Etna is named for the famed Mount Etna in Italy. It was originally known as "Crosbytown" after its first proprietor, Gen. John Crosby of Hampden. It was incorporated as a town in 1820. By 1859 it had ...
The term "middle class" is first attested in James Bradshaw's 1745 pamphlet Scheme to prevent running Irish Wools to France. The term has had several, sometimes contradictory, meanings. It was once de ...
Espiritismo shares many of its fundamental concepts with 19th century Spiritualism as was practiced in the United States. During this period, several books on mediumship and spiritual practices became ...
The phrase "patent medicine" comes from the late 17th century marketing of medical elixirs, when those who found favour with royalty were issued letters patent authorising the use of the royal endorse ...
Thomas Lynn Bradford (died February 6, 1921) of Detroit, Michigan, is most famous for committing suicide in an attempt to ascertain the existence of an afterlife and communicate that information to a ...
Joseph Francis Rinn (1868-1952) was an American magician and skeptic of paranormal phenomena.Rinn grew up in New York City. He was a friend of Harry Houdini and exposed many fraud mediums throughout h ...
Oursler grew up in Baltimore, the poor son of a city transit worker. His childhood passions were reading and stage magic. He was raised in a devout Baptist family, but at fifteen he declared himself a ...
Dunninger was born in New York City. He headlined throughout the Keith-Orpheum Circuit, and was much in demand for private entertainment. At the age of seventeen he was invited to perform at the home ...
Julien J. Proskauer (1893–1958) was an American magician and author.Preoskauer was a friend of Harry Houdini and was well known for debunking fraud mediums. His book The Dead Do Not Talk (1946) expos ...
Henry Ridgely Evans (1861-1949) was an American writer and amateur magician.Evans worked in Baltimore, Maryland as a journalist and wrote books on conjurer tricks and magic. He was a critic of spiritu ...
During his early career, William Ellsworth Robinson called himself Robinson, the Man of Mystery. To increase his allure with a touch of exoticism, he changed his name to Chung Ling Soo and took his sh ...
McCabe was born in Macclesfield in Cheshire, but his family moved to Manchester while he was still a child. He entered the Franciscan order at the age of 15, and spent a year of preliminary study at G ...
When the movement of Modern Spiritualism first reached Europe from America in the winter of 1852–1853, the most popular method of consulting the spirits was for several persons to sit round a table, ...
Spirit photography was first used by William H. Mumler in the 1860s. Mumler discovered the technique by accident, after he discovered a second person in a photograph he took of himself, which he found ...
Carrington was born in St Helier, Jersey in 1880. He emigrated to the USA in 1888, although it is a common misconception he emigrated in 1899, and settled in New York City in 1904. Hereward previously ...
