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    Theodore Deodatus Nathaniel Besterman (22 November 1904 – 10 November 1976) was a Polish-born British psychical researcher, bibliographer, biographer...
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  • musical arranger, and music producer Kirsty Besterman (born 1980), British actress Theodore Besterman (1904–1976), Polish-born British parapsychologist...
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    Ages". London, Rivingtons – via Internet Archive. William Barrett and Theodore Besterman. The Divining Rod: An Experimental and Psychological Investigation...
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    private correspondence during his life, totalling over 20,000 letters. Theodore Besterman's collected edition of these letters, completed only in 1964, fills...
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    is a research department of the University of Oxford, founded by Theodore Besterman in the 1970s. It publishes the definitive edition of the Complete...
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    of the SPR. He co-authored the book The Divining-Rod (1926), with Theodore Besterman. Barrett rejected any physical theory for dowsing such as radiation...
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    the Great." in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, ed. Theodore Besterman (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1976), 159. Catherine II, Empress...
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    city of Geneva in 1929, and the museum opened in 1952, founded by Theodore Besterman. It contains about 25,000 volumes on Voltaire and the 18th century...
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    Philosophical Dictionary. New York: Basic Books, Inc. Voltaire; Theodore Besterman (1971). Philosophical Dictionary. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. Orieux...
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  • more formal experiment, but he and the Society's lead researcher Theodore Besterman failed to agree on the significance of the results. Nevertheless,...
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  • Gessner carried the idea of cataloging and systems a step further. Theodore Besterman, in The Beginnings of Systematic Bibliography, suggests that Gessner’s...
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    1930s.[citation needed] Their circle of friends included W.H. Salter, Theodore Besterman and Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, all of whom were affiliated with the Society...
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    scientific reception to the experiments was not favourable. In 1928, Theodore Besterman from the Society for Psychical Research attended séances and concluded...
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    H. (1933). Psychical Research: The Science of the Super-Normal. (Theodore Besterman, trans.) London: G. Bell & Sons. Driesch, H. (1934). "Psychiatry and...
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  • chronologically. The project was started by the bibliographer and translator Theodore Besterman who only lived to see the first two volumes published. It is currently...
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    freeing himself from control in the séance room. Oliver Gatty and Theodore Besterman who tested Schneider concluded that in their tests there was "no good...
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  • sex, 1929. Ed. by Theodore Besterman. Dress, drinks, and drums: further studies of savages and sex, 1931. Ed. by Theodore Besterman. Oath, curse, and...
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    suspected by several persons present to be the medium's wife." In 1934 Theodore Besterman, a research officer for the Society for Psychical Research, visited...
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  • Blessing: and other Studies in Origins by Ernest Crawley. Edited by Theodore Besterman (1934) Fireside Science by Sir E. Ray Lankester. Selected and prepared...
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    (1980). The Crystal Ball. Red Wheel/Weiser. ISBN 0-87728-483-0. Besterman, Theodore (1995). Crystal Gazing: A Study in the History, Distribution, Theory...
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    experimental results on dream precognition, but their investigator Theodore Besterman failed amid some controversy. The SPR's journal editor even prefaced...
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  • Dissemination of Greek Learning, Harvard University Press, 1962, p.264 Theodore Besterman, A World Bibliography of Bibliographies and of Bibliographical Catalogues...
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  • 155 by Basil Guy Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century by Theodore Besterman, p.56 [1] Mantienne, Frédéric 1999 Monseigneur Pigneau de Béhaine...
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  • watercolour on parchment The Complete Works of Voltaire - Voltaire, Theodore Besterman, William Henry Barber 1968 Four Centuries of French Drawings in the...
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  • (1890) William Archer (1856–1924), in his On Dreams (1935, edited by Theodore Besterman), pp. 135–215. Bjørn Bjarre (1966-), Drømmearbeidet, The Dream Work...
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    independently of the medium. To investigate this the psychical researchers Theodore Besterman and Gerald Heard tested with microphones the amount of displacement...
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    selected; Conservative: Anthony Eden Liberal: Walter Dingley Labour: Theodore Besterman Caused by Peel's elevation to the peerage, becoming Viscount Peel...
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    investigator. In a review of Hack's Psychic Mysteries, investigating officer Theodore Besterman from the Society for Psychical Research wrote that "Bozzano's claims...
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    Psychical Society Calls Bocock Spirit Pictures a Fraud. New-York Tribune. Theodore Besterman. (1931). Review: W. F. Prince, The Enchanted Boundary. Proceedings...
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    cigarette cases when they were held under the table. Another researcher Theodore Besterman investigated Silbert in 1928 and observed that the "spirit raps" only...
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