Renton
A Dictionary of British Place-Names
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Renton W. Dunb. The town was founded in 1782 and named after Cecilia
Renton, daughter-in-law of Jean Telfer, sister of the novelist Tobias Smollett (1721–74), who was born nearby.
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TESTING CLAIRVOYANCE AND PRECOGNITION BY MANIPULATING PROBABILITIES: A CONCEPTUAL ASSESSMENT OF THE EXPERIMENTAL LITERATURE.
Magazine article from: The Journal of Parapsychology; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ABSTRACT: This paper reviews six clairvoyance experiments and two precognition ones...Traditionally, results from the six clairvoyance experiments have been thought to support...variety of models used to explain the clairvoyance studies may also be pertinent to the...
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A meta-analysis of forced-choice experiments comparing clairvoyance and precognition.
Magazine article from: The Journal of Parapsychology; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...interested in the question of whether clairvoyance and precognition are really different...If this hypothesis is correct, then clairvoyance studies would be expected to result...proposed that what appears to be a clairvoyance task may not involve real-time information...
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Clairvoyance is more than just a dream
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday; 8/2/1998; ; 638 words
; EVIDENCE that clairvoyance is a genuine phenomenon rather than...are more likely to be receptive to clairvoyance, the ability to discern information...there is more evidence in favour of clairvoyance. By chance we could have selected...
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 "The Star (Jordan, Middle East)")
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SCRAPBOOK Clairvoyance: A growing phenomenon in Jordan, THE STAR
Newspaper article from: The Star (Jordan, Middle East); 12/17/1998; ; 700 words
; ...from the outcomes of war. Today, clairvoyance is becoming more recognized than ever...a surgeon in Amman, thinks that clairvoyance is only an illusion, and those who...psychics to roam around the world. Clairvoyance in Jordan is defying skeptics. Many...
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System Indicates When Buyer May Act.(Clairvoyance monitoring system)
Magazine article from: Origination News; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...trying to find out when they will make their next move. "Clairvoyance" is a system that notifies lenders and brokers as soon as...customer doesn't always see it that way, but lenders do. And Clairvoyance gives them the ability to know each time one of their customers...
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A World in a Grain of Sand: The Clairvoyance of Stefan Ossowiecki.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of Parapsychology; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; A WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND: THE CLAIRVOYANCE OF STEFAN OSSOWIECKI by Mary Rose Barrington, Ian Stevenson...introduction Stevenson argues that Ossowiecki "demonstrated clairvoyance of a range and quality no one has exceeded, at least under...
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CLAIRVOYANCE `GIFT' FAILS FORTUNE TELLER ARRESTED IN 1931
Newspaper article from: Evansville Courier & Press; 11/11/2006; 673 words
; ...percent of their monthly salary for four months to aid the unemployed and needy during the coming winter. e The "gift" of clairvoyance by which she supported herself and family of four children failed an Evansville woman with the result that she was held as...
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 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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Clairvoyance to raise cash.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 8/29/2007; 300 words
; AN EVENING of clairvoyance to raise funds for Cancer Research will take place at the Christian Spiritualist Church in Villiers Street, Stoke, Coventry, next Friday, September 7, at 7.30pm. Organisers will be asking for charity donations on the door and running a raffle.
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Clairvoyance snag
Newspaper article from: Citizen Gloucestershire, The; 3/13/2008; 227 words
; The clairvoyance evening usually held in Barton is temporarily on hold. The group, led by Diane Burston on Wednesday evenings at the New Olympus Theatre is unable to run while the building is being refurbished. The evenings will resume when the work is completed.
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Clairvoyance night.
Newspaper article from: Northumberland Gazette (Alnwick, England); 5/16/2008; 270 words
; AN evening of clairvoyance is being held at the Masons Arms, Amble, next week. International mediums Scott Williams and Paul Moore will be hosting the...
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clairvoyance
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
clairvoyance Part of the larger phenomenon know as extra sensory perception (ESP), clairvoyance is the ability to discern images not readily...different locations. Other terms for clairvoyance include second sight, shadow sight...
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Extrasensory Perception: The "Sixth Sense"
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
...phenomena), which includes telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, psychokinesis, hauntings...are studied by parapsychologists: Clairvoyance is the awareness, without physical...going on elsewhere. In recent years, clairvoyance has sometimes been called remote viewing...
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psychic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...inexplicable by natural laws, esp. involving telepathy or clairvoyance: psychic powers. ∎ (of a person) appearing or considered to have powers of telepathy or clairvoyance: I could sense it—I must be psychic. 2...
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Spirits and Spiritualism
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...Spiritualism See also 182. GHOSTS ; 285. MYSTICISM ; 379. SOUL . clairvoyance the ability to see, in a trance, into the world beyond...x2014;supranatural, supranaturalistic, adj. telegnosis clairvoyance or other occult or supernatural knowledge. typtology Rare...
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Screaming Trees
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...x201D; The Screaming Trees released their debut album, Clairvoyance, on the Velvetone label the following year. After attending...cassette-only EP Other Worlds, 1985; released debut album, Clairvoyance, on Velvetone label, 1986; signed with SST records and...
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