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.

He later fictionalized this marriage in his novel Blind Date, speaking of Weir under pseudonym Mary – Jane Kirkland.

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.

) In 1909, Ernest T. Weir arrived from neighboring Pittsburgh and built a steel mill later known as Weirton Steel Corporation just north of Holliday's Cove.

While the members of rock bands of the era were not technically singer-songwriters as solo acts, many were singer-songwriters who created songs with other band members including Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, Elton John ( with Bernie Taupin ), Justin Hayward, John Lodge, Robbie Robertson, Ian Anderson, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, and Peter Frampton ; Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and many others like Eric Clapton found success as singer-songwriters in their later careers.

The verses in Metrical Visions are on the basis of Cavendish's interpretation of George's scaffold speech, and now, nearly five hundred years later, Warnicke and Weir re-interpret George's scaffold speech on the basis of Cavendish's metrical visions ; hence the paradox.

The site preserves much of the farm of J. Alden Weir ( 1852 – 1919 ), a painter of the American Impressionism style, and was later used by his son-in-law, Mahonri Young ( 1877 – 1957 ), noted sculptor and a grandson of Brigham Young.

" Weir was freed sixteen months later.

In 1912 Weir was selected the first president of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, but resigned a year later following the association's sponsorship of the modernist Armory Show.

Weir later became president of the National Academy of Design.

Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, she was working as a secretary for the National Steel Corporation in 1941 when she met and later married her boss, Chairman and CEO Ernest T. Weir.

In 1896, he moved to Utah, where partnering with Thomas Weir, he became instrumental in securing English investment in the fledgling copper mining operation in Bingham canyon, which later became the great Bingham Canyon Mine.

Weir was a backing singer for a period in the band Bazooka Joe, which featured one Stuart Goddard, better known later on in his career as Adam Ant.

Incensed by Weir's promise not to clone his wife or anybody else again, Drucker kills the scientist, intending to later clone Weir and Weir's wife with their recent memories erased.

The film was also noted for its similarities to the Australian telemovie The Plumber ( 1979 ), which was written and directed by Peter Weir, who would later direct Carrey in The Truman Show ( 1998 ).

He retained this position when Walter Weir replaced Roblin as Premier later in the year, also becoming the Acting Minister of Highways ( Enns had supported Weir in the party's leadership contest ).

The riding had previously been held by the Liberals, and Graham's victory provided an impetus for Progressive Conservative Premier Walter Weir to call a general election later in the year.

To the south at the western end were two dry docks and machine shops used for ship repairs by R & H Green & Silley Weir ( later River Thames Shiprepairs Ltd ).

* R & H Green & Silley Weir and London Graving Dock Company, London ( as River Thames Ship Repairers, later renamed Blackwall Engineering )

Founded by Ernest T. Weir in 1909 as Weirton Steel, the company later became part of the National Steel Corporation.

In the episode " The Long Goodbye " McKay claims that he is in charge should both Weir and Sheppard be unavailable or incapacitated, but Col. Steven Caldwell takes command of Atlantis to Weir's later satisfaction.

Weir approved several projects throughout Atlantis in season two including the Wraith retro-virus that she later gave as part of a treaty to a sect of Wraith looking to replace the human food source with Wraith infected by the virus.

He has subsequently appeared alongside Weir in many productions ; as a guest in her spoof television series, Posh Nosh ; in the Doctor Who audio drama Exile — during which Weir played an alternate version of the Doctor — and as panellists on the West Wing Ultimate Quiz on More4 ( Weir later guest-starred on Doctor Who itself after Tennant left the series ).