Lamorna birch biography of albert einstein
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Water divining is one of those things that sounds utterly improbable until you see it for yourself. For me, it happened last summer. Workmen were digging trenches in our garden and we were all worrying about the digger hitting the water pipe, the location of which had always been unknown.
To our surprise, the very pragmatic engineer whipped out a set of divining rods and had not merely located, but had also mapped the course of the pipe in less than a minute. Still sceptical, we tentatively dug where he suggested and, sure enough, the spade soon struck metal. There was the year-old water pipe, following a course that defied all logical pre- dictions, but that had somehow been found, using only a pair of bent copper rods.
The art of divining, also known as dowsing, goes back millennia and seems to have sprung up independently in several different countries. Prehistoric cave drawings in Spain, Algeria and Iraq depict figures clutching a forked twig, engaged in the act of divining. Confucius wrote about it and the ancient Egyptians practised it: divining tools were found in the tomb of Tutankhamun and Cleopatra allegedly employed dowsers to search for gold.
The Christian Church appeared to have a complicated relationship with dowsing — there are plenty of accounts of mon
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Death of King Edward VII, England
Birth of Mountford Tosswill (Toss) Woollaston, Toko, Stratford, New Zealand, 11 April
Hans Hofmann exhibits Paul Cassirer Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 25 June - 10 July
Second exhibition of the Neue Kunstlervereinigung, Munich, Germany, 1 September
Frances Hodgkins exhibits Galerie Georges Petit. 6éme exposition – Société internationale d' aquarellistes, Paris, France, October – Australasian Artists at the French Salons, compiled by Tom Thompson, ETT Imprint, NSW, Australia, , pg 68
Grace Jane Joel exhibits Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, Paris, France – ibid. pg 71
Exhibition of Berlin Secession, Berlin, Germany
Formation of Neue Secession Group by expressionist artists who had been excluded from the Berlin Secession, led by Max Pechstein. First exhibition, ‘Rejected Artists of the Secession Berlin ’, Berlin, Germany.
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