novel Treasure Island. Geller claims that buried on the island is Egyptian treasure, brought there by Scota, the mythological half-sister of Tutankhamen in Irish mythology, 3,500 years ago. He claimed that he will find the treasure through dowsing. Geller also claimed to have strengthened the mystical powers of the island by burying there a crystal orb once belonging to Albert Einstein.
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The addition of the south aisle also saw the re-setting of the nave south wall doorway and windows into the new aisle wall. During the Reformation all altars, saint statues and glass or painted images, were removed. On 5 February 1644 the church was visited by Parliamentary Visitor William Dowsing who ordered the breaking down of "70 superstitious pictures and to level the chancel .." Images from the ends of benches were removed, stained glass windows were destroyed and the cross-keys of St Peter were blotted out on the spire. In 1645 some of the vestments and the organ were sold.
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1942: George Casely uses a hazel twig to attempt to find water on the land around his Devon farm Traditionally, the most common dowsing rod is a forked (Y-shaped) branch from a tree or bush. Some dowsers prefer branches from particular trees, and some prefer the branches to be freshly cut. Hazel twigs in Europe and witch-hazel in the United States are traditionally commonly chosen, as are branches from willow or peach trees. The two ends on the forked side are held one in each hand with the third (the stem of the Y) pointing straight ahead.
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The oldest fabric in the original large medieval church dates from the 14th century, although most of it is from the 15th century. During the Civil War much of the stained glass was destroyed by the local iconoclast William Dowsing. By the later part of that century the large church was too expensive for the parishioners to maintain, and they were given permission in 1672 to remove the roof and to build a much smaller church within it. This small church is still in use, while the tower and the ruins of the old church are maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust.
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The Lynn and Inner Dowsing wind farms are a pair of round 1 wind farms located in the North Sea, in the shallow waters at the entrance to The Wash off the coast of Lincolnshire, England. The wind farms were developed as a single unit after planning consent was given in 2003. Construction work began in 2006 and was completed in 2009. The farm has a maximum output of 194MW from 54 Siemens Wind Power 3.6-107 turbines with a generating capacity of 194 MW. The capacity factor of the farm has been 31 to 36%.
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He recommended that they be withdrawn from flotilla use and used either as tenders to training schools, or as local defence torpedo boats, or disposed of. On 2 July 1908, during the annual Naval Manoeuvres, Ranger was steaming in company with the cruiser in thick fog near the Outer Dowsing lightvessel, when the destroyer collided with her. While Haughtys bow was only slightly twisted, the damage to Ranger was more severe, with her hull holed close to the waterline. The hole was patched with canvas, and Ranger made it to Chatham Dockyard under her own steam.
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It is derived from the terms "ideo" (idea, or mental representation) and "motor" (muscular action). The phrase is most commonly used in reference to the process whereby a thought or mental image brings about a seemingly "reflexive" or automatic muscular reaction, often of minuscule degree, and potentially outside of the awareness of the subject. As in reflexive responses to pain, the body sometimes reacts reflexively with an ideomotor effect to ideas alone without the person consciously deciding to take action. The effects of automatic writing, dowsing, facilitated communication, and Ouija boards have been attributed to the phenomenon.
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Dowsing was a "tall, close-coupled, attractive" brown horse with a small white star bred in Kentucky by Edward A Seltzer. He was sired by Riverman an American-bred, French-trained who won the Poule d'Essai des Poulains and the Prix Jean Prat in 1972. Riverman went on to become a highly successful stallion, whose offspring included Triptych, Irish River, Gold River and Bahri. Dowsing's dam Prospector's Fire failed to win in two races but became a successful broodmare who also produced the Beverly D. Stakes winner Fire the Groom who was in turn the dam of Stravinsky.
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The New Age boom of the 1980s expanded the scope of the "Earth mysteries" field beyond the British landscape, and Earth mysteries as a "New Age invented tradition" by the 1990s could include the study of ancient sites and landscapes (including archaeology, archaeoastronomy, and ley lines), Chinese geomancy or feng shui, western magical concepts of gematria, and dowsing. An important writer combining these fields during the 1970s to 2000s was John Michell. Michell's book The View Over Atlantis mixed ley lines with folklore and archeology; these ideas became popularised as "earth mysteries".Danny Sullivan, Ley Lines: The Greatest Landscape Mystery, Publisher Green Magic, 2005, p.
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In 1926 O'Doherty he left the Sinn Féin party's Ard Fheis (annual party conference) with Éamon de Valera and became a founder member of the new Fianna Fáil party. He lost his seat at the June 1927 general election but was re-elected again to the Dáil in the 1933 general election. He was elected to the Senate of Ireland (Seanad Éireann) in 1928, serving as one of Fianna Fáil's first six elected Senators under the leadership of Joseph Connolly. From 1929 to 1933 served as the County Manager of Carlow and Kildare, where he used his knowledge of dowsing to find water supplies for local towns.
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He made a statistical study of the probability of finding oil, and included it in one Bulletin; it turned out that ANY method, even flipping a coin, will generally be right if it predicts "No Oil Here"... if you spend a fortune drilling, it will be a "dry hole". Then there were the practitioners of sympathetic magic, who naturally were attracted to petroleum prospecting by the hope of fantastic wealth. Most had no technical education and fell under immediate suspicion through their misuse of technical terms; some written claims were laughable. One man had attached a razor blade to a coat-hangar dowsing rod "to cut the lines of force".
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In 1998 Handsome Sailor was ridden in all of his races by Michael Hills. He began his campaign by finishing third to Dawn's Delight and Cragside in the Cammidge Trophy at Doncaster on 26 March before attempting to repeat his 1987 success in the Duke of York Stakes. He started the 5/1 third favourite behind Governor General and Dowsing in a field which also included Dawn's Delight and Cragside. After being restrained by Hills in the early stages Handsome Sailor finished strongly to overtake Governor General in the final furlong to win by half a length with a gap of five lengths back to the filly Wantage Park in third.
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Racing over six furlongs on heavy ground he led till half way before fading to finish fifth of the ten runners behind Dowsing. For his final European start of the season, the horse was sent to France for the Group One Prix de l'Abbaye over 1000 metres at Longchamp Racecourse on 2 October. His eight opponents included Big Shuffle, Cadeaux Genereux, Silver Fling, Sharp Romance, Caerwent (International Stakes), Bluebook (Prix de Seine-et-Oise) and La Grande Epoque (runner-up in the race in 1987). Handsome Sailor took the lead from the start but was overtaken 200 metres from the finish and beaten into second place by Cadeaux Genereux.
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The Dean drive obtained a good deal of publicity in the 1950s and '60s via the columns and conference presentations of John W. Campbell, the longtime editor of Astounding Science Fiction magazine. At that time, Campbell believed that his magazine had to change society by helping breakthrough research that was rejected by "mainstream" science, and he promoted a series of far-reaching ideas that had dubious scientific bases, like Dianetics, dowsing, the Hieronymus machine, and the Dean Drive. Campbell believed that the device worked and claimed to have witnessed it operating on a bathroom scale. The weight reading on the scale appeared to decrease when the device was activated.
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Canon Andrew Konstanty Glazewski (1905 – 6 November 1973) was a Polish Catholic priest, lecturer in spirituality, healer and researcher into dowsing, the Earth's magnetic field, and paranormal phenomena. He settled in Britain in 1947 after serving as chaplain to the Polish forces during World War II. From 1948 until his death he served as parish priest at Ilford Park, a settlement of Polish exiles in South Devon. His published papers examine the nature of gravity, the human field, the Earth's magnetism, the mechanics of prayer and the theory and the practice of healing. A close associate of Sir George Trevelyan, he was a co-founder of the Scientific and Medical Network.
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Dowsing began his second season by winning a minor race over six furlongs at Warwick Racecourse and finished second when moved up to seven furlongs on his next appearance. At York Racecourse he recorded his first important success when he won the William Hill Golden Spurs Trophy Handicap. In late July he was assigned top weight of 136 pounds for the Stewards' Cup and finished fourth behind the lightly-weighted outsider Madraco. The colt ran poorly in a Listed race at Newmarket and then finished fourth to Guest Performer in the Park Stakes over seven furlongs at Doncaster in September, appearing to run out of stamina in the closing stages.
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The construction of surangas are carried out by people who have this indigenous knowledge, which is passed on from one generation to another. Detection of the water flow is done by taking into account the slope and elevation, growth of certain hydrophilic plants like, dhoopada mara (Vateria indica), basari mara (Ficus virens) and uppalige mara (Macranga indica), termite mounds and the texture of the soil. The flow of the water can also be detected with the help of skilled workers, who presses their ear to the soil at night to understand the direction and presence of the flow. Water dowsing and use of witchcraft is also prevalent for detection of the water flow.
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Michell's publications were accompanied by the launch of the Ley Hunter magazine and the appearance of a ley hunter community keen to identify ley lines across the British landscape. Ley hunters often combined their search for ley lines with other esoteric practices like dowsing and numerology and with a belief in a forthcoming Age of Aquarius that would transform human society. Although often hostile to archaeologists, some ley hunters attempted to ascertain scientific evidence for their belief in earth energies at prehistoric sites, evidence they could not obtain. Following sustained archaeological criticism, the ley hunter community dissipated in the 1990s, with several of its key proponents abandoning the idea and moving into the study of landscape archaeology and folkloristics.
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In the 1960s, Philip Heselton (pictured in 2005) established the Ley Hunter magazine Part of the popularity of ley hunting was that individuals without any form of professional training in archaeology could take part and feel that they could rediscover "the magical landscapes of the past". Ley hunting welcomed those who had "a strong interest in the past but feel excluded from the narrow confines of orthodox academia". The ley hunting movement often blended their activities with other esoteric practices, such as numerology and dowsing. The movement had a diverse base, consisting of individuals from different class bases and of different political opinions: it contained adherents of both radical left and radical right ideologies.
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The "Glastonbury Fair" of 1971 was instigated by Andrew Kerr after being found and introduced to Michael Eavis by David Trippas and organised with help from Jean Bradbery, Kikan Eriksdotter, John Massara, Jeff Dexter, Arabella Churchill, Thomas Crimble, Bill Harkin, Gilberto Gil, Mark Irons, John Coleman, and Jytte Klamer. The 1971 festival featured the first incarnation of the "Pyramid Stage". Conceived by Bill Harkin the stage was a one-tenth replica of the Great Pyramid of Giza built from scaffolding and metal sheeting and positioned over a blind spring which was found by dowsing. Performers included David Bowie, Mighty Baby, Traffic, Fairport Convention, Gong, Hawkwind, Skin Alley, The Worthy Farm Windfuckers and Melanie.
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The roof of the nave is so high that it makes the tower seem shorter than it really is; but it is at least 100 feet high. All of the church's medieval glass was destroyed by William Dowsing in 1644; the only stained glass windows in the church are the east windows over the altar (1954, by Sir Ninian Comper) and the west window below the grand tower. In World War II the church was narrowly missed by a German bomb that destroyed houses in the nearby Hollyhock Square. The bomb did not do much damage to the building itself but blew out most of the windows - another reason why the church has very little stained glass.
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And that all the people he disagrees with are > unbalanced fanatics? A colleague of the positivist philosopher A. J. Ayer > once remarked wryly "I wish I was as certain of anything as he seems to be > about everything". Martin Gardner produces the same feeling. By Wilson's own account, up to that time he and Gardner had been friends, but Gardner took offence.letter, New York Review of Books, June 15, 1989 In February 1989 Gardner wrote a letter published in The New York Review of Books describing Wilson as "England’s leading journalist of the occult, and a firm believer in ghosts, poltergeists, levitations, dowsing, PK (psychokinesis), ESP, and every other aspect of the psychic scene".
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Alana Bartol (born June 15, 1981 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian artist currently based in Calgary and teaching at the Alberta University of the Arts. Alana's multidisciplinary practice involves aspects of performance, installation, video and bioart through site-responsive and community embedded practices. Her work explores topics of place, species, bodies, and care, and draws upon the divination practice of dowsing. Bartol has been exhibited at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art (Winnipeg), ARC Gallery (Chicago), Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Karsh-Masson Gallery (Ottawa), SIMULTAN Festival (Romania), Museo de la Ciudad (Guadalajara, Mexico), Access Gallery (Vancouver), InterAccess (Toronto), Media City Film Festival (Windsor, ON), Groupe Intervention Vidéo (Montréal) and TRUCK Gallery (Calgary) among others.
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The wind turbine at Beaufort Court, Kings Langley, UKIn 2001 the company built the then-largest wind farm in the world at King Mountain in Texas, using 214 Bonus turbines of 1.3 MW capacity. In 2005, RES won a Queen's Award for Enterprise in the Sustainable Development category. More recently the company has been active in the developing offshore UK wind power market. It has supported the delivery of both onshore and offshore engineering works for the Lynn and Inner Dowsing offshore wind farms off the coast of Lincolnshire in the UK. The RES Group has now developed and/or constructed over 100 wind farms worldwide, with more than 12 GW of capacity.
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Throughout the 1980s, Wyatt repeatedly tried to interest other people in the site, including ark hunter and former astronaut James Irwin and creationist John D. Morris, neither of whom was convinced the structure was the Ark. In 1985, Wyatt was joined by David Fasold and geophysicist John Baumgardner for the expedition recounted in Fasold's The Ark of Noah. As soon as Fasold saw the site, he exclaimed that it was a shipwreck. Fasold brought along state-of-the-art ground-penetrating radar equipment and a "frequency generator", set it on the wavelength for iron, and searched the formation for internal iron loci (the latter technique was later compared to dowsing by the site's detractors).
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MTÜ Eesti Skeptik gives out a yearly Umbluu award, published every 31 April on the website, for the year's most striking activities in the field of propagating pseudoscience. The award comes with the sculpture of Skewed Pendulum ().Youtube video of the Skewed Pendulum in action In 2008, the award was given to for its procurement, continued usage and vocal defence of Sniffex, an extremely expensive dowsing rod.skeptik.ee 30 April 2008 01:11: Umbluu-preemia 2008Äripäev 30 April 2008 10:06: Võluvits tõi päästeametile Umbluu-preemia by Villu Päärt Notoriously, the Rescue Service was reported to have been using Sniffex for "bomb detection" during George W. Bush's state visit to Republic of Estonia.
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The guide exploits what fascinated him in his academic research in cognitive psychology, that much deception is self-deception. He has investigated dowsing in the United States and written a book on the subject. He is one of the foremost skeptical experts on the Ganzfeld experiment. (This is his first podcast interview, it runs from 27:34 to 1:04:50) According to Bob Carroll, psychologist Ray Hyman is considered to be the foremost expert on subjective validation and cold reading. Hyman's prestidigitational skills (which he calls "manipulating perception") have earned him the cover of The Linking Ring twice, June 1952 and October 1986 this magazine of the International Brotherhood of Magicians of which he has been a member for over 35 years.
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Boudry characterizes pseudoscience as "an imitation of real science". In his MA thesis, entitled De naakte Keizers van de Psychoanalyse (The Naked Emperors of Psychoanalysis), he explains why he classifies psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience and which immunizing strategies this school of thought has developed over the years to withstand criticism. Together with philosopher Johan Braeckman he wrote the book De ongelovige Thomas heeft een punt (Doubting Thomas has a point), in which they offer arguments against parascience and pseudoscience, blind faith, wishful thinking, astrology, irrationality, psychokinesis, and dowsing, as they consider these ideas to be grounded in logical fallacies. The title refers to the attitude of Thomas the Apostle, who was initially skeptical when he was told that Jesus had been resurrected.
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Much of the north of 9th century England was occupied by Norse invaders, who left behind descendants with Norse surnames. Norse invaders ruled much of northern England, in the 9th and 10th centuries, and left English surnames of Danish origin in the area now called the Danelaw. According to Origins of English Surnames and A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances, English surnames that have their source in the language of the Norse invaders include: Algar, Allgood, Collings, Copsey, Dowsing, Drabble, Eetelbum, Gamble, Goodman, Grave, Grime, Gunn, Hacon, Harold, Hemming, Ketellbum, Knott, Kronick, Mainwaring, Mannerink, Orme, Osborne, Osborn, Osmund, Quinnell, Ransom, Ranson, Raven, Rolf, Seagrim, Starbuck, Storey, Thurgood,Fell Tookey, Toope, Toovey, Tovey, Truelove, Tubb, Turk.
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After the Revolutions of 1989, Eastern Europe saw a surge in quackery and paranormal beliefs that were no longer restrained by the generally secular Communist regimes or the Iron curtain and its information barriers. The foundation of many new skeptical organizations was as well intending to protect consumers. These included the Czech Skeptics' Club Sisyfos (1995), the Hungarian Skeptic Society (2006), the Polish Sceptics Club (2010) and the Russian-speaking Skeptic Society (2013). The Austrian Skeptical Society in Vienna (founded in 2002) deals with issues such as Johann Grander's "vitalized water" and the use of dowsing at the Austrian Parliament. The European Skeptics Congress (ESC) has been held throughout Europe since 1989, from 1994 onwards co-ordinated by the European Council of Skeptical Organizations.
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Clinical community psychologist and professor of social psychology at the University of Connecticut Seth Kalichman regards the journal as a publisher of pseudoscience, with the journal serving as a "major outlet for UFOology, paranormal activity, extrasensory powers, alien abductions etc". Philosopher of science Noretta Koertge described the journal as an "attempt to institutionalize pseudoscience". Skeptic Robert Sheaffer writes that the SSE journal has published articles implying that certain topics, like paranormal activities, dowsing and reincarnation, are true and have been verified scientifically. The articles, often written in impressive jargon by scientists with impressive academic credentials, try to convince other scientists that further research into those topics is warranted; but, Sheaffer argues, those articles failed to convince the mainstream scientific community.
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He ranges from dowsing to Frankenstein to healing spas. He includes an essay about learning that he had an adult daughter and accepting that she attributed her search for him to "intuition". The first half of CSI Paranormal is a handbook on how to investigate paranormal claims. Nickell discusses his investigative strategy to: #Investigate on site #Check details of an account #Research precedents #Carefully examine physical evidence #Analyze development of a phenomenon #Assess a claim with a controlled test or experiment #Consider an innovative analysis #Attempt to recreate the "impossible" #Go undercover to investigate In the second half of the book, Nickell shows how this strategy has been used to evaluate the claims of the Giant Ell, the Roswell UFO, the grilled cheese Madonna, and John Edward.
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Ultimately, they awarded both halves of the story arc five out of five. alt=Tintin is shown dreaming; in his dream we see Calculus dowsing towards a plant that has blossomed skulls and is potted into a fish bowl; an Inca dressed in ceremonial attire is behind him raising a spear. Literary critic Tom McCarthy identified elements within the story that he believed reflected recurring themes within The Adventures of Tintin. He thought that the appearance of Rascar Capac's jewels reflected Hergé's use of jewellery as a theme throughout the series, and that the scene in which Tintin commands the sun god to do his bidding reflects a wider theme throughout the series in which "sacred authority" manifests through voice.
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As the spiritual axis shifted to America, Christopher Hills visited his friend Laura Huxley who urged him to move to the United States where he settled in Boulder Creek, California, and became a U.S. citizen. There, amidst the ancient redwoods, he founded in 1973, an accredited college, University of the Trees, an alternative education and research center for the social sciences to study the laws of nature and their relation to human consciousness. Students lived on campus and studied subjects as diverse as Radionics and dowsing (Hills was a well-known diviner"Incredible Feat" – National Enquirer, June 22, 1976, p. 14 (Diviner finds stolen loot for Santa Cruz Police)), meditation, hatha yoga, the Vedas, and early forms of social networking he called "Group Consciousness".
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The campus housed University of the Trees Press which published Christopher Hills' writings and the research of a number of resident students who obtained degrees at the university and wrote books on light & color frequencies and the science of Radionics. A small workshop produced pendulums for dowsing and a line of negative ion generators. With the buildup of the vitamin business surrounding discoveries that spirulina had significant weight loss benefits University of the Trees became one of the largest employers in the San Lorenzo Valley"From Counterculture to Mainstream" – Santa Cruz Sentinel (Cover), Aug 19, 1984 and leased more than 10 buildings in Boulder Creek for housing students and warehousing for Light Force,"Spirulina – Miracle Pill or Mind Pill? " – The Press Democrat, September 24, 1981, p.
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An epigram by Samuel Sheppard, from Epigrams theological, philosophical, and romantick (1651) runs thus: :Virgula divina. :"Some Sorcerers do boast they have a Rod, :Gather'd with Vowes and Sacrifice, :And (borne about) will strangely nod :To hidden Treasure where it lies; :Mankind is (sure) that Rod divine, :For to the Wealthiest (ever) they incline." Early attempts at an explanation of dowsing were based on the notion that the divining rod was physically affected by emanations from substances of interest. The following explanation is from William Pryce's 1778 Mineralogia Cornubiensis: A study towards the end of the nineteenth century concluded that the phenomenon was attributed to cryptesthesia, whereby the practitioner made unconscious observations of the terrain and involuntarily influenced the movement of the rod.
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The magazine deals with topics such as alternative medicine, magic and the paranormal. Examples include medical claims in reflexology, 9/11 conspiracy theories, tidal forces, the hype surrounding the popular book The Secret, forged doctorates from non- existent universities, the "ridiculous" verdict by an Amsterdam judge that the Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij could not label orthomanual therapist M. Sickesz a "quack" (later overturned), iridology, Bach flower remedies, ayurveda, Aqua Detox, magnet therapy applied kinesiology, bioresonance therapy, acupuncture and reiki. Moreover, attention is given to clairvoyance, parapsychology, auras and dowsing, but also to Egyptian pyramids, aliens, crop circles and UFOs. Although Nanninga said that practices such as forging doctorates are a disgrace, he emphasised that (writing about) critical thinking can be interesting.
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On 21 December of the same year, statues and decorations in the Chapel were pulled down by a committee led by the Puritan zealot William Dowsing. The college was the first in the University to have electric lighting installed, when Lord Kelvin provided it for the Hall and Combination Room to celebrate the College's six-hundredth anniversary in 1883–1884. It was the second building in the country to get electric lighting, after the Palace of Westminster. The college developed a strong reputation for the teaching of history from the time of Harold Temperley and during World War II its fellowship simultaneously included four professors in the university's faculty for that subject - Herbert Butterfield, David Knowles, Michael Postan and Denis Brogan.
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Mister Majestic began his three-year-old season by winning a minor race over six furlongs at Folkestone Racecourse in April and finished fourth over the same distance on his next start. In May he produced his best effort of the season in the Listed Leisure Stakes at Lingfield Park as he won by a short head from the four-year-old Governor General (Abernant Stakes) with Singing Steven (Cornwallis Stakes) in third place. He then finished seventh to Ajdal in the July Cup and fourth to Cricket Ball in the Prix de Meautry but was disqualified in the latter race for carrying an incorrect weight. In his two remaining races he finished last of eight behind Ajdal in the Vernons Sprint Cup and unplaced behind Dowsing in the Diadem Stakes.
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In 1991, he published a book on the subject, Dowsing the Crop Circles, and in 2001 followed this with a booklet titled The Face and the Message, which was devoted to a circle depicting the face of a Grey alien which had appeared in Hampshire in August 2001. Despite the longstanding animosity with which Michell held academic archaeology, in 1991 the peer- reviewed archaeological journal Antiquity invited him to author a review of a Southbank exhibit, "From Art to Archaeology", which was duly published in the journal. In the 1980s Michell was a member of the Lindisfarne Association and a teacher at its School of Sacred Architecture. He lectured at the Kairos Foundation, an "educational charity specifically founded to promote the recovery of traditional values in the Arts and Sciences".
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One definition is "sensitivity to radiations of all kinds emanating from living beings, inanimate objects, mineral ores, water and even photographs"Alexis Mermet, Principles and Practice of Radiesthesia: A textbook for Practitioners and Students"", 1959 Page 3 The word derives from Latin root ‘radi-’ referring to beams of light, radiation and ‘aesthesia’, referring to sensory perception. The term is a neologism created by a French Catholic priest Alexis Timothée Bouly who was a celebrated dowsing practitioner in the early part of the 20th century.Joan Rose Staffen, The Book of Pendulum Healing: Charting Your Healing Course for Mind, Body and Spirit, 2016 Page 10 Bouly claimed to be able to detect unexploded ordnance from WW1 and also to detect molecular changes in laboratory experiments. He was the founder at Lille in 1929 of the Association of the Friends of Radiesthesia fr.
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"It was through the diligent efforts of conjurer James ("The Amazing") Randi that Geller was finally, at least in most people's eyes, exposed. Randi demonstrated that he could by ordinary conjuring means duplicate Geller's feats. His perseverance in investigating and unveiling the circumstances of many of Geller's more spectacular performances (including the discovery of confederates who aided Geller when necessary) made it very difficult for anyone with any degree of critical thought to continue to accept Geller's claims." By the mid-1980s, Geller was described as "a millionaire several times over", and claimed to be performing mineral dowsing services for mining groups at a standard fee of £1 million. In June 1986 the Australian Skeptic reported that Geller had been paid A$350,000 and granted an option of 1,250,000 Zanec shares at 20c each until 5 June 1987.
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Isaksson, Stefan (2000), section: "Mountains and Operations" They allege that because of the backward evolution of humans, the Earth has been under frequent attacks from evil forces from other parts of the universe, and that the Cosmic Masters of other planets are fighting off a number of evil alien invaders.Smith, Simon G. (2003), pp.92-3Saliba, John A. (2003) pp.132-3Wojcik, Daniel (2011) p.73 In Aetherius Society literature, the cosmic battles with evil forces or intelligences "bear some resemblance to the fundamentalist Christian concept of ‘spiritual warfare', shorn of its imminent apocalyptic content."Saliba, John A. (2003) p.132 As in other New Age religions, alternative medicine, spiritual healing, yoga, and dowsing are also accepted and practised by the Aetherius Society.Barrett, David V. (2011) pp.124-5 It has also launched initiatives against pollution and nuclear power, and generally identifies with the ideals of the Green Movement.
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The mediaeval cross in the churchyard was demolished by Puritan William Dowsing in 1643 View from the chancel towards the rear of the rood screen and facing the seats of 1442 A church existed in the parish before 1120 but what can be seen today is no earlier than the 13th-century: this includes the South and North nave arcades, the North aisle and the chancel. St Mary's church is built in the Early English style with a square tower (now containing eight bells) from fieldstones and local ironstone. The South aisle and South chapel date to about 1300 while the North porch is also a 14th-century addition. Remodelling of the church in the 15th and 16th-centuries affected the entire building except for the nave arcades. The seats in the chancel date to about 1442 The West tower is 13th-century in origin and was largely rebuilt in the 14th and 15th-centuries.
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" In a retrospective review for The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Rob Sheffield hailed Veedon Fleece as "the culmination of everything Van was doing up to that point, all Celtic mystic tumult in the vocals and pastoral beauty in the music" and ranked it among "his most majestic music". Allmusic critics Jason Ankeny and Thom Jurek called the album "brilliant" and commented that "With its elegiac tone and deeply autobiographical lyrics, this was a Morrison who didn't so readily associate himself with the feel-good, peace, love, and rhythm & blues sound American audiences were used to." John Kennedy from PopMatters felt it is beautiful in the sense defined by French poet Charles Baudelaire, "a poet's album, a jazz lover's album, a masterpiece of soul-singing, a blue and green journey into the places of the heart that were first opened up for dowsing with Astral Weeks." Derek Miller of Stylus Magazine believed it is astonishing, "so frothy and thick, that requires silence when it's over ... To me that's the better explanation for Morrison's three-year absence.
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A new layer of less-embodied superstition on the subject, however, has arisen around ley lines, feng shui and similar concepts, on the one hand, and urban leftover spaces, such as back alleys or gaps between buildings in some North-American downtown areas, on the other hand.A. Akkerman and A.F. Cornfeld (2010) "Greening as an urban design metaphor: Looking for the city's soul in leftover spaces," The Structurist 49/50: 30-35 The western cultural movements of Romanticism and Neo-romanticism are often deeply concerned with creating cultural forms that 're-enchant the land', in order to establish or re-establish a spirit of place.T. Graves and L. Poraj-Wilezynska (2009) "'Spirit of place' as process: Archaeography, dowsing and perceptual mapping at Belas Knap," Time and Mind 2: 167-193. Modern earth art (sometimes called environment art) artists such as Andy Goldsworthy have explored the contribution of natural/ephemeral sculpture to spirit of place.B. E. Bannon (2011) "Re-envisioning nature: The role of aesthetics in environmental ethics," Environmental Ethics 33(4): 415-436.
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Skeptics have examined the internals of many such devices and found those that have been examined to be incapable of operating as advertised, and have dismissed them as overpriced dowsing rods or similarly useless devices. Virtually all such devices claim to operate on a resonant frequency principle where the device is said to emit an electromagnetic signal, either through an antenna or a probe, that will respond to a specific substance such as gold, silver, or sometimes even paper money, and that the device will indicate the presence of such material by indicating a change in direction relative to the operator. This theory of operation is not supported by scientific theory; the devices have not been shown to work in blind testing, and the resonance principle invoked has not been shown to work in laboratories (and is not consistently employed by LRL manufacturers). In addition, the Inverse-Square Law limits the effective possible signal strength of any putative LRL; moreover, not only does this attenuation apply to the supposed emissions from the LRL devices, but the return signals from the sought-after targets are further attenuated by the same constraints.
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Weiss has been a notably active figure in underground punk and emo music as far back as 2001, and has played in numerous bands from Chicago as well as around his hometown of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He currently fronts Pet Symmetry with Erik Czaja and Marcus Nuccio of fellow emo band Dowsing, and also fronted Their / They're / There alongside Mike Kinsella of Owen and Matthew Frank of Loose Lips Sink Ships,. He plays bass in both bands despite having gained notoriety as a guitarist in Into It Over It, bass being the first instrument he learned and hence what he usually played in his earlier bands. The initial members of Into It Over It's live band also formed a separate project named Stay Ahead of the Weather in which members Weiss, Nick Wakim, Matt Jordan and Owen Mallon assume the same instrumental roles that they occupied for Into It Over It. They released an EP in 2010 as well as a split with The Wonder Years but despite having begun work on an album, there have been no updates regarding the activities of the band since May 2013.
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Bovis ascribes his discovery to reasoning and experiments in Europe using a dowsing pendulum: > I have supposed that Egyptians were already very good dowsers and had > oriented their pyramid by means of rod and pendulum. Being unable to go > there to experiment and verify the radiations of the Keops Pyramid, I have > built with cardboard some pyramids that you can see now, and I was > astonished when, having built a regular pyramid and oriented it, I found the > positive at the East, the negative at the West, and at the North and the > South, dual-positive and dual-negative... A new supposition: since with the > help of our positive 2000° magnetic plates we can mummify small animals, > could the pyramid have the same property? I tried, and as you can observe > with the small fish and the little piece of meat still hanging, I succeeded > totally. In 1949, inspired by Bovis,Drbal, Karel. “The Struggle for the Pyramid Patent.” Pyramid Power, edited by Max Toth and Greg Nielson. (New York: Warner Destiny, 1976). 141. a Czechoslovakian named Karel Drbal applied for a patent on a "Pharaoh's shaving device", a model pyramid alleged to maintain the sharpness of razor blades.
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Gardner was an uncompromising critic of fringe science. His book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (1952, revised 1957) launched the modern skeptical movement. It debunked dubious movements and theoriesThere's One Born Every Minute review by Ed Regis, The New York Times, June 4, 2000; "Martin Gardner's 1957 book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science is the classic put-down of pseudoscience. Nobody who read it will soon forget its stellar roll call of mid-20th-century cranks and crackpots" including Fletcherism, Lamarckism, food faddism, Dowsing Rods, Charles Fort, Rudolf Steiner, Dianetics, the Bates method for improving eyesight, Einstein deniers, the Flat Earth theory, the lost continents of Atlantis and Lemuria, Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision, the reincarnation of Bridey Murphy, Wilhelm Reich's orgone theory, the spontaneous generation of life, extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis, homeopathy, phrenology, palmistry, graphology, and numerology. This book and his subsequent efforts (Science: Good, Bad and Bogus, 1981; Order and Surprise, 1983, Gardner's Whys & Wherefores, 1989, etc.) provoked a lot of criticism from the advocates of alternative science and New Age philosophy;Friedel (2018): This book and his subsequent efforts earned him a wealth of detractors and antagonists in the fields of “fringe science” and New Age philosophy.
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