* 1928 – James Randi, Canadian-American magician

In 1978 the magician and scientific sceptic James Randi and a team from the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal examined the photographs, using a " computer enhancement process ".

* The Case of the Cottingley Fairies at The James Randi Educational Foundation

But follow-up studies have ( depending on who was summarizing the results ) failed to replicate the phenomenon or produced mixed results ( Bem & others, 2001 ; Milton & Wiseman, 2002 ; Storm, 2000, 2003 ). One skeptic, magician James Randi, has a longstanding offer — now U. S. $ 1 million —“ to anyone who proves a genuine psychic power under proper observing conditions ” ( Randi, 1999 ).

James Randi ( born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge ; August 7, 1928 ) is a Canadian-American stage magician and scientific skeptic best known for his challenges to paranormal claims and pseudoscience.

Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation ( JREF ).

In 2005, James Randi offered her the James Randi Educational Foundation US $ 1 million prize to demonstrate her claims.

Skeptics such as James Randi suggest that his reputation as a prophet is largely manufactured by modern-day supporters who fit his words to events that have either already occurred or are so imminent as to be inevitable, a process sometimes known as " retroactive clairvoyance " ( postdiction ).

Magic ( illusion ) | Stage magician and scientific skeptic | skeptic James Randi has stated that Magic ( illusion ) | magic tricks can simulate or duplicate some supposedly psychic phenomena.

In 1979, magician and debunker James Randi engineered a hoax, now referred to as Project Alpha.

Organizations that encourage a critical examination of parapsychology and parapsychological research include the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, publisher of the Skeptical Inquirer ; the James Randi Educational Foundation, founded by illusionist and skeptic James Randi, and the

* James Randi Educational Foundation The James Randi Education Foundation ( JREF ) was founded to promote critical thinking in the areas of the supernatural and paranormal.

* James Randi Educational Foundation

During the greater part of Jefferson's career he enjoyed the close collaboration of a fellow Virginian, James Madison, eight years his junior.

It was named after him by his friends and fellow Philadelphians, botanists James and William Bartram.

Botham ( second from left ) with fellow commentators Willis and Gower, politicians Alastair Campbell | Alistair Campbell and James Erskine, 14th Earl of Mar | James Erskine.

There are also competing claims on behalf of fellow pilots Robert Loraine, James Henry Joyce and A. E. George.

With fellow senators Trent Lott, Larry Craig, and James Jeffords, he formed a barbershop quartet called The Singing Senators.

In August 1963, he participated in the March on Washington along with fellow celebrities Harry Belafonte, James Garner, Charlton Heston, Burt Lancaster, and Sidney Poitier.

James Brown hosted all the events with help from his fellow Fox NFL Sunday cast members Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long and Ronnie Lott.

James Brown hosted all the events with help from his fellow Fox NFL Sunday cast members Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long and Cris Collinsworth.

In James Clavell's novel Shogun, ship's pilot Vasco Rodrigues challenges John Blackthorne to recite the latitude of the Lizard to verify that Blackthorne is a fellow seaman.

In the 1920 election, he and his running mate, Calvin Coolidge, defeated Democrat and fellow Ohioan James M. Cox in the largest presidential popular vote landslide ( 60. 36 % to 34. 19 %) since popular vote totals were first recorded in 1824.

James Balfour, a fellow prisoner, asked Knox whether he recognised the landmark.

He also was friends with fellow expatriate writers Chester Himes and James Baldwin, although the relationship with the latter ended in acrimony after Baldwin published his essay Everybody's Protest Novel ( collected in Notes of a Native Son ), in which he criticized Wright's stereotypical portrayal of Bigger Thomas.

Knossos was now known to be a major site, thanks to Arthur's old friend and fellow journalist in Bosnia, William James Stillman.

( One of the House of Representatives ' members of the Commission, fellow Ohioan James Garfield, was to become the President four years later, after being chosen by the now-Republican Ohio legislature to succeed Thurman.

Following Wilson's return to power, the renegotiations with Britain's fellow EC members were carried out by Wilson himself in tandem with Foreign Secretary James Callaghan, and they toured the capital cities of Europe meeting their European counterparts ( some commentators have suggested that their co-operation in this exercise may have been the source of a close relationship between the two men which is claimed to have assisted a smooth change-over when Wilson retired from office ).

Baker told Caine to meet the director, Cy Endfield, who informed him that he already had given the part that Baker had tipped Caine for to James Booth, a fellow Cockney who was Caine's friend, because he looked more Cockney than Caine did.

Gordon, who had been appointed by James VII as a fellow Catholic, refused.

The Scott character, as conceived, would have been a semi-regular, but with fellow cast members Leonard Nimoy ( Spock ) and DeForest Kelley ( Dr. McCoy ), was elevated in importance to leads alongside William Shatner's Captain James T. Kirk.

The term " dying god " is associated with the works of James Frazer, Jane Ellen Harrison, and their fellow Cambridge Ritualists.

Kerr County was named by Joshua D. Brown for his fellow Kentucky native, James Kerr, a congressman of the Republic of Texas.

James Shapiro interprets her theory both in terms of the cultural tensions of her historical milieu, and as consequential on an intellectual and emotional crisis that unfolded as she both broke with her Puritan upbringing and developed a deep confidential relationship with a fellow lodger, Alexander MacWhorter, a young theology graduate from Yale, which was subsequently interrupted by her brother.

A second but unrelated Jordan, James Edward " Buddy " Jordan ( 1942-2012 ), was the sheriff from 1992 to 2008, when he was defeated by a 10-vote margin by a fellow Democrat, Albert D. " Bodie " Little.

After his return to Ireland, Emmet began to prepare a new rebellion, with fellow revolutionaries Thomas Russell and James Hope.

Conway was long the home of the late Arkansas Supreme Court Associate Justice James D. Johnson ( d. 2010 ), who ran unsuccessful races for governor in 1956 against then fellow Democrat Orval Eugene Faubus and in 1966 against the Republican Winthrop Rockefeller.

* August 7 – James Randi, Canadian-American magician

The James Randi Educational Foundation ( JREF ) is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 by magician and skeptic James Randi.

* James Randi ( born 1928 ), " The Amazing Randi ", stage magician and scientific skeptic.

According to notable author Arthur C. Clarke and former stage magician James Randi, the Silva method consists of the application of positive thinking, visualization meditation, and self hypnosis.

Former stage magician James Randi is a well-known investigator of paranormal claims.

" Meanwhile, the critic for the New York Herald Tribune, James Sandoe considered the book to be " a superlative thriller from our foremost literary magician.

Douglas James Henning ( May 3, 1947 – February 7, 2000 ) was a famous Canadian magician, illusionist, escape artist and politician.

* James Randi, stage magician, skeptic and author

It is named in honor of the magician and scientific skeptic James Randi.

No matter how fantastic the crime appears to be at first, he always finds a rational explanation, giving the character a passing resemblance to stage magician turned paranormal investigator James Randi.

In Oz: the Great and Powerful, when Oscar Diggs ( James Franco ), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he ’ s hit the jackpot — fame and fortune are his for the taking — that is until he meets three witches, Theodora ( Mila Kunis ), Evanora ( Rachel Weisz ), and Glinda ( Michelle Williams ), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone ’ s been expecting.

Project Alpha was an elaborate hoax in 1979, orchestrated by the stage magician and skeptic James Randi.

Kenneth was very interested in the works of the French ceremonial magician Eliphas Levi, as well as Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough, although his favorite was the writings of the English occultist Aleister Crowley.

While on the ISS, Lu teamed up with magician James Randi ( founder of JREF ) to perform a card trick in outer space.

James F. " Jim " Steranko ( born 5 November 1938 ) is an American graphic artist, comic book writer-artist-historian, magician, publisher and film production illustrator.

That novel also contains a number of punning references to The Man from U. N. C. L. E .. More subtly, the murder victim, a famous Master Sorcerer named Sir James Zwinge, is named for Randall James Zwinge, better known as the stage magician James Randi ; and the head of the magician's guild is Sir Lyon Gandolphus Gray, whose name is partially a reference to Gandalf from J. R. R.