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Rhine and Research
Rhine later established the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man ( FRNM ) and the Institute for Parapsychology as a successor to the Duke laboratory.
In 1995, the centenary of Rhine's birth, the FRNM was renamed the Rhine Research Center.
Today, the Rhine Research Center is a parapsychology research unit, stating that it " aims to improve the human condition by creating a scientific understanding of those abilities and sensitivities that appear to transcend the ordinary limits of space and time.
Research and professional organizations include the Parapsychological Association ; the Society for Psychical Research, publisher of the Journal of Society for Psychical Research ; the American Society for Psychical Research, publisher of the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research ( last published in 2004 ); the Rhine Research Center and Institute for Parapsychology, publisher of the Journal of Parapsychology ; the Parapsychology Foundation, which published the International Journal of Parapsychology ( between 1959 to 1968 and 2000 – 2001 ) and the Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research, publisher of the Australian Journal of Parapsychology.
The Rhine Research Center is a hub for research and education in Parapsychology.
* Rhine Research Center
* Rhine Psionics Research Center
In the early 1970s he pioneered research into the effects of human consciousness on machines called random number generators or random event generators at the Rhine Research Center Institute for Parapsychology.
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The Rhine Research Center Institute for Parapsychology, named after its founder J.
* Rhine Research Center homepage
Rhine founded the parapsychology lab at Duke University, the Journal of Parapsychology, and the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man.
In the early 1960s, Rhine left Duke and founded the Institute for Parapsychology which later became the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man.
Rhine founded the institutions necessary for parapsychology's continuing professionalization in the U. S. — including the establishment of the Journal of Parapsychology and the formation of the Parapsychological Association, and also the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man ( FRNM ), a precursor to what is today known as the Rhine Research Center.

Rhine and Center
* Riviera to the Rhine, U. S. Army in World War II, Jeffrey J. Clarke and Robert Ross Smith, United States Army Center of Military History, 1993.
* Rhine Research Center and Institute for Parapsychology, originally part of Duke University, now an independent research center.

Rhine and historical
At the earliest historical period, the territories between the Ardennes and the Rhine were occupied by the Treveri, the Eburones and other Celtic tribes, who, however, were all more or less modified and influenced by their Germanic neighbours.
The County Palatine of the Rhine (), later the Electoral Palatinate (), was a historical territory of the Holy Roman Empire, a palatinate administered by a count palatine.
They became reconciled, and upon Henry's death in 1024, Conrad appeared as a candidate before the electoral assembly of princes at Kamba, an historical name for an area on the East banks of the river Rhine and opposite to the German town Oppenheim ( Today the position of Kamba is marked by a small monument, which displays Conrad on a horse ).
The historical language of Alsace is Alsatian, similar to German dialects spoken across the Rhine, but today practically all Alsatians speak French, the official language of France.
The Low Countries () are the historical lands around the low-lying delta of the Rhine, Scheldt, and Meuse rivers, including the modern countries of Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and parts of northern France and western Germany.
At the earliest historical period, the territories between the Ardennes and the Rhine were occupied by the Treveri, the Eburones and other Celtic tribes, who, however, were all more or less modified and influenced by their Germanic neighbours.
The Rhine has always been of great historical and economic importance to the area, and it forms the eastern border of Bas-Rhin.
The southern section corresponded with the outline of the high banks of the Rhine, today the southern wall of the historical museum where a harbour was constructed.
The Swiss-Austrian border follows the historical bed of the Rhine, but today the river follows an artificial canal within Austria for the final five kilometers.
However, at least part of the Belgae may also have had significant genetic, cultural and historical connections to peoples east of the Rhine, including Germanic peoples, judging from archaeological, placename, and textual evidence.
The area is the historical heart of the Low Countries, a region corresponding roughly to all of modern Belgium ; the Netherlands south of the Rhine ; the French regions of Nord, Picardy, Upper Normandy, and Champagne-Ardenne ; and the northern part of the German Rhineland ( not including the Moselle ).
Similarly, the origin of the above quatrain itself seems to be historical: Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini ’ s De Varietate Fortunae (' On the Vicissitudes of Fortune ') of around 1430 contrasts the fates of the German King Sigismund of Hungary ( who, after being defeated at the battle of Nicopolis on the banks of the Danube in 1396, became King of Germany and attended a Church council at Constance, at the source of the Rhine, in 1414 ) and of his triumphant opponent, the Sultan Bayezid I ( also known as Bajazet ), who had meanwhile been captured and dragged all over Asia in an iron cage by Tamerlane, just as the verse recounts.
Baden is a historical region on the east bank of the Rhine River in the southwest of Germany, now the western part of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

Rhine and research
B. Rhine, a psychologist at Duke University, introduced a standard methodology, with a standard statistical approach to analysing the data, as part of his research into extrasensory perception.
B. Rhine and his wife Louisa tried to develop psychical research into an experimental science.
Replication failures encouraged Rhine to further research into the conditions necessary to experimentally produce the effect.
It was adopted by J. B. Rhine in the 1930s as a replacement for the term psychical research in order to indicate a significant shift toward experimental methodology and academic discipline.
In his book, Rhine popularized the word " parapsychology ," which psychologist Max Dessoir had coined over 40 years earlier, to describe the research conducted at Duke.
B. Rhine, is a parapsychology research unit that " aims to improve the human condition by creating a scientific understanding of those abilities and sensitivities that appear to transcend the ordinary limits of space and time.
After reading up on the Rhine research and the assorted criticisms and commentaries by skeptics, Bob was as taken aback by the tone and arguments of the skeptics as the work they were criticizing.
Rhine tested many students as volunteer subjects in his research project.
In 1934, drawing upon several years of meticulous lab research and statistical analysis, Rhine published the first edition of a book titled Extrasensory Perception, which in various editions was widely read over the next decades.

Rhine and center
In his Gallic Wars, Julius Caesar distinguishes among three ethnic groups in Gaul: the Belgae in the north ( roughly between Rhine and Seine ), the Celts in the center and in Armorica, and the Aquitani in the southwest, the southeast being already colonized by the Romans.
The Salian Franks were one of two Frankish tribes who were then occupying the area west of the lower Rhine, with their center in an area known as Toxandria, between the Meuse and Scheldt ( in what is now the Netherlands and Belgium ).
The city center, the Stadtmitte, lies about from the Rhine, in a wide lowland between the Taunus heights in the north, the Bierstadter Höhe and the Hainerberg in the east, the Mosbacher Mountain in the south, and the Schiersteiner Mountain in the west, an offshoot of the Taunus range.
Apart from the palace in the center, the ducal family had a large palace on the banks of the Rhine, known as Schloss Biebrich.
A stop on the Paris-Vienna-Orient trade route, as well as a port on the Rhine route linking southern Germany and Switzerland to the Netherlands, England and Scandinavia, it became the political and economic center of the region.
One of the famous old German university towns, and archiepiscopal seat, Freiburg was incorporated in the early 12th century and developed into a major commercial, intellectual, and ecclesiastical center of the upper Rhine region.
In 1520, Freiburg decided not to take part in the Reformation and became an important center for Catholicism on the Upper Rhine.
It is located south of the city center on the Rhine River, opposite the Mainz borough of Mombach.
In the 19th century, Biebrich became an important industrial center of the Rhine Main Area with the plants of Dyckerhoff Concrete ( now owned by Buzzi Unicem ), Kalle and Albert Chemistry ( now Celanese ), and Henkell ( sparkling wine = Sekt ).
Yet, in this poem, the center of Gunther's supposedly Frankish kingdom is the city of Worms on the Rhine.
< center > The Lorelei, near where Middleton led his troops across the Rhine
The castle, like today's city, has been inhabited for thousands of years, because it is strategically located in the center of Europe at a passage between the Carpathians and the Alps, at a very important ford used to cross the Danube river, and at an important crossing of central European ancient ( trade ) routes running from the Balkans or the Adriatic Sea to the Rhine river or the Baltic Sea, the most important route being the Amber Route.
The 1000 year old quarter Rodenkirchen, situated close to the Rhine, today represents the center of the borough.
Aerial view of the Rhine, with Pratteln south of the Rhine, in the center left of the view.

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