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Rhine stated in his first book, ExtraSensory Perception ( 1934 ), that after 90, 000 trials, he felt ESP is " an actual and demonstrable occurrence.
Rhine and his colleagues attempted to address these criticisms through new experiments, articles, and books, and revisited the state of the criticism along with their responses in the book Extra-Sensory Perception After Sixty Years ( 1940 ).
In his book No Small Achievement, Knud Jespersen quotes a report from SHAEF stating that resistance in Denmark " caused strain and embarrassment to the enemy ... a striking reduction in the flow of troops and stores from Norway undoubtedly had an adverse effect on the reinforcements for the battles East and West of the Rhine.
In 1972 the parapsychologist Louisa Rhine published a book titled Mind over Matter: Psychokinesis.
This hypothesis was first probably suggested by Radu Florescu in his 1975 book In Search of Frankenstein, which speculated that Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin visited the castle during her travels on the Rhine with Percy Shelley, where they might have heard local stories about Dippel, which by then would have grown legendary and notorious.
Formed in the spring of 1989, at a time when Detweiler, Hordinski, and Kelley were also touring as part of the final incarnation of Servant, Over the Rhine released independently their first album, Till We Have Faces, in 1991 ( named for the C. S. Lewis book of the same title ).
In 1934, drawing upon several years of meticulous lab research and statistical analysis, Rhine published the first edition of a book titled Extrasensory Perception, which in various editions was widely read over the next decades.
An early reference to the canal as " the Rhine " appears in the 1853 book White, Red, Black, in which traveler Ferenc Pulszky wrote, " The Germans live all together across the Miami Canal, which is, therefore, here jocosely called the ' Rhine.
Most of Hackländer's very numerous works have remained unreprinted, but a handful have lasted into, or been revived in, more recent times, including: two collections of fairy stories, Der Leibschneider der Zwerge and Weihnachtsmärchen ; the travel book Reise in den Orient, as well as some pieces on the Rhine included with works by other authors in Rheinfahrt ; and two of the many autobiographical works, Handel und Wandel, which describes in lightly fictionalised form his dissatisfied early life as cheap labour in a small shop, and Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, ein Preusse in Schwaben, which deals with his experiences in Württemberg.

book and popularized
The book closes abruptly () with an epistolary warning based on the emblematic trope of a fast growing vine present in Persian narratives, and popularized in certain collections of Aesop's fables such as The Gourd and the Palm-tree during the Renaissance, for example by Andrea Alciato.
Both the first method for cladistic analysis and the school of taxonomy originated in the work of the German entomologist Willi Hennig, who referred to it as " phylogenetic systematics " ( also the title of his 1966 book ); the use of the terms cladistics and clade was popularized by other researchers.
In the 18th century Adam Smith popularized the forms " feudal government " and " feudal system " in his book Wealth of Nations ( 1776 ).
Michael Behe's controversial book Darwin's Black Box popularized the concept of irreducible complexity.
The notion of a distinctive religious basis for American democracy and culture was first described and popularized by Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1840s, in his influential book, Democracy in America.
In 1928 a book titled The Lesbians of Berlin written by Ruth Margarite Röllig further popularized the German capital as a center of lesbian activity.
The term was popularized by the Soviet dissident Michael Voslenski, who in 1970 wrote a book titled Nomenklatura: The Soviet Ruling Class ().
Wesley Mitchell, who had just written a book on business cycles, popularized Frisch's paper which was introducing new advanced methods.
According to the OED, John Paul Scott coined the word " sociobiology " at a 1946 conference on genetics and social behaviour, and became widely used after it was popularized by Edward O. Wilson in his 1975 book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.
Nonetheless, it was Wilson's book that pioneered and popularized the attempt to explain the evolutionary mechanics behind social behaviors such as altruism, aggression, and nurturence, primarily in ants ( Wilson's own research specialty ) but also in other animals ( bees, wasps and termites ).
Oberg popularized the terraforming concepts discussed at the colloquium to the general public in his book New Earths ( 1981 ).
It is also related to the works of Max Weber ( see theories of rationality ), and were popularized and redefined in 1992 by Raymond Boudon in his book Action.
* a 1984 book by Axelrod that expanded on the paper and popularized the study.
The Bussard ramjet is a theoretical method of spacecraft propulsion proposed in 1960 by the physicist Robert W. Bussard, popularized by Poul Andersons novel Tau Zero, Larry Niven in his Known Space series of books, Vernor Vinge in his Zones of Thought series, and referred to by Carl Sagan in the television series and book Cosmos.
Common use of the phrase " The Great Depression " for the 1930s crisis is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with ' formalizing ' the phrase, though US president Herbert Hoover is widely credited with having ' popularized ' the term / phrase, informally referring to the downturn as a " depression ", with such uses as " Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement ", ( December 1930, Message to Congress ) and " I need not recount to you that the world is passing through a great depression " ( 1931 ).
The term biomimicry was popularized by scientist and author Janine Benyus in her 1997 book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature.
The idea was later popularized by the 1998 book The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived, written by husband and wife self-help lecturers Lee Carroll and Jan Tober.
It was popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide ( 1897 ).
The term robber baron was popularized by US political and economic commentator Matthew Josephson during The Great Depression in a 1934 book.
This book popularized the terms sadism ( derived from the brutal sexual practices depicted in the novels of Marquis de Sade ) and masochism ( derived from the name of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch ), although these terms apparently were in use prior to its publication.
With his book Design with Nature, he popularized a system of analyzing the layers of a site in order to compile a complete understanding of the qualitative attributes of a place.
In France, Aqualung diving was popularized by Cousteau's movie Épaves, while his book The Silent World also helped significantly.
The canons of page construction | Van de Graaf canon used in book design to divide a page in pleasing proportions, was popularized by Jan Tschichold in his book The Form of the Book.

book and word
The oldest known document using the German word Alphorn is a page from a 1527 account book from the former Cistercian abbey St. Urban near Pfaffnau mentioning the payment of two Batzen for an itinerant alphorn player from the Valais.
The book Hong Kong Action Cinema ( ISBN 0-87951-663-1 ) by Bey Logan suggests the word originated in Hong Kong action movies and eventually migrated to the gaming lexicon.
The first known mention of the word was in the third century AD in a book called Liber Medicinalis ( sometimes known as De Medicina Praecepta Saluberrima ) by Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, physician to the Roman emperor Caracalla, who prescribed that malaria sufferers wear an amulet containing the word written in the form of a triangle:
However, forgetting the last word, he tries to trick the book by mumbling / coughing the missing word.
Scholars also suggest that the Deuteronomists also included the humorous and sometimes disparaging commentary found in the book such as the story of the Ephraimite who could not pronounce the word " shibboleth " correctly ( Judg.
However, a title came into usage from the first word of the book in Koine Greek: apokalypsis, meaning " unveiling " or " revelation ".
It is the first word of the book ( see 2 Sam.
The preservation of the book of Joel indicates that it was accorded special status by its contemporaries as “ the word of the Lord ” ( 1: 1 ).
The book has three major divisions, chapters 1-2, 3-5 and 6-7, each introduced by the word " Hear ," with a pattern of alternating announcements of doom and expressions of hope within each division.
In general, the word breviary may be used to refer to an abridged version of any text or a brief account or summary of some subject, but is primarily used to refer to the Catholic liturgical book.
From such references, and from others of a like nature, Quesnel gathers that by the word Breviarium was at first designated a book furnishing the rubrics, a sort of Ordo.
A comic book or comicbook, also called comic paper or comic magazine ( often shortened to simply comic or comics ) is a magazine made up of " comics "— narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog ( usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book art form ) as well as including brief descriptive prose.
The English word Dravidian was first employed by Robert Caldwell in his book of comparative Dravidian grammar based on the usage of the Sanskrit word in the work Tantravārttika by ( Zvelebil 1990 p. xx ).
In the 13th century the order reached all classes of Christian society, fought heresy, schism, and paganism by word and book, and by its missions to the north of Europe, to Africa, and Asia passed beyond the frontiers of Christendom.
This word has been used as an epithet of various Vedic deities, like Varuna, and has been attested in the Holy Rig Veda, possibly the oldest compiled book among the Indo-Europeans.
The usage of the word functional goes back to the calculus of variations, implying a function whose argument is a function and the name was first used in Hadamard's 1910 book on that subject.
Blas Infante, in his book Orígenes de lo flamenco y secreto del cante jondo, suggested that the word may derive from Andalusian Arabic fellah mengu, " Escapee Peasant ", referring to the formerly Muslim Andalusians ( Moriscos ), who stayed in Spain and, according to certain modern authors, are supposed to have mixed with the Romani newcomers.
In another example, the word bra in the Swedish language means " good ", as in " a good song ", " a good book " or " Good day!
Since English, German and Dutch have many of the same etymological origins, there actually are a great number of words in both languages that are very similar and do have the same meaning ( e. g. word / Wort / woord, book / Buch / boek, house / Haus / huis, water / Wasser / water ...).
An average book of 60 cubic inches can be printed with 5 zeroes ( 5 characters per word, 10 words per line, 25 lines per page, 400 pages ), or 8. 3 zeros per cubic inch.
: A year or two later, I encountered the word " gryphon " in a book, had one of those aha!

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