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1707 in Great Britain

John Oldmixon, The Muses Mercury; or, The Monthly Miscellany, a periodical published monthly from January of this year to January 1708

2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromoamphetamine

The misrepresentation as LSD has been described by the periodical "High Times," helping some users to identify what they are actually taking.

Arno C. Gaebelein

He also was the editor of Our Hope, a Christian periodical, for a number of years, and was a close assistant to Dr. C. I. Scofield on his monumental work, the Scofield Reference Bible.

Arthur's Lady's Home Magazine

Arthur's Home Magazine (1852-ca.1898) or Ladies' Home Magazine was an American periodical published in Philadelphia by Timothy Shay Arthur.

Bridget Cleary

The writer E. F. Benson took a considerable interest in the case, publishing a scholarly commentary on it, "The Recent 'Witch-Burning at Clonmel'", in the influential periodical The Nineteenth Century in June 1895, before the trial itself began.

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

The following year, the Literary Society began issuing the Periodical Journal, its official publication, and in 1871 elected its first honorary member - Gavril Krastevich.

Bulletin international du mouvement syndicaliste

Bulletin international du mouvement syndicaliste (English: International Bulletin of the Syndicalist Movement) was a syndicalist periodical published from 1907 by Christiaan Cornelissen and from 1913 by the International Syndicalist Bureau in Amsterdam.

Caijing

Other reasons for Caijing's success are, according to Periodical China, the semi-official background of the investors, the news principles of Hu Shuli, her leadership and social networks, the separation of editorial staff and management, guaranteed funding, and focus on editorial integrity and planning.

Checkpoint Charlie Museum

Our exhibits include: The Charta 77 typewriter, the hectograph of the illegal periodical “Umweltblätter” (“Environmental Pages”), Mahatma Gandhi’s diary and sandals and from Elena Bonner the death mask of her partner Andrei Sakharov.

Chief Parker

Following the 1959 death of actor George Reeves and the cancellation of the Adventures of Superman television series, DC Comics (then known as National Periodical Publications) and the producers of the TV show decided to launch a new series about the hero's teenage exploits in Smallville.

Culture in the People's Republic of Poland

Similar roles were played by the Paris-based periodical "Kultura" and a number of similar publications.

Darien Graham-Smith

Dr Graham-Smith holds the title of Technical Editor at the British periodical PC Pro, published monthly by Dennis Publishing, where he is responsible for coverage of technical issues ranging from microprocessor architecture to operating systems.

David Meir Frisch

•Leiter, Rabbi Moshe “The Gaon Rabbi David Meir Frisch, of Blessed Memory”, HaDarom (rabbinic periodical), Israel, 1968–1969, 28-29 (Hebrew).

Essex Hemphill

His poetry has been published widely in journals, and his essays have appeared in High Performance, Gay Community News, RFD Magazine, The Advocate, Pyramid Periodical, Essence, and others.

F. Holland Day

The firm was the American publisher of Oscar Wilde's Salomé, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley; The Yellow Book periodical, also illustrated by Beardsley; and The Black Riders and Other Lines by Stephen Crane.

Frederic Will

Texas Institute of Letters and New York Quarterly awards for poetry, periodical prose, and translation (1960–70)

Genesee

The Genesee Farmer was an agriculture and horticulture periodical established in 1831

Giovanni Raboni

He met in Milan Vittorio Sereni, Antonio Porta, Giovanni Testori, Giorgio Strehler and began working for periodical and newspapers, at first in the editorial staff of Aut aut, a magazine edited by Enzo Paci, then writing for Piergiorgio Bellocchio's Quaderni Piacentini and Roberto Longhi's Paragone and finally for Corriere della Sera for which worked several years.

Giuseppe Branzoli

Giuseppe Branzoli (born Cento 1835, died in Rome January 21, 1909) was a violinist, mandolinist, composer, author, educator at the Liceo Musicale di St. Cecilia in Rome, and the founder of the periodical IL mandolin Romano.

Idris Davies

Before his first book was published in 1938, Davies' work appeared in the Western Mail, the Merthyr Express, the Daily Herald, the Left Review and Comment (a weekly periodical of poetry, criticism and short stories, edited by Victor Neuburg and Sheila Macleod).

Ignaz Kuranda

With the assistance of Minister Nothomb and the author Hendrik Conscience he founded in 1841 the periodical Die Grenzboten; but on account of the obstacles which the Prussian government placed in the way of its circulation in Germany, Kuranda removed the headquarters of the paper to Leipzig, where it soon became an important factor in Austrian politics.

International Standard Number

International Standard Serial Number, a unique eight-digit number used to identify a print or electronic periodical publication

Isaac Errett

He was elected president of Alliance College in 1868, but soon resigned, and established himself in Cincinnati, where he continued the publication of the Christian Standard which became the foremost weekly periodical of his church.

Joseph Ebsworth

In 1828 he opened an "English and foreign dramatic library and caricature repository" at 23 Elm Row, at the head of Leith Walk, Edinburgh, and for fifteen years maintained it successfully as the main bookseller's shop for periodical literature.

Joseph Robertson

Joseph Clinton Robertson (c.1787–1852), pseudonym Sholto Percy, Scottish patent agent and periodical editor

Journal of Historical Review

The Journal of Historical Review is a non-peer reviewed serial, periodical, or journal published by the Institute for Historical Review in Torrance, California.

Julius Sterling Morton

He also began publishing a weekly periodical, The Conservative. Morton died on April 27, 1902 in Lake Forest, Illinois, where he was seeking medical treatment; his wife, Caroline, had died two decades earlier, in June 1881.

K. Sukumaran

K. Sukumaran was born on 8 January 1903 to great reformer, thinker and socio-cultural leader C.V. Kunhiraman and Kunjikavu in Mayyanad of Kollam District who established Kerala Kaumudi as a periodical in 1911.

Karl Andree

In 1862 he founded the important geographical periodical Globus.

Le Débat

Le Débat is a bi-monthly French periodical founded in 1980 by Pierre Nora and Marcel Gauchet.

Miklós Mitrovits

Mitrovits also writes studies, essays and articles for the main Hungarian periodical (for example: Múltunk en: Our Past), weekly (Élet és Irodalom) and quarterly (Eszmélet).

Motor variable

At the National University of La Plata in 1935, J.C. Vignaux, an expert in convergence of infinite series, contributed four articles on the motor variable to the university’s annual periodical.

Noah Worcester

Three years later, in 1813 he accepted an invitation to edit the The Christian Disciple, a Boston-based periodical founded by the eminent Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing and others, and moved to Brighton, Massachusetts.

Norsk Retstidende

Norsk Retstidende (Rt.) is a periodical published by the Norwegian Bar Association.

Puente de los Peligros

The project was a success as it became the first permanent bridge in the history of Murcia that spanning the Segura could endure seamlessly the periodical river floods, including the great flood of Santa Teresa of 1879.

R. P. Weston

The actor and singer Roy Hudd created a stage show based on the songs of Robert Weston and Bert Lee (Just a Verse and a Chorus) and wrote the only authoritative article of any length about Weston and Lee in a now defunct periodical, Theatrephile (Volume 2 No. 6), in 1985.

Richard Katz

While working in this position, Katz founded the Green Post, a periodical which very quickly reached a circulation of over one million.

Royal American

Royal American Magazine (The Royal American Magazine, or Universal Repository of Instruction and Amusement), (January 1774 - March 1775), a short-lived monthly periodical published in Boston, Massachusetts

Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

In the March 2009 issue of Council’s popular scientific periodical “Bilim ve Teknik”, the initially planned cover story commemorating the 200th Birthday of Charles Darwin was retracted after a last minute decision by the board of directors proclaimed as the result of missing links in editorial processes and procedures.

Scottish League for the Taxation of Land Values

The Scottish League was one-time proprietor (1904–1907) of the modern periodical Land&Liberty, published then under the title Land Values.

Simon J. Simonian

:For Lebanese-Armenian intellectual, writer, and teacher, founder of the literary Armenian periodical Spurk, see Simon Simonian

South Texas College of Law

South Texas College of Law publishes several student-edited journals of legal scholarship, including Corporate Counsel Review, Currents: International Trade Law Journal, and South Texas Law Review.

SS-Leitheft

The periodical's spiritual leader was Dr. Franz Riedweg, a Swiss physician who had joined the SS and become the head of Germanic Volunteer Recruiting, a division of the Berlin Main SS-Office.

The Ladies' Repository

The Ladies' Repository was a monthly periodical based in Cincinnati and produced by members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

The Linking Ring

'"Potter's Bar'", a series of columns by Jack Potter (d.1978), giving bibliographic references to periodical and book descriptions of magical effects.

Theo Marzials

Other poems by Marzials featured in the Yellow Book, an important literary periodical of the late 19th century.

Transmutation of species

Other names for evolutionary ideas used in this period include the development hypothesis (one of the terms used by Darwin) and the theory of regular gradation, used by William Chilton in the periodical press such as The Oracle of Reason.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Henry Nelson Coleridge, William Sidney Walker, and John Moultrie were the three best known of his collaborators on this periodical, which was published by Charles Knight, and of which details are given in Knight's Autobiography and in Henry Maxwell Lyte's Eton College.

Zev Hirsch Bernstein

Zev Hirsch Bernstein (1847, Kudirkos Naumiestis, Suwalki Province, Poland – 1907, Tannersville, New York) was the author and compiler of the Hatsofe B'Erez Hachadosho, the first Hebrew periodical in the United States.


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