Gerald Gardner himself actively disseminated educational resources on folklore and the occult to the general public through his Museum of Witchcraft on the Isle of Man.

In 1926 he was placed in charge of monitoring shops selling opium, noting regular irregularities and a thriving illegal trade in the controlled substance ; believing opium to be essentially harmless, there is evidence indicating that Gardner probably took many bribes in this position, earning himself a small fortune.

In 1935, Gardner attended the Second Congress for Prehistoric Research in the Far East in Manila, Philippines, acquainting himself with several experts in the field.

He would subsequently style himself as " Dr. Gardner ", despite the fact that academic institutions would not recognise his qualifications.

Revolving around an Englishman living in 1930s London named Robert Denvers who has recollections of a previous life as a Bronze Age Cypriot – an allusion to Gardner himself – the primary plot of A Goddess Arrives is set in ancient Cyprus and featured a queen, Dayonis, who practices sorcery in an attempt to help her people defend themselves from invading Egyptians.

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

During the Christmas holidays of 1873, Evans cataloged a coin collection being bequeathed to Harrow by John Gardner Wilkinson, the father of British Egyptology, who was too ill to work on it himself.

According to Martin Gardner, at school Diaconis supported himself by playing poker on ships between New York and South America.

Gardner himself did not speak Dani, and so all his interpretations of events are second-hand.

The Conservatives were defeated by the Liberals at the general election the following January ( in terms of MPs, a Liberal landslide ), with Balfour himself losing his seat at Manchester East to Thomas Gardner Horridge, a prominent solicitor and king's counsel.

People who knew her believed she was the inspiration for Della Street, though neither she nor Erle Stanley Gardner himself admitted it.

Bruno once again got himself back into title contention with wins over former contender James Tillis and journeymen Reggie Gross and Chuck Gardner.

Gardner soon found himself reading a 1944 message listing prominent atomic scientists, including several with the Manhattan Project.

The same year, Evans also caught the eye of Darryl F. Zanuck, who cast him as Pedro Romero in a film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, against the wishes of co-star Ava Gardner and Hemingway himself.

Gardner distinguished himself off the football field as well, becoming one of the most respected members of The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies at UNC.

Gardner referred to himself as " Chevalier Labhran de Saint Germain ", and " Presidential Attache to the self-styled European Council of Princes " also " Prior of the self-styled Celtic Churches Sacred Kindred of Saint Columbia ".< ref >

Although Gardner never found his utopia in the wild west, he unexpectedly found himself a new home in America.

* American mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner considered himself to be a mysterian.

Gardner considered himself " the worst commando in the world " and, despite being " a small-arms expert ... also knew a lot about explosives ", he admitted that " I bent an aeroplane I was learning to fly ".

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

Gardner immediately established himself a place in the first team for Bolton.

In other words, John Gardner is having more fun with his rented character than he allowed himself to have in the earlier book.

" The critic also accuses Gardner of " can't quite bring himself to take it seriously.

After running afoul of a local gangster / extortionist named Snead ( Redmond Gleeson ), Gardner evades two of Snead's thugs by allowing himself to be taken by two men, Finch ( Peter Jason ) and Babcock ( Chris Mulkey ) who identify themselves as being from an academic institution.

According to Gardner, the Surgenesons readily talked about the paranormal with him ; the patriarch of the family, Ted Surgeneson, believed that fairies were living in his garden and would say " I can often feel they're there, and sometimes I've seen them ", though he readily admitted the possibility that it was all in his imagination.

She confronted Gardner with this, who admitted that the text he had received from the New Forest coven had been fragmentary and he had had to fill much of it using various sources.

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.

On September 11, 1950, Gardner Bishop, Nicholas Stabile and the Consolidated Parents Group attempted to get eleven African-American students ( including the case's plaintiff, Spottswood Bolling ) admitted to the school, but were refused entry by the school's principal.

In fact, Oakes was a devout coward who was terrified of violence, suffered from airsickness and was afraid of heights and Gardner admitted of him that, " though I have denied it many times — he was of course a complete piss-take of J.

She confronted Gardner with this, who admitted that the text he had received from the New Forest coven had been fragmentary and he had had to fill much of it using various sources.

Gardner admitted that the covered themes were vastly different to their original presentations, but praised the drastic divergence as the album's strength.

Gardner only ever described one of their rituals in depth, and this was an event that he termed " Operation Cone of Power ".

Various scholars on early Wiccan history, such as Ronald Hutton, Philip Heselton, and Leo Ruickbie concur that witchcraft's early rituals, as devised by Gardner, contained much from Crowley's writings such as the Gnostic Mass.

Gardner had gained access to these rituals in 1946, when he had purchased a charter from Crowley giving him permission to perform the OTO rituals.

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.

Gardner claimed that these sections were genuinely historical in origin, and that witches had not been allowed to write anything down until recently, to avoid incrimination ; when at last Books of Shadows were allowed, the rituals and spells had to be written in a jumbled manner to prevent any non-initiate from using them.

Sabina Magliocco, in her examination of the influences of the study of folklore on the development of Wicca, considers it possible that by the late 1930s some members of the Crotona Fellowship were performing Wicca-like rituals based on Co-Masonry, and that this was the group referred to by Gerald Gardner as the ' New Forest Coven '.

Gardner had lent a ritual sword he owned, and had collected from the museum on the Isle of Man, to the Druids, who placed it within the heelstone during rituals.

It is possible that by the late 1930s some members of the Crotona Fellowship, inspired by the work of Margaret Murray, were performing rituals based on Co-Masonry and incorporating elements of folklore, and that these were the rituals that Gardner encountered.

The textile industry arrived in 1824, when Gardner Nichols and Russell Thayer bought the existing mills and began to operate them for carding of wool ; fulling, coloring and finishing of cloth ; and manufacture of textile machinery.

Handing out yet more flyers and teaming with the existing sales staff that included Nancy Smith, David Klein, and David Gardner, Probst built the largest sales force of any American game publisher.

After existing for most of the second half of the 20th century, Gardner syndrome has vanished as a separate entity.