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  • Death of Mozart in Vienna, aged 35

    Death of Mozart in Vienna, aged 35
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    Classical Music in Nineteenth-Century Vienna. In the nineteenth century Vienna continued to consolidate its reputation as the ‘city of music’.

    It was – or became – home to a host of well-known composers: amongst those born in Vienna were Franz Schubert and Johann Strauss I and II (father and son), while Ludwig van Beethoven was just one of the many non-Viennese composers who settled in the Habsburg capital. In parallel with the public music world, there also developed a great love of domestic music-making or ‘Hausmusik’. With the rise of the bourgeoisie the imperial house lost its role as the foremost patron of cultural life.
  • Death of Beethoven in Vienna, aged 56

    Death of Beethoven in Vienna, aged 56
  • Death of Schubert in Vienna, aged 31

    Death of Schubert in Vienna, aged 31
  • Johann Strauss Senior’s Radetzky March first performed in Vienna

    Johann Strauss Senior’s Radetzky March first performed in Vienna
  • Jules Verne publishes “From the earth to the moon”

    Jules Verne publishes “From the earth to the moon”
  • Johann Strauss II composes The blue Danube

    Johann Strauss II composes The blue Danube
  • creation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire also known as the Habsburg Dual Monarchy

    creation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire also known as the Habsburg Dual Monarchy
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    Austro-Hungarian Empire also known as the Habsburg Dual Monarchy

  • Anton Bruckner moves to Vienna to teach music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, during which time he concentrated most of his energy on writing symphonies.

    Anton Bruckner moves to Vienna to teach music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, during which time he concentrated most of his energy on writing symphonies.
  • Brahms becomes director of the concerts of the Vienna Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.

    Brahms becomes director of the concerts of the Vienna Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.
    From 1872 to 1875, he ensured that the orchestra was staffed only by professionals, and conducted a repertoire which ran from Bach to the nineteenth century composers who were not of the 'New German School'; these included Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Joachim, Ferdinand Hiller, Max Bruch and himself.
  • Birth of Bela Bartok

    Birth of Bela Bartok
  • coining of the word subconscious by Pierre Janet

    coining of the word subconscious by Pierre Janet
  • Creation of literary movement Die Jungen in Vienna

    Creation of literary movement Die Jungen in Vienna
    Amongst their members : Arthur Schnitzler, Felix Salten, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Peter Altenberg, Karl Kraus and Stefan Zweig.
  • Auguste Fickert co-founded the Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein (General Austrian Women's Association)

    Auguste Fickert co-founded the Allgemeiner Österreichischer Frauenverein (General Austrian Women's Association)
    This organization campaigned for the improvement of proletarian women's lives. It was the most radical of the feminist organizations in Austria at that time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Fickert
  • founding of psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

    founding of psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
  • Teresa Feoderovna Ries exhibits “Witch”, a statue of a witch Doing Her Toilette on Walpurgis Night at the Vienna Künstlerhaus

    Teresa Feoderovna Ries exhibits “Witch”, a statue of a witch Doing Her Toilette on Walpurgis Night at the Vienna Künstlerhaus
  • Gustav Mahler is appointed as director of the Vienna Court Opera (Hofoper).

    Gustav Mahler is appointed as director of the Vienna Court Opera (Hofoper).
  • Formation of the Vienna Secession by a group of Austrian painters, graphic artists, sculptors and architects, including Josef Hoffman, Koloman Moser, Otto Wagner, and Gustav Klimt.

    Formation of the Vienna Secession by a group of Austrian painters, graphic artists, sculptors and architects, including Josef Hoffman, Koloman Moser, Otto Wagner, and Gustav Klimt.
  • H.G.Wells publishes “The war of the worlds”

    H.G.Wells publishes “The war of the worlds”
  • “Mystery airships” sighting in western USA

    “Mystery airships” sighting in western USA
  • Death of Johannes Brahms in Vienna, aged 64

    Death of Johannes Brahms in Vienna, aged 64
  • Marie Lang co-founds the women's journal Dokumente der Frauen (Women's Documents), serving as its editor-in-chief until 1902

    Marie Lang co-founds the women's journal Dokumente der Frauen (Women's Documents), serving as its editor-in-chief until 1902
  • Part of the Secession, Otto Wagner builds the Majolika-Haus in Vienna

    Part of the Secession, Otto Wagner builds the Majolika-Haus in Vienna
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    The Second Viennese School was the group of composers that comprised Arnold Schoenberg and his pupils, particularly Alban Berg and Anton Webern, and close associates in early 20th-century Vienna.

    Their music was initially characterized by late-Romantic expanded tonality and later, a totally chromatic expressionism without firm tonal centre, often referred to as atonality; and later still, Schoenberg's serial twelve-tone technique.
  • Méliès shoots his movie “A trip to the moon”

    Méliès shoots his movie “A trip to the moon”
  • Elena Luksch-Makowsky paints “Adolescentia”

    Elena Luksch-Makowsky paints “Adolescentia”
  • Founding of Wiener Werkstätte

    Founding of Wiener Werkstätte
  • Mayreder publishes Zur Kritik der Weiblichkeit (To Critics of Femininity)

    Mayreder publishes Zur Kritik der Weiblichkeit (To Critics of Femininity)
  • Else Jerusalem publishes the 700-page book Der heilige Skarabäus ("The Sacred Scarab"), which became a best-seller.

    Else Jerusalem publishes the 700-page book Der heilige Skarabäus ("The Sacred Scarab"), which became a best-seller.
    The novel was based on her own investigative research. Set in a Vienna brothel, its content was scandalous for the period.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Else_Jerusalem
  • expressionist portraits by Oskar Kokoschka

    expressionist portraits by Oskar Kokoschka
  • Adolf Loos builds the Steiner House in Vienna

    Adolf Loos builds the Steiner House in Vienna
  • Egon Schiele paints “Self-Portrait with Physalis”

    Egon Schiele paints “Self-Portrait with Physalis”
  • Frightening fairy godmothers Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all live in Vienna

    Frightening fairy godmothers Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all live in Vienna
  • birth in Vienna

    birth in Vienna
  • Skandalkonzert The ("scandal concert") was a concert conducted by Arnold Schoenberg, held on 31 March 1913.

     Skandalkonzert The ("scandal concert") was a concert conducted by Arnold Schoenberg, held on 31 March 1913.
    The concert consisted of music by composers of the Second Viennese School.
    During the concert, the audience, shocked by the expressionism and experimentalism of the music, began rioting, and the concert ended prematurely. Amid the unrest, concert organizer Erhard Buschbeck was said to have slapped a concertgoer in the face; Operetta composer Oscar Straus, a witness to the alleged assault, testified that the slap had been the most harmonious sound of the evening.
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    First World War

  • assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Austro-Hungarian heir, by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb.

    assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Austro-Hungarian heir, by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb.
  • start of World War One.

    start of World War One.
    start of World War One. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia; Russia came to Serbia's defense and by 4 August, the conflict had expanded to include Germany, France and Britain, along with their respective colonial empires.
  • Carl Jung coins the term Collective Unconscious

    Carl Jung coins the term Collective Unconscious
  • Miracle of Fátima, a series of events reported to have occurred miraculously attended by a large crowd

    Miracle of Fátima, a series of events reported to have occurred miraculously attended by a large crowd
    who had gathered in Fátima, Portugal, in response to a prophecy made by three shepherd children. Newspapers published testimony from witnesses who said that they had seen extraordinary solar activity, such as the Sun appearing to "dance" or zig-zag in the sky, careen towards the Earth, or emit multicolored light and radiant colors. According to these reports, the event lasted approximately ten minutes.
  • dissolution of the Habsburg monarchy

    dissolution of the Habsburg monarchy
  • end of World War One

    end of World War One
  • creation of the first Austrian Republic

    creation of the first Austrian Republic
  • encounter with alien presence on Dachstein Mountain

    encounter with alien presence on Dachstein Mountain
  • first therapeutic session with Dr Sabina Spielrein

    first therapeutic session with Dr Sabina Spielrein
  • Robert Musil publishes “The man without qualities” set in Vienna on the eve of WW1

    Robert Musil publishes “The man without qualities” set in Vienna on the eve of WW1
  • second therapeutic session with Dr Sabina Spielrein during the summer worker’s Olympiads in Vienna,

    second therapeutic session with Dr Sabina Spielrein during the summer worker’s Olympiads in Vienna,
  • Vienna’s Workers' Summer Olympiad

    Vienna’s Workers' Summer Olympiad
  • Joseph Roth publishes his novel Radetzky March about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

     Joseph Roth publishes his novel Radetzky March about the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
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    mass exodus of artists and intellectuals from Germany and Austria to the USA

  • creation of the Austrian Fascist State

    creation of the Austrian Fascist State
  • Anschluss, peaceful annexation of fascist Austria by Nazi Germany

    Anschluss, peaceful annexation of fascist Austria by Nazi Germany
  • Johann Weixelgärtner finishes a PHD in Philosophy at the university of Vienna.

    Johann Weixelgärtner finishes a PHD in Philosophy at the university of Vienna.
  • Johann Weixelgärtner’s sister flees Austria and goes to Sweden.

    Johann Weixelgärtner’s sister flees Austria and goes to Sweden.
  • Johann Weixelgärtner leaves Austria and goes to America where his uncle lives. He changes his name to John Weilgart.

    Johann Weixelgärtner leaves Austria and goes to America where his uncle lives. He changes his name to John Weilgart.
    Johann Weixelgärtner leaves Austria and goes to America where his uncle lives. He changes his name to John Weilgart.
  • Kunst & Mystik (Psychology of Creation & Contemplation), 1939, Ph.D. thesis of J. W. Weixlgärtner, University of Vienna

    Kunst & Mystik (Psychology of Creation & Contemplation), 1939, Ph.D. thesis of J. W. Weixlgärtner, University of Vienna
  • Weilgart sends a postcard to Thomas Mann annoucing his visit from New-York

    Weilgart sends a postcard to Thomas Mann annoucing his visit from New-York
    Weilgart sends a postcard to Thomas Mann annoucing his visit from New-York
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    World War Two

  • Dr John Weilgart through the intervention of his architect uncle Richard Neutra meets famous writer Thomas Mann and is awarded the Thomas Mann fellowship at UC Berkeley.

    Dr John Weilgart through the intervention of his architect uncle Richard Neutra meets famous writer Thomas Mann and is awarded the Thomas Mann fellowship at UC Berkeley.
  • Gedichte - Traumgesichte (Dream Poems, illustrated by Josephine Weixlgärtner), ~1940, Concordia Publ., Vienna

    Gedichte - Traumgesichte (Dream Poems, illustrated by Josephine Weixlgärtner), ~1940, Concordia Publ., Vienna
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    Early teaching in America

    In America, Dr John Weilgart is teaching a variety of subjects ranging from languages and philology to art, literature, philosophy, aesthetics, biology, chemistry, and physics at various colleges and universities while adjusting to the very different American higher education system.
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    Abstract expressionists in the USA do to painting what Schoenberg did to music freeing it from all conventions and limitations..

  • First sighting of “Foo Fighters” by pilots of the RAF

    First sighting of “Foo Fighters” by pilots of the RAF
  • “Mural” by Jackson Pollock.

    “Mural” by Jackson Pollock.
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    The beat genereation

    The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era. The central elements of Beat culture are the rejection of standard narrative values, making a spiritual quest, the exploration of American and Eastern religions, the rejection of economic materialism, explicit portrayals of the human condition, experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and sexual liberation and exploration.
  • : Dr John Weilgart’s parents flee Vienna after their home and belongings are destroyed in a fire started by Nazis. They go to Sweden.

    : Dr John Weilgart’s parents flee Vienna after their home and belongings are destroyed in a fire started by Nazis. They go to Sweden.
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    Dr John Weilgar works for the army

    Dr John Weilgart works as an instructor for troop information and education which means he is a teacher who teaches soldiers various college-level subjects.
  • Macbeth: Demon & Bourgeois, 1946, Shakespeare Society Publ.

    Macbeth: Demon & Bourgeois, 1946, Shakespeare Society Publ.
  • Creative Tensions, 1947, Monatshefte, 39th year, No. 3, University of Wisconsin Monthly, Madison, WI

    Creative Tensions, 1947, Monatshefte, 39th year, No. 3, University of Wisconsin Monthly, Madison, WI
  • first sighting of 9 flying saucers in Washington state, USA

    first sighting of 9 flying saucers in Washington state, USA
  • Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating that they had recovered a "flying disc". The Army quickly retracted the statement and said instead that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon

    Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating that they had recovered a "flying disc". The Army quickly retracted the statement and said instead that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon
  • Peace Philosophy, The Personalist, 28th year, Philosophy Dept., University of S. California, L.A., CA

    Peace Philosophy, The Personalist, 28th year, Philosophy Dept., University of S. California, L.A., CA
  • “Action paintings” by Willem De Kooning

    “Action paintings” by Willem De Kooning
  • “Multiform” by Mark Rothko

    “Multiform” by Mark Rothko
  • Peace Philosophy, The Personalist, 28th year, Philosophy Dept., University of S. California, L.A., CA

    Peace Philosophy, The Personalist, 28th year, Philosophy Dept., University of S. California, L.A., CA
  • Who is Peaceful? 1950, Exposition Press, N.Y.

    Who is Peaceful? 1950, Exposition Press, N.Y.
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    Dr John Weilgart works as a linguist in the Korean War, Eastern Command

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    Korean War

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    Bebop and free jazz bring modernity to the USA music scene

    Bebop, free jazz, hard bop, do to jazz and America what Schoenberg and the second Viennese school had done to classical music, infusing complexity and modernity to a musical genre that had reached an impass with the big blands.
  • Shakespeare Psychognostic, Character Evolution & Transformation, 1952, Hokuseido Press, Tokyo

    Shakespeare Psychognostic, Character Evolution & Transformation, 1952, Hokuseido Press, Tokyo
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    : Dr John Weilgart is back in Austria where he studies psychoanalysis at the Klinik für Psychiatrie und Neurologie der Universität Innsbruck

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    Project Blue Book

    project blue book, a US airforce program analysed 12,618 UFO reports. 701 reports were classified as unexplained, even after stringent analysis.
  • Fredens Etik (Ethics of Peace), 1954, Världs Horizont (World Horizon), United Nations J., Göteborg

    Fredens Etik (Ethics of Peace), 1954, Världs Horizont (World Horizon), United Nations J., Göteborg
  • La psychologie de la paix et la chretienté (Psychology of peace and Christianity), 1954, Psyche 55, No. 96/97, Paris

    La psychologie de la paix et la chretienté (Psychology of peace and Christianity), 1954, Psyche 55, No. 96/97, Paris
  • Weilgart, J. W., & F. Jost, W. Sinn, Heilung eines Waschzwanges (Cure of a compulsion neurosis with prepsychotic dreams), 1955 (June), Zum Traumerleben im präpsychotischen Studium, Wiener Archiv für Psychologie, Psychiatrie & Neurologie, p. 101-115

    Weilgart, J. W., & F. Jost, W. Sinn, Heilung eines Waschzwanges (Cure of a compulsion neurosis with prepsychotic dreams), 1955 (June), Zum Traumerleben im präpsychotischen Studium, Wiener Archiv für Psychologie, Psychiatrie & Neurologie, p. 101-115
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    Dr John Weilgart earns a post-doctoral diplomate of Psychology from the Univ. of Heidelberg

  • Meets and marries his wife in Munich ?

    Meets and marries his wife in Munich ?
    Weilgart, J. W., & F. Jost, M.D., Alkoholismus und Zoophilie (Hypnotic semantic therapy of alcoholic zoophiliac), 1956 (Oct.), Heilkunst, X, 69th year, Univ. of Munich Therapy Journal
  • Weilgart, J. W., & F. Jost, M.D., Alkoholismus und Zoophilie (Hypnotic semantic therapy of alcoholic zoophiliac), 1956 (Oct.), Heilkunst, X, 69th year, Univ. of Munich Therapy Journal

    Weilgart, J. W., & F. Jost, M.D., Alkoholismus und Zoophilie (Hypnotic semantic therapy of alcoholic zoophiliac), 1956 (Oct.), Heilkunst, X, 69th year, Univ. of Munich Therapy Journal
  • Versuch zu einer selbstgelenkten Kindertherapie (Self-directed child therapy), 1956, Der Psychologe, VIII, Vol. 8, Bern

    Versuch zu einer selbstgelenkten Kindertherapie (Self-directed child therapy), 1956, Der Psychologe, VIII, Vol. 8, Bern
  • Allen Ginsberg publishes Owl

    Allen Ginsberg publishes Owl
  • Birth of his first daughter

    Birth of his first daughter
  • Was ist normal? (What is normal?), 1957 (Feb.), Världs Horizont, United Nations J., p. 23

    Was ist normal? (What is normal?), 1957 (Feb.), Världs Horizont, United Nations J., p. 23
  • Was ist normal im Schatten der Atombombe? (Psychology of the Aggression Drive), 1957, Gerold & Co., Vienna

    Was ist normal im Schatten der Atombombe? (Psychology of the Aggression Drive), 1957, Gerold & Co., Vienna
  • Was ist normal: Kind und Jugend in der Gemeinschaft (Child & Youth in Society), 1957, Austrian State Publications on Education, Vienna

    Was ist normal: Kind und Jugend in der Gemeinschaft (Child & Youth in Society), 1957, Austrian State Publications on Education, Vienna
  • Jack Kerouac publishes "On the road"

    Jack Kerouac publishes "On the road"
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    Where is he ? What does he do ?

  • aUI, A Psychosymbolic Language of Semantic Therapy, 1958 (April), International Language Review

    aUI, A Psychosymbolic Language of Semantic Therapy, 1958 (April), International Language Review
  • William S. Burroughs publishes "Naked Lunch"

    William S. Burroughs publishes "Naked Lunch"
  • Birth of his second daughter

    Birth of his second daughter
  • Dr John Weilgart returns to America with his wife and daughters

    Dr John Weilgart returns to America with his wife and daughters
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    California Lutheran College

    Dr John Weilgart teaches psychology at the newly founded California Lutheran College and works as a board certified clinical psychologist at his own private practice
  • abduction by aliens of Barney and Betty Hill

    abduction by aliens of Barney and Betty Hill
    September 19 to 20, 1961
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    The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed throughout much of the Western world between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s

    Building on the Beat's first transgressions and as the 1960s progressed, widespread social tensions also developed concerning other issues, and tended to flow along generational lines regarding human sexuality, women's rights, traditional modes of authority, racism, experimentation with psychoactive drugs, and differing interpretations of the American Dream.
  • Dr Weilgart meets Brad Steiger

    Dr Weilgart meets Brad Steiger
    THey meet at Lutherian College in Decorah where Steiger was an english professor
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    Luther College in Decorah,

    Dr John Weilgart joins the faculty at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa and works as a board certified clinical psychologist at his own private practice
  • WERT (Weilgart-Ethos-Rhyme-Test), Wert Diagnosis for Prophylaxis and Therapy, 1966 (Spring), International Mental Health Research Newsletter, N.Y., Vol. VIII, No. 1, p. 10-16.

    WERT (Weilgart-Ethos-Rhyme-Test), Wert Diagnosis for Prophylaxis and Therapy, 1966 (Spring), International Mental Health Research Newsletter, N.Y., Vol. VIII, No. 1, p. 10-16.
  • first letter received from the Ummite extraterrstrial, many more will follow as well as telephone calls and eventually secret twitter accounts.

    first letter received from the Ummite extraterrstrial, many more will follow as well as telephone calls and eventually secret twitter accounts.
  • The 13th floor elevators coin the term psychedelic rock to describe their music

    The 13th floor elevators coin the term psychedelic rock to describe their music
  • Summer of love, hippie movement

    Summer of love, hippie movement
  • _The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical

    _The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
    Rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot. The work reflects the creators' observations of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, and several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement.
  • White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane

    White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane
  • aUI, The Language of Space, 1968, 2nd. ed., Chand & Co., New Delhi

    aUI, The Language of Space, 1968, 2nd. ed., Chand & Co., New Delhi
  • Woodstock

    Woodstock
    Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to simply as Woodstock, was a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York,[2][3] 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock. Billed as "an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music" and alternatively referred to as the Woodstock Rock Festival, it attracted an audience of more than 400,000
  • The Sounding Cave of Wind & Wave, Cosmic Communication Co., Decorah, IA

    The Sounding Cave of Wind & Wave, Cosmic Communication Co., Decorah, IA
  • The Language of Space, Peace through Understanding, 1970, Decorah, IA

    The Language of Space, Peace through Understanding, 1970, Decorah, IA
  • aUI, BioRhythms of Communication, 1970, Cosmic Communication Co., Decorah, IA

    aUI, BioRhythms of Communication, 1970, Cosmic Communication Co., Decorah, IA
  • Cosmic Cards, quartet game, 1970

    Cosmic Cards, quartet game, 1970
  • Communication: Logic or Command, 1971, Papers in Linguistics, Linguistic Research Inc., Univ. of Illinois & Alberta, p. 127-168

    Communication: Logic or Command, 1971, Papers in Linguistics, Linguistic Research Inc., Univ. of Illinois & Alberta, p. 127-168
  • Cosmic Dreams in Healing Words (aUI & English), 1971, Cosmic Communication Co., Decorah, IA

    Cosmic Dreams in Healing Words (aUI & English), 1971, Cosmic Communication Co., Decorah, IA
  • aUI, The Language of Space, 1974, 3rd enriched ed., Cosmic Communication Co., Decorah, IA

    aUI, The Language of Space, 1974, 3rd enriched ed., Cosmic Communication Co., Decorah, IA
  • Cosmic Communication in Elements of Essence, 1975, Cosmic Communication Co., Decorah, IA

    Cosmic Communication in Elements of Essence, 1975, Cosmic Communication Co., Decorah, IA
  • Toward a Scientific Language, (for Academy of Science), 1976

    Toward a Scientific Language, (for Academy of Science), 1976
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    VW camper bus painted with aUI symbols

    Dr John Weilgart travels in his VW camper bus painted with aUI symbols throughout the West, seeking lecture venues at colleges and striking up conversations with people along the way, which often ended in the sale of an aUI book.
  • Peace thru People: A philosophy of survival for the pan-atomic age, 1977

    Peace thru People: A philosophy of survival for the pan-atomic age, 1977
  • Cosmic Logotherapy with aUI, the Language of Space: Health thru Harmony, Creation & Truth, 1978

    Cosmic Logotherapy with aUI, the Language of Space: Health thru Harmony, Creation & Truth, 1978
  • Dr John Weilgart dies of acute leukemia

    Dr John Weilgart dies of acute leukemia
  • Oumuamua is the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.

    Oumuamua is the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.
    On 26 October 2018, Loeb and his postdoc Shmuel Bialy submitted a paper exploring the possibility of ʻOumuamua being an artificial thin solar sail[129][130] accelerated by solar radiation pressure, in an effort to help explain the object's comet-like non-gravitational acceleration