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A Sufi and a Killer

Allmusic's Jason Lymangrover gave the album four stars out of five, describing it as "weird, ‘60s-rooted, psychedelic hip-hop", sounding "like if J. Dilla produced George Clinton after visiting with the Dalai Lama, or if Dan the Automator recorded Cody Chesnutt after the two shared a plate of magic mushrooms", and calling it "truly visionary".

Acacia floribunda

The Mature Inner Bark of this species contains the compound NN-Dimethyltryptamine (0.4%) and other substituted Tryptamines that are components of the South American visionary medicine Ayahuasca.

Albert A. Rollestone

There is no evidence that Mr. Rollestone ever visited Persia or even met the visionary President of Alborz College, Presbyterian missionary Dr. Samuel M. Jordan.

Alec Wilkinson

Apology," (2003), "The Happiest Man in the World," (2007), the latter about Poppa Neutrino, the only man to cross the Atlantic in a raft made of trash, and "The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger," (2009). His most recent book is "The Ice Balloon," (2012), the account of the Swedish visionary aeronaut S.A. Andree's attempt, in 1897, to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon.

American Visionary Art Museum

The founder and director of the AVAM is Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, who while working in the development department of Sinai Hospital’s (Baltimore) People Encouraging People (a program geared toward aiding psychiatric patients in their return to the community) began to develop the idea for a visionary museum, an idea that eventually blossomed into the American Visionary Art Museum, or AVAM.

Catherine Fitzmaurice

The January 2010 issue of American Theatre magazine (published by the Theatre Communications Group) calls Fitzmaurice one of "the great lions of the field of voice work in the U.S." and one of the "visionary innovators in the craft" of voice training for actors.

Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits

Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic is a study of the beliefs regarding witchcraft and magic in Early Modern Britain written by the British historian Emma Wilby.

Daniel Fish

In January 2011, Fish directed an adaptation of Nicholas Ray's film Bigger Than Life, entitled Tom Ryan Thinks He's James Mason Starring in a Movie By Nicholas Ray in which a Man's Illness Provides an Escape from the Pain, Pressure and Loneliness of Trying to be the Ultimate American Father, Only to Drive Him Further Into the More Thrilling Though Possibly Lonelier Roles of Addict and Misunderstood Visionary.

Danny Fingeroth

From there, Fingeroth served as senior vice president for creative development at Visionary Media, home of Showtime's WhirlGirl, for which he served as story editor.

Darcy Ribeiro

During the first mandate of governor Leonel Brizola in Rio de Janeiro (state) (1983–1987), Darcy Ribeiro created, planned and directed the implementation of the Integrated Centres for Public Instruction (Centros Integrados de Ensino Público), a visionary and revolutionary pedagogical project of assistance for children, including recreational and cultural activities beyond formal instruction – making concrete the projects envisioned decades earlier by Anísio Teixeira.

David A. Wallace

By 1980, with the opening of developer and urban visionary James Rouse's "festival marketplaces" of "Harborplace" by his Rouse Company along the now decade-old waterfront promenade, which was modeled after Boston's restoration/renovation project at the old 18th Century "Faneuil Hall" and "Quincy Market", became the urban success story of the 1980s and 90's in America, hailed in magazines, tourist brochures and travel conventions everywhere.

Difficult Women

The show contains over four hours of material on visionary women such as Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Frida Kahlo, Memphis Minnie, Sonya Tolstoi, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Camille Claudel, Katherine Mansfield and Louisa Lawson.

Eugenia Elisabetta Ravasio

Mother Eugenia Elisabetta Ravasio (San Gervasio d’Adda, 4 September 1907 – 10 August 1990) was an Italian nun, visionary and mystic, from the Roman Catholic Church.

Fantastic Art Centre

# To collect books, exhibition catalogues, press cuttings, photographs and slides of artwork, CD ROMs, video tapes, posters, reproductions, printed ephemera, etc. on all the artists from the Renaissance to the present who have worked in the fantastic/surreal/visionary vein.

Farook College

The saga of Farook College begins in the early 1940s, in the obscure Anakkayam village in Malappuram District, where a visionary ruminated on ways and means of spreading the light of knowledge among the members of his community who were floundering in the darkness of ignorance.

Geno Baroni

In the words of Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-OH, Baroni was a "visionary and crusader whose concern was always human development."

Henri Alekan

A new generation of directors appreciated his visionary style, and he worked with Wim Wenders on The State Of Things and Wings of Desire and Raúl Ruiz on The Territory and On Top of the Whale.

Henry Draper Medal

The medal was most recently awarded in 2013 to William J. Borucki "For his founding concept, unflagging advocacy, and visionary leadership during the development of NASA's Kepler mission, which has uncovered myriad planets and solar systems with unforeseen and surprising properties.".

Hollin Hills

It has approximately 450 houses conceived and built by the visionary builder Robert C. Davenport, and designed by D.C.-based architect Charles M. Goodman (who also designed the Washington National Airport) and landscape architect Dan Kiley.

Imbas forosnai

In Old Irish, Imbas imeans "inspiration," and specifically refers to the sacred poetic inspiration believed to be possessed by the fili (Old Irish: inspired, visionary poets) in Early Ireland.

Institute of General Semantics

Every year since 1952, it has sponsored the Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture, with presenters from a broad range of disciplines, from science to medicine to entertainment, including names like actor Steve Allen, psychologist Albert Ellis, scientist and visionary R. Buckminster Fuller, linguist Allen Walker Read, and philosopher F. S. C. Northrop.

Internet Marketing Consultants, Inc.

was a consulting and web development company founded in 1995 by Internet entrepreneur and visionary Ivan J. Parron in Miami, Florida.

Israel Film Festival

On October 20, 2010, IFF Awards were presented to Richard Dreyfuss (Career Achievement Award), Ryan Kavanaugh (Outstanding Achievement in Film Award), Jon Landau (Visionary Award) and Avi Lerner (Lifetime Achievement Award).

James Siena

He was impressed by the “very independent, visionary spirit” of Alan Saret, who took him to the scrap yard and taught him about working with metal.

Kerissa Fare

Author Erik Davis wrote in his book The Visionary State: A Journey Through California's Spiritual Landscape that Fare became involved with a group run by Glenn and Justin Helzer called Transform America.

Margaret D. Lowman

Girls, Inc. Visionary Award for Public Science & Education Outreach, 2000

Martin Nisenholtz

His 2003 keynote speech at the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) provided the inspiration for Robin Sloan and Matt Thomson to create their visionary short film EPIC 2014.

Martina Violetta Jung

Martina Violetta Jung (born 1963 in Wülfrath, Germany) is a visionary business woman, writer and speaker active across Europe.

MetroTech Center

Two pieces called Alligator and Visionary are part of the Commons' permanent public art collection by the well-known sculptor Tom Otterness.

Michele Cassou

"Michele Cassou is catalytic visionary: a fuse lighter who sends people rocketing into their creativity."- Julia Cameron.

Negin Farsad

In 2008, Queen Rania of Jordan commissioned a video from Farsad as part of a web series to combat Middle Eastern stereotypes – this series later won the first ever YouTube Visionary Award.

Nettur P. Damodaran

He did his early schooling from Mannayad school and Middle school, Illicoon in Nettur which was established by the legendary visionary and philanthropist Hermann Gundert.

Pendley Open Air Shakespeare Festival

Director of Drama at Reigate Grammar School, she is also an excellent director of Shakespeare; visionary and dramatic.

Petra Kelly

Kelly was positioned between the tropical ecologist Mike Hands and the national parks visionary John Dower.

Radio Mindanao Network

In 1962, RMN's approach to broadcasting drew the interest of another visionary business leader, the late Andres Soriano Sr. of San Miguel Corporation who eventually bought the majority shares of RMN and brought the radio network to Manila, the first provincial station to do so.

Ruairí McKiernan

He is a recipient of a Social Entrepreneurs Ireland award, an Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Award, and a Junior Chambers Ireland award.

Silence Is Madness

The cover watercolor illustration was created by American Visionary artist Don Swartzentruber.

Sky City 1000

Sky City 1000 is a visionary (i.e. not proposed/intended to be built) supertall skyscraper in the Tokyo metropolitan area, Japan announced in 1989 during the height of the Japanese asset price bubble.

Ștefan Kovács

Journalists of France Football asked him when he arrived how long it would take to make the France team a great team, he replied visionary with structures in eight years, ten years, we can make a good national team. Michel Hidalgo, his deputy and successor, took advantage of this work and continued to lead the team of France to its victory at Euro 84.

The Night Battles

The English translation included a foreword by the prominent English historian Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012), in which he argued that the "real interest in Ginzburg's extremely interesting book" lay not in its discussion of shamanistic visionary traditions, but in its study of how the Roman Catholic Church intervened in "traditional peasant practices" and warped them to fit their own ideas about witchcraft.

Virginia Ironside

She is the daughter of painter and coin designer Christopher Ironside and fashion designer and the first-ever professor of fashion design at the Royal College of Art Janey Acheson, and the niece of the visionary painter and designer Robin Ironside.

Visionary Entertainment Studios Inc

Visionary Entertainment Studios Inc (or VESI) is an American roleplaying games company located in Powder Springs, Georgia.

Yavuz Bingöl

His 2008 films made both great success: Three Monkeys premiered in competition at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, where its director Nuri Bilge Ceylan won the Award for Best Director and White Angel won the Special Jury Award and International Visionary Prize at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival.

Zoltan Istvan

He is best known for his controversial novel, The Transhumanist Wager, a #1 bestseller in both Philosophy and Science Fiction Visionary and Metaphysical on Amazon.


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