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* 1928 – James Randi, Canadian-American magician
In 1978 the magician and scientific sceptic James Randi and a team from the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal examined the photographs, using a " computer enhancement process ".
* The Case of the Cottingley Fairies at The James Randi Educational Foundation
But follow-up studies have ( depending on who was summarizing the results ) failed to replicate the phenomenon or produced mixed results ( Bem & others, 2001 ; Milton & Wiseman, 2002 ; Storm, 2000, 2003 ). One skeptic, magician James Randi, has a longstanding offer — now U. S. $ 1 million —“ to anyone who proves a genuine psychic power under proper observing conditions ” ( Randi, 1999 ).
James Randi ( born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge ; August 7, 1928 ) is a Canadian-American stage magician and scientific skeptic best known for his challenges to paranormal claims and pseudoscience.
Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation ( JREF ).
In 2005, James Randi offered her the James Randi Educational Foundation US $ 1 million prize to demonstrate her claims.
Skeptics such as James Randi suggest that his reputation as a prophet is largely manufactured by modern-day supporters who fit his words to events that have either already occurred or are so imminent as to be inevitable, a process sometimes known as " retroactive clairvoyance " ( postdiction ).
Magic ( illusion ) | Stage magician and scientific skeptic | skeptic James Randi has stated that Magic ( illusion ) | magic tricks can simulate or duplicate some supposedly psychic phenomena.
In 1979, magician and debunker James Randi engineered a hoax, now referred to as Project Alpha.
Organizations that encourage a critical examination of parapsychology and parapsychological research include the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, publisher of the Skeptical Inquirer ; the James Randi Educational Foundation, founded by illusionist and skeptic James Randi, and the
* James Randi Educational Foundation The James Randi Education Foundation ( JREF ) was founded to promote critical thinking in the areas of the supernatural and paranormal.
* James Randi Educational Foundation

James and praising
Thomas Young's work is acknowledged in Champollion's 1822 Lettre à M. Dacier, but incompletely, according to British critics: for example, James Browne, a sub-editor on the Encyclopædia Britannica ( which had published Young's 1819 article ), contributed anonymously a series of review articles to the Edinburgh Review in 1823, praising Young's work highly and alleging that the " unscrupulous " Champollion plagiarised it.
Ray's work subsequently had a worldwide impact, with filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg, Carlos Saura, Jean-Luc Godard, Isao Takahata, Gregory Nava, Ira Sachs and Wes Anderson being influenced by his cinematic style, and many others such as Akira Kurosawa praising his work.
James Berardinelli gave the film two stars out of four, criticizing the " coincidence-laden climax " but wrote that " poor writing not demand subpar acting ", praising Frequency < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s " few nice performances ".
Online film reviewer James Berardinelli gave the film three and a half stars out of four, praising the performances of Swank and Sevigny as the film's greatest success and likening the intensity of the film to that of a train wreck.
A sensation was created, with several critics, including Arthur Conan Doyle, a spiritualist himself, praising this version, calling it similar in style to Dickens ' work and for several decades the ' James version ' of Edwin Drood was common in America.
" Noted online critic James Berardinelli also gave the film a four star review, praising Branagh's direction and all levels of the production from the screenplay by Scott Frank to Patrick Doyle's score, stating, "... Branagh has combined all of these cinematic elements into an achievement that rivals Hitchcock's best work and stands out as one of the most intriguing and memorable thrillers of the 1990s.
Web critic James Berardinelli wrote an affirmative review of the film on his site ReelViews, praising it as " something fresh and vibrant in an era when something as idiotic as Armageddon is the top-grossing movie of 1998 and films generally follow safe, comfortable patterns because that's what the studios ' research shows that audiences want ".
" In his review for The Washington Post, Desson Howe gave the film a favourable review, and said of it " Put Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson and James Fox together and you can expect sterling performances ," praising their work in the film.
James Berardinelli of Reelviews. net, who gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, also compared Mamet's script to Hitchcock's works claiming that it " supplies us with a seemingly-endless series of twists and turns, only a fraction of which are predictable " as well as praising the actors by saying that " nearly every major performance is impeccable ".

James and Nine
Nick of Time was also the first of many of her recordings to feature her longtime rhythm section of Ricky Fataar and James " Hutch " Hutchinson ( Although previously Fataar had played on her Green Light album and Hutchinson had worked on Nine Lives ).
The Nine Mile Point Nuclear Generating Station and the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant are both also located within the town.
Mercer is the birthplace of the 19th century painter Samuel Waugh, actor and impresario J C Williamson born here in 1845 ( full name James Cassius Williamson ) as well as musician Trent Reznor, creator of the band Nine Inch Nails, and John Bingham, a drafter of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
The street demonstrations originated from the leadership of respectable public leaders such as James Otis who commanded the Boston Gazette and Samuel Adams of the " Loyal Nine " of the Boston Caucus, an organization of Boston merchants.
Nine has posted journalists overseas to cover major European stories following the closure of its European bureau in late 2008, with the last European correspondent, James Talia, being redesignated to his former role as a senior Melbourne Nine News journalist.
** James " Spanish " Blake, Nine Years ' War figure
He served on the continent under William of Orange during the Nine Years ' War and, having been promoted to major-general, he fought at the Battle of Steenkerque in August 1692 and the Battle of Landen in July 1693, where he was taken prisoner by the French and then exchanged for the Duke of Berwick, James II's illegitimate son.
Several works of Star Trek spin-off fiction expand on Section 31's operations ; Pocket Books published a four-part series profiling connections between Section 31's operations and the missions of James T. Kirk, Jean-Luc Picard, and the crews of Deep Space Nine and the USS Voyager.
The Nine Years ' War was fought primarily on mainland Europe and its surrounding waters, but it also encompassed a theatre in Ireland and in Scotland, where William III and James II struggled for control of the British Isles, and a campaign ( King William's War ) between French and English settlers and their Indian allies in colonial North America.
Nine presidents have led the college including William James Johnson ; E. E. Wood ; John Newton Prestridge ; Gorman Jones, acting president ; A. R. Evans, acting president ; Charles William Elsey ; James Lloyd Creech ; J. M. Boswell ; and James H. Taylor.
* In the Star Trek: Infinity's Prism book Seeds of Dissent by James Swallow, " Princeps " is the title for ' Commander ' Julian Bashir of the warship Defiance which exists in an alternate universe from the more familiar 24th Century envisioned from the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
The Nine Lessons, which are the same every year, are read by representatives of the college and of the City of Cambridge from the 1611 Authorized King James Version of the Bible in the following order: a chorister, a choral scholar, a representative of Cambridge churches, a representative of the City of Cambridge, a representative of King's College's sister college at Eton, the Chaplain, the Director of Music, a fellow of the College, and the Provost of the College.
The song has been covered by Omen, U2, R. E. M., Ian Stuart Donaldson, Sun City Girls, White Lion, Blue Man Group, Def Leppard, James Last, The NWOBHM band Aragorn, Nine Pound Hammer, Carlos Santana, and the Pressure Boys.
His nephew, James FitzThomas FitzGerald, attempted to regain control of both during the Nine Years War, but he was captured by the English and executed in 1603.
The secondary dedication named Howard Hughes, James Moody, Marcello Truzzi, Adrian ‐ Claude Frazier, Marilyn Monroe, Wesley Mather, William Lindsay Gresham, Hugo Zacchini, Jayne Mansfield, Frederick Goerner, C. Huntley, Nathanael West, Horatio Alger, Jr., Robert E. Howard, George Orwell, H. P. Lovecraft, Tuesday Weld, H. G. Wells, Sister Marie Koven, Harry Houdini, Togare ( LaVey's pet lion ), and the Nine Unknown Men from The Nine Unknown.
* James Killigrew, also a naval officer, who was killed in an encounter with the French in January 1695 during the Nine Years ' War
* James " Big Guns " Grissom: The strongman of the Nine.
Australia's Nine Network also produced a local version hosted by Suzie Wilks who was ably assisted by Peter Everett, James Lindsay, Catherine Morton and Tim Janenko-Panaeff.
‘ An Answer to Francis White's bishop of Norwich and Ely Reply to Mr. Fisher's Answer to the Nine Articles offered by King James to Father John Fisher, S. J .,’ St. Omer, 1625.
On 21 January 2008, Murdoch and James Packer announced that their companies, Illyria Pty Ltd and Consolidated Press Holdings would seek to privatise Consolidated Media Holdings which owns holdings in the Nine Network, Foxtel and Australian Consolidated Press.

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