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.

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.

Peter Lindsay Weir, AM ( born 21 August 1944 ) is an Australian film director.

* World War I ace Harvey Weir Cook was born and raised in Wilkinson ; Indianapolis International Airport's main terminal is named in Colonel H. Weir Cook's honor.

Brian Weir Henderson AM ( born 15 September 1931 ) is a New Zealand-born Australian television personality and news-reader.

LaRouche was born in Rochester, New Hampshire, the oldest of three children of Jessie Lenore ( née Weir ) and Lyndon H. LaRouche, Sr. His father worked for the United Shoe Machinery Corporation in Rochester before the family moved to Lynn, Massachusetts.

The Scottish rugby international Duncan Weir was also born in Rutherglen and attended school there.

Michael Fraser Weir ( born 24 March 1957 ) is the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Angus in Scotland.

Weir was born in High Bluff, Manitoba, and worked as a funeral director.

Weir was born on August 30, 1852 and raised in West Point, New York, the son of painter Robert Walter Weir, a professor of drawing at the Military Academy at West Point.

Hogg was the son of Sir James Weir Hogg, Bt., the Administrator-General of Bengal and Chairman of the British East India Company, and was born in Calcutta.

Mary Hayward Weir, born Mary Emma Hayward ( 1915 – 1968 ), was an American steel heiress and socialite.

Mary Hayward and Ernest T. Weir were married on December 11, 1941, and together had one son, David Weir, born in 1944.

Michael Damian Weir ( born April 26, 1962, San Diego, California ) is a long-time American actor, Billboard # 1 recording artist and producer, known mainly for his role as singer Danny Romalotti on the soap opera The Young and the Restless, which he played from 1980 to 1998.

Arabella Weir ( born 6 December 1957, San Francisco, California, United States ) is a British comedian, actress and writer.

* Amanda Weir ( born 1986 ), American swimmer

Peter Weir ( born 1968 ) MLA is a Northern Ireland unionist politician.

He was born Ruslan, but his father, Billy Weir Senior, aka, Big Bill, changed his name to Billy.

Elizabeth Jane Weir ( born February 20, 1948 ) is a lawyer and politician in New Brunswick, Canada.

David Weir ( born 10 May 1970 ) is a Scottish former footballer who is currently a reserve team coach for Everton.

George " Doddie " Weir, born 4 July 1970 in Edinburgh, is a Rugby Union player, in the lock position.

Oswalt was born and raised in Weir, Mississippi, the son of Billy Joe and Jean Oswalt.

Weir attended The Scots College and Vaucluse Boys ' High School before studying arts and law at the University of Sydney.

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.

The total catchment area of the river is approximately and is tidal to Charles Street Weir in Parramatta, approximately from the Sydney Heads.

Notable architects employed within the Anderson practice included Robert Weir Schultz, Robert Lorimer, A. G. Sydney Mitchell, and James Jerdan.

It was here that he met and became friends with other Sydney students including Geoffrey Atherden, Maurice Murphy and Peter Weir, who became Australia's most internationally acclaimed film director.

Weir was also a director of the People's Bank, the Union Marine Insurance Company, the Sydney Marine Railway and the Nova Scotian Telegraph Company.

Many people from Springburn have left their mark on the world, some of more the famous being Scottish International footballer James McFadden, singer ( tenor ) Sydney MacEwan, musician Duncan Campbell, the evangelists and hymn writers Seth & Bessie Sykes, broadcasters and writers Tom Weir MBE and his sister Molly, the railway author John Thomas, the politicians John McAllion and Frank McAveety.

Electro winning the 1957 Sydney Cup Jockey Doug Weir.