Théodule-Armand Ribot, (born Dec. 18, 1839, Guingamp, Fr. died Dec. 9, 1916, Paris), French psychologist whose endeavour to account for memory loss as a symptom of progressive brain disease, iterated in his Les Maladies de la mémoire (1881; Diseases of Memory), constitutes the most influential early attempt to analyze abnormalities of memory in terms of physiology.
He knows as well as anyone the roll call of agents, publishers, writers, producers and performers whose endeavours form the potent Denmark Street lore.
One of its key figures was Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg), whose endeavours encompassed a vast range of literary and historical studies and who also represented the political radicalism inspired by the French Revolution.
Standing over 60 metres high, the edifice was constructed by Frank "Huck" Wortman and a largely immigrant workforce, whose endeavours were recalled in the Taviani brothers' Good Morning, Babylon (1987).
The film climaxes with our down-to-earth anti-hero (whose endeavours have touched an entire community) suffering dramatic crucifixion and death, only for his body to escape the grave via heart and eye transplants which restore sight to the blind and offer the gift of new life.
[RM, round 2] It was felt that PI needed to be embedded into the culture of organisations; not least by challenging those whose PI endeavour was suggestive of tokenistic practice.
Unlike some of the desert farmers to the east, whose agricultural endeavours were surrounded by considerable ritual intended to ensure success, the Mojave almost totally ignored rituals associated with crops.
However big a triangle you draw on it the corners could be billions of light years apart the angles in it would add up to 180°, just as they do in a school exercise book.That might not surprise people whose geometrical endeavours have never gone beyond such books.
We learn, for example, of the Victorian naturalist whose scientific endeavours included serving up mole and spider to his guests; and of the Norwegian palaeontologist who miscounted the number of fingers and toes on one of the most important fossil finds of recent history and wouldn't let anyone else have a look at it for more than 48 years.
The 3rd Marquess became Burges's greatest architectural patron; both were men of their times; both had fathers whose industrial endeavours provided the means for their sons' architectural achievements, and both sought to "redeem the evils of industrialism by re-living the art of the Middle Ages".
IF THERE is any endeavour whose fruits should be freely available, that endeavour is surely publicly financed science.
