Deane Beman, the National Amateur champion, and all the metropolitan district champions, including Bob Gardner, the amateur title-holder, also will receive awards.

Gerald Brosseau Gardner ( 1884 – 1964 ), also known by the craft name Scire, was an English Wiccan, as well as an author and an amateur anthropologist and archaeologist.

Involved for a time with Cecil Williamson, Gardner also became director of the Museum of Magic and Witchcraft on the Isle of Man, which he ran until his death.

Cornwall was however an unorthodox Muslim, and his interest in local peoples included their magical and spiritual beliefs, to which he also introduced Gardner, who took a particular interest in the kris, a ritual knife with magical uses.

Gardner also returned to his old interests in the anthropology of Malaya, witnessing the magical practices performed by the locals, and he readily accepted a belief in magic.

Gardner was not only interested in the anthropology of Malaya, but also in its archaeology.

He also befriended the archaeologist and practicing Pagan Alexander Keiller, known for his excavations at Avebury, who would encourage Gardner to join in with the excavations at Hembury Hill in Devon, also attended by Aileen Fox and Mary Leakey.

Biographer Philip Heselton suggested that through the nudist scene Gardner may have also met Dion Byngham ( 1896 – 1990 ), a senior member of the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry who propounded a Contemporary Pagan religion known as Dionysianism.

Gardner facetiously asked if he was also the Wandering Jew, much to the annoyance of Sullivan himself.

Alongside Rosicrucianism, Gardner had also been pursuing other interests.

Gardner would also join the Historical Association, being elected Co-President of its Bournemouth and Christchurch branch in June 1944, following which he became a vocal supporter for the construction of a local museum for the Christchurch borough.

Valiente claimed that the coven also referred to the god as Janicot ( pronounced Jan-e-co ), which she theorised was of Basque origin, and Gardner also used this name in his novel High Magic's Aid.

Grounded in developmental theories of Vygotsky and Feuerstein, who recognized that human beings are not static entities but are always in states of transition and transactional relationships with the world, dynamic assessment received also considerable support in the recent revisions of cognitive developmental theory by Joseph Campione, Ann Brown, and John D. Bransford and in theories of multiple intelligences by Howard Gardner and Robert Sternberg.

Of six novels published as " Infocom Books " by Avon Books between 1989 – 1991, four were directly based on Zork: The Zork Chronicles by George Alec Effinger ( 1990 ), The Lost City of Zork by Robin W. Bailey ( 1991 ), Wishbringer by Craig Shaw Gardner and Enchanter, also by Bailey.

According to Martin Gardner, some of the Princeton University students also referred to the game as John ( according to some sources this was because they played the game using the mosaic of the bathroom floor ).

Gardner also notes another example of the Bellman's rule: Carroll's constantly reiterated reply " I don't know ", when asked to explain what he had in mind with the Snark.

Gardner also compiled a companion volume, The Annotated Snark, dedicated to Carroll's classic nonsense poem " The Hunting of the Snark ".

He also acted in the global disaster film Meteor ( his second role as a sitting President of the United States after Fail-Safe ), with Sean Connery, Natalie Wood and Karl Malden, and the Canadian production City on Fire, which also featured Shelley Winters and Ava Gardner.

Erle Stanley Gardner " had spent more than twenty years practicing law in California, and the knowledge he gained was put to good use in the Perry Mason stories, which hinge on points of law, forensic medicine or science as clever as a watch mechanism ... and also the total lack of characterization ".

Her chief opponent was Maureen Gardner, also coached by Blankers-Koen's husband and who had equalled Blankers's world record prior to the Games, and would be running for her home crowd.

She noticed how much of the material in his Book of Shadows was taken not from ancient sources as Gardner had initially claimed, but from the works of the occultist Aleister Crowley, from Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, from the Key of Solomon and also from the rituals of Freemasonry.

However, this approach was also refused in an angry outburst by Gardner who left but not before telling the Alpha Lantern Corps to execute Stewart themselves if they had sentenced him to that fate.

Gardner stated in her autobiography Ava: My Story, that she was never in love with Howard Hughes, but he was in and out of her life for about twenty years.

In 2004 Sternberg and Grigerenko stated that there were no validating studies for multiple intelligences, and in 2004 Gardner asserted that he would be " delighted were such evidence to accrue " ( p. 214 ), and he admitted that " MI theory has few enthusiasts among psychometricians or others of a traditional psychological background " because they require " psychometric or experimental evidence that allows one to prove the existence of the several intelligences " ( 2004, p.

Gary Gygax, one of the co-creators of Dungeons & Dragons, stated that he based the description of a lich included in the game on the short story " The Sword of the Sorcerer " by Gardner Fox.

III Horne stated that MGM executives required Gardner to practice her singing using Horne's recordings, which offended both actresses.

The inaccurate story that he was a Navy Cross recipient derives from a 1979 column by Hy Gardner which stated that Robards was awarded the medal.

Gardner stated that he wanted " to bring Mr Bond into the 1980s ", although he retained the ages of the characters as they were when Fleming had left them.

" Suppliers assert that the product is safe, and one cites a brief quotation from a newspaper article that says " while as early as 1973 Elmer Gardner of the FDA's Bureau of Drugs stated ' There is no safety problem with Gerovital H-3.

* Charlton Heston stated that the working relationship between himself and Ava Gardner was very bad.

" In awarding the 2006 Steele Prize to Gardner, Greene, Kruskal, and Miura, the American Mathematical Society stated that before their work " there was no general theory for the exact solution of any important class of nonlinear differential equations.

* The Schenectady Gazette stated " Gardner has masterfully brought Bond into the modern era and done a crediable job of recreating a legend.

The first Lord of Order to appear in comics was Nabu in More Fun Comics # 67 ( May 1941 ) ( whose first appearance was later retconned to be in More Fun Comics # 55 ( May, 1940 ), as he was inside the helmet, though that was not stated in the story ), created by Gardner Fox and Howard Sherman, however, the concept of the Lords of Chaos and Order was introduced years later.

While Gardner initially described the mother was the alienator in 90 % of PAS cases, he later stated both parents were equally likely to alienate.

Gardner stated that PAS occurs when, in the context of child custody disputes, one parent deliberately or unconsciously attempts to alienate a child from the other parent.

While a diagnosis of PAS is made based on the child's symptoms, Gardner stated that any change in custody should be based primarily on the symptom level of the alienating parent.

With Gardner, Carnegie Corporation entered the era of strategic philanthropy-the planned, organized, deliberately constructed means to attain stated ends.

Gardner also stated that he wished to " develop a better understanding of the club's precise needs, plan to progressively increase the budget for new players, in particular as we grow the commercial income of the club ".

Maria Korp's artificial nutrition and hydration was ceased on 27 July on the decision of the Tribunal-appointed legal guardian, Mr Gardner, who stated that all of the doctors who had examined her ( including a specialist independent of the hospital arranged by the Public Advocate ) had advised that further treatment other than palliative care was futile and that she had no prospects of recovery.

A slew of now-renowned noir " bad girls " would follow, such as those played by Rita Hayworth in Gilda ( 1946 ), Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), Ava Gardner in The Killers ( 1946 ), and Jane Greer in Out of the Past ( 1947 ).

During his time in Malaya, Gardner became increasingly interested in local customs, particularly those involved in folk magic and weapons.

Since the mid-20th century Witchcraft has become the designation of a branch of neopaganism, specifically those Wicca traditions following Gerald Gardner, who claimed a religious tradition of Witchcraft with pre-Christian roots.

Amongst those invited were Martin Gardner, Ray Hyman, James Randi, and Marcello Truzzi, all members of the Resources for the Scientific Evaluation of the Paranormal ( RSEP ), a fledgling group with objectives similar to those CSI would subsequently adopt.

Unlike many scholars before him, Zhu Xi presents the Great Leaning as the Way of self cultivation and governance that is to be studied by all people, not only those in, or seeking, political office ( Gardner, Confucian Commentary, 192 ).

In those eight years, he worked with stars ranging from Clark Gable to Ava Gardner to Joan Crawford.

Although Hörbiger's theories have much in common with those of Immanuel Velikovsky ( parallels between the two were drawn by Martin Gardner in Chapter Three of his Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science ), the scientific community had a much calmer reaction to Hörbiger's theories than to Velikovsky's, and his publisher was never boycotted.

Of those who served in Kerry's boat crew, only Stephen Gardner joined SBVT.

Robert de Graff continued to refine his selections with movie tie-ins and greater emphasis on mystery novels, particularly those of Christie and Erle Stanley Gardner.

Covens in ' traditional ' Wicca ( i. e., those run along the lines described by Gardner and Valiente ) were and still are led pretty much equally by both a priest and a priestess ; but the priestess is often considered " prima inter pares " ( first among equals ); according to the book A Witches ' Bible, by Stewart and Janet Farrar.

In debates within the North Carolina Democratic Party over women's suffrage in the late 1910s and early 1920s, Congressman Webb was opposed, while Gardner led those who supported the idea of granting the right to vote to women.

Gardner in turn replied quoting his own earlier description of Wilson: " The former boy wonder, tall and handsome in his turtleneck sweater, has now decayed into one of those amiable eccentrics for which the land of Conan Doyle is noted.

He remarked that Gardner had probably intended to provide a history of the Witch-Cult from the Stone Age to the present which made reference to related religious movements, such as those of the druids, Knights Templar and ancient Egyptians.

Although the Public Advocate was at pains to state that the actions did not amount to euthanasia ( he noted that medical treatment decisions such as this had been authorised by the Supreme Court in Gardner re BWV VSC 173 and that euthanasia was unlawful ) the raw nerve that the case touched among many people did not stop some of those who either supported or opposed euthanasia characterising it as such.