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rds: 2019.
# Members.
- Keith Haynes Robin Folland, Tim Horsley, Jonathon Griffiths (1978–1983)
- Keith Haynes, Nigel Drumm, Robin Folland, Tim Horsely (1980)
- Keith Haynes, Jonathon Griffiths, Steve Parkin, Mark Bozier (1984–1987)
- Keith Haynes, Jonathon Griffiths, Robin Folland, Steve A... | 6,129,600 |
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Modus ponendo tollens
Modus ponendo tollens (MPT; Latin: "mode that denies by affirming") is a valid rule of inference for propositional logic. It is closely related to "modus ponens" and "modus tollendo ponens".
# Overview.
MPT is usually described as having the form:
- 1. Not both A and B
-... | 6,129,601 |
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aving the form:
- 1. Not both A and B
- 2. A
- 3. Therefore, not B
For example:
- 1. Ann and Bill cannot both win the race.
- 2. Ann won the race.
- 3. Therefore, Bill cannot have won the race.
As E. J. Lemmon describes it:""Modus ponendo tollens" is the principle that, if the negation of ... | 6,129,602 |
536351 | Platte County | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Platte%20County | Platte County
Platte County
Platte County is the name of three counties in the United States:
- Platte County, Missouri
- Platte County, Nebraska
- Platte County, Wyoming
- Platte County, Colorado Territory, an unorganized county of the Territory of Colorado from 1872 to 1874 | 6,129,603 |
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Luapula Province border dispute
This article deals with the disputed area on the borders of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia, in Luapula Province.
# Origins in the 1894 treaty.
Zambia's formal northern frontier boundary was legally signed in the Anglo-Belgian Treaty of ... | 6,129,604 |
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Belgium missionary work in education and health, particularly the Roman Catholic Church and Greek fishermen who wanted more fishing points to supply the reported increase in demand for fish in the emerging mine town of Elizabethville (now Lubumbashi). Later, the Belgians wanted to claim ... | 6,129,605 |
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difficult to locate this cape. British maps show the boundary meeting at Cape Pungu (Chitankwa) whilst Belgian maps of 1955 show the meeting point at Cape Kipimbi which is far south of Cape Pungu, thereby cutting deep into assumed Northern Rhodesian territory.
During the time of the Cen... | 6,129,606 |
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acres (730,000 m) of Northern Rhodesian land apparently where Belgian colonial residences were built. However, no evidence exists that Britain conceded to this request. In 1957, A V Ellison, an official in the Ministry of Lands & Local Government reported to the Federal government of Nor... | 6,129,607 |
441520 | Luapula Province border dispute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luapula%20Province%20border%20dispute | Luapula Province border dispute
was proposed. It was suggested that a meandering line following the watershed and thalwegs of the streams replace the straight line between Lake Mweru and Lake Tanganyika. This exchange was to favour Northern Rhodesia but was consequently rejected by the Belgians. In July 1958 Thomson, D... | 6,129,608 |
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protection. Distance and cost was the simplest excuse that British authorities in Northern Rhodesia could offer for not protecting them. After all, apart from the mining companies, the British definition of its interests in Northern Rhodesia were at best ambivalent, apart from occupying ... | 6,129,609 |
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W Allin – Surveyor General
- S G Burlock – Acting Land Commissioner
- M S Wagner – Assistant Secretary (R)
- J C L Durrant – Acting Assistant Secretary (N)
- G Howe – Administrative Officer
- F N N Parry – Federal Government representative
- M S Benoy –
Belgium interests in the no... | 6,129,610 |
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Province to the Copperbelt. (The Pedicle is a wedge of Congolese territory that cuts deep into Zambia to give the country its distinctive butterfly shape.) Belgians were not interested in the road, but were using it as a bargaining tool for other border issues. The Federal Government ini... | 6,129,611 |
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the Federal Government wanted control over the pedicle, the Belgians wanted to swop territory in their favour. The meeting decided to propose the following:
- The Northern Rhodesia government would exchange land on the northwest boundary in the Lubemba area for some of the Mokambo land ... | 6,129,612 |
441520 | Luapula Province border dispute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luapula%20Province%20border%20dispute | Luapula Province border dispute
to know where Cape Akalunga was) visited Mporokoso area to
- Find out the populace
- Find Cape Akalunga
He visited 11 villages. He met with Chief Mulilo who told him Cape Akalunga was near Chisenga River and had once been called Mutunga village. It had been under Congolese rule.
# 18... | 6,129,613 |
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Anglo-Belgian Fisheries Advisory Board meet regularly to resolve each territory's fishing rights, to agree on African fishing methods, to agree that the Europeans buy the fish caught by the Africans (Greeks at Mpweto had in the past been doing large scale fishing and refused to buy exces... | 6,129,614 |
441520 | Luapula Province border dispute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luapula%20Province%20border%20dispute | Luapula Province border dispute
Lake Mweru and on the thalweg of the Luapula in a part of its course, it was appropriate for each of the riparian states to exercise their sovereign rights in the waters falling respectively under their jurisdiction.
The maps showed the frontier deviating from the centre of the lake and... | 6,129,615 |
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precisely at the time when the struggle for independence of the two states, particularly Congo, were getting intense. Congo gained independence in 1960; Northern Rhodesia got it four years later. In 1958 the British settlers were holding on to the territory and were keen to ensure that n... | 6,129,616 |
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Moliro had his headquarters there too. It was under Belgian administration.
# 17 April 1961.
Provincial Commissioner E L Button had, in response to a query about the boundary between Lake Mweru and Lake Tanganyika, commented thus: "Despite the rather nebulous nature of a common boundar... | 6,129,617 |
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the Congo as a matter of convenience when that was not the case when the British or their proxies were ruling the territory.
# 29 April 1961.
Acting Administrative Secretary wrote to the Governor of Northern Rhodesia. He informed the Governor that there were 4 enclaves that were under ... | 6,129,618 |
441520 | Luapula Province border dispute | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luapula%20Province%20border%20dispute | Luapula Province border dispute
incident was between two new republics dealing with an issue left over from the colonial period.
# 30 April 1965.
Education Minister John Mwanakatwe and Alex Shapi visited Mweru constituency. They were held at gunpoint and manhandled by the Congolese (Katangese) gendarmes after crossin... | 6,129,619 |
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many Zambians sought medical facilities from the Congolese hospital at Mpweto. Even the Belgium Congolese franc was accepted currency in Chipungu area itself, as it was in Pweto. The fact was, Mwanakatwe was legitimately visiting his constituency, as far as the Zambian map showed.
# 30 ... | 6,129,620 |
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in the Ministry of Lands wrote to the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs giving reference to the Mpweto/Lake Tanganyika boundary. He pointed out that since the border was not clearly established, negotiation was necessary and suggested the setting of a Joint Boundary ... | 6,129,621 |
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of the border.
- Belgian border coordinates South latitude 8 degrees 18 minutes
- British border coordinates South latitude 8 degrees 14 minutes
The Police report showed that they had been arrested at the Chisenga River near Chipunelu.
# 1968.
The Congolese disputed air space and fl... | 6,129,622 |
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to the British High Commissioner for information on the true boundary, but was told there was none available, despite their having been discussions on the delimitation of the boundary in 1927 and 1933 . The British, it appeared had washed their hands of the issue and were not bothered at... | 6,129,623 |
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ensuing Scramble for Africa by European powers, there was interest from Belgians, Germans and the British in Southern and Central Africa in securing the area that covered Lake Nyasa, Lake Mweru, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria. In the early 1870s the Germans Reichardt and Bohn, and lat... | 6,129,624 |
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Nyasaland (now Malawi). Scottish missionaries who were initially interested in stopping the slave trade by Arabs, and later engaged in trading with the locals had originally set up the Company. Johnston became Commissioner of the African Lakes Company, tasked by the British government wi... | 6,129,625 |
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British South Africa Company (BSAC), and struck up a working relationship with him. He implored Rhodes to support his work by providing financial support. This Rhodes willingly did in return for Johnston’s representing the interests of the British South Africa Company in the areas that J... | 6,129,626 |
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up of the first form of civil service in NER, and which was later improved by his successors Alfred Sharpe and later Robert Edward Codrington.
Based in Blantyre, Johnston was concerned about the influence of the Belgians and Germans in the Congo Free State north of Lake Mweru. He was aw... | 6,129,627 |
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in 1890. Crawshay found a spot at Puta, where Chienge stream enters Lake Mweru and set up residence there. The area north of Puta at Mpweto in the Congo Free State was under the administrative control of a Belgian named Captain Jacques. Although the Berlin Conference had more or less div... | 6,129,628 |
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tip end of Lake Mweru where the Lualaba leaves Lake Mweru to Cape Akalunga on Lake Tanganyika. This understanding while respected by the establishment of Chienge post, it was not formalised until four years later. The formal agreements on the boundary between the Congo Free State under K... | 6,129,629 |
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Crawshay stayed at Rhodesia from 1890 to 1891 when he abandoned the station and returned to Blantyre in Nyasaland.
The peoples living under the administrative control of the Africa Lakes Company in the Lake Mweru region included the Ba Bwile or Ba Ansa under Chiefs Mpweto, Puta, Kalembw... | 6,129,630 |
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Rhodesia on Lake Mweru’s shores, but of similar importance were Sumbu and Kaputa. The people of Kaputa specialized in salt making and bought food from more fertile areas. Johnston was concerned that Crawshay had left the Rhodesia station hastily, and asked Cecil Rhodes to fund a special ... | 6,129,631 |
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out the people there and was demanding salt tribute from other villages. There was also evidence of slave traders harassing the inhabitants mercilessly. On his return to Blantyre, Sharpe gave a detailed report to Johnston. Sir Johnston decided to reopen the station and sent 2 agents, Kid... | 6,129,632 |
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seeing as the old post had been abandoned. Kidd and Bainbridge remained at their new post until 1894 when they both died. It was rumoured that they were poisoned. The local people during this time were given protection by the collector at Rhodesia against the Arabs. Mkula, also known as ... | 6,129,633 |
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Scotia or Mandala boat, which was written off in 1919 and abandoned at Chienge in 1922. The boat used to travel between Chienge and Kilwa Island. There is oral evidence that Hube Harrington was a relation of the famous Harrington family that settled in the Western province of Zambia and ... | 6,129,634 |
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1907, possibly due to lack of staff. The station was returned to its original post at Puta, Chienge as a Boma. The collectors who reopened this Boma were J. F. Sealy and GT Wenham and they stayed there for the next 3 years. In 1908 the station was temporarily closed due to tsetse flies. ... | 6,129,635 |
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Matthews (March)
1920 CP Oldfield (September)
1922 Wickins and wife (April)
In November 1922, the station was closed due to lack of funds.
In April 1925 G H Morton reopened the station
1926 FO Hoare (December)
1927 G H Morton (October) He went mad and was sent to Cape Town asylum
... | 6,129,636 |
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of land in Chienge. The ALC had a farm at Chienge where it was said that there were traces of copper. The district was geologically surveyed by Luangwa concessions, a mining company but they retained no claims and no mines were opened.
Two Seventh Day Adventists Ellingworth and Lewis, m... | 6,129,637 |
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in 1910 and installed as Chief Puta in 1937 after the death of Puta Mulolwa.
Chienge was re-established as a sub-Boma in 1973 under the Kaunda UNIP government’s administration.
Before the end of the first term of President Frederick J.T. Chiluba’s MMD government, a quiet but effective ... | 6,129,638 |
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Ministry of Local government and Housing dated 30 October 1996 declared Chienge a new district council pursuant to Section 3 of the Local Government Act No. 22 of 1996. At the time, Bennie Mwiinga was a Minister of Local government and Housing.
The narrative following the 12–13 December... | 6,129,639 |
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it meets the Kaputa-Nchelenge administrative boundary; thence it follows along the Kaputa-Nchelenge administrative boundary in the northerly direction up to the Zambia-Zaire international boundary; thence the boundary continues in the westerly direction from the Musungwishi river along t... | 6,129,640 |
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on Friday the 20 December 1996 witnessed by the newly elected Member of Parliament for Chienge and Minister of Health Dr Katele Kalumba and scores of Party and Government officials. Sitting as a councillor of Chienge, Dr Kalumba, accompanied by the Commissioner of Town and Country Planni... | 6,129,641 |
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death of Dr De Lacerda in Chienge?
1890-1 Crawshay opened the First known British colonial post and left the service of British central Africa and abandoned Rhodesia (PUTA) station as it was later named.
1893 Dr Blair Watson arrived at Kalungwishi as tax Collector of Mweru District
18... | 6,129,642 |
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Male labour taken to Kasama and Fort Roseberry for the salt industry; to Salisbury to work in the mines; to Congo Free State and Angola to work for the border commission
1911 Mweru-Luapula district created. It included Chienge, Kawambwa and Fort Roseberry
1911 GGP Lyons was appointed D... | 6,129,643 |
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ordinance act
1933 Chienge amalgamated with Mporokoso district under Babemba province, later to be called northern province
1936 Native treasuries introduced
1949 Ice factory built at Mulwe village. Aluminium boats, barge and 2 motorboats
1953/4 District Education Authority formed
1... | 6,129,644 |
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mukula, mupa, mwenge.
# Local names of British officers.
- Crawshay – Kamukwamba
- Bainbridge – Pembeleni
- GGP Lyons – Kalelamukoshi
- HJ Harrington – Chiana
- White fathers – Bapatili
# Missions in Chienge.
- 1900 London Missionary Society Mr & Mrs Purves on Mbereshi River
- 1... | 6,129,645 |
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listed under Rhodesia Post (Chienge) as this was before other Bomas were established. Should not be mistaken with the current administrative structures.
# Game found in Mweru area, 1908–56.
Elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard, eland, sable antelope, roan antelope, hartebeest, reedbuck, wa... | 6,129,646 |
536348 | William Gascoigne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Gascoigne | William Gascoigne
William Gascoigne
Sir William Gascoigne (c. 1350 – 17 December 1419) was Chief Justice of England during the reign of King Henry IV.
# Life and work.
Gascoigne (alternatively spelled Gascoyne) was a descendant of an ancient Yorkshire family. He was born in Gawthorp to Sir William Gascoigne and Agne... | 6,129,647 |
536348 | William Gascoigne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Gascoigne | William Gascoigne
of his attorneys, and soon after Henry's accession to the throne was made chief justice of the court of King's Bench. After the suppression of the rising in the north in 1405, Henry eagerly pressed the chief justice to pronounce sentence upon Lord Scrope, the Archbishop of York, and the Earl Marshal T... | 6,129,648 |
536348 | William Gascoigne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Gascoigne | William Gascoigne
who in times of doubt and danger asserted the principle that the head of state is subject to law, and that the traditional practice of public officers, or the expressed voice of the nation in parliament, and not the will of the monarch or any part of the legislature, must guide the tribunals of the co... | 6,129,649 |
536348 | William Gascoigne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Gascoigne | William Gascoigne
committed him to prison, and gave the prince a dressing-down that caused him to acknowledge the justice of the sentence. The king is said to have approved of the act, but it appears that Gascoigne was removed from his post or resigned soon after the accession of Henry V. He died in 1419, and was burie... | 6,129,650 |
536348 | William Gascoigne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Gascoigne | William Gascoigne
the scene in the fifth act of Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Part 2", (in which Henry V is crowned king, and assures Gascoigne that he shall continue to hold his post), could have some historical basis, and that his resignation shortly thereafter was voluntary.
# Family.
He was born in Gawthorp - in the v... | 6,129,651 |
536348 | William Gascoigne | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William%20Gascoigne | William Gascoigne
kering, widow of Henry de Greystock.
The issue by his first marriage were:
- Sir William Gascoigne II (1370–1422) m. Joan Wyman.
- Elizabeth Gascoigne, m. John Aske
- Margaret Gascoigne, m. Robert Hansard
Issue by second marriage:
- Sir Christopher Gascoigne (born 1407)
- James Gascoigne (born ... | 6,129,652 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
Ray Hyman
Ray Hyman (born June 23, 1928) is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, and a noted critic of parapsychology. Hyman, along with James Randi, Martin Gardner and Paul Kurtz, is one of the founders of the modern skeptical movement. He is the founder and lead... | 6,129,653 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
the lines on a person's palm could provide insights into their nature, but later discovered that the person's reaction to the reading had little to do with the actual lines on the palm. This fascination with why this happened led him to switch from a journalist degree to psychology.
JREF president D.J. Groth... | 6,129,654 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
meetings. Thinking back to age 7, "I can't ever remember not being a skeptic".
Magicians who perform mentalism debate among themselves about using a disclaimer. The disclaimer is supposed to inform the audience that what they are witnessing is entertainment, and is not based on actual paranormal powers. In a... | 6,129,655 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
After he became a psychologist, he realized that this was an example of the "invited inference." By openly stating that he made no claims about the nature of his ability, Hyman had given his audience no reason to challenge him. Indeed, he had invited the onlookers to make their own inferences about the source... | 6,129,656 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
in his footsteps... (and) for his courageous advocacy of unfettered skeptical inquiry". In 1982, Hyman held the "Spook Chair" for one year at Stanford University during a sabbatical from the University of Oregon. What the Stanford University psychologists informally call the "Spook" chair is officially known ... | 6,129,657 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
Inquiry (CSI)), which publishes the Skeptical Inquirer.
Aside from his scholarly publications and consultation with the U.S. Department of Defense in scrutinizing psychic research, one of his most popular articles is thirteen points to help you "amaze your friends with your new found "psychic powers"!", a gu... | 6,129,658 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
written a book on the subject. He is one of the foremost skeptical experts on the Ganzfeld experiment. According to Bob Carroll, psychologist Ray Hyman is considered to be the foremost expert on subjective validation and cold reading.
Hyman's prestidigitational skills (which he calls "manipulating perception... | 6,129,659 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
and TAM 2012. He is working on two books: "How Smart People Go Wrong: Cognition and Human Error" and "Parapsychology's Achilles' Heel: Consistent Inconsistency".
On October 9, 2010, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry announced Hyman (and others) as a part of their policy-making Executive Council, he will al... | 6,129,660 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
pulled me aside and said... we really ought to do something about this Uri Geller business... lets form an organization called SIR" (Sanity In Research). In 1972 joined by Martin Gardner they had their first meeting. The three of them felt they had no administration experience, "we just had good ideas" and we... | 6,129,661 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
public, and focus on educating journalists and teachers. "That way we will get more bang for our buck." On the current state of the skeptical movement, Hyman stated "The media, unfortunately has made it so we have many more believers." Less science teachers in the classrooms, major newspapers are firing their... | 6,129,662 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
Buffalo, NY with himself, James Alcock and Steve Shaw now called Banachek. With the exception of one year when the toolbox was held in Boulder, CO the toolbox has been held at the University of Oregon in Eugene. The Skeptic's Toolbox originally spanned 5 days. Later it was cut back to 4 days.
Speaking to a r... | 6,129,663 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
and it works the same way with paranormal claims. Hyman felt that it was necessary to teach attendees with a "case-based approach... concrete examples as a first step toward extracting broad examples... (giving) the benefit of context" to the learning experience. This approach is different to a traditional co... | 6,129,664 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
human choice reaction time is related to the information content of an incoming signal" called the Hick-Hyman Law. This helped to lay the groundwork "for the shift from behavioral psychology... to the era of cognitive psychology." This was Hyman's second published paper, and submitted while still a grad stude... | 6,129,665 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
1995. He noted that the experiments "appear to be free of the more obvious and better known flaws that can invalidate the results of parapsychological investigations" and that there are significant effect sizes "too large and consistent to be dismissed as statistical flukes." However, he stops short of "concl... | 6,129,666 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
to the Ganzfeld experiment. Hyman wrote to Charles Honorton and was sent 600 pages of information. Three years later Hyman's analysis led to the 1985 issue of the "Journal of Parapsychology" publishing Hyman's critiques. Hyman's conclusion "By themselves these experiments do not mean anything unless they can ... | 6,129,667 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
tricks Geller had performed for host Dick Klinger the week prior. Klinger asked, "Does Uri Geller have any supernatural powers?" Andrus gave the short answer "No." Hyman stated, "(Geller) is an opportunist... which is why it is difficult to duplicate him, he himself cannot duplicate himself. He's always ready... | 6,129,668 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
in half and formed itself into a S-shape. Upon questioning all the scientists at the lab, Hyman discovered that no one had actually seen this happen, but had heard stories from others (who could not be tracked down) that it had happened." Hyman continued to question the scientists and discovered that no one h... | 6,129,669 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
can do the same thing without paranormal powers, Hyman states, "He's a fraud, but you can't blame people for believing him. Geller is a product of a wonderful public relations campaign... What the audience gets is only one side of the story... He has been caught cheating many times" but people still believe. ... | 6,129,670 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
Schwartz believes that he has proven the dead communicate with the living through human mediums. Hyman details many methodological errors with Schwartz's research including; "Inappropriate control comparisons", "Failure to use double-blind procedures", "Creating non-falsifiable outcomes by reinterpreting fail... | 6,129,671 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
accepted scientific criteria... they have lost credibility."
There have been many follow-up exchanges between Schwartz and Hyman over the "Afterlife Experiments" conducted by Schwartz. Published May 2003, Schwartz responded that Hyman ignored "the total body of research." Schwartz takes issue with Hyman's op... | 6,129,672 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
experimental, and social reasons for doing so?"
# Quotes.
- "I have never, never met a proponent of the paranormal that didn't always preface their introduction to me with, 'I'm a skeptic too'."
- On, "scientists with outstanding minds, people who are first-class scientists... who at the same time were ped... | 6,129,673 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
they feel they can walk outside their discipline... they can do whatever they want and it will still be good science, because they are good scientists. It does not work that well. A micro-biologist can not walk into an observatory and do good astronomy."
- "As a psychologist I know that it is not normal to b... | 6,129,674 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
themselves... They have done nothing towards outreach where they can do the most... Give people the tools to think, help them to become better thinkers."
- Concerning science and replication, "That's how you know something's 'there'. Parapsychology doesn't have a 'there'; they can not replicate. They respond... | 6,129,675 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
any chance at all to solve any problem, first make sure your facts are correct."
- On parapsychology – It is "essentially a scientific enterprise. Its practitioners are serious scientific researchers, often at the PhD level... the problem with most... is that after the dust settles on an argument, they still... | 6,129,676 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
inquiry, scientific evidence, and reason in evaluating claims to knowledge. Other recipients of this award include Carl Sagan, Kendrick Frazier, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Jay Gould, Martin Gardner, and Nobel laureate physicist Leon Lederman.
- Co-recipient of the 2005 Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Think... | 6,129,677 |
441545 | Ray Hyman | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ray%20Hyman | Ray Hyman
rticle "Testing Natasha" published in the series "Testing the Girl with the X-Ray Eyes" in Skeptical Inquirer.
- Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa from Simon Fraser University in October 2007.
- Philip J. Klass Award for outstanding contributions in promoting critical thinking and scientific understanding fo... | 6,129,678 |
441522 | U.S. Route 69 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S.%20Route%2069 | U.S. Route 69
U.S. Route 69
U.S. Route 69 (US 69) is a major north–south United States highway. When it was first created, it was only long, but it has since been expanded into a Minnesota to Texas cross-country route. The highway's southern terminus (as well as those of US 287 and US 96) is in Port Arthur, Texas at a... | 6,129,679 |
441522 | U.S. Route 69 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S.%20Route%2069 | U.S. Route 69
intersection with Interstate 10 in southern Beaumont. At this intersection, US 69, US 96, and US 287 merge with I-10. I-10/US 69/US 96/US 287 continue in a northerly direction through Beaumont for several miles. Just after the intersection with US 90, I-10 splits from the multiplex and resumes its easterl... | 6,129,680 |
441522 | U.S. Route 69 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S.%20Route%2069 | U.S. Route 69
on a northwest path towards Woodville.
In Woodville, US 69 splits from US 287 a few blocks north of US 190. US 287 continues northwest towards Corrigan while US 69 proceed north towards Lufkin. In this area, between US 190 in Woodville and FM 256 in Colmesneil, US 69 is a part of the Texas Forest Trail. ... | 6,129,681 |
441522 | U.S. Route 69 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S.%20Route%2069 | U.S. Route 69
of Lufkin. US 69 and State Loop 287 continue until the intersection of SH 103 and Business US 69 on the northwest section of Lufkin. At that point, US 69 is concurrent for a short distance with SH 103 and State Loop 287. At the intersection of US 69, State Loop 287 and SH 103, US 69 departs Lufkin and hea... | 6,129,682 |
441522 | U.S. Route 69 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S.%20Route%2069 | U.S. Route 69
with SH 110 and SH 155 through Tyler. Around seven blocks from the intersection of US 69, SH 110, and SH 155, SH 155 separates from the concurrency and travels in a southwesterly direction, leaving US 69 and SH 110 traveling in a northwesterly direction. This continues until SH 110 separates from US 69 on... | 6,129,683 |
441522 | U.S. Route 69 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S.%20Route%2069 | U.S. Route 69
the Texas Forest Trail turns off of US 69 to share a segment with SH 37. US 69 takes a more northwest turn on its way through several small towns, including Emory, on its way to Greenville. There, as it begins to enter the city, a Business route of US 69 turns off to the right to serve the downtown Greenv... | 6,129,684 |
441522 | U.S. Route 69 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S.%20Route%2069 | U.S. Route 69
through the downtown Greenville area, then US 69 turns northwest, from Greenville to Leonard, where it encounters a brief concurrency with SH 78.
In Whitewright, SH 11 intersects and becomes concurrent with US 69 southeast of town. This continues until the intersection with SH 160, at which time SH 11 co... | 6,129,685 |
441522 | U.S. Route 69 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S.%20Route%2069 | U.S. Route 69
the Oklahoma/Texas border at the Red River.
## Oklahoma.
US 69 and US 75 pass the Oklahoma border near the tiny town of Staley. They remain concurrent all the way to Atoka, where US 69 heads northeast and US 75 heads northwest. US 69 and US 75 briefly merge with SH-3 in Atoka but SH-3 remains concurrent... | 6,129,686 |
441522 | U.S. Route 69 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S.%20Route%2069 | U.S. Route 69
to head north. South of Pryor Creek, US 69 is the westerly boundary of the MidAmerica Industrial Park, one of the largest industrial park in the nation. Near Vinita, US 69 and SH-2 interchange with Historic Route 66 and US 60. The two highways turn east and merge with HR-66 and US 60. In Downtown Vinita, ... | 6,129,687 |
441522 | U.S. Route 69 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S.%20Route%2069 | U.S. Route 69
HR-66 and US 69 head north concurrent with SH-10. In Downtown Miami, SH-10 continues heading east, while HR-66 and US 69 turn northward. South of Picher and west of Quapaw, US 69 meets US-69 Alternate. US 69 splits from HR-66 and heads north through the town of Picher.
## Kansas.
At the Oklahoma-Kansas ... | 6,129,688 |
441522 | U.S. Route 69 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S.%20Route%2069 | U.S. Route 69
east towards Lamar and Springfield, Missouri. US 69 continues heading north. South of Fort Scott, US 69 merges with K-7 again. In Fort Scott, US 54 merges with US 69 and K-7. The three highways continue heading north. North of town, US 54 and K-7 split from US 69 and head west; US 69 continues to head nor... | 6,129,689 |
441522 | U.S. Route 69 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S.%20Route%2069 | U.S. Route 69
and heads north on the 18th Street Expressway into Kansas City, Kansas. The highway then splits off and merges with I-70, US 24, and US 40 and heads east. At the intersection with US 169 at the 7th Street Trafficway, US 69 splits off and heads north. Just before reaching I-635, US 69 crosses into Missouri... | 6,129,690 |
441522 | U.S. Route 69 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S.%20Route%2069 | U.S. Route 69
it exits. After exiting the highway, US 69 immediately merges with MO-33 and heads northeast. At State Route B, in rural Liberty, MO-33 heads north-northeast and US 69 continues northeast. US 69 stays somewhat parallel to I-35 as it heads through Missouri, sometimes passing under it. West of Altamont, US ... | 6,129,691 |
441522 | U.S. Route 69 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S.%20Route%2069 | U.S. Route 69
sharp turn toward the east. West of Leon, US 69 merges with Iowa Highway 2 (Iowa 2). In downtown Leon, US 69 heads north, while Iowa 2 heads east. East of Lake Ahquabi State Park, US 69 merges with US 65. The two highways continue to head north. At the intersection with Iowa 5, US 65 heads east concurrent... | 6,129,692 |
441522 | U.S. Route 69 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S.%20Route%2069 | U.S. Route 69
City, US 69 merges with Iowa 9 and continues heading north. Iowa 9 soon branches off to the west. Just south of Emmons, US 69 crosses into Minnesota.
## Minnesota.
US 69 enters the state at Emmons and travels north-northeast through southern Minnesota, passing through Twin Lakes. The roadway runs along ... | 6,129,693 |
441522 | U.S. Route 69 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S.%20Route%2069 | U.S. Route 69
1934, mostly along what had previously been marked State Highway 13, ending at U.S. 16 in Albert Lea. At this time, it entered the state at Emmons and turned eastward along Lake Street and State Line Road, briefly re-entering Iowa to curve around the south shore of State Line Lake. In 1940, it was realign... | 6,129,694 |
441522 | U.S. Route 69 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S.%20Route%2069 | U.S. Route 69
Alt., cosigned with Historic Route 66, splits from mainline US 69 south of Picher and west of Quapaw. US-69 Alt. and HR-66 head ENE through the towns of Quapaw and Baxter Springs, Kansas. North of Baxter Springs, US 400 joins the concurrency. West of Riverton, HR-66 heads east along K-66, while US-69 Alt.... | 6,129,695 |
441522 | U.S. Route 69 | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=U.S.%20Route%2069 | U.S. Route 69
concurrency of US 69, US 400, and US 160 continues north.
## Business loops and spurs.
- Overland Park, KS
- Fort Scott, Kansas
- Frontenac, Kansas
- Pittsburg, Kansas
- Baxter Springs, Kansas
- Columbus, Kansas
- Miami, Oklahoma
- Durant, Oklahoma
- Vinita, Oklahoma
- Mc Alester, Oklahoma
- C... | 6,129,696 |
536350 | Jean Leloup | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Leloup | Jean Leloup
Jean Leloup
Jean Leclerc (born May 14, 1961) is a Québécois singer-songwriter and author from Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada. He is popularly known as Jean Leloup (which he likes to translate to John the Wolf), a stage name he kept using until 2006, when he temporarily changed his name to Jean Leclerc, only to... | 6,129,697 |
536350 | Jean Leloup | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Leloup | Jean Leloup
lyrics—in his song "1990", he compares the high-tech actions of Desert Storm to his sexual activities with his girlfriend.
His 1990 album "L'amour est sans pitié" was a hit outside of Quebec, and was released in the rest of Canada, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Japan.
He was the recipient of a Féli... | 6,129,698 |
536350 | Jean Leloup | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean%20Leloup | Jean Leloup
preceding his return, Leclerc wrote the philosophic novel ' (originally entitled '); it was published October 5, 2005 at the Leméac editions under the pen name Massoud Al-Rachid.
Leclerc released the album "Mexico" in September 2006, his first under the name Jean Leclerc.
Jean Leclerc returned to the stag... | 6,129,699 |
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