2nd October 2005, 12:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 2nd October 2005, 3:41 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
I do know :D. And not just in this country... Apparently for some time Canada was under the rule of a man who often saught out the advice of a clairvoyant, a medium, someone who never bothered to prove her claims. Basically, he asked her to channel the spirit of his dead mother, and listened to her. So in other words, this psychic was in reality the major ruling force of Canada for a while...
It's all right here in this pamphlet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyo...sonal_life
It's all right here in this pamphlet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyo...sonal_life
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)