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Samuel Renshaw ( 1892 – 1981 ) was an American psychologist whose work became famous for a short period of time during World War II when he taught soldiers to identify enemy aircraft in a split second, using tachistoscopic training.
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" The Renshaw Training System for Aircraft and Ship Recognition ," ( designed by psychologist Samuel Renshaw, was considered to have ) " saved untold lives during World War II.
It is at that time that he became acquainted with the work of Samuel Renshaw and Hoyt Sherman at the Ohio State University.
The story invokes the notions of the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski and the work of Samuel Renshaw to explain the nature of thought and how people could be trained to think more rapidly and accurately ; critics have said that both systems are misrepresented and never claimed the kinds of results shown in the story.
Samuel Renshaw used it during World War II in the training of fighter pilots to help them identify aircraft silhouettes as friend or foe.
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In his 1892 lecture, " The Humor of Homer " ( collected in his Selected Essays ), Samuel Butler concludes that Nausicaa was the real author of the Odyssey, since the laundry scene is more realistic and plausible than many other scenes in the epic.
The publication of a new Hebrew-English Lexicon was started in 1892 under the editorship of Professors Francis Brown, Samuel Rolles Driver and Charles Augustus Briggs, now well known as the Brown Driver Briggs lexicon or BDB for short.
WSU has had just 10 presidents in its almost 120-year history: George W. Lilley ( 1891 – 1892 ), John W. Heston ( 1892 – 1893 ), Enoch A. Bryan ( 1893 – 1915 ), Ernest O. Holland ( 1916 – 1944 ), Wilson M. Compton ( 1945 – 1951 ), C. Clement French ( 1952 – 1966 ), Glenn Terrell ( 1967 – 1985 ), Samuel H. Smith ( 1985 – 2000 ), V. Lane Rawlins ( 2000 – 2007 ) and current President Elson S. Floyd.
Other nineteenth century performances include Charles Kean's in 1848 at the Haymarket Theatre, Samuel Phelps ' in 1857 at the Sadler's Wells Theatre and William Poel's in 1892 and 1896.
* Palmer, A. H. ( 1892 ) The life and Letters of Samuel Palmer Painter and Etcher ( 1892 ; facsimile reprint 1972 ).
* Samuel Lapham VI ( 1892 – 1972 ), Class of 1913-Architect with the firm Simons & Lapham 1920-1972.
When the Railways Department changed the town's name from " Robbinsville " ( named after Frederick Robbins who married one of Samuel McCauley's daughters ) to " Thirroul in 1892, William Saddler ( a well known Aboriginal elder from Port Kembla ) contacted the Illawarra Mercury newspaper and complained about the " meaningless " name.
The famous names in the ornithology of the Indian subcontinent during this era include Andrew Leith Adams ( 1827 – 1882 ), Edward Blyth ( 1810 – 1873 ), Edward Arthur Butler ( 1843 – 1916 ), Douglas Dewar ( 1875 – 1957 ), N. F. Frome ( 1899 – 1982 ), Hugh Whistler ( 1889 – 1943 ), H. H. Godwin-Austen ( 1834 – 1923 ), Col. W. H. Sykes ( 1790 – 1872 ), C. M. Inglis ( 1870 – 1954 ), Frank Ludlow ( 1885 – 1972 ), E. C. Stuart Baker ( 1864 – 1944 ), Henry Edwin Barnes ( 1848 – 1896 ), F. N. Betts ( 1906 – 1973 ), H. R. Baker, W. E. Brooks ( 1828 – 1899 ), Margaret Cockburn ( 1829 – 1928 ), James A. Murray, E. W. Oates ( 1845 – 1911 ), Ferdinand Stoliczka ( 1838 – 1874 ), Valentine Ball ( 1843 – 1894 ), W. T. Blanford ( 1832 – 1905 ), J. K. Stanford ( 1892 – 1971 ), Charles Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1923 ), Robert Swinhoe ( 1836 – 1877 ), C. H. T. Marshall ( 1841 – 1927 ), G. F. L. Marshall ( 1843 – 1934 ), R. S. P. Bates, James Franklin ( 1783 – 1834 ), Satya Churn Law, Arthur Edward Osmaston ( 1885 – 1961 ), Bertram Beresford Osmaston ( 1868 – 1961 ), Wardlaw Ramsay ( 1852 – 1921 ) and Samuel Tickell ( 1811 – 1875 ).
Samuel Thomas Dickson Wallace VC ( 7 March 1892 – 2 February 1968 ) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
On 17 December 1891, Samuel Rowbottom, of 82 Abbey Road, Derby, applied for a patent for his Automatic Tea Making Apparatus, the patent being granted in 1892.
Samuel Pond " Sad Sam " Jones ( July 26, 1892 – July 6, 1966 ) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played in the American League with the Cleveland Indians ( 1914 – 15 ), Boston Red Sox ( 1916 – 21 ), New York Yankees ( 1922 – 26 ), St. Louis Browns ( 1927 ), Washington Senators ( 1928 – 31 ) and Chicago White Sox ( 1932 – 35 ).
Samuel Wylie Crawford ( November 8, 1829 – November 3, 1892 ) was a United States Army surgeon and a Union general in the American Civil War.
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* 1980 – Samuel Doe takes control of Liberia in a coup d ' état, ending over 130 years of minority Americo-Liberian rule over the country.
* 986 – A Byzantine army is destroyed in the pass of the Gate of Trajan by the Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Samuel and Aron.
* 1613 – Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father.
In the nineteenth century Samuel Sebastian Wesley ( 1810 – 1876 ) wrote anthems influenced by contemporary oratorio which stretch to several movements and last twenty minutes or longer.
In his 1781 book General History of Connecticut, the Reverend Samuel Peters ( 1735 – 1826 ) used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the 17th century that prohibited various activities, recreational as well as commercial, on Sunday ( Saturday evening through Sunday night ).
The estate was sold on 4 June 1883 to Sir Herbert Samuel Leon ( 1850 – 1926 ), a financier and Liberal MP.
Additionally, though the Chronicler's principal source is the Deuteronomistic History, coming primarily, as stated above, from the books of 2 Samuel and 1 – 2 Kings and other public records and sources ( see above ), the Chronicler also uses other biblical sources, particularly from the Pentateuch, as redacted and put together by P ( the Priestly Source ).
Rather than being written as history, the Deuteronomistic history – Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings – was intended to illustrate a theological scheme in which Israel and her leaders are judged by their obedience to the teachings and laws ( the covenant ) set down in the book of Deuteronomy.
In doing so the bulk of Liberals remained supporting the government, but two distinct Liberal groups had emerged within this bulk – the Liberal Nationals ( officially the " National Liberals " after 1947 ) led by Simon, also known as " Simonites ", and the " Samuelites " or " official Liberals ", led by Samuel who remained as the official party.
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