In 1824, Disraeli toured Belgium and the Rhine Valley with his father and later wrote that it was while travelling on the Rhine that he decided to abandon the law: " I determined when descending those magical waters that I would not be a lawyer.

Marlborough wrote an appeal to the Duke of Württemberg, the commander of the Danish contingent – " I send you this express to request your Highness to bring forward by a double march your cavalry so as to join us at the earliest moment …" Additionally, the King in Prussia, Frederick I, had kept his troops in quarters behind the Rhine while his personal disputes with Vienna and the States-General at The Hague remained unresolved.

Historian Paul K. Davis wrote, " Having defeated Eudes, he turned to the Rhine to strengthen his northeastern borders-but in 725 was diverted south with the activity of the Muslims in Acquitane.

Illusionist Milbourne Christopher wrote years later that he felt " there are at least a dozen ways a subject who wished to cheat under the conditions Rhine described could deceive the investigator ".

In 1957, Rhine and Joseph Gaither Pratt wrote Parapsychology: Frontier Science of the Mind.

In re-capping the story of the 369th Arthur W. Little, who had been a battalion commander, wrote in the regimental history From Harlem to the Rhine, that it was official that the outfit was 191 days under fire, never lost a foot of ground or had a man taken prisoner, though on two occasions men were captured but they were recovered.

The city that we now know as Jerusalem was known prior to the 17th century as the nondescript Ottoman village of Al-Quds, where biblical " Palestine " is actually the Palatina, along the Rhine, between Basel, where Erasmus Rotterdamus wrote the " New Testament ", and his hometown Rotterdam.

Silva wrote to Rhine to report that he had trained his daughter to practice ESP.

Caesar wrote in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico that at the confluence of the Rhine and Meuse River a battle took place in the land of the Menapii with Tencteri and Usipetes.

Schneckenburger wrote The Watch on the Rhine in a specific patriotic response to French assertions that the Rhine was France's " natural " eastern boundary.

He retired to Antwerp, and accompanied the Prince of Orange from that town to the Hague, where he wrote ‘ Jacqueline of Holland .’ In May 1831 he was at Heidelberg, where he was stimulated to fresh literary exertions, and composed the ‘ Legends of the Rhine .’ About the same time ( 1832 ) he was appointed gentleman of the privy chamber to William IV.

According to a Hebrew document, the Jews throughout France were at that time in great fear, and wrote to their brothers in the Rhine countries making known to them their terror and asking them to fast and pray.

Rhine later wrote, " This mere possibility was the most exhilarating thought I had had in years.

The Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus wrote that Caesar Julian crossed the river Rhine near Mainz in 359 for negotiations with Macrian, the chieftain of the Bucinobantes, and with other Alamannic chiefs.

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.

In the American journal Culture of the Grape and Manufacture of Wine, Longworth wrote in 1847 that " The day is not distant, when the Ohio River will rival the Rhine, in the quantity and quality of its wine.

He both wrote and penciled a six-page horror tale, " Revenge from the Rhine ", in Journey into Mystery vol.

This lasted at least till the days of the scholar Procopius, more than a century after the demise of the Western Roman Empire, who wrote describing the former Rhine army as still in operation with ' legions ' of the style of their forefathers during Roman times.

In response, Becker wrote a poem called Rheinlied, which contained the verse: " Sie sollen ihn nicht haben, den freien, deutschen Rhein ..." ( They shall not have him, the free, German Rhine ).

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 ).

Scholars believe that the commentary which appears under Rashi's name in those books was compiled by the students of Rabbi Saadiah of the Rhine, who incorporated material from Rashi's yeshiva.

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.

Rhine stated in his first book, ExtraSensory Perception ( 1934 ), that after 90, 000 trials, he felt ESP is " an actual and demonstrable occurrence.

In 1940 Rhine co-authored with J. G. Pratt and other associates at Duke Extra-Sensory Perception After Sixty Years, a review of all experimental studies of telepathy and clairvoyance that they could identify in scientific journals and other published sources.

Rhine also founded an autonomous Parapsychology Laboratory within Duke and started the Journal of Parapsychology, which he co-edited with McDougall.

Rhine later established the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man ( FRNM ) and the Institute for Parapsychology as a successor to the Duke laboratory.

B. Rhine at a workshop on parapsychology which was held at the Parapsychology Laboratory of Duke University.

Research and professional organizations include the Parapsychological Association ; the Society for Psychical Research, publisher of the Journal of Society for Psychical Research ; the American Society for Psychical Research, publisher of the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research ( last published in 2004 ); the Rhine Research Center and Institute for Parapsychology, publisher of the Journal of Parapsychology ; the Parapsychology Foundation, which published the International Journal of Parapsychology ( between 1959 to 1968 and 2000 – 2001 ) and the Australian Institute of Parapsychological Research, publisher of the Australian Journal of Parapsychology.

The Rhine Research Center is a hub for research and education in Parapsychology.

In the early 1970s he pioneered research into the effects of human consciousness on machines called random number generators or random event generators at the Rhine Research Center Institute for Parapsychology.

The Rhine Research Center Institute for Parapsychology, named after its founder J.

Rhine founded the parapsychology lab at Duke University, the Journal of Parapsychology, and the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man.

In the early 1960s, Rhine left Duke and founded the Institute for Parapsychology which later became the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man.

Rhine founded the institutions necessary for parapsychology's continuing professionalization in the U. S. — including the establishment of the Journal of Parapsychology and the formation of the Parapsychological Association, and also the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man ( FRNM ), a precursor to what is today known as the Rhine Research Center.

* Rhine Research Center and Institute for Parapsychology, originally part of Duke University, now an independent research center.

B. Rhine to join the Parapsychology Laboratory of Duke University, where he worked from 1957-1964.

* The Second World War: Villers Bocage, Bourguébus Ridge, Mont Pinçon, Jurques, Dives Crossing, La Vie Crossing, Lisieux, Le Touques Crossing, Risle Crossing, Roer, Rhine, Ibbenburen, Aller, North-West Europe 1944 – 45, Egyptian Frontier 1940, Withdrawal to Matruh, Bir Emba, Sidi Barrani, Buq Buq, Bardia 1941, Capture of Tobruk, Beda Fomm, Halfaya 1941, Sidi Suleiman, Tobruk 1941, Gubi I II, Gabr Saleh, Sidi Rezegh 1941, Taieb el Essem, Relief of Tobruk, Saunnu, Msus, Defence of Alamein Line, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, Advance on Tripoli, Enfidaville, Tunis, North Africa 1940 – 43, Capture of Naples, Volturno Crossing, Italy 1943

* The Second World War: Dyle, Defence of Escaut, Dunkirk 1940, Cagny, Mont Pincon, Quarry Hill, Estry, Heppen, Nederrijn, Venraij, Meijel, Roer, Rhineland, Reichswald, Cleve, Goch, Moyland, Hochwald, Rhine, Lingen, Uelzen, North-West Europe 1940 ' 44 – 45, Egyptian Frontier 1940, Sidi Barrani, Halfaya 1941, Tobruk 1941 ' 42, Msus, Knightsbridge, Defence of Alamein Line, Medenine, Mareth, Longstop Hill 1942, Sbiba, Steamroller Farm, Tunis, Hammam Lif, North Africa 1940 – 1943, Salerno, Battipaglia, Cappezano, Volturno Crossing, Monte Camino, Calabritto, Garigliano Crossing, Monte Ornito, Monte Piccolo, Capture of Perugia, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Monte Domini, Catarelto Ridge, Argenta Gap, Italy 1943 – 1945

** The Queen's Colours: Mons, Retreat from Mons, Aisne 1914, Ypres 1914 ' 15 ' 17 ' 18, Hill 60, Festubert 1915, Somme 1916 ' 18, Albert 1916 ' 18, Arras 1917 ' 18, Cambrai 1917 ' 18, Hindenburg Line, Italy 1917-18, Doiran 1917-18, Landing at Helles, Gaza, Jerusalem, Palestine 1917-18, Kut al Amara 1915 ' 17, Mesopotamia 1915-18, North West Frontier India 1915 1916-17, Dunkirk 1940, Normandy Landing, Caen, Rhine, North-West Europe 1944-45, Abyssinia 1941, El Alamein, Tebourba Gap, Hunt's Gap, Longstop Hill 1943, North Africa 1940-43, Sicily 1943, Salerno, Anzio, Cassino, Gothic Line, Italy 1943-45, Malta 1940-42, Malaya 1941-42, Hong Kong, Defence of Kohima, Burma 1943-45

* The Second World War: Defence of Escaut, Calais 1940, Cassel, Ypres-Comines Canal, Normandy Landing, Pegasus Bridge, Villers Bocage, Odon, Caen, Esquay, Bourguebus Ridge, Mont Pincon, Le Perier Ridge, Falaise, Antwerp, Hechtel, Nederrijn, Lower Maas, Roer, Ourthe, Rhineland, Reichswald, Kleve, Goch, Hochwald, Rhine, Ibbenbueren, Dreirwalde, Leese, Aller, North-West Europe 1940, 44-45, Egyptian Frontier 1940, Sidi Barrani, Beda Fomm, Mersa el Brega, Agedabia, Derna Aerodrome, Tobruk 1941, Sidi Rezegh 1941, Chor es Sufan, Saunnu, Gazala, Bir Hacheim, Knightsbridge, Defence of Alamein Line, Ruweisat, Fuka Airfield, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, Capture of Haifaya Pass, Nofilia, Tebaga Gap, Enfidaville, Medjez el Bab, Kasserine, Thala, Fondouk, Fondouk Pass, El Kourzia, Djebel Kournine, Agroub el Megas, Tunis, Hamman Lif, North Africa 1940-43, Sangro, Salerno, Santa Lucia, Salerno Hills, Cardito, Teano, Monte Camino, Garigliano Crossing, Damiano, Anzio, Cassino II, Liri Valley, Melfa Crossing, Monte Rotondo, Capture of Perugia, Monte Malbe, Arezzo, Advance to Florence, Gothic Line, Coriano, Gemmano Ridge, Lamone Crossing, Orsara, Tossignano, Argenta Gap, Fossa Cembalina, Italy 1943-45, Veve, Greece 1941, 44, 45, Crete, Middle East 1941, Arakan Beaches, Tamandu, Burma 1943-44.

In 1972 the parapsychologist Louisa Rhine published a book titled Mind over Matter: Psychokinesis.