Sunday, October 18, 2009

1880 - 1890

1881
The Society of Chemical Industry (SCI), a learned society, is set up 'to further the application of chemistry and related sciences for the public benefit'.
http://www.soci.org/

1882

The SPR (Society for Psychical Research), the first learned society of its kind, is founded in London
http://www.spr.ac.uk/expcms/index.php?section=29

1886
chemist Albert Niemann, known as a pioneer in cocaine chemistry, repeated the reaction of sulfur dichloride and ethylene b regarding Mustard gas [which was developed as early as 1822 by M. Depretz]but this time blister forming properties were recorded.
http://www.chemheritage.org/pubs/ch-v24n2-articles/feature_blisters.html


1887
Lewis Carroll becomes member of the occult Society for Psychical Research (SPR).
The SPR also helped creating the Fabian Society, which was also closely tied to the Rothschild political machine.
Fabian leader, Dennis Healey, became Britain's Minister of Defense and also joined the Bilderberger movement.
Apostate and co-founder Henry Sidgwick furthermore joined the elite and secretive Apostles Club (by invitation only).
[Addendum: Since the 1850s, there was a virtual explosion of extravagant paranormal claims and interest in them, in all strata of society throughout the Western world]
http://www.spr.ac.uk/expcms/index.php?section=29

1842, 1865



1842

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. coins the famously comment that "if all medicines in the world were thrown into the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes".
http://www.doctorbob.com/famoushealthquotes.html

1865

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is released.
It is often described as a mind control book, dealing with self-sustaining Kafkaesque insanity, asymmetrical logic and Identity Switches.
"Down the Rabbit-Hole", the Chapter 1 title, has become a popular term for going into an adventure to the unknown.
In the film 'The Matrix', Morpheus says to Neo: "I imagine that right now you're feeling a bit like Alice. Tumbling down the rabbit hole?"
He also says, "You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
In computer gaming, a "rabbit hole" may refer to the initiating element that drives the player to enter the game.
http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=ijp.081.0571a

NicoHistory - compiling reversed 'history' (1850s to 2010)