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48 relations: Abolitionism in the United States, Academy of Music (New York City), Amy and Isaac Post, Arcadia, New York, Arthur Conan Doyle, Boston Courier, Brooklyn, C. E. M. Hansel, Catholic Church, Charles Grafton Page, David S. Reynolds, Elisha Kane, George Bancroft, Harry Houdini, Haunted house, Horace Greeley, James Fenimore Cooper, Joe Nickell, John Wiley & Sons, Leonard Zusne, Lily Dale, New York, Macmillan Publishers, McFarland & Company, Mediumship, Methuen Publishing, Nathaniel Parker Willis, New York World, New-York Tribune, Newark, New York, Parapsychology, Paul Kurtz, Quakers, Richard Wiseman, Séance, Scientific control, Seybert Commission, Sojourner Truth, Spiritualism, Stuart Cumberland, Temperance movement, The Boston Journal, University at Buffalo, Wayne County, New York, William Benjamin Carpenter, William Crookes, William Cullen Bryant, William Lloyd Garrison, Women's suffrage.
Abolitionism in the United States
Abolitionism in the United States was the movement before and during the American Civil War to end slavery in the United States.
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Academy of Music (New York City)
The Academy of Music was a New York City opera house, located on the northeast corner of East 14th Street and Irving Place in Manhattan.
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Amy and Isaac Post
Isaac and Amy Post, were radical Hicksite Quakers from Rochester, New York, involved in the struggles for abolitionism and women's rights.
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Arcadia, New York
Arcadia is a town in Wayne County, New York, United States.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.
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Boston Courier
The Boston Courier was an American newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017.
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C. E. M. Hansel
Charles Edward Mark Hansel (12 October 1917 – 28 March 2011) was a British psychologist most notable for his criticism of parapsychological studies.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.
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Charles Grafton Page
Charles Grafton Page (in Salem, Massachusetts January 25, 1812 – May 5, 1868 in Washington, D.C.) was an American electrical experimenter and inventor, physician, patent examiner, patent advocate, and professor of chemistry.
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David S. Reynolds
David S. Reynolds (born 1948) is an American literary critic, biographer, and historian noted for his writings on American literature and culture.
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Elisha Kane
Elisha Kent Kane (February 28, 1820 – February 16, 1857) was an American explorer, and a medical officer in the United States Navy during the first half of the 19th century.
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George Bancroft
George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 – January 17, 1891) was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state, at the national and international level.
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Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini (born Erik Weisz, later Ehrich Weiss or Harry Weiss; March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-born American illusionist and stunt performer, noted for his sensational escape acts.
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Haunted house
A haunted house or ghosthouse is a house or other building often perceived as being inhabited by disembodied spirits of the deceased who may have been former residents or were familiar with the property.
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Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American author, statesman, founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time.
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James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century.
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Joe Nickell
Joe Nickell (born December 1, 1944) is an American prominent skeptic and investigator of the paranormal.
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John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing.
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Leonard Zusne
Leonard Zusne (1924-2003) was an American psychologist.
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Lily Dale, New York
Lily Dale was incorporated in 1879 as Cassadaga Lake Free Association, a camp and meeting place for Spiritualists and Freethinkers.
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Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers Ltd (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group) is an international publishing company owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.
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McFarland & Company
McFarland & Company, Inc. is an independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general interest adult nonfiction.
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Mediumship
Mediumship is the practice of certain people—known as mediums—to purportedly mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings.
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Methuen Publishing
Methuen Publishing Ltd is an English publishing house.
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Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nathaniel Parker Willis (January 20, 1806 – January 20, 1867), also known as N. P. Willis,Baker, 3 was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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New York World
The New York World was a newspaper published in New York City from 1860 until 1931.
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New-York Tribune
The New-York Tribune was an American newspaper, first established in 1841 by editor Horace Greeley (1811–1872).
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Newark, New York
Newark is a village in Wayne County, New York, U.S., south east of Rochester and west of Syracuse.
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Parapsychology
Parapsychology is the study of paranormal and psychic phenomena which include telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, near-death experiences, reincarnation, apparitional experiences, and other paranormal claims.
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Paul Kurtz
Paul Kurtz (December 21, 1925 – October 20, 2012) was a prominent American scientific skeptic and secular humanist.
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Quakers
Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.
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Richard Wiseman
Richard J. Wiseman (born 1966) is a Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.
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Séance
A séance or seance is an attempt to communicate with spirits.
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Scientific control
A scientific control is an experiment or observation designed to minimize the effects of variables other than the independent variable.
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Seybert Commission
The Seybert Commission was a group of faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania who in 1884–1887 investigated a number of respected spiritualist mediums, uncovering fraud or suspected fraud in every case that they examined.
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Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth (born Isabella (Belle) Baumfree; – November 26, 1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist.
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Spiritualism
Spiritualism is a new religious movement based on the belief that the spirits of the dead exist and have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living.
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Stuart Cumberland
Stuart Cumberland (1857–1922) was an English mentalist known for his demonstrations of "thought reading".
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Temperance movement
The temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
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The Boston Journal
The Boston Journal was a daily newspaper published in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1833 until October 1917 when it was merged with the Boston Herald.
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University at Buffalo
The State University of New York at Buffalo is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York, United States.
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Wayne County, New York
Wayne County is a county in the U.S. state of New York.
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William Benjamin Carpenter
William Benjamin Carpenter CB FRS (29 October 1813 – 19 November 1885) was an English physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist. He was instrumental in the early stages of the unified University of London.
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William Crookes
Sir William Crookes (17 June 1832 – 4 April 1919) was a British chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry in London, and worked on spectroscopy.
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William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.
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William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison (December, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer.
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Women's suffrage
Women's suffrage (colloquial: female suffrage, woman suffrage or women's right to vote) --> is the right of women to vote in elections; a person who advocates the extension of suffrage, particularly to women, is called a suffragist.
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