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    Table-turning (also known as table-tapping, table-tipping or table-tilting) is a type of séance in which participants sit around a table, place their hands...
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  • "Turning Tables" is a song recorded by English singer-songwriter Adele for her second studio album, 21 (2011). Conceived after an altercation with her...
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  • tables in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Turning the Tables may refer to: Turning the Tables (history book), by Andrew P. Haley Turning the Tables:...
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    After observing table-turning, a kind of seance, he was intrigued that the tables seemed to move despite lacking muscles and that the tables seemed to provide...
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    techniques for communicating, ostensibly, with the spirit world including table-turning and planchette writing boards (the precursor to later Ouija boards)...
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    hypothesized by Count Agenor de Gasparin, to explain the phenomena of table turning and tapping during séances. Ectenic force was named by de Gasparin's...
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    Michael Faraday first described this effect in 1853, while investigating table-turning. Various studies have been conducted, recreating the effects of the...
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    Faraday also weighed in negatively on the public's fascination with table-turning, mesmerism, and seances, and in so doing chastised both the public and...
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    Turning the Tables is a 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Elmer Clifton, written by Wells Hastings and Lois Zellner, and starring Dorothy Gish...
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    the tricks of fraudulent mediums such as those used in slate-writing, table-turning, trumpet mediumship, materializations, sealed-letter reading and spirit...
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    Spiritism Spiritualist art Speaking in tongues Surrealist automatism Table-turning Xenoglossy Burgess, C.A., Kirsch, I., Shane, H., Niederauer, K.L., Graham...
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  • (169–171e). This formed part of the former's eighth objection, the "table-turning" argument that maintained Protagoras' doctrine was self-refuting. Peritrope...
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    co-founded Turning Point USA in 2012, for which Kirk serves as executive director. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Turning Point Action, Turning Point...
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    Spindle turning, or turning between centers, is a woodturning method referring to a piece of wood on a wood lathe that is being turned on its center axis...
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  • and sixpence (7/6). Mrs Willett and her daughter host an evening of "table-turning" (a séance) on a snowy winter's evening in Dartmoor. The spirit tells...
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  • said that "all magicians know something about astrology," and refers to a table of correspondences in Starhawk's The Spiral Dance, organised by planet,...
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    Fit (May 8, 2012) alongside a memoir, co-written with K.C. Baker, Turning the Tables: From Housewife to Inmate and Back Again, revolving around her time...
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  • Meiji era that is also a form of divination, partially based on Western table-turning. The name kokkuri is an onomatopoeia meaning "to nod up and down", and...
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  • science and religion, something that he believed could be achieved by turning to what he thought was the ancient wisdom found in magic. The French scholar...
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    Middle Ages in the context of Christianity, although stories of humans turning into wolves take their roots in earlier pre-Christian beliefs. Their underlying...
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    dowsers' claims Ouija Petrichor Radiesthesia Radionics Rhabdomancy Table-turning TR Araña As translated from one preface of the Kassel experiments, "roughly...
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  • Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880–1920 is a 2011 book by Andrew P. Haley, an assistant professor of American...
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  • salesperson for part of the season. Then she becomes involved in a table-turning sexual relationship. In 2015, Pebdani joined the cast of Shonda Rhimes's...
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    slavery were never welcome to their master’s table and this song echoed their hope of the tables turning in future glory." In 1922 the Florida Normal...
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    included table-turning, a type of séance in which spirits were said to communicate with people seated around a table by tilting and rotating the table. By...
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    up on top of the table as held originally; the whole dodge consisting in turning the accordion end for end as it went under the table. The strap end being...
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    Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is an American nonprofit organization that advocates for conservative politics on high school, college, and university campuses...
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    the tricks of fraudulent mediums such as those used in slate-writing, table-turning, trumpet mediumship, materializations, sealed-letter reading and spirit...
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    Table tennis (also known as ping-pong or whiff-whaff) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary...
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    (right) revealing a fraudulent method of table-turning. Both wore wrist bands with metal hooks to lift the séance table. Hardeen's tombstone at the Houdini...
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