Under the care of Dr. William Duncan Silkworth ( an early benefactor of A. A .), Wilson's detox included the deliriant belladonna.

Wilson's early efforts to help others become sober were ineffective, prompting Dr. Silkworth to suggest that Wilson place less stress on religion and more on " the science " of treating alcoholism.

The books that were influential in the early development of computational quantum chemistry include Linus Pauling and E. Bright Wilson's 1935 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics – with Applications to Chemistry, Eyring, Walter and Kimball's 1944 Quantum Chemistry, Heitler's 1945 Elementary Wave Mechanics – with Applications to Quantum Chemistry, and later Coulson's 1952 textbook Valence, each of which served as primary references for chemists in the decades to follow.

Beginning in the late 19th and early 20th century however, policies such as Woodrow Wilson's mission to " make the world safe for democracy " were often backed by military force, but more often effected from behind the scenes, consistent with the general notion of hegemony and imperium of historical empires ..

A successful early text was Thomas Wilson's The Arte of Rhetorique ( 1553 ), which presents a traditional treatment of rhetoric.

Some possible influences can be found in the early plays of John Lyly, Robert Wilson's The Cobbler's Prophecy ( c. 1590 ) and Pierre de la Primaudaye's L ' Academie française ( 1577 ).

Edmund Wilson's early analysis of the book, The Dream of H. C. Earwicker, made the assumption that Earwicker himself is the dreamer of the dream, an assumption which continued to carry weight with Wakean scholars Harry Levin, Hugh Kenner, and William Troy.

* Charlie Wilson's War, a Golden Globe Award and Oscar-nominated Universal Pictures film released in December 2007, depicts early U. S. efforts to provide military support to the Afghan mujahideen following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Edmund Wilson's 1931 study Axel's Castle focuses on the continuity with symbolism and several important writers of the early twentieth century, with a particular emphasis on Yeats, Eliot, Paul Valéry, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein.

Another early act of Davis ' was the reversal of his predecessor Republican Governor Pete Wilson's alteration of California's eight-hour overtime pay rule for wage earners.

With the impending fall of Selma in early April, during Wilson's Raid, all of the railroad's rolling stock was sent full of supplies westward through Demopolis and on to Meridian.

Carson Springs, four miles ( 6 km ) west of Newport, developed around William Wilson's tavern and stagecoach terminal in the early 19th century.

Moreover, minority authors were beginning to publish fiction, as in William Wells Brown's Clotel ; or, The President's Daughter, Martin Delany's Blake ; or, The Huts of America and Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig as early African American novels, and John Rollin Ridge's The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit, which is considered the first Native American novel but which also is an early story about Mexican American issues.

The weapons museum also includes an exhibit on Thomas Hamilton Simms 1838 — 1919 ), who served with the Hempstead Rifles at the Battle of Wilson's Creek near Springfield, Missouri, early in the Civil War.

His main early writings were editions of Florence Wilson's De Animi Tranquillitate Dialogus ( 1707 ), and the Cantici Solomonis Paraphrasis Poetica ( 1709 ) of Arthur Johnston ( 1587 – 1641 ), editor of the Deliciae Poetarum Scotorum.

It became a worst-kept secret that Jackie Wilson's 1967 hit "( Your Love Keeps Lifting Me ) Higher & Higher " didn't have a Motown influence quite by accident — the Funk Brothers migrated to do the Wilson session, in an interesting reference to Motown's early history: Berry Gordy, Jr. got his first music break by getting Wilson to record some of his songs ( most famously " Reet Petite ") in the 1950s.

Wilson's interest in the game rekindled in the early 1970s and, after winning the IBSF World Amateur Championship in 1978, he finally turned professional the following year at the age of 45.

" The prominence of Brian Wilson's influence on his compositions is clear on " California Saga: California " from the Holland album, which charted in early 1973.

Nevertheless, Dicke's group made the second clean detection, and their theoretical interpretation of Penzias & Wilson's results showed that theories of the early universe had moved from pure speculation into well-tested physics.

The following month, Lane accepted President-elect Woodrow Wilson's nomination to become Secretary of the Interior, a position in which he served almost seven years until his resignation in early 1920.

At the time, it was customary not to make an official announcement of Cabinet appointments until the new President formally submitted the names to the Senate on the afternoon of Inauguration Day, March 4 ; however, The New York Times obtained the list of Wilson's appointees a day early.

The designer of this embossing is not known ; with minor variations it was used on invitations until the early years of President Wilson's administration.

In Wilson's view, these pirate enclaves were early forms of autonomous proto-anarchist societies in that they operated beyond the reach of governments and embraced unrestricted freedom.

Despite three warnings, no sense of moral urgency impelled him to distinguish his situation, and thus his responsibilities, from Wilson's.

In 1966, several rock releases were arguably concept albums in the sense that they presented a set of thematically-linked songs-and they also instigated other rock artists to consider using the album format in a similar fashion: The Beach Boys ' Pet Sounds was a musical portrayal of Brian Wilson's state of mind at the time ( and a major inspiration to Paul McCartney ).

" In My Room " was perhaps Brian Wilson's first personal song, a reflection on having a place to go to feel a sense of security and safety from the stress of one's life.

On February 16, House met again with him ( on Wilson's instructions ) to get a better sense of the ICC chairman's views on conservation.

The first " Chairman " in that sense was Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker.

Lodge was a staunch advocate of entering World War I on the side of the Allied Powers, attacking President Woodrow Wilson's perceived lack of military preparedness and accusing pacifists of undermining American patriotism.

Democratic ideals are often cited as a reason for patriotism, for example Woodrow Wilson's argument that America needed to enter World War I in order to make the world " safe for democracy ".

A strong goal line stand by the Redskin defense and was rewarded with Wade Wilson's incomplete pass in the end zone forced by Darrell Green which was intended for Minnesota running back Darrin Nelson on fourth down with 56 seconds left, sealed the victory for Washington.

For free-living organisms, diversity ecology features many strong conceptual frameworks including Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson's theory of island biogeography, Jared Diamond's assembly rules and, more recently, null models such as Stephen Hubbell's unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography.

Wilson's Government took strong action against the controversial, self-styled " Church " of Scientology in 1967, banning foreign Scientologists from entering the UK, a prohibition which remained in force until 1980.

The bitter resistance from the group and their record company had a strong negative effect on Wilson's increasingly fragile mental state ( which may also have been exacerbated by drug use ).

Wilson's small majority after the 1964 general election had made the transaction of government business difficult, and in 1966 he called another election in which Labour gained a strong working majority of 96.

Wilson's party gained gradually but surged after his strong performance in the televised leaders ' debates ' Wilson was initially not invited and took legal action to overturn his exclusion.

White was a reporter at the Versailles Conference in 1919 and a strong supporter of Woodrow Wilson's proposal for the League of Nations.

It also has strong echoes of the persistent rumours that have circulated over the years about attempts by the British security services, and other wings of the British Establishment, to undermine and depose Harold Wilson's Labour government of the mid-1970s.

Marshall was not offended by Wilson's lack of interest in his ideas, and considered his primary constitutional duty to be in the Senate.

The legislation emanated from President Woodrow Wilson's 1919 Federal Trade Commission report, which investigated and discovered " manipulations, controls, trusts, combinations, or restraints out of harmony with the law or the public interest " in the meat packing industry.

Wilson's approach of maintaining close relations with the US while pursuing an independent line on Vietnam has attracted new interest in the light of the different approach taken by the Blair government vis-a-vis Britain's participation in the Iraq War ( 2003 ).

Pinchot would later express interest in seeking the presidency, and promoted American involvement in World War I, in opposition to President Woodrow Wilson's neutrality.

During her sophomore year of high school, after Wilson's interest in modeling grew more serious, her mother urged her to pursue it.

It was here that he met the famous naturalist William Bartram who developed Wilson's interest in ornithology.

The School of Public and International Affairs, as it was originally named, was founded at Princeton in 1930, created in the spirit of Woodrow Wilson's interest in preparing students for leadership in public and international affairs.

Even after Wilson's formal business relationship with the Beach Boys ended, he continued to take an active interest in the group's career, and to give them advice ( both solicited and unsolicited ) until his death.

Wilson's assumption that Jews somehow represented a bridge between Muslim Turks and Christian Americans rankled Morgenthau ; in reply Wilson assured him that the Porte in Constantinople " was the point at which the interest of American Jews in the welfare of the Jews of Palestine is focused, and it is almost indispensable that I have a Jew in that post.

According to prosecutors, given the level of interest coming from the Vice President's office regarding Joe Wilson, it was impossible for Libby to have forgotten during his FBI interviews and grand jury testimony that he already knew that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA.

Vanhanen developed interest in evolutionary biology after studying Edward O. Wilson's sociobiology.

With his primary interest being black music, Wilson's nights at the Wigan Pier covered a spectrum of black music styles.