Parapsychologist

Joe McMoneagle at Rhine Research Center Institute for Parapsychology in Durham, North Carolina.

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A christian preacher urges us to take life seriously.
Ένας χριστιανός κήρυκας μάς προτρέπει να πάρουμε τη ζωή στα σοβαρά.

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Nick Vujicic is a great christian speaker and a great man.
Ο Νικ Βόγιετζικ είναι ένας σπουδαίος χριστιανός ομιλητής και σπουδαίος άνθρωπος.

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Long John Nebel (born John Zimmerman) (June 11, 1911 — April 10, 1978) was an influential New York City talk radio show host.

The name Long John Nebel came from several sources: Long John was a nickname for his tall, slender build; he stood 6′4″ and never weighed more than about 160 pounds. Long John’s Auctions was the name of his successful auction store. Nebel came from the surname of his stepmother Knebel.

For more than 20 years — from the mid 1950s until his death in 1978 — Nebel was a hugely popular all-night radio host, with millions of regular listeners and what Donald Bain described as “a fanatically loyal following” to his syndicated program, which dealt mainly with anomalous phenomena, UFOs, and other offbeat topics. In 1972 he married the former pin-up model Candy Jones, who became the co-host of his show. Her controversial claims of having been a victim of CIA mind-control influenced the direction of the program during its last six years on the air.

Biography

Youth and young adulthood

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Nebel dropped out of school after the eighth grade but was an avid reader throughout his life, and was conversant on many topics.

According to his own account in The Way Out World (1961), Nebel moved the New York City “around 1930″, at the age of 19, and his first job there was as an usher in the New York Paramount Theater.

Nebel pursued a number of careers in his young adulthood (including a long period as a freelance photographer and a stint as a sidewalk salesman), before establishing the successful Long John’s Auctions, an auction and consignment store in New Jersey.

Nebel did not seek a career in radio until he was 43 years old.

WOR

In the mid-1950s, radio throughout the United States was floundering and trying to redefine itself after the explosive popularity of television. Over several years, Nebel had become friends with many people at various New York radio stations when he bought commercial time to advertise his auction house. WOR, one of New York’s leading stations, faced poor ratings in 1954 when Nebel proposed an interview show. The format, as Donald Bain writes, “would be devoted to discussing strange and unexplained topics.”

WOR’s management was not especially impressed by Nebel’s idea. However, deciding they had little to lose, WOR gambled and offered him a midnight to 5.30am time slot, the poorest-rated hours. Building on the modest fame of his auction house (and also hoping to generate more business), he used the same name, Long John. when he went on radio.

To the surprise of WOR’s managemnet, Nebel’s show was a quick success among New York’s night-owls and early risers. Unidentified flying objects were discussed almost daily, alongside topics such as voodoo, witchcraft, parapsychology, hypnotism conspiracy theories and ghosts. Perhaps fittingly for an overnight show, one of Nebel’s sponsors was No-Doz caffeine pills.

Within a few months Nebel was getting not only high ratings, but press attention from throughout the United States for his distinctive and in many ways unprecedented program (WOR’s powerful signal assured that Nebel’s show was broadcast to over half of the United States’ population). Bain notes that some listeners were put off by his “grating, often vicious manner”, but many more adored him because of (or in spite of) his abrasive style. Keith writes, “Though Nebel could be brusque and even imperious in the phone, he was always a sympathetic listener and compasionate host.”

Seven-second delay

WOR was worried about some of Nebel’s guests or callers uttering a swear word on the air. Nebel used one of the first tape delay systems in radio, giving engineers a chance to edit unacceptable language before it was broadcast.

WNBC

In 1962, WNBC offered Nebel more than $100,000 per year (if not a record sum paid to a radio personality, then very near it) to begin broadcasting from their station, and he accepted the offer. He continued there until 1973, when WNBC, facing sliding ratings, decided to switch to an all rock music format. After a protracted battle, Nebel refused to change his show, and resigned in protest. According to Bain, one anonymous WNBC employee insisted that the station’s management “deliberately up [Nebel's] career” by spreading unfounded rumors about the format switch and Nebel’s reaction to it.

WMCA

Nebel was quickly hired by WMCA, where, from 1973 to 1978, he continued his exploration of the paranormal. His show was still popular, though his ratings on the less-powerful WMCA were not as high as they had been at WNBC.

Duration : 0:6:59

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Nick Vujicic is a great christian speaker and a great man.
Ο Νικ Βόγιετζικ είναι ένας σπουδαίος χριστιανός ομιλητής και σπουδαίος άνθρωπος.

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Long John Nebel (born John Zimmerman) (June 11, 1911 — April 10, 1978) was an influential New York City talk radio show host.

The name Long John Nebel came from several sources: Long John was a nickname for his tall, slender build; he stood 6′4″ and never weighed more than about 160 pounds. Long John’s Auctions was the name of his successful auction store. Nebel came from the surname of his stepmother Knebel.

For more than 20 years — from the mid 1950s until his death in 1978 — Nebel was a hugely popular all-night radio host, with millions of regular listeners and what Donald Bain described as “a fanatically loyal following” to his syndicated program, which dealt mainly with anomalous phenomena, UFOs, and other offbeat topics. In 1972 he married the former pin-up model Candy Jones, who became the co-host of his show. Her controversial claims of having been a victim of CIA mind-control influenced the direction of the program during its last six years on the air.

Biography

Youth and young adulthood

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Nebel dropped out of school after the eighth grade but was an avid reader throughout his life, and was conversant on many topics.

According to his own account in The Way Out World (1961), Nebel moved the New York City “around 1930″, at the age of 19, and his first job there was as an usher in the New York Paramount Theater.

Nebel pursued a number of careers in his young adulthood (including a long period as a freelance photographer and a stint as a sidewalk salesman), before establishing the successful Long John’s Auctions, an auction and consignment store in New Jersey.

Nebel did not seek a career in radio until he was 43 years old.

WOR

In the mid-1950s, radio throughout the United States was floundering and trying to redefine itself after the explosive popularity of television. Over several years, Nebel had become friends with many people at various New York radio stations when he bought commercial time to advertise his auction house. WOR, one of New York’s leading stations, faced poor ratings in 1954 when Nebel proposed an interview show. The format, as Donald Bain writes, “would be devoted to discussing strange and unexplained topics.”

WOR’s management was not especially impressed by Nebel’s idea. However, deciding they had little to lose, WOR gambled and offered him a midnight to 5.30am time slot, the poorest-rated hours. Building on the modest fame of his auction house (and also hoping to generate more business), he used the same name, Long John. when he went on radio.

To the surprise of WOR’s managemnet, Nebel’s show was a quick success among New York’s night-owls and early risers. Unidentified flying objects were discussed almost daily, alongside topics such as voodoo, witchcraft, parapsychology, hypnotism conspiracy theories and ghosts. Perhaps fittingly for an overnight show, one of Nebel’s sponsors was No-Doz caffeine pills.

Within a few months Nebel was getting not only high ratings, but press attention from throughout the United States for his distinctive and in many ways unprecedented program (WOR’s powerful signal assured that Nebel’s show was broadcast to over half of the United States’ population). Bain notes that some listeners were put off by his “grating, often vicious manner”, but many more adored him because of (or in spite of) his abrasive style. Keith writes, “Though Nebel could be brusque and even imperious in the phone, he was always a sympathetic listener and compasionate host.”

Seven-second delay

WOR was worried about some of Nebel’s guests or callers uttering a swear word on the air. Nebel used one of the first tape delay systems in radio, giving engineers a chance to edit unacceptable language before it was broadcast.

WNBC

In 1962, WNBC offered Nebel more than $100,000 per year (if not a record sum paid to a radio personality, then very near it) to begin broadcasting from their station, and he accepted the offer. He continued there until 1973, when WNBC, facing sliding ratings, decided to switch to an all rock music format. After a protracted battle, Nebel refused to change his show, and resigned in protest. According to Bain, one anonymous WNBC employee insisted that the station’s management “deliberately up [Nebel's] career” by spreading unfounded rumors about the format switch and Nebel’s reaction to it.

WMCA

Nebel was quickly hired by WMCA, where, from 1973 to 1978, he continued his exploration of the paranormal. His show was still popular, though his ratings on the less-powerful WMCA were not as high as they had been at WNBC.

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Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max (August 23, 1840 – November 24, 1915) was a Prague-born Austrian painter.
He was born Gabriel Cornelius Max, the son of Czech sculptor Joseph Max and Anna Schumann. He studied between 1855 and 1858 at the Prague Academy of Arts with Eduard von Engerth. His studies included parapsychology (somnambulism, hypnotism, spiritism), Darwinism, asiatic philosophy, the ideas of Schopenhauer, and various mystical traditions. The spiritual-mystical movement was emphasized by the writings of Carl du Prel, and the Munich painter Albert Keller was also an influence.
His first large canvas was painted in 1858 while he was a student at the Prague Academy. He continued his studies at the Viennese Academy of Art with Karl von Blaas, Karl Mayer, Christian Ruben and Carl Wurzinger. From 1863 to 1867 he studied at the Munich Academy with Karl Theodor von Piloty, and also Hans Makart and Franz Defregger. His first critical success was in 1867 with the painting “Martyr at the Cross”: that painting transformed the “Unglücksmalerei” (dark palette) of Piloty into a religious-mystical symbolism using a psychological rendering of its subject.
He continued to use the dark palette of the Piloty school well into the 1870s, later moving toward a more muted palette, using fewer,clearer colors. From 1869, Gabriel von Max had his studio in Munich; in the summer, he was in the Ammerland at Starnberger Lake. From 1879-1883, Gabriel Max was a professor of Historical Painting at the Munich Academy; he also became a Fellow of The Theosophical Society. In 1900 he was ennobled and became a Ritter. He died in Munich in 1915.
His interest in anthropological studies also showed in his work. He owned a large scientific collection of prehistoric ethnological and anthropological finds: the collection now resides in the Stadtischen Reiss Museum in Mannheim. At his residence in Starnberger Lake, Gabriel Max surrounded himself with a family of monkeys, which he painted often, sometimes portraying them as human. Max, along with his colleagues, often used photographs to guide painting. The great number of monkey photographs in his archive testify to their use as direct translation into his paintings.
Gabriel von Max was a significant artist to emerge from the Piloty School, because he abandoned the themes of the Grunderzeitliche (genre and history), in order to develop an allegorical-mystical pictorial language, which became typical of Secessionist Art. Characteristic of the ethereal style of Gabriel Max is “The Last Token” (in the Metropolitan Museum).
Music by Alban Berg ‘Lyric Suite’, Presto delirando-Tenebroso; Largo desolato.

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Long John Nebel (born John Zimmerman) (June 11, 1911 — April 10, 1978) was an influential New York City talk radio show host.

The name Long John Nebel came from several sources: Long John was a nickname for his tall, slender build; he stood 6′4″ and never weighed more than about 160 pounds. Long John’s Auctions was the name of his successful auction store. Nebel came from the surname of his stepmother Knebel.

For more than 20 years — from the mid 1950s until his death in 1978 — Nebel was a hugely popular all-night radio host, with millions of regular listeners and what Donald Bain described as “a fanatically loyal following” to his syndicated program, which dealt mainly with anomalous phenomena, UFOs, and other offbeat topics. In 1972 he married the former pin-up model Candy Jones, who became the co-host of his show. Her controversial claims of having been a victim of CIA mind-control influenced the direction of the program during its last six years on the air.

Biography

Youth and young adulthood

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Nebel dropped out of school after the eighth grade but was an avid reader throughout his life, and was conversant on many topics.

According to his own account in The Way Out World (1961), Nebel moved the New York City “around 1930″, at the age of 19, and his first job there was as an usher in the New York Paramount Theater.

Nebel pursued a number of careers in his young adulthood (including a long period as a freelance photographer and a stint as a sidewalk salesman), before establishing the successful Long John’s Auctions, an auction and consignment store in New Jersey.

Nebel did not seek a career in radio until he was 43 years old.

WOR

In the mid-1950s, radio throughout the United States was floundering and trying to redefine itself after the explosive popularity of television. Over several years, Nebel had become friends with many people at various New York radio stations when he bought commercial time to advertise his auction house. WOR, one of New York’s leading stations, faced poor ratings in 1954 when Nebel proposed an interview show. The format, as Donald Bain writes, “would be devoted to discussing strange and unexplained topics.”

WOR’s management was not especially impressed by Nebel’s idea. However, deciding they had little to lose, WOR gambled and offered him a midnight to 5.30am time slot, the poorest-rated hours. Building on the modest fame of his auction house (and also hoping to generate more business), he used the same name, Long John. when he went on radio.

To the surprise of WOR’s managemnet, Nebel’s show was a quick success among New York’s night-owls and early risers. Unidentified flying objects were discussed almost daily, alongside topics such as voodoo, witchcraft, parapsychology, hypnotism conspiracy theories and ghosts. Perhaps fittingly for an overnight show, one of Nebel’s sponsors was No-Doz caffeine pills.

Within a few months Nebel was getting not only high ratings, but press attention from throughout the United States for his distinctive and in many ways unprecedented program (WOR’s powerful signal assured that Nebel’s show was broadcast to over half of the United States’ population). Bain notes that some listeners were put off by his “grating, often vicious manner”, but many more adored him because of (or in spite of) his abrasive style. Keith writes, “Though Nebel could be brusque and even imperious in the phone, he was always a sympathetic listener and compasionate host.”

Seven-second delay

WOR was worried about some of Nebel’s guests or callers uttering a swear word on the air. Nebel used one of the first tape delay systems in radio, giving engineers a chance to edit unacceptable language before it was broadcast.

WNBC

In 1962, WNBC offered Nebel more than $100,000 per year (if not a record sum paid to a radio personality, then very near it) to begin broadcasting from their station, and he accepted the offer. He continued there until 1973, when WNBC, facing sliding ratings, decided to switch to an all rock music format. After a protracted battle, Nebel refused to change his show, and resigned in protest. According to Bain, one anonymous WNBC employee insisted that the station’s management “deliberately up [Nebel's] career” by spreading unfounded rumors about the format switch and Nebel’s reaction to it.

WMCA

Nebel was quickly hired by WMCA, where, from 1973 to 1978, he continued his exploration of the paranormal. His show was still popular, though his ratings on the less-powerful WMCA were not as high as they had been at WNBC.

Duration : 0:9:35

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A christian song.
Ένα χριστιανικό τραγούδι.

Duration : 0:4:6

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Long John Nebel (born John Zimmerman) (June 11, 1911 — April 10, 1978) was an influential New York City talk radio show host.

The name Long John Nebel came from several sources: Long John was a nickname for his tall, slender build; he stood 6′4″ and never weighed more than about 160 pounds. Long John’s Auctions was the name of his successful auction store. Nebel came from the surname of his stepmother Knebel.

For more than 20 years — from the mid 1950s until his death in 1978 — Nebel was a hugely popular all-night radio host, with millions of regular listeners and what Donald Bain described as “a fanatically loyal following” to his syndicated program, which dealt mainly with anomalous phenomena, UFOs, and other offbeat topics. In 1972 he married the former pin-up model Candy Jones, who became the co-host of his show. Her controversial claims of having been a victim of CIA mind-control influenced the direction of the program during its last six years on the air.

Biography

Youth and young adulthood

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Nebel dropped out of school after the eighth grade but was an avid reader throughout his life, and was conversant on many topics.

According to his own account in The Way Out World (1961), Nebel moved the New York City “around 1930″, at the age of 19, and his first job there was as an usher in the New York Paramount Theater.

Nebel pursued a number of careers in his young adulthood (including a long period as a freelance photographer and a stint as a sidewalk salesman), before establishing the successful Long John’s Auctions, an auction and consignment store in New Jersey.

Nebel did not seek a career in radio until he was 43 years old.

WOR

In the mid-1950s, radio throughout the United States was floundering and trying to redefine itself after the explosive popularity of television. Over several years, Nebel had become friends with many people at various New York radio stations when he bought commercial time to advertise his auction house. WOR, one of New York’s leading stations, faced poor ratings in 1954 when Nebel proposed an interview show. The format, as Donald Bain writes, “would be devoted to discussing strange and unexplained topics.”

WOR’s management was not especially impressed by Nebel’s idea. However, deciding they had little to lose, WOR gambled and offered him a midnight to 5.30am time slot, the poorest-rated hours. Building on the modest fame of his auction house (and also hoping to generate more business), he used the same name, Long John. when he went on radio.

To the surprise of WOR’s managemnet, Nebel’s show was a quick success among New York’s night-owls and early risers. Unidentified flying objects were discussed almost daily, alongside topics such as voodoo, witchcraft, parapsychology, hypnotism conspiracy theories and ghosts. Perhaps fittingly for an overnight show, one of Nebel’s sponsors was No-Doz caffeine pills.

Within a few months Nebel was getting not only high ratings, but press attention from throughout the United States for his distinctive and in many ways unprecedented program (WOR’s powerful signal assured that Nebel’s show was broadcast to over half of the United States’ population). Bain notes that some listeners were put off by his “grating, often vicious manner”, but many more adored him because of (or in spite of) his abrasive style. Keith writes, “Though Nebel could be brusque and even imperious in the phone, he was always a sympathetic listener and compasionate host.”

Seven-second delay

WOR was worried about some of Nebel’s guests or callers uttering a swear word on the air. Nebel used one of the first tape delay systems in radio, giving engineers a chance to edit unacceptable language before it was broadcast.

WNBC

In 1962, WNBC offered Nebel more than $100,000 per year (if not a record sum paid to a radio personality, then very near it) to begin broadcasting from their station, and he accepted the offer. He continued there until 1973, when WNBC, facing sliding ratings, decided to switch to an all rock music format. After a protracted battle, Nebel refused to change his show, and resigned in protest. According to Bain, one anonymous WNBC employee insisted that the station’s management “deliberately up [Nebel's] career” by spreading unfounded rumors about the format switch and Nebel’s reaction to it.

WMCA

Nebel was quickly hired by WMCA, where, from 1973 to 1978, he continued his exploration of the paranormal. His show was still popular, though his ratings on the less-powerful WMCA were not as high as they had been at WNBC.

Duration : 0:9:29

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