Parsons claimed that Liber 49 constituted a fourth chapter of Crowley's Liber AL Vel Legis ( The Book of the Law ), the holy text of Thelema.

Among them was Jack Parsons, who shared his enthusiasm for science fiction, and who introduced him to Thelema.

Parsons commented at the time that he felt frustrated in having to accommodate the views of some of the musicians, which he felt interfered with his production.

Most of the Project's titles, especially the early work, share common traits ( likely influenced by Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, on which Parsons was the audio engineer in 1973 ).

Woolfson sang lead on many of the group's hits ( including " Time " and " Eye in the Sky ") and the record company pressured Parsons to use him more, but Parsons preferred " real " singers, which Woolfson admitted he was not.

In addition, the Parsons ' Mounted Cavalry is a Reserve Officer Training Corps unit which forms part of the Corps of Cadets at Texas A & M University.

In the 1970s and 80s, The Alan Parsons Project was a British progressive rock group which specialized entirely in concept albums.

In 1884 Sir Charles Parsons invented the steam turbine which today generates about 80 percent of the electric power in the world using a variety of heat sources.

The scene in which Lee states that his style was the style of " Fighting Without Fighting " and then lures Parsons into boarding a dinghy is based upon a famous anecdote involving the 16th century samurai Tsukahara Bokuden.

Another text in which the heroine of the Gothic Novel encounters the Supernatural Explained is The Castle of Wolfenbach ( 1793 ) by Gothic author Eliza Parsons.

The album contains one of Parsons ' best-known songs, " Luxury Liner ", as well as an early version of " Do You Know How It Feels ", which he revisited later on in his career.

Along the way, McGuinn's original album concept was jettisoned in favor of a fully fledged country project, which included Parsons ' songs such as " One Hundred Years from Now " and " Hickory Wind ", along with compositions by Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Merle Haggard, and others.

In addition, the Gram Parsons Tribute, in Waycross, Georgia, is a music festival remembering Parsons in the town in which he grew up.

Directed by Micheal Bate and co-written by Bate and David McDonald, the production was inspired by a March 1973 interview that Bate conducted with Parsons, which became Parsons ' last recorded conversation.

Dylan's lead was also followed by The Byrds, joined by Gram Parsons to record Sweetheart of the Rodeo ( 1968 ), helping to define the genre of country rock, which became a particularly popular style in the California music scene of the late 1960s, and was adopted by former folk rock artists including Hearts and Flowers, Poco and New Riders of the Purple Sage.

Lucy Parsons, in particular, was a veteran anarchist union organizer in Chicago from a previous generation, having participated in the struggle for the 8-hour day in Chicago and subsequent series of events which came to be known as the Haymarket Affair in 1886.

When not actively performing The Wizard busies himself checking the validity of his cosmology or " theory of everything " which includes elements found in such thinkers as the philosopher Whitehead, the sociologist Parsons, the physicist Prigogine, the systems analyst Jantsch and the biologist Sheldrake.

The TV show Expedition Robinson, created by TV producer Charlie Parsons, which first aired in 1997 in Sweden ( and was later produced in a large number of other countries as Survivor ), added to the Nummer 28 / Real World template the idea of competition and elimination, in which cast members / contestants battled against each other and were removed from the show until only one winner remained.

Working in the United States, Talcott Parsons developed a model of the nuclear family in 1955, which at that place and time was the prevalent family structure.

Also belonging to the more archaic stratum of motets is Libera me Domine ( a5 ), a cantus firmus setting of the ninth responsory at Matins for the Office for the Dead, which takes its point of departure from the setting by Robert Parsons, while Miserere mihi ( a6 ), a setting of a Compline antiphon often used by Tudor composers for didactic cantus firmus exercises, incorporates a four-in-two canon.

Byrd's 1588 collection, which complicates the form as he inherited it from Robert Parsons, Richard Farrant and others, reflects this tradition.

Byrd's four Anglican service settings range in style from the unpretentious Short Service, already discussed, to the magnificent so-called Great Service, a grandiose work which continues a tradition of opulent settings by Richard Farrant, William Mundy and Robert Parsons.

The witness whom Essex expected to confirm this allegation, his uncle William Knollys, was called and admitted there had once been read in Cecil's presence a book treating such matters ( possibly either The book of succession supposedly by an otherwise unknown R. Doleman but probably really by Robert Persons or A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crown of England explicitly mentioned to be by Parsons, in which a Catholic successor friendly to Spain was favored ).

Parsons had already acted as assistant engineer on The Beatles ' Abbey Road and Let It Be, had recently engineered Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, and had produced several acts for EMI Records.

When Anderson asked if he had had any stage experience, she revealed that her husband's name was Nicholas Parsons.

By 1968 Parsons had come to the attention of The Byrds ' bassist, Chris Hillman, via Larry Spector ( The Byrds ' business manager ), as a possible replacement band member following the departures of David Crosby and Michael Clarke from the group in late 1967.

Parsons had been acquainted with Hillman since the pair had met in a bank during 1967 and in February 1968 he passed an audition for the band, being initially recruited as a jazz pianist but soon switching to rhythm guitar and vocals.

Prior to Parsons ' departure from The Byrds, he had accompanied the two Rolling Stones to Stonehenge ( along with McGuinn and Hillman ) in the English county of Wiltshire, where Richards had a house near the ancient site.

As they prepared to play the nation's largest sports arenas, the Burritos played to dwindling nightclub audiences ; one night Jagger had to literally order Parsons to fulfill an obligation to his group.

Many of the singer's closest associates and friends claim that Parsons was preparing to commence divorce proceedings at the time of his death ; the couple had already separated by this point.

Coordinating the spectacle as road manager was Phil Kaufman, who had served time with Charles Manson on Terminal Island in the mid-sixties and first met Parsons while working for the Stones in 1968.

While he had been in the vanguard with The Byrds and the Burrito Brothers, Parsons was now perceived as being too authentic and traditional in an era dominated by the stylings of the Eagles, whose sound Parsons disdained ( although he did maintain cordial relations with Bernie Leadon, a former member of the Eagles who left the group in 1975 ).

Before formally breaking up with Burrell, Parsons already had a woman waiting in the wings.

Like Parsons, Fisher had drifted west and became established in the Bay Area rock scene.

According to Fisher in the 2005 biography Grievous Angel: An Intimate Biography of Gram Parsons, the amount of morphine consumed by Parsons would be lethal to three regular users and thus he had likely overestimated his tolerance considering his experience with opiates.

Past concerts have featured such notable artists as Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Chris Ethridge, Spooner Oldham, John Molo, Jack Royerton, Gib Guilbeau, Counting Crows, Bob Warford, Rosie Flores, David Lowery, Barry & Holly Tashian, George Tomsco, Jann Browne, Lucinda Williams, Polly Parsons, The " Road Mangler "- Phil Kaufman, Ben Fong-Torres, Victoria Williams & Mark Olson, Sid Griffin, as well as a variety of many other bands that had played over the 2 or 3 day event.

They were classmates at Parsons Junior High School and Forest Hills High School, and began performing together in their junior year as Tom and Jerry, with Simon as Jerry Landis ( whose last name he borrowed from a girl he had been dating ) and Garfunkel as Tom Graph ( so called because he was fond of tracking (" graphing ") hits on the pop charts ).

Parsons had the satisfaction of seeing his invention adopted for all major world power stations, and the size of generators had increased from his first 7. 5 kW set up to units of 50, 000 kW capacity.

Within Parson's lifetime the generating capacity of a unit was scaled up by about 10, 000 times, and the total output from turbo-generators constructed by his firm C. A. Parsons and Company and by their licensees, for land purposes alone, had exceeded thirty million horse-power.

The team, led by Dr. Dan Parsons and Dr. Jeff Peakall from the University of Leeds, has been able to study the detailed flow within these channels.

Since his death, Parsons has been recognized as an extremely influential artist, credited with helping to found both country rock and alt-country.

There has been some doubt expressed by Hillman over the sincerity of Parsons ' protest.

The online List of Supporters reached 5, 500 on what would have been Parsons ' 65th birthday and continues to gather signatures, as well as at G3P's annual Gram InterNational concerts and other tribute events each year.

Parsons in particular imparted to Weber's works a functionalist, teleological perspective ; this personal interpretation has been criticised for a latent conservatism.

" The Byrds further outraged the Opry establishment by breaking with accepted protocol when they performed Parsons ' song " Hickory Wind " instead of the Merle Haggard song " Life in Prison ", as had been announced by Tompall Glaser. Grand Ole Opry House

A forensic psychiatrist from the University of Utah stated that the descriptions of Parsons ' sexual history indicated that he " may have been the one initiating the contact and became angry when turned him down.

However, Parsons did store many volatile chemicals and compounds in his laboratory and had been working to finish a contract for a special effects firm.

Parsons was interested in socialism and communism, but he was sceptical of the ideas of Marxism and how they had been put into action by self-described ' communist ' governments of the time, sarcastically writing that " The dictatorship of the proletariat is merely temporary — the state will eventually wither away like a snark hunter, leaving us all free as birds.

from Kansas City to Parsons had been definitely settled, N. L.

( See link to " Great Plains Industrial Park " in " External Links ", below ) Parsons is also home to the Parsons State Hospital & Training Center, which has been in operation since 1903 when it was opened as the Kansas State Hospital for Epileptics.

The town was named for Ward Parsons, described by one source as having once owned the land on which the town was built, and by another as having been an aged wilderness pioneer in the area.

Their puppet animation set designs have been curated as an internationally touring exhibition called " Dormitorium " and most recently on display in 2010 at Parsons School of Design, New York.

Munstervillage has been coined as a name for the tree-lined roads, in which Victorian and Edwardian houses are situated, that run off Munster Road which is a large residential road off Fulham Road in the northern end of Parsons Green.

The Parsons family did not invent the game ; it had been shown to them by an African friend.

" In actuality, the friend who showed it to the Parsons had been visiting with the Scott family in Africa, and the Scotts had given him an earlier version of the game that the family had created ( at that point, the blocks were on their narrow edge with gaps between ).

He has been actively seeking to influence the direction of Time Warner, often in conflict with its former chief executive, Richard Parsons.

The previous vicar, Malcolm Anker, retired in May 2005 and a new vicar, Andrew Parsons, has been appointed after a period of interregnum. In 2010 a new Vicar was appointed Rev Steve Brunn.