Because of Murray's central location and access to the railroad, the first smelter was built there in 1870 and Murray became home to some of the largest smelters in the region over the next 30 years.

The " father of Wicca ", Gerald Gardner, who adopted Margaret Murray's thesis, claimed Wicca was a modern survival of an ancient pan-European pagan religion.

Grahame's work was a significant part of the cultural milieu which stripped the Greek god Pan of his cultural identity in favour of an unnamed, generic horned deity which led to Murray's thesis of historical origins.

Outside of works that predate the publication of Murray's thesis, horned god motifs and characters appear in fantasy literature that draws upon her work and that of her followers.

Murray's Witch Cult in Western Europe 1921, written during a period she was unable to do field work in Egypt, laid out the essential elements of her thesis that a common pattern of underground pagan resistance to the Christian Church existed across Europe.

Political and sentimental discourse in 1790s America: Judith Sargent Murray's The Gleaner, Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette, and Susanna Haswell Rowson's Reuben and Rachel ; or, Tales of Old Times ( thesis / dissertation ).

Murray's work in the Peace Corps and subsequent social research in Thailand for research firms associated with the U. S. government led to the subject of his statistical doctoral thesis in political science at M. I. T., in which he argued against bureaucratic intervention in the lives of the Thai villagers.

The term Horned God itself predates Wicca, and is an early 20th century syncretic term for a horned or antlered anthropomorphic god with pseudohistorical origins who, according to Margaret Murray's 1921 The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, was the deity worshipped by a pan-European witchcraft-based cult, and was demonized into the form of the Devil by the Mediaeval Church.

Eliphas Levi's image of " Baphomet " serves as an example of the transformation of the Devil into a benevolent fertility deity and provided the prototype for Murray's horned god.

Murray's work involved her rationalizing many elements of the witch trials, particularly those she deemed impossible, such as the accounts of witches flying through the air or the Devil existing as a supernatural entity.

This, along with the general public's increasing lack of familiarity of Greek mythology at the time led to the figure of Pan becoming generalised as a ' horned god ', and applying connotations to the character, such as benevolence that were not evident in the original Greek myths which in turn gave rise to the popular acceptance of Murray's hypothetical horned god of the witches.

Modern scholarship has disproved Margaret Murray's theory, however various horned gods and mother goddesses were indeed worshipped in the British Isles during the ancient and early Medieval periods.

Georg Luck, repeats part of Murray's theory, stating that the Horned God may have appeared in late antiquity, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

Murray's later books were written for a more popular audience and in a style that was far more imaginative and entertaining than standard academic works.

" As evidence for this, Simpson highlights Murray's claim that trial accounts of Satan's cloven hoof were instead referring to " perhaps a specially formed boot or shoe " that the coven-leader wore so that he could be recognized.

Murray's works were to become popular bestsellers from the 1940s onwards and were popularly believed to be accurate.

Some 16 million copies of Murray's books were sold in America.

Opposed only by Thomas Moore, the two volumes of memoirs were dismembered and burnt in the fireplace at Murray's office.

In 1816, Murray's shutter telegraphs were replaced by simpler semaphores invented by Sir Home Popham.

Chains of Murray's shutter telegraph stations were built along these routes:

The Jacobite sympathies of Murray's family were glossed over by contemporaries, who even claimed that he had been educated at Lichfield Grammar School with many other members of the English judiciary.

As is true with other extraordinary batters, Murray's likelihood of getting a hit increased when runners were on second or third base and when he had fouled off several pitches during an at-bat.

Although it was low-key, Murray's WNBC show featured his own innovative trademark programming style, including telling stories that were illustrated by selected songs, his unique segues, and his pairing cuts by theme or idiosyncratic associations.

The forces at Allenby's disposal were also expanded and the ad-hoc nature of Murray's army structure was replaced with a more conventional arrangement.

The only scientific tasks of substance that could be carried out during this period were Murray's dredging operations, through which he collected many species of Arctic sea life, and the regular depth soundings.

Of the studio recordings, 1-3 were available for streaming on the Lo-Pro Acoustic Myspace page, 4 was available for streaming on the bands main Myspace page, and 5-6 were only available for streaming off of lead singer Pete Murray's Myspace page.

These, inclusive of Ham House, were bought for £ 1, 131. 18s on 13 May 1650 by William Adams, the steward acting on behalf of Murray's eldest daughter, Elizabeth and her husband Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Baronet of Helmingham Hall, Suffolk.

Margaret Murray's books were focused mainly on the worship of a male Horned God, but she saw witches themselves as being either male or female.

Murray's theories were widely discredited by experts at the time, and have been thoroughly debunked now, despite still having mass appeal.

Thanks to designer Gordon Murray's alternative solution to flexible side skirts, the Brabham cars of Nelson Piquet and Hector Rebaque were dominant in this race, with Piquet taking the lead immediately from Alan Jones on the back straight and Rebaque climbing up from 5th to 2nd over 23 laps.

While Murray's teaching strategies were especially popular in the late 20th century, his perspective on the writing process is found in the contemporary classroom for both secondary and postsecondary composition.

Murray's textbooks were widely printed in Britain ( particularly his English Grammar ), but they had their greatest success in the new United States, partly because no international copyright agreement existed and the books could be reprinted without royalties being paid.

It was likely because few experts in the witch trials actually bothered to counter her arguments that many Britons, including several historians not familiar with the witch trials, simply assumed that Murray's view was the consensus as to the nature of European witchcraft, and included her ideas in their own works.

Most historians now reject Murray's theory, as she based it partially upon the similarities of the accounts given by those accused of witchcraft ; such similarity is now thought to actually derive from there having been a standard set of questions laid out in the witch-hunting manuals used by interrogators.

The ' message ' in the episode title is a letter to Murray purporting to be from his childhood friend, Eileen Critchley, but actually written by Murray's political enemies and delivered secretly by Douglas.

He was already acquainted with Margaret Murray's theory of the Witch-cult, and " I then knew that that which I had thought burnt out hundreds of years ago still survived.

Murray's theories has been seen to have had influence on Blood on Satan's Claw ( 1971 ), where a murderous female-led cult worships a horned deity named Behemoth.

" Considering Murray's reputation to be " deservedly low " in academia, she argued that Murray's status as President of the Folklore Society had harmed the society's reputation and was a causal factor in the mistrustful attitude that many historians held toward folkloristics as an academic discipline.

But with third down and six from 24-yard line, Aikman threw an incomplete pass and the Cowboys had to settle for kicker Eddie Murray's 41-yard field goal.

) Darwin had initially decided to call it An abstract of an Essay on the Origin of Species and Varieties Through natural selection, but with Murray's persuasion it was eventually changed to the snappier title: On the Origin of Species, with the title page adding by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

The book had been offered to booksellers at Murray's autumn sale on Tuesday 22 November, and all available copies had been taken up immediately.

* In the 1988 movie Scrooged had a cameo as himself, acting in a movie directed by Bill Murray's character.

In 1799 Longman purchased the copyright of Lindley Murray's English Grammar, which had an annual sale of about 50, 000 copies.

The distributor had cut 20 minutes from the movie to emphasize Bill Murray's role.

Rains also asserted that Murray had a conflict of interest in the poll, as Murray's son Keir was a political consultant working for Nick Lampson, DeLay's Democratic challenger in 2006.

Charles Murray's Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980 ( 1984 ) was one of the first books to argue that the welfare state had fostered a culture and cycle of dependency that was to the detriment of both welfare recipients and the United States as a whole.

Hamilton had been one of Murray's sponsors when he joined Lincoln's Inn in 1724, and when Murray came to London, Hamilton helped find him a set of chambers at No. 1 Old Square.

The Governor is an evolution of Al Murray's stage persona ' The Pub Landlord ', which he had used in stand up since 1994, and frequently uses today.

Murray's offensive power had not been diminished to any significant degree, during this one indecisive action, which judged by Western Front standards, was small and very far from costly.

Reportedly, Mdivani had managed to siphon off most of Murray's money.

Andy Murray's family had an auto dealership in Souris, Manitoba that was started by Murray's grandfather.

Although Murray had supported Roosevelt in the election, Lewis placed Murray's name into nomination himself.

Jack decides to test Murray's theory by tracking down and killing the man who had given Dylar to Babette in exchange for sex.