He moved to Paris in 1834, where he dabbled in chemistry, medicine, and law, but soon abandoned all in favor of what he called his " lifelong passion ", literature.

Galton thought it a " good séance " and Erasmus dabbled in " spirit photographs ", but Charles remained convinced that it was " all imposture ", as Huxley and George proved at a second séance.

He dabbled in verse, could get along well among most of the European languages, and was fluent in French and German.

He worked extensively in experimental jazz and dabbled in free improvisation, but Lacy's music was typically melodic and tightly-structured.

He says the Gulf War was all about oil and claims to have dabbled in pacifism.

As was common for Protestant ministers of the day, he dabbled in science: his particular interest was astronomy.

He dabbled in various projects, including writing music for the film Shampoo and acting ( he was cast as Tony Lacey in Woody Allen's film Annie Hall ).

Unlike its predecessor, which was more straightforward hardcore, this album saw the band covering most of the styles they had dabbled with in the past.

Burton was a mathematician and dabbled in astrology.

From this it was guessed that he dabbled in attempts of gold making.

He also dabbled in fiction, writing children's stories for the magazine Youth's Companion and a nine-volume series of stories about rural living in America, the first of which was titled " Adventures in Contentment " under the pseudonym David Grayson.

Lord Killanin was also a director of many companies and dabbled in the film industry, collaborating with his lifelong friend, John Ford, on The Quiet Man.

Forrestal was born in Matteawan, New York, ( now part of Beacon, New York ), the youngest son of James Forrestal, an Irish immigrant who dabbled in politics.

After being discharged, Frank returned to New York and dabbled with several different jobs until he was accepted into NYU.

As a businessman, he dabbled in railroad investment, but was forced to yield control of the original New York Central Railroad line ( from Albany to Buffalo ) to Cornelius Vanderbilt.

As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature.

It was at Gore House that d ' Orsay met Benjamin Disraeli and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, themselves young men of fashion who dabbled in the arts.

Cole dabbled in architecture, a not uncommon practice at the time when the profession was not so codified.

Although Candolle's main focus was botany, throughout his career he also dabbled in fields related to botany, such as phytogeography, agronomy, paleontology, medical botany, and economic botany.

She, however, dabbled in the black arts, and theirs was a loveless match ; so Tarannon sent her on a ship back to the south.

His other son, Kevin, has dabbled in professional wrestling as both a referee and wrestler under the names " Kevin Christian " and " Freddie Gilbert ," the latter of which was used during a stint as the " brother " of Eddie Gilbert.

He was considered a purist and has not dabbled in experimental forms of music, except for a well-known series of Jugalbandi recordings with the Carnatic signer M. Balamuralikrishna.

This tradition waned somewhat in the late ' 70s but was revived in the New Wave era of the ' 80s, as pop singers Boy George ( of Culture Club ), Pete Burns ( of Dead or Alive ), and Philip Oakey ( of The Human League ), frequently appeared in a sort of semi-drag, while female musicians of the era dabbled in their own form of androgyny, with performers like Annie Lennox, Phranc and The Bloods sometimes performing as drag kings.

Dickens was part of a circle of prominent professionals, physicians as Dr. John Elliotson ( famous mesmerist ) and actor William Charles Macready, who also dabbled in mesmerism.

In November 2003, he dabbled with a one-off drive in a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at the Homestead circuit before being called by Bobby Rahal to drive the # 15 Argent Mortgage Honda when Kenny Bräck was injured in a late-race crash at Texas Motor Speedway in 2003.

By most accounts, Pfaff's own drug use was relatively moderate: " Kristen ... dabbled in drugs before she was in our band, in Minneapolis, but it was very light ", Erlandson told Craig Marks of Spin.

She had dabbled in that occupation part-time since 1975, and spent several holiday seasons selling hand-crafted jewelry at the Carrolltowne Mall in Eldersburg, Maryland, near Baltimore.

The originator of this style is Reggie Rockstone, a Ghanaian musician who dabbled with hip-hop in the United States before finding his unique style.

She dabbled in pop music and played the role of a glamour model.

In this period Barks dabbled in fine art, exhibiting paintings at local art shows.

Erik Satie also dabbled with Dadaist ideas during his career, although he is primarily associated with musical Impressionism.

Popular leaders were writers of elegy — Solon the lawgiver of Athens composed on political and ethical subjects — and even Plato and Aristotle dabbled with the meter.

During the late 1990s, she dabbled in acting for a while, guest starring on The Wayans Bros, That ' 70s Show, and Ally McBeal before doing a limited engagement performance in Broadway's Smokey Joe's Cafe.

He has also dabbled in the art of directing, starting with 1996's For Better or Worse and 1999's Just Looking.

He also dabbled with some innovation in his last years.

There were occasional mainstream acts that dabbled in neo-psychedelia, including Prince's mid-1980s work and some of Lenny Kravitz's 1990s output, but it has mainly been an influence on alternative and indie-rock bands.

In 1877 Charles Darwin dabbled in archaeology at the stones, experimenting with the rate at which remains sink into the earth for his book The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms.

Gilfillan, himself an untrained and poorly-reviewed polemic Christian preacher who occasionally dabbled in poetry, commented admiringly " Shakespeare never wrote anything like this.

During this period, Nuvolari also dabbled in car racing, winning a reliability trial in 1921.

In the late 1820s Balzac dabbled in several business ventures, a penchant his sister blamed on the temptation of an unknown neighbor.

Simon has also dabbled in acting.

Often known as Billy, he left school without prospects and dabbled in petty crime.

In some instances, mere apprentices or those ordained to lower orders dabbled in the practice.

Royalty dabbled in salads: Mary, Queen of Scots, ate boiled celery root over salad covered with creamy mustard dressing, truffles, chervil, and slices of hard-boiled eggs.

Old women wrinkled and decrepit lay weltering in blood, their brains dashed out and dabbled with their long grey hair.

Froud has also dabbled in other media and created a deck of Oracle cards entitled " The Faerie's Oracle " with Jessica Macbeth, based on his artwork in Good Faeries / Bad Faeries.

Hearst has dabbled in a career as an actress.

William S. Burroughs, who briefly dabbled with Scientology, wrote extensively about it during the late 1960s, weaving some of its jargon into his fictional works, as well as authoring non-fiction essays about it.