Henry Steel Olcott - Henry Steel Olcott Henry Steel Olcott, (1832-1907), founder and first president of the Theosophical Society, is well-known as the first person of western descent to make a formal conversion to Buddhism. His subsequent actions as president of the Theosophical Society helped Buddhism into a new renaissance. See also: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Theosophy.
Theosophy - each religion has a portion of the truth. Theosophy, as a coherent belief system, developed from the writings of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Together with Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge and others she founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. A stricter definition from the Concise Oxford Dictionary describes Theosophy as "any of various philosophies professing to achieve a knowledge of God by spiritual ecstasy, direct intuition, or special individual relations, esp. a modern movement following Hindu and Buddhist teachings and seeking universal brotherhood." Adherents of Theosophy maintain that it is a "Body of Truth" that forms the basis of all religions. Theosophy represents a modern face of Sanatana Dharma, "the Eternal Truth", as religion of man. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Basic Theosophical Beliefs 1.1 That Consciousness is Universal and Individual.
Theosophical Society - Theosophical Society was founded in 1875, in New York, by Henry Steel Olcott, H.P. Blavatsky, William Quan Judge and others. Its founding objective was the study of mediumistic phenomena and explaining these. When Olcott and Blavatsky moved to India, the study of Eastern religions became part of their programme and thus of the programme of the Theosophicla Society. By the time Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy was written (1889), the objects had evolved into: To form the nucleus of a Universal Brotherhood of Humanity without distinction of race, colour, or creed. To promote the study of Aryan and other Scriptures, of the World's religion and sciences, and to vindicate the importance of old Asiatic literature, namely, of the Brahmanical, Buddhist, and Zoroastrian philosophies. To investigate the hidden mysteries of Nature under every.
William Quan Judge - Society was founded, but he was among the 17 who first got together. With H.P. Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott he stayed in this organization, when others left. When Olcott and Blavatsky left the United States for India, Judge stayed behind, trying to keep the theosophical work alive, all the while working as a lawyer. Judge wrote theosophical articles, for various theosophical magazines and the introductory volume "The Ocean of Theosophy". He also became the General Secretary of the American Section of the Theosophical Society in 1884. While in this function he got into an argument with Olcott and Annie Besant over the alleged receipt of letters by the Mahatmas. This ended in Judge leaving the Theosophical Society. Most of the American Section went with him. This split resulted in what.
Madame Blavatsky - husband was Michael C. Betanelly. She maintained that neither marriage was consummated. Madame Blavatsky traveled throughout the world, and resided in New York City from 1873 to 1878. She then founded, with Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge and others, the Theosophical Society, a new religious movement of the late nineteenth century that took its inspiration from Hinduism and Buddhism. Blavatsky claimed to have been given access to what she called a 'secret doctrine' that had been passed down the ages from ancient sages. In this respect Blavatsky's ideas followed in the tradition of Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism. The difference was that Blavatsky's esoteric wisdom was supposed to be derived from Eastern sages, rather than from Egyptian or Judaic traditions. Furthermore, Blavatsy claimed that the ancient wisdom to which she had access.
John Henry - John Henry John Henry, the "steel-driving man", is an African-American folk hero. John Henry is a racing horse named after the above folk hero. John Henry is a 1931 novel by Roark Bradford, based on the folk hero. It was made into a Broadway play and later a musical featuring Paul Robeson. John Henry is an 18th century U.S. Senator from and Governor of Maryland. John Henry is a 19th century U.S. Representative from Illinois. John Flournoy Henry is a 19th century U.S. Representative from Kentucky. John Henry is the majority owner of the Boston Red Sox Major League Baseball team. John Henry is a 1994 pop album by They Might Be Giants. "John Henry" is a 1995 pop song by Marques Bovre and the Evil Twins,.
John Henry (folklore) - John Henry (folklore) "John Henry was a steel driving man". An American folk hero, John Henry has been the subject of numerous songs, stories, plays and novels. Like other "Big Men" (Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Iron John), John Henry was a mythic representation of a particular group within the melting pot of the 19th century working class. In the most popular story of his life, Henry is born into the world big, mean and strong as ten men. He grows to be one of the greatest "steel-drivers" in the mid-century push to extend the railroads across the mountains to the west. The complication of the story is that, in order to save money, the owner of the railroad buys a steam-powered hammer to do the work of.
Henry Bessemer - Henry Bessemer Sir Henry Bessemer (January 19, 1813 - March 15, 1898), English engineer, was born at Charlton near Hitchin in Hertfordshire. Throughout his life, he was a prolific inventor, but his name is chiefly known in connection with the Bessemer process for the manufacture of steel, by which it has been rendered famous throughout the civilized world. Though this process is now largely supplemented, and even displaced, by various rivals, at the time it was brought out it was of enormous industrial importance, since it effected a great cheapening in the price of steel, and led to that material being widely substituted for others which were inferior in almost every respect but that of cost. Bessemer's attention was drawn to the problem of steel manufacture.
Henry Kater - Henry Kater Henry Kater (April 16, 1777 - April 26, 1835), English physicist of German descent, was born at Bristol. At first he purposed to study law; but this he abandoned on his father's death in 1794, and entered the army, obtaining a commission in the 12th regiment of foot, then stationed in India, where he rendered valuable assistance in the great trigonometrical survey. Failing health obliged him to return to England; and in 1808, being then a lieutenant, he entered on a distinguished student career in the senior department of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. Shortly after he was promoted to the rank of captain. In 1814 he retired on half-pay, and devoted the remainder of his life to scientific research. His first important.
Henry H. Rogers - Henry H. Rogers Henry Huttleston Rogers (1840-1909) was born to a working class family in Fairhaven Massachusetts on January 29, 1840. As a teenager. he worked in his father's grocery store, and was in the first graduating class of the local high school. He hired on with the Old Colony Railroad as a brakeman, and saved carefully. In 1861, he pooled his $600 savings with a friend, and set out for western Pennsylvania to the newly discovered oil fields, where he found and developed his fortune, eventually becoming one of the most important men in John Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust. He was married to his childhood sweetheart for over 30 years until her death and had four children. Rogers was an energetic man, and amassed a.
Henry Clay Frick - Henry Clay Frick Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849-December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, philanthropist, and art patron. Born in West Overton, Pennsylvania, he went into business producing coke from coal and was a millionaire by the age of thirty. He was hired by Andrew Carnegie to assure that his steel mills would be adequately supplied with coke. Frick became chairman of the Carnegie Brothers and Company, which became the Carnegie Steel Company. Frick and Carnegie's partnership came to an end over Frick's aggressive anti-labor policies, beginning with actions taken in response to the Homestead Steel Strike, a 1892 labor strike at the Homestead Works of the Carnegie Steel Company. Frick's forcible repression of the strike, using a small army of Pinkertons, resulting in several.
William Henry Barlow - William Henry Barlow William Henry Barlow (1812-1902) was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with railway engineering projects. Born in Charlton in south-east London, the son of an engineer and mathematician (Professor Peter Barlow, who taught at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich), William Barlow grew up close to Woolwich Dockyard and his formative years as an engineer were spent studying with his father and working in the Dockyard’s machinery department. He then spent six years working as an engineer in Constantinople, Turkey, helping build an ordnance factory on behalf of Henry Maudslay’s machine tool company (and working on some lighthouses in the Bosphorus), before returning to take up a post as assistant engineer on the Manchester and Birmingham (London and North-western) Railway.
James Nasmyth - School where he had as a friend Jemmy Patterson, the son of a local iron founder. Being already interested in mechanics he spent much of his time at the foundry and there he gradually learned to work and turn in wood, brass, iron, and steel. In 1820 he left the High School and again made great use of his father's workshop where at the age of 17, he made his first steam engine. Some years later the subject of steam carriages for use on the roads was arousing a lot of interest and in 1828 James made a complete steam carriage that was capable of running a mile carrying 8 passengers. This accomplishment increased his desire to become a mechanical engineer. He had heard of the fame of Henry Maudslay's workshop.
Joseph Whitworth - and at a young age developed an interest in machinery. He worked as a mechanic in Manchester and then in London for Henry Maudslay, Holtzapfel and John Clement. At Clement's workshop he helped with the manufacture of Charles Babbage's calculating machine. He returned to Openshaw, near Manchester, in 1833 to start his own business manufacturing lathes and other machine tools, which were renowned for their high standard of workmanship. He invented a method of producing accurate flat surfacess using three trial surfaces, in 1830. This used engineer's blue and three trial surfaces. This led to an explosion of development of precision instruments using his flat surfaces as a basis for further construction of precise shapes. His next innovation, in 1840, was a measuring technique called "end measurements" that used a precision.
John D. Rockefeller - Rockefeller sold out his share to his partner Clark, paid $72,500 for a larger share in another refinery, and formed the partnership of Rockefeller & Andrews. At about the same time Rockefeller's brother, William, started another refinery. In 1867 Rockefeller & Andrews absorbed this business, and Henry M. Flagler joined the partnership. In 1870 the two Rockefellers, Flagler, Andrews and a refiner named Stephen V. Harkness formed the Standard Oil Company, with John D. Rockefeller as president. Standard Oil gradually gained virtual control of oil production in America. Its business methods, which brought immense wealth to the ownership, were widely and severely criticized. Its growth increased further in 1882, when separate companies were organized in each state; and in later years, as the first great American trust, the Standard Oil Company.
John Collier - John Collier John Henry Collier (May 3, 1901-April 6,1980) was a British-born writer best known for his short stories, many of which appeared in the New Yorker during the thirties, forties and fifties. They were collected a 1951 volume, Fancies and Goodnights, which is still in print. Individual stories are frequently anthologized in fantasy collections. He contributed to the screenplay of The African Queen along with James Agee and John Huston. He received the Edgar Allen Poe Award in 1951 and the International Fantasy Award in 1952. His short story, Evening Primrose was the subject of a 1966 television musical by Stephen Sondheim. His stories may be broadly classified as fantasies, but are really sui generis. They feature an acerbic wit and are usually ironic or dark in tone..
International style (architecture) - most important architects (including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) fled the upcoming Nazi regime in Germany in the 1930s and moved to the United States, which caused the International Style to spread worldwide. The term International Style came from the title of a book by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson, written in 1932. In that same year, the International Exhibition of Modern Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City spread the ideals of the style, making it one of the dominant architectural movements of the mid-20th Century. Architects who worked in the International Style wanted to break with architectural tradition and design simple, unornamented buildings. The most commonly used materials are glass, steel and concrete; floor plans were functional and logical. The style became most manifest in.
Harold Macmillan - of Kennedy. Macmillan also saw the value of a rapproachment with Europe and sought belated entry to the European Economic Community (EEC) as well as exploring the possibility of a European Free Trade Area (EFTA). In terms of the Empire Macmillan continued the divestment of the colonies, his "wind of change" speech (February 1960) indicating his policy. Ghana and Malaya were granted independence in 1957, Nigeria in 1960 and Kenya in 1963. However in the Middle East Macmillan ensured Britain remained a force - intervening over Iraq in 1958 and 1960 as well as becoming involved in Oman. He led the Conservatives to victory in the October 1959 general election, increasing his party's majority from 67 to 107 seats. The election campaign had been based on the economic improvements achieved, the.
Harvest - External Links Track listing 1. Out on the Weekend 2. Harvest 3. A Man needs a Maid 4. Heart of Gold 5. Are You Ready for the Country 6. Old Man 7. There's a World 8. Alabama 9. The Needle and the Damage Done 10. Words (Between the Lines of Age) Personnel The London Symphony Orchestra - Orchestra, Performer Graham Nash - Vocals Linda Ronstadt - Vocals Stephen Stills - Vocals James Taylor - Vocals Neil Young - Guitar, Harmonica, Composer, Vocals, Producer Jack Nitzsche - Guitar, Piano, Arranger, Keyboards, Producer, Slide *Guitar Ben Keith - Guitar, Guitar (Steel), Vocals Joel Bernstein - Photography Kenneth A. Buttrey - Drums David Crosby - Guitar, Vocals Tim Drummond - Bass, Drums John Harris - Piano Henry Lewy - Producer Elliot Mazer - Producer.
History of Europe - the further growth of feudalism, which weakened the Holy Roman Empire and the development of the Roman Catholic Church as a major power. In the following period, Western Christianity was adopted by newly created kingdoms of Central Europe: Poland, Hungary and Bohemia. Later Middle Ages Early signs of the rebirth of civilization in western Europe began to appear in the 11th century as trade started again in Italy, leading to the economic and cultural growth of independent city states such as Venice and Florence; at the same time, nation-states began to take form in places such as France, England and Spain, although the process of their formation (usually marked by rivalry between the monarchy, the aristocratic feudal lords and the church) actually took several centuries. On the other hand, the Holy.
