After Weir died in 1968 from brain cancer, Kosiński was left nothing in her will.

Although personal accounts of taking the cactus had been written by psychologists such as Weir Mitchell in the US and Havelock Ellis in the UK during the 1890s, the German-American Heinrich Kluver was the first to systematically study its psychological effects in a small book called Mescal and Mechanisms of Hallucinations published in 1928.

Weir was born in Sydney, the son of Peggy ( née Barnsley ) and Lindsay Weir, a real estate agent.

After leaving the CFU, Weir made his first major independent film, the short feature Homesdale ( 1971 ), an offbeat black comedy which co-starred rising young actress Kate Fitzpatrick and musician and comedian Grahame Bond, who came to fame in 1972 as the star of The Aunty Jack Show ; Weir also played a small role, but this was to be his last significant screen appearance.

On 14 June 1982, Weir was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia ( AM ) for his service to the film industry.

Child star Lukas Haas received wide praise for his debut film performance ; Witness also earned Weir his first Oscar nomination as Best Director, and was his first of several films to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

Weir's next film, Dead Poets Society ( 1989 ) was a major international success, with Weir again receiving credit for expanding the acting range of its Hollywood star.

The film was nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for Weir, and launched the acting careers of young actors Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard.

Green Card was a box-office hit but was regarded as less of a critical success, although it helped Depardieu's path to international fame, and Weir received an Oscar nomination for his original screenplay.

The Truman Show was both a box office and a critical success, receiving positive reviews and numerous awards, including three Academy Award nominations: Andrew Niccol for Best Original Screenplay, Ed Harris for Best Supporting Actor, and Weir himself for Best Director.

Others were replaced by a footbridge when the weir was removed as at Hart's Weir Footbridge.

Shortly after her death, an Edmonton secondary school formerly known as Weir Hall was renamed Gladys Aylward School in her honour.

The condition currently known as CRPS was originally described during the American Civil War by Silas Weir Mitchell, who is sometimes also credited with inventing the name " causalgia.

The earliest mention of an ALC / domestic cross was in 1889, when Harrison Weir wrote in Our Cats and All About Them:

Weir argues that Philippa was the junior and that both were children of a second marriage.

The novel was adapted into a film of the same name in 1975 by director Peter Weir.

However, only about ten minutes of footage was filmed before the rights were optioned to Peter Weir for his more famous feature-length version, and the production was permanently shelved.

1980's Breaker Morant starring Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown dramatised the controversial trial of an Australian soldier during the Boer War and was followed by 1981's World War I drama Gallipoli directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson.

The Year of Living Dangerously was directed by Peter Weir, who also made a successful transition to Hollywood.

It was made into a 1975 feature film by producers Patricia Lovell, Hal and Jim McElroy, and director Peter Weir.

His major accomplishment was learning drawing and map making from American artist Robert W. Weir.

It is dammed in two places-the best known is the upper river dam known as Mundaring Weir which was part of C. Y O ' Connor's Goldfields Water Supply Scheme.

The Act authorised the construction of several new stretches of canal, including the Edmonton Cut from Flanders Weir at Chingford to the mill stream at Walthamstow, the Hackney Cut from Lea Bridge to Old Ford, and the Limehouse Cut to bypass the tight bends of Bow Creek near the River Thames.

Amongst his achievements were the Agricultural Marketing Act which sought to protect food producers from going bankrupt amidst massive surpluses and collapsing prices, the introduction of free milk for school children and formation of the National Housing Company which built prefabricated " Weir Houses "

The Metropolis Water Act of 1852 prohibited the extraction of water for household purposes from the tidal Thames below Teddington Weir.

Adjacent to Weir Hall, which is the southmost boundary of the college, are Dickinson Hall ( west ) and Wheelock Hall ( east ), both built in 1926.

Robert Stanley Weir, FRSC, ( November 15, 1856 – August 20, 1926 ) was a Montreal, Quebec judge and poet most famous for writing the English lyrics to O Canada, the national anthem of Canada.

Judge Robert Stanley Weir died on August 20, 1926 at Lac Memphrémagog, Quebec, Canada.

Since Weir died in 1926, it would not be in the public domain until 1976.

Robert Stanley Weir wrote in 1908 another English version, which is the official and most popular version, one that is not a literal translation of the French.

Weir then took up a position with the Commonwealth Film Unit ( later renamed Film Australia ), for which he made several documentaries, including a short documentary about an underprivileged outer Sydney suburb, Whatever Happened to Green Valley, in which residents were invited to make their own film segments.

At the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001, Bacup — which encompasses the outlying communities of Britannia, Stacksteads, Rockcliffe, Trough Gate and Weir — had a population of 12, 763.

Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and Ron " Pigpen " McKernan were in Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions before forming The Warlocks, which evolved into Grateful Dead.

Since 1963 the cathedral has been home to the St Albans International Organ Festival, winners of which include Dame Gillian Weir, Thomas Trotter and Naji Hakim.

Then, as financial backing for The Mosquito Coast fell through, Weir became free to direct Witness, which was his first American film.

Essentially, her ' proof ' that he murdered his nephews consists of two skeletons discovered in the Tower of London in 1674, some inferences wholly unsupported by the ' evidence ' she offers and the opinions and assertions of ' contemporary ' sources such as John Rous and Thomas More, which Weir is inclined to treat as proven fact.

The latter two have dams ( Canning Dam and Mundaring Weir ) which provide a sizeable part of the potable water requirements for Perth and the regions surrounding.

Water is supplied via the Staines Aqueduct from the King George VI Reservoir and Staines Reservoirs which receive their input from the River Thames at Hythe End, just above Bell Weir Lock.

The two main commercially zoned areas of the city are Savi Ranch, which straddles Weir Canyon Road / Yorba Linda Boulevard and is discussed in more detail below, and a section along the north side of La Palma Avenue, which is primarily an office park.

By then Hollidays Cove and two other outlying areas, Weirton Heights and Marland Heights, which as their names suggest were on hilltops or ridges surrounding the " Weir – Cove " area, had also incorporated.

Also in the band were future members of the band Kingfish, which featured Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir.

To the south of the town lies the Weir Wood Reservoir which offers sailing and a nature reserve which attracts an interesting assortment of birdlife.

Partridge combined the ironworks at New Weir with his forge at Lydbrook which smelted pig iron from his furnace at Bishopswood.

Following the 2009 summer tour Lesh proceeded to found a new band with Bob Weir named Furthur, which debuted in September 2009.

The new Air Minister, Sir William Weir, under pressure to find a position for Trenchard, offered him command of the yet to be formed Independent Air Force which was to conduct long-range bombing operations against Germany.

Tenniel himself did not think highly of his work there and took the opportunity to redraw some in the revised edition of 1884, which also used pictures by Ernest Henry Griset and Harrison Weir.

All locks and weirs were removed, except that at New Weir Forge below Goodrich, which survived until about 1815.

Hull is separated from Cohasset and Hingham by the Weir River estuary, which is state-recognized as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern.

In 2010, they were honored with a Massachusetts Cultural Council " Gold Star " Award for their production of the original full-length musical On This River, which raised funds and awareness for the Weir River Estuary, a state-designated Area of Critical Environmental Concern.