* October 30 – The Theosophical Society is founded in New York by Helena Blavatsky, H. S. Olcott, W. Q.

There is a 1915 American film by Irish-Canadian Sidney Olcott entitled All for Old Ireland, also known as Bold Emmett, Ireland's Martyr or Robert Emmet, Ireland's Martyr.

While the Olcott Avenue School is but one historic structure within Bernardsville's first historic district area, the areas appeal and historic significance remembers the story of the rise of the middle class in Bernardsville and how this particular location impacted the entire region, from the downtown, Little Italy, and even the Mountain Colony areas.

Olcott is a hamlet ( and census-designated place ) located in the Town of Newfane in Niagara County, New York, United States 14126.

Civil War Memorial at the Lockport-Olcott Road, just north of Route 18, in Olcott Beach. Olcott is a lakeside community which is home to the deepest harbor on Lake Ontario west of Rochester, NY.

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Olcott is located on the south shore of Lake Ontario where Eighteen Mile Creek enters the lake.

The village, originally known as Olcott Falls, is unique as an early planned community developed in part by Charles Wilder, owner of a local paper mill in the 1880s.

The organization originating from the faction of Olcott and Besant is based nowadays in India and known as the Theosophical Society-Adyar, while the organization managed by Judge is known nowadays simply as the Theosophical Society, but often with the specification, " international headquarters, Pasadena, California ".

Olcott was a major revivalist of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and he is still honored in Sri Lanka for these efforts.

The Buddhist Catechism, composed by Olcott in 1881, is one of his most enduring contributions to the revival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, and remains in use there today.

Olcott is probably the only major contributor to the nineteenth-century Sinhalese Buddhist revival who was actually born and raised in the Protestant Christian fold.

The faction led by Henry Steel Olcott and Annie Besant, whose organization, based in India, is today known as the Theosophical Society-Adyar.

In Olcott, there is a monument with a handful of names of soldiers who fought for the Union cause in the American Civil War.

Olcott is also home to an original Herschell Carousel.

There is considerable difference between the concept of Masters of the Ancient Wisdom in Theosophy ( as described by Blavatsky, Olcott, Sinnett, and others ) and the current concept of Ascended Masters, developed by Guy Ballard and Elizabeth Clare Prophet fifty-five years after the Theosophical Society was founded.

fat little Phoebe Olcott is a timid but helpful 11-year-old girl, admired by her father's students for her hot temperament and stubbornness.

About one crater diameter to the southeast is Ostwald, and farther to the north is Olcott.

The Olcott Park Greenhouse 4, 500 square feet ( 420 m² ) is a city-operated greenhouse located in the 40 acre ( 162, 000 m² ) Olcott Park at 9th Avenue W. and 7th Street N. in Virginia, Minnesota.

Olcott was considered by South Asians and others as a Buddhist revivalist.

* Col. Henry Steel Olcott ( 1832 – 1907 ), founder and first president of the Theosophical Society, first well-known person of European ancestry to make a formal conversion to Buddhism, helped create a Buddhist renaissance, assisted in designing the Buddhist flag, a national hero of Sri Lanka.

Olcott also acted as an adviser to the committee appointed to design a Buddhist flag in 1885.

The Buddhist flag designed with the assistance of Olcott was later adopted as a symbol by the World Fellowship of Buddhists andl as the universal flag of all Buddhist traditions.

Olcott ’ s Catechism reflects a new, Protestant Christian interpretation of traditional Buddhist tenets.

Sri Lanka was dominated by British colonial power and influence at the time, and many Buddhists heard Olcott ’ s interpretation of the Buddha's message as socially motivating and supportive of efforts to overturn colonialist efforts to ignore Buddhism and Buddhist tradition.

Olcott helped financially support the Buddhist presence at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, 1893.

The most Protestant of all early Protestant Buddhists, Olcott was the liminoid figure, the griot who because of his awkward standing betwixt and between the American Protestant grammars of his youth and the Asian Buddhist lexicon of his adulthood was able to conjure traditional Sinhalese Buddhism, Protestant modernism, metropolitan gentility, and academic Orientalism into a decidedly new creole tradition.

* Prothero, Stephen R .: The white Buddhist, the Asian odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott ; Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1996 ; ISBN 0-253-33014-9

" The White Buddhist: the Asian odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott ".

The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott.

The international Buddhist flag was designed in Sri Lanka in the 1880s with the assistance of Henry Steel Olcott and was later adopted as a Buddhist symbolism | symbol by the World Fellowship of Buddhists, as well as the universal flag of all Buddhist traditions.

Colonel Olcott kept coming back to Ceylon and devoted himself there to the cause of Buddhist education, eventually setting up more than 300 Buddhist schools, some of which are still in existence.

The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott.

Damodar joined the Society in 1879, giving up his caste, and in 1880, he officially became a Buddhist while in Sri Lanka, along with Henry Steel Olcott and H. P. Blavatsky.

In the late 19th century, a national Buddhist movement started, inspired by the American Buddhist Henry Steel Olcott, and empowered by the results of the Panadura debate between a Christian priest and the Buddhist monk Migettuwatte Gunananda Thera.

The primarily modernist complex was designed by James Polshek's Polshek Partnership Architects, led by Polshek and partner Richard Olcott.

The New Jersey State Review Board for Historic Sites recommended the creation of the Olcott Avenue historic district on February 10, 2009.

Olcott was known for its Coney Island-like beach attractions and attracted tourists visiting nearby Niagara Falls, New York.

When Olcott and Blavatsky left the United States for India, Judge stayed behind to manage the Society's work, all the while working as a lawyer.

Olcott through correspondence, there was little if any organized activity for the next

From 1858 to 1860 Olcott was the agricultural correspondent for the New York Tribune and the Mark Lane Express, but occasionally submitted articles on other subjects.

His interest aroused, Olcott wrote an article for the New York Sun, in which he investigated Eddy Farms.

During his time in Sri Lanka Olcott strove to revive Buddhism within the region, while compiling the tenets of Buddhism for the education of Westerners.

Its lyrics were written by Chauncey Olcott and George Graff, Jr., set to music composed by Ernest Ball, for Olcott's production of The Isle O ' Dreams, and Olcott sang the song in the show.

In 1882, he invited Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott to Madras ( now Chennai ), where he convinced them to make Adyar the permanent headquarters for the Theosophical Society.

Architects James Polshek and Richard Olcott were commissioned by President Bill Clinton to bring his vision of " a symbol of our heritage, a record of our past, and a jumping-off point for the future ," to life.

At this point in his life, Henry Steel Olcott, a respected attorney and war veteran, who also sat on the three-man commission looking into the Abraham Lincoln assassination, was doubling as a newspaper reporter for the New York Sun and the Daily Graphic.

Olcott spent several weeks with the Eddy brothers, during which time he observed a number of séances that William and Horatio put on for free for the public.

Olcott notes that soon after independence Saudi money paid for massive shipments of Qur ' ans to the region and for the construction and repair of a large number of mosques.

A cassette recording of this performance, titled Helikopter Hundrid Dolurz, became their first release before the group disbanded until July 1992 when Olcott was invited to sing in for a new group formed by McGuire, Flynn, and Daniel Burton-Rose at a performance at the end of the summer.

On September 7, 2011, it was announced on the website for Justin Vernon's record label Chigliak Records that 12 Rods have an album awaiting release in the label's " first year of vinyl releases ", which began on May 22, 2012, with Amateur Love's It's All Aquatic, produced by Ev Olcott.

He began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film for the company two years later.

Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, an American journalist, founder and first president of the Theosophical Society, felt that its long streaming shape made it inconvenient for general use.