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Hargrave and papers
After President General Hargrave died in 1988, all his papers and other Parent Body material were turned over to the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio for safe-keeping.

Hargrave and by
* Jennings, Hargrave ( 1870 ) The Rosicrucians: Their Rites and Mysteries John Camden Hotten, London, OCLC 301465719 ; reprinted in 1976 by Arno Press, New York, ISBN 0-405-07957-5
The film is a remake of the 1977 TV movie The Prince of Central Park starring Ruth Gordon and T. J. Hargrave ; both films were based on the novel The Prince of Central Park by Evan Rhodes.
Before the establishment of the Chickamauga Post in 1902 by United States Army, an unincorporated city existed, where Fort Oglethorpe was later established, called Hargrave, Georgia after the name of the land owner and ex-Confederate soldier, William Hamilton Hargrave.
Manned kite flying and aerial photography was advanced also by French Marcel Maillot, British Robert Baden-Powell, Americans Charles Lamson and William Abner Eddy, Australian Lawrence Hargrave ( inventor of box kite in 1893 and kite train in 1884 ) and French Captain Saconney.
In the 1880s he experimented with monoplane models and by 1889 Hargrave had constructed a rotary airplane engine, driven by compressed air.
Hargrave lifted sixteen feet from the ground by a tandem of his box kites.
Hargrave claimed that " The particular steps gained are the demonstration that an extremely simple apparatus can be made, carried about, and flown by one man ; and that a safe means of making an ascent with a flying machine, of trying the same without any risk of accident, and descending, is now at the service of any experimenter who wishes to use it.
It was by kites of this variety, flown in tandem, that the inventor, Hargrave, was lifted sixteen feet from the ground on 12 November 1894.
Threlfall called Hargrave the " inventor of human flight ", and the debt supposed to be owed by the Wright brothers to Hargrave.
Whilst sharing many of the same historical roots as the Scouting movement, The Woodcraft Folk's direct antecedent was the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, an organisation led by ex-Scout Commissioner for Woodcraft and Camping John Hargrave, who had broken with what he considered to be the Scouts ' militaristic approach in the years immediately after the First World War.
Subsequently part of Lawrence Hargrave Drive was replaced in 2005 by the Sea Cliff Bridge just off the coast, crossing the submerged rock shelf.
Note the drum-tight skin, a consequence of the unique tensioning system devised by Hargrave.
The box kite was invented by Lawrence Hargrave, an Englishman who emigrated to Australia in 1893, as part of his attempt to develop a manned flying machine.
Arduin is a fictional universe and fantasy role-playing system created in the mid 1970s by David A. Hargrave.
The first printings of the first three books were self published by Dave Hargrave.
* Vaults of the Weaver A compilation of the 4 Arduin Dungeons along with Hive Home ( the only example of a Phraint Hive ever completed by their creator David A. Hargrave ) and the 13 part Heart of Darkness campaign, both never before published.
At the beginning there were different symbolic frameworks: red Indians ( taken from " Kibbo Kift " written by John Hargrave ) and Robinson Crusoe.
The b-side " Latch On " is a Jon Spencer arrangement of a rockabilly song despite the fact that the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion recording has very little in common with the most well-known recordings of this track ( released by Ron Hargrave and The Cochran Brothers ).
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion version is more than likely a cover of the Cochran Brothers version of this song as both tracks feature the words " you are really gone " which do not appear in the lyrics sung by Ron Hargrave.
* A descriptive bibliography of the privately printed " Nature Worship and Mystical Series " series of books attributed to Hargrave Jennings by catherine yronwode

Hargrave and Lawrence
Alexander Graham Bell experimented with very large man-lifting kites, as did the Wright brothers and Lawrence Hargrave.
Lawrence Hargrave first developed a rotary engine in 1889 using compressed air, intending it to be used in powered flight.
** Lawrence Hargrave, Australian engineer ( d. 1915 )
In the 1890s, Lawrence Hargrave conducted research on wing structures and developed a box kite that lifted the weight of a man.
Australian Lawrence Hargrave invented the box kite and dedicated his life to constructing flying machines.
With its tiny population of about 7 million, Australia ranked sixth in the world for scheduled air mileage, had 16 airlines, was growing at twice the world average, and had produced a number of prominent aviation pioneers, including Lawrence Hargrave, Harry Hawker, Lawrence Wackett, the Reverend John Flynn, Sidney Cotton, Keith Virtue and Charles Kingsford Smith.
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Lawrence Hargrave ( 29 January 1850 – 14 July 1915 ) was an engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer.
* An engraving of Lawrence Hargrave alongside some of his gliders appeared on the reverse of the Australian $ 20 banknote from 1966 to 1994.
Lawrence Hargrave Drive is a road which stretches from the Old Princes Highway in Helensburgh to the bottom of Bulli Pass in Thirroul.
* The Lawrence Hargrave Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Sydney University and the Hargrave-Andrew Engineering and Sciences library at Monash University are named in his honour.
* Australia's largest airline Qantas named its fifth Airbus A380 aircraft ( registration VH-OQE ) after Lawrence Hargrave.
* Lawrence Hargrave Drive
( 1977 ) Lawrence Hargrave: Explorer, Inventor and Aviation Experimenter Sydney: Cassell Australia.
* Amirah Inglis, ' Hargrave, Lawrence ( 1850-1915 )', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, MUP, 1983, pp 196 – 198.
* Michael Adams: " Wind Beneath his Wings: Lawrence Hargrave at Stanwell Park ", Cultural Exchange International Pty.
* Winged Figure Lawrence Hargrave Memorial
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