A ghost is an alleged non-corporeal manifestation of a dead person (or, rarely, an animal). It is often thought to be the spirit or soul of a person who has remained on Earth after death. According to some beliefs, a ghost may be the personality of a person after his or her death, and not tied directly to the soul or spirit. Every culture in the world carries stories about ghosts, but they vary across time and place, with disagreements both as to what ghosts are and whether they are just f ...

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• Ghost - Beliefs about ghosts
• Ghost - Skeptical analysis
• Ghost - Famous ghosts
• Ghost - Ghosts in fiction
• Ghost - Ghost messengers
• Ghost - Ghost stories
• Ghost - Other uses of ghosts in fiction

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Ghost, Ghost - Beliefs about ghosts, Ghost - Skeptical analysis, Ghost - Famous ghosts, Ghost - Ghosts in fiction, Ghost - Ghost messengers, Ghost - Ghost stories, Ghost - Other uses of ghosts in fiction

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Ghost - Ghost messengers. A popular genre of literature from the early Renaissance to the early twentieth century was the Dialogues of the Dead. These were based upon the Witch of Endor story and the visions of Hades found in both Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid. In Odyssey, Odysseus travels to Hades and sees the shades of his former colleagues, including some he did not know were dead, and pours out fresh blood, which the dead hunger for, until he can find Tiresias and get ...

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Casper the Friendly Ghost is the main character of the Famous Studios theatrical animated cartoon series of the same name. As his name indicates, he is a ghost, but is quite personable. Casper was created by Joe Oriolo, an employee of Paramount Pictures' Famous Studios animation division. Oriolo had originally intended the character to appear in a children's storybook he was writing, ...

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A poltergeist (German for rumbling ghost) is widely believed to be an invisible ghost that interacts with others by moving and influencing inanimate objects. Stories featuring poltergeists typically focus heavily on raps, thumps, knocks, footsteps, and bed-shaking, all without a discernable point of origin. Many stories detail objects being thrown about the room, furniture being moved, and even people being levitated. A few poltergeist ...

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• Poltergeist - Poltergeists in fiction

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A ship is a large, sea-going watercraft, sometimes with multiple decks. A ship usually has sufficient size to carry its own boats, such as lifeboats, dinghies, or runabouts. A rule of thumb saying (though it doesn't always apply) goes: "a boat can fit on a ship, but a ship can't fit on a boat". Often local law and regulation will define the exact size (or the number of masts) which a boat requires to become a ship. (Note that one refers ...

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• Ship - Measuring ships
• Ship - Propulsion
• Ship - General terminology
• Ship - Shipboard terminology
• Ship - Some types of ships and boats
• Ship - Some historical types of ships and boats
• Ship - Quotations

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Yoko Kanno (菅野 よう子 Kanno Yōko, born March 19, 1964 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan) is a famous composer and keyboardist known for her performances and musical scores in anime titles. Yoko Kanno - Biography. Some of her most famous soundtrack themes include "Voices" (Macross Plus), "Tank!" (Cowboy Bebop), "Yakusoku wa Iranai" (Escaflowne), "Gravity" (Wolf's Rain), and "Inner Universe" (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex). She was the lead member of a ban ...

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• Yoko Kanno - Film works
• Yoko Kanno - Video games
• Yoko Kanno - Hired vocalists

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Built in 1863, Borley Rectory in the village of Borley, Essex, United Kingdom, has the reputation of being "the most haunted house in England". The house was destroyed by fire in 1939, but it remains a source of controversy. Borley Rectory - History. Borley Rectory was constructed near Borley Church by its rector, the Reverend Henry Dawson Ellis Bull in 1863, a year after being named rector of the church. The building was a large brick home that replaced the rather earlier Georgian Rectory built for ...

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• Borley Rectory - History
• Borley Rectory - Hauntings
• Borley Rectory - External link

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William Halse Rivers Rivers (March 12, 1864 - 4 June 1922) was an English anthropologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work with shell-shocked soldiers during World War I. Rivers' most famous patient was the poet Siegfried Sassoon. He is also famous for his participation in the Torres Straits expedition of 1898, and his consequent seminal work on the subject of kinship. Rivers was born in 1864 in Kent, and studied medicine, later developing an interest in psychology. He taught at the University of Cambridge and joined th ...

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Winston Rodney (born March 1, 1948) a.k.a. Burning Spear is a Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician. Like many famous Jamaican reggae artists, Burning Spear is known for his rastafarian messages. Burning Spear was born in St. Ann's Bay, St. Ann, Jamaica, as was Bob Marley and Marcus Mosiah Garvey; both who had an great influence on Burning Spear's life. Garvey in his philosophy, which Burning Spear greatly took to, and Marley in directly help ...

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The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last major armed conflict between the Great Sioux Nation and the United States of America, and was later described as a "massacre" in a letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. [1] On December 29, 1890, the cavalry troops of the U.S. 7th Cavalry opened fire, also using four Hotchkiss guns (capable of firing two pound explosive shells, fifty times per minute), against a surrounded encampment of Minneconjou Lakota Sioux, while cavalry troops were disarming them. Since the very thorough disarmament ...

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• Wounded Knee Massacre - Prelude to the Incident
• Wounded Knee Massacre - The Massacre
• Wounded Knee Massacre - The Aftermath
• Wounded Knee Massacre - Last armed conflict?

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Linji Yixuan (臨済義玄; also Romanized (Wade-Giles) Lin-chi I-hsüan; Japanese: Rinzai Gigen) (? - 866) was the founder of the Linji school of Chan Buddhism during Tang Dynasty China. Linji was born into a family named Hsing in Ts'ao-chou (modern Heze in Shandong), which he left at a young age to study Buddhism in many places. Linji was trained and enlightened by the Chan master Huang-Po Hsi-yun. Linji's own teaching was greatly inspired by his master's, and was characterized by abrupt, harsh encounters with students, aiming to bring about the moment of enlightenment. His methods included shoutin ...

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Ubisoft Entertainment (formerly Ubi Soft) is a computer and video game publisher and developer headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has facilities in over 20 countries, including development studios in Montreal, Canada; Barcelona, Catalonia; North Carolina; Düsseldorf, Germany; and Milan, Italy, amongst other locations. As of 2004, it is the third-largest independent video game publisher in Europe, and the seventh largest in the US. The "Ubi" in Ubisoft is sometimes pronounced [juːbi] or more often [u'bi], however i ...

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Amityville is a village located in Suffolk County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 9,441. It is best known for being the setting of the best selling book and popular movie The Amityville Horror, which is purportedly based on the real-life mass murder of the DeFeo family in 1974 at 112 Ocean Avenue. The address was since changed to "108 Ocean Avenue" in order to avoid ghost hunters and demonologists attracted by the book's ghost story. The house in question was renovated. A remake of Th ...

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This article discusses textual hermeneutics. For the British est offshoot, see Exegesis (group) Exegesis (from the Greek ἐξηγεῖσθαι 'to lead out') involves an extensive and critical interpretation of a text, especially of a holy scripture, such as of the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, the Qur'an, etc. An exegete is a practitioner of this scien ...

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• Exegesis - In Christianity
• Exegesis - Roman Catholic traditions
• Exegesis - Protestant traditions
• Exegesis - In Judaism
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In addition to using new technologies, Ghosts can be augmented using terrazine gas, part of General Horace Warfield's Project Shadow Blade. While the specifics of exposure to the gas are unknown, it is known to create a genetic mutation in psychics, such as Ghosts. These Ghosts are transformed into Spectres - shadowy superhuman beings bent on executing the will of their true master. ...

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Terran Ghost, Terran Ghost - Ghost Training, Terran Ghost - Game Unit, Terran Ghost - Ghosts in StarCraft: Ghost, Terran Ghost - Famous Ghosts

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Ghosts are issued with a Hostile Environment Suit with a cloaking device powered by a personal Moebius fusion reactor and psionic powers (which stimulate receptors in the Ghost's suit). A Ghost can attack while invisible. While it is difficult to detect an invisible (cloaked) Ghost, it is possible. Ghosts are also issued a C10 25 mm canister rifle. In addition to powerful, long-ranged anti-personnel rounds, it can fire a number of specialized grenades and missiles, such as the lockdown missile. This special missile can shut down machi ...

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Terran Ghost, Terran Ghost - Ghost Training, Terran Ghost - Game Unit, Terran Ghost - Ghosts in StarCraft: Ghost, Terran Ghost - Famous Ghosts

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The Terran Confederacy decided to limit Ghosts through at least four methods - a psi-dampener, also known as a neuro-adjuster (which can be set to also suppress or reshape a Ghost's memory) which weakens their psionic powers, neural processing treatments which also weaken their powers, aggression inhibitors (which prevent a Ghost from attacking his/her superior officers) and Ghost conditioning, a powerful form of hypnosis which restricts the use of their psionic abilities. This conditioning was so powerful that after Sarah Kerrigan was infested, she d ...

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Terran Ghost, Terran Ghost - Ghost Training, Terran Ghost - Game Unit, Terran Ghost - Ghosts in StarCraft: Ghost, Terran Ghost - Famous Ghosts

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WHRB was one of first college radio stations, initially signing on the "air" (closed-circuit AM distributed through the campus electrical system) on December 2, 1940. After acquiring funding from The Harvard Crimson the station's first call sign was WHCN (Harvard Crimson Network). It broke from the Crimson in 1943 and adopted the call sign WHRV (Harvard Radio Voice). Harvard Radio Broadcasting Co., Inc., the non-profit corporation that owns the station, was formed February 1, 1951, an ...

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WHRB, WHRB - History, WHRB - Programming, WHRB - Famous ghosts

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WHRB is a confederacy of on-air departments, each with its own staff, training requirements, and allocation of airtime. During the academic year, the station publishes detailed bimonthly program guides, describing its regular programming as well as the Orgy® periods that end each semester in January and May. Orgies® are consecutive presentations of the entire musical output of composers, record labels, or genres, sometimes running 24 hours a day for a solid week or more. Station legend has it that these began when an exuberant under ...

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WHRB, WHRB - History, WHRB - Programming, WHRB - Famous ghosts

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