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61Altered state of consciousness — An altered state of consciousness (ASC),[1] also named altered state of mind, is any condition which is significantly different from a normal waking beta wave state. The expression was used as early as 1966 by Arnold M. Ludwig[2] and brought into …
62Kaloyan of Bulgaria — Infobox Monarch | name =Kaloyan the Romanslayer Калоян Ромеоубиец title =Tsar of Bulgaria caption =Kaloyan s ring seal, found in the SS. Forty Martyrs Church in Veliko Tarnovo reign =1197 ndash;1207 coronation = predecessor =Peter IV successor… …
63Bathtub hoax — The bathtub hoax was a famous hoax or practical joke perpetrated by the American journalist H. L. Mencken, involving the publication of a fictitious history of the bathtub. On December 28, 1917, an article titled “A Neglected Anniversary” by H. L …
64Standard Cantonese — is the standard variant of the Cantonese (Yuet) language. It is spoken natively in and around the cities of Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macau in Southern China. Standard Cantonese is the de facto official language of Hong Kong and Macau, and a… …
65History of LSD — The psychedelic drug/entheogen LSD was first synthesized by the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in the Sandoz (now Novartis) laboratories in Basel, Switzerland in 1938. It was not until 5 years later on April 16, 1943, that the psychedelic… …
66Dave Van Ronk — at 1963 Newport Folk Festival; Photo © John Byrne Cooke Background information Born June 30, 1936( …
67Harpocration — Valerius Harpocration was a Greek grammarian of Alexandria, probably working in the 2nd century CE. He is possibly the Harpocration mentioned by Julius Capitolinus ( Life of Verus , 2) as the Greek tutor of Lucius Verus (2nd century AD); some… …
68Agehananda Bharati — (अगेहानन्द भारती) (Vienna, April 20 1923 – New York, May 14 1991) was the monastic name of Leopold Fischer, professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University for over 30 years. He was a respected academic Sanskritist, a prolific writer on… …
69Religious experience — For the Wayne Proudfoot book, see Religious Experience (book). Religious experience (sometimes known as a spiritual experience, sacred experience, or mystical experience) is a subjective experience in which an individual reports contact with a… …
70Indo-Hittite — In Indo European linguistics, the term Indo Hittite (also Indo Anatolian) refers to Sturtevant s 1926 hypothesis that the Anatolian languages may have split off the Proto Indo European language considerably earlier than the separation of the… …
