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Born on November 5th 1850 in Johnstown, Wisconsin, Ella Wheeler was the youngest of four children. She began to write as a child and by the time she graduated was already well known as a poet throughout Wisconsin. Regarded more as a popular poet than a literary poet her most famous work 'Solitude' reflects on a train journey she made where giving comfort to a distressed fellow traveller she wrote how the others grief imposed itself for a time on her 'Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone'. It was published in 1883 and was immensely popular. The following year, 1884, she married Robert Wilcox. They lived for a time in New York before moving to Connecticut. Their only child, a son, died shortly after birth. Here we publish her novel, An Ambitious Man, that shows yet another side of this very talented woman. Ella died of breast cancer on October 30th, 1919.

Visions. --- Parapsychology --- Religion --- Visionaries

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This ground-breaking book is an impressively extensive collection of primary historical sources in various languages that reflect the history of the Roma (formerly referred to as 'Gypsies' in local languages). The selection of the included materials reflects the authentic voice of the Roma them - selves, and presents their visions and the specific goals pursued by the Roma civic emancipation movement. The source materials are published in original and translated in English, and are accompanied by explanatory notes and summarising comments discussing the specific historical realities and their interrelation to the Romani emancipatory movement in Central and Eastern Europe, thus presenting a comprehensive picture of the historical processes.

Roma/Gypsies --- history --- sources --- civic --- emancipation --- activism --- organisations --- visionaries --- Romanies --- Social & cultural history --- Sociology.

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Placing the events in a context larger than just the inquisitorial process, Aspiring Saints sheds new light on the history of religion, the dynamics of gender relations, and the ambiguous boundary between sincerity and pretense in early modern Italy.

Inquisition --- Visionaries --- Holiness --- Discernment of spirits --- Women in the Catholic Church --- Spirits, Discernment of --- Demonology --- Experience (Religion) --- Psychology, Religious --- Holy, The --- Perfection --- Righteousness --- Sanctification --- Persons --- Apparitions --- Visions --- Holy Office --- Autos-da-fé --- History --- Catholic Church --- History of doctrines --- Religious aspects

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"In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his attention to the molecular world as the place where society's future needs could be met using self-replicating nanoscale machines. These modern utopians predicted that their technologies could transform society as humans mastered the ability to create new worlds, undertook atomic-scale engineering, and, if truly successful, overcame their own biological limits. The Visioneers tells the story of how these scientists and the communities they fostered imagined, designed, and popularized speculative technologies such as space colonies and nanotechnologies. Patrick McCray traces how these visioneers blended countercultural ideals with hard science, entrepreneurship, libertarianism, and unbridled optimism about the future. He shows how they built networks that communicated their ideas to writers, politicians, and corporate leaders. But the visioneers were not immune to failure--or to the lures of profit, celebrity, and hype. O'Neill and Drexler faced difficulty funding their work and overcoming colleagues' skepticism, and saw their ideas co-opted and transformed by Timothy Leary, the scriptwriters of Star Trek, and many others. Ultimately, both men struggled to overcome stigma and ostracism as they tried to unshackle their visioneering from pejorative labels like "fringe" and "pseudoscience." The Visioneers provides a balanced look at the successes and pitfalls they encountered. The book exposes the dangers of promotion--oversimplification, misuse, and misunderstanding--that can plague exploratory science. But above all, it highlights the importance of radical new ideas that inspire us to support cutting-edge research into tomorrow's technologies"--

Visionaries --- Science --- Science and civilization --- Technological innovations --- Visionnaires --- Sciences --- Sciences et civilisation --- Innovations --- History. --- Philosophy --- Forecasting --- Social aspects --- Histoire --- Philosophie --- Prévision --- Aspect social --- Visionaries. --- Persons --- Apparitions --- Visions --- American culture. --- Eric Drexler. --- Gerard O'Neill. --- K. Eric Drexler. --- Omni magazine. --- asteroids. --- atomic-scale engineering. --- biotechnology. --- countercultural ideals. --- cutting-edge research. --- existential crisis. --- exploration. --- exploratory science. --- future technology. --- human settlement. --- lunar factory. --- microelectronics. --- nanotechnology. --- pseudoscience. --- science. --- solar sails. --- space colonies. --- space colony. --- space settlement. --- space settlements. --- technology. --- visioneering.

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Visions were highly popular in the late Middle Ages, whether preached as vivid stories from the pulpit, illuminated in saint-filled manuscripts, or experienced during the breathless anticipation of a Mass or eerie darkness of a Yorkshire graveyard. This volume is the first to map out the wide range of vision types in late medieval English lay piety. Analyzing 1000 visionary accounts gathered from sermon and exempla collections, religious devotional works, saints’ legends, and lay stories, it explores five central dynamics of spirituality that visions shaped and sustained: Transactions of Satisfaction (visits to and from purgatory and hell), Reciprocated Devotion (visitations of the saints), Spiritual Warfare (attacks by demons), Supra-Sacramental Sight (Mass and Passion sightings), and Mediated Revelation (prophetic visions).

Visions --- Spirituality --- Spiritual warfare --- Church history --- History --- History of doctrines --- Christian special devotions --- anno 1200-1499 --- Great Britain --- 248.213 --- 248.213 Visioenen --- Visioenen --- Christianity --- Spiritual battle --- Warfare, Spiritual --- Spiritual life --- Demonology --- Spiritual-mindedness --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Parapsychology --- Visionaries --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- England --- Spiritualité --- Combat spirituel --- Eglise --- Histoire des doctrines --- Histoire --- Angleterre --- Histoire religieuse --- Visions - History - To 1500 --- Spirituality - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Spiritual warfare - History - To 1500 --- Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500