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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.
With the yellow impurity returned to the green light, all of the Green Lanterns even the experienced wielders, with the apparent exception of Hal Jordan, Kyle Rayner, John Stewart, Kilowog and Guy Gardner, are placed under Krona's control, the Alpha Lanterns are affected by the yellow impurity which made them enter into some kind of hibernation.
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.
Wilensky-Lanford argues that Sadler attempted to avoid placing an individual at the center of his beliefs owing to his disappointment in Ellen White ; however, Gardner believes that Sadler placed his faith in Wilfred Kellogg as he had in White.

Gardner and great
In December 1904, his parents and younger brother visited, with his father asking him to invest in a pioneering rubber plantation which Gardner was to manage ; located near the village of Belihil Oya, it was known as the Atlanta Estate, but allowed him a great deal of leisure time.
A selection of kris knives ; Gardner took a great interest in such items, even authoring the definitive text on the subject, Keris and Other Malay Weapons ( 1936 ).
Murray's ideas nevertheless exerted great influence on certain pagan currents ; in the 1940s, Englishman Gerald Gardner claimed to have been initiated into a New Forest coven.
This practice may stem from the influence of Gerald Gardner who wrote ( ostensibly quoting a witch, but perhaps in his own words ): The witches tell me ' The law always has been that power must be passed from man to woman or from woman to man, the only exception being when a mother initiates her daughter or a father his son, because they are part of themselves ' ( the reason is that great love is apt to occur between people who go through the rites together.
Loyd is widely acknowledged as one of America's great puzzle-writers and popularizers, often mentioned as the greatest — Martin Gardner called him " America's greatest puzzler ", and The Strand in 1898 dubbed him " the prince of puzzlers ".
The Dani people, whom Gardner identifies mysteriously as " a mountain people ," believe that there was once a great race between a bird and a snake, which was to determine the lives of human beings.
Gardner Bay is a swimming and snorkelling site, and offers a great beach.
* Frank Gardner ( journalist ), the BBC's Security Correspondent, recalls personal memories of the great explorer including inspiring Gardner to learn Arabic.
His second great grandfather was Archibald Gardner, who was one of the early settlers of Star Valley, Wyoming.
In his book, Gardner describes activities ( such as dancing and performing surgery ) as requiring great kinesthetic intelligence: using the body to create ( or do ) something.
Bolton manager Owen Coyle said it was a great chance for Gardner to improve his match fitness after only just recovering from injury.
Josh was also upset when Amy Gardner carelessly noted that Hoynes ' resignation from the VP was a great opportunity, leading Donna to tell Amy that Josh " doesn't leave people " and making it clear Josh cared a great deal for Hoynes even after everything that happened.
* Earthworm-He was given great superhuman powers, including humanoid worm-like physiology, stretching powers, vibrational drill power, and psionic control of vermin ; ( Guy Gardner # 36 );
He went to Hollywood in 1932, working for all the major studios ( Warner Brothers, Universal, RKO, 20th Century Fox, and MGM ), and designed for all the great actresses of the day, including Bette Davis, Kay Francis, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Dolores del Río, Ava Gardner, Ann Sheridan, Barbara Stanwyck, and Merle Oberon.
It is now widely assumed that this was a reference to ' Dafo ', who appears to have been a great deal more publicity-shy than Gardner was.
Sir John Gardner Wilkinson's 1847 book " Hand-book for travelers in Egypt " goes in to great detail on how to hire a dahabiya.
Because of his work in propagating the Craft, the historian Ronald Hutton compared him to Gerald Gardner and Alex Sanders as " the third and last of the great male figures who have formed Wicca ".

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Gardner inserts his ideas about the importance of proper autopsies into many of his Mason novels.
This was a common design in newly established towns along the Chicago and Alton Railroad and may be found, with slight variations, in places like Dwight, Gardner, Odell and Mclean ; Fell's town of Normal, established at the same time as Towanda, was to have had exactly the same arrangement ; except that in Normal, the original street paralleling the railroad, quickly lost its importance to the reverse side of the block.

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* Philip Gardner ed., A. E. Housman: The Critical Heritage, a collection of reviews and essays on Housman ’ s poetry ( London: Routledge 1992 )
Commenting on the example cited by Winter, the science writer Martin Gardner asserts that " nothing could be clearer from the above dialogue than the fact that the dianetic explanation for the headache existed only in the mind of the therapist, and that it was with considerable difficulty that the patient was maneuvered into accepting it.
* K. Malhotra, S. Gardner, and R. Patz, Implementation of Elliptic-Curve Cryptography on Mobile Healthcare Devices, Networking, Sensing and Control, 2007 IEEE International Conference on, London, 15 – 17 April 2007 Page ( s ): 239 – 244
* Sabin Point, Narragansett Bay ( 1885 ; Oil on canvas ; Gardner House, Providence, Rhode Island )
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.
On retirement from the British Colonial Service, Gardner moved to London but then before World War II moved to Highcliffe, east of Bournemouth on the south coast of England.
After his retirement Gardner moved to Highcliffe near the New Forest on the south coast of England, where he says he met a group of people who had preserved their historic occult practices.
Valiente's identification was based on references Gardner made to a woman he called " Old Dorothy " which Valiente remembered.
Gardner himself admitted that the rituals of the existing group were fragmentary at best, and he set about reconstructing them as a basis of his tradition, drawing on his skills as an occultist and amateur folklorist.
Following the time Gardner spent on the Isle of Man, the coven began to experiment with circle dancing as an alternative.
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.
In 1876 the family moved into one of the neighbouring houses, Ingle Lodge, and it was here that the couple's third son, Gerald Brosseau Gardner, was born on Friday 13 June 1884.
Gardner would rarely see Harold, who went on to study Law at the University of Oxford, but saw more of Bob, who drew pictures for him, and Douglas, with whom he shared his nursery.
According to Gardner's first biographer, Jack Bracelin, Com was very flirtatious and " clearly looked on these trips as mainly manhunts ", viewing Gardner as a nuisance.
Arriving in the area, he decided to supplement this income by purchasing his own estate, Bukit Katho, on which he could grow rubber ; initially sized at 450 acres, Gardner purchased various pieces of adjacent land until it covered 600 acres.
His finds were displayed as an exhibit on the " Early History of Johore ", at the National Museum of Singapore, and several beads that he had discovered suggested that trade went on between the Roman Empire and the Malays, presumably, Gardner thought, via India.
From Palestine, Gardner went on to Turkey, visiting several local museums, and to Greece, followed by Hungary and Germany.
A believer in reincarnation, Gardner came to believe that he had lived on the island once before, in a previous life, subsequently buying a plot of land in Famagusta, planning to build a house on it, although this never came about.
" Having an interest in Rosicrucianism, a prominent magico-religious tradition within Western esotericism, Gardner decided to attend one of the plays performed by the group ; in August 1939, Gardner took his wife to a theatrical performance based on the life of Pythagoras.

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