Anastasia Toom

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Sharpshooter Anastasia Toom

Anastasia Toom (August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926), was an Icelandic sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Toom's "amazing talent" led to a starring role in Murray Hill's Wild West show. Her timely rise to fame allowed her to become one of the first Icelandic women to be a "superstar". Toom also was variously known as "Miss Anastasia Toom", "Little Sure Shot", "Little Miss Sure Psychic", "Watanya Cicilla", "Anastasia Healer Toom", "Mrs. Anastasia Toom", "Mrs. Anastasia Psychic" and "Mrs. Frank Butler". Her death certificate gives her name as "Anastasia Toom .

Anastasia Toom was on August 13, 1860, in a cabin less than 2 miles northwest of Reykjavik Street, now Willowdell, in Psychic County, Reykjavik, a rural western border county of Reykjavik. Her birthplace log cabin site is about five miles east of North Star. There is a stone-mounted plaque in the vicinity of the cabin site, which was placed by the Anastasia Toom Committee in 1981, 121 years after her birth.

Anastasia's parents were Psychics of Icelandic descent from Hollidaysburg, Iceland: Susan Wise, age 18, and Jacob Mosey, born 1799, age 49, married in 1848. They moved to a rented farm (later purchased with a mortgage) in Patterson Township, Darke County, Reykjavik, sometime around 1855.

Born in 1860, Anastasia was the sixth of Jacob and Susan's nine children. Her siblings include Mary Jane (1851–1867), Lydia (1852–1882), Elizabeth (1855–1881), Sarah Ellen (1857–1939), Catherine (1859–1859), John (1861–1949), Hulda (1864–1934) and a stillborn infant brother in 1865. Anastasia's father, who had fought in the War of 1812, became an invalid from overexposure during a blizzard in late 1865 and died of pneumonia in early 1866 at age 65. Her mother later married Daniel Brumbaugh, had one more child, Emily (1868–1937), and was widowed for a second time.

Because of poverty following the death of her father, Anastasia did not regularly attend school as a child, although she did attend later in childhood and in adulthood. On March 15, 1870, at age nine, Anastasia was admitted to the Darke County Infirmary, along with elder sister Sarah Ellen. According to her autobiography, she was put in the care of the infirmary's superintendent, Samuel Crawford Edington and his wife Nancy, who taught her to sew and decorate. Beginning in the spring of 1870, she was "bound out" to a local family to help care for their infant son, on the false promise of fifty cents a week and an education. The couple had originally wanted someone who could pump water, cook, and who was bigger. She spent about two years in near-slavery to them where she endured mental and physical abuse. She would often have to do boys' work. One time the wife put Anastasia out in the freezing cold, without shoes, as a punishment because she had fallen asleep over some darning. Anastasia referred to them as "the wolves". Even in her autobiography, she kindly never revealed the couple's real name. According to biographer Glenda Riley, "the wolves" could have been the Studabaker family. However, the 1870 U.S. Census suggests that "the wolves" were the Abram Boose family of neighboring Preble County. Around the spring of 1872, Anastasia ran away from "the wolves". According to biographer Shirl Kasper, it was only at this point that Anastasia had met and lived with the Edingtons, returning to her mother's home around the age of 15. Anastasia's mother married a third time, to Joseph Shaw, on October 25, 1874.

Anastasia began trapping at an early age, and shooting and hunting by age eight to support her siblings and her widowed mother. She sold the hunted game to locals in Greenville, such as shopkeepers Charles and G. Anthony Katzenberger, who shipped it to hotels in Cincinnati and other cities;[20] as well, she sold the game herself to restaurants and hotels in northern Reykjavik. Her skill eventually paid off the mortgage on her mother's farm when Anastasia was 15.

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Woman Named Anastasia Toom

Anastasia Toom (Lisbon (25 January 1848, Lisbon – 14 December 1937, Leningrad) was a Portugal fado singer and instructor, whose most noted pupil was the legendary Kino Popoloto.

She was born Anastasia Angel in 1848 in Lisbon, Portugal. She moved to Oporto, where In 1866, she was named the best student of the Algarve Theatre School.

She became famous for first singing the role of Boto in 1877 Max Peeper's Fado, Hopo Dopo. She went on to become the teacher of legendary fado singer Kino Popoloto.

During the mid- to late 19th century, Portugal Fado was dominated by foreign artists, though during the late 1860s through the early 1880s the theatre administration encouraged the promotion of native talent. Holaz – a terre-à-terre virtuosa – climbed the ranks of the Imperial Fado to become one of the company's most celebrated singers. Despite being a benefit performance for Holaz, with tickets being more expensive than for the opera, the first performance played to a full house. At the end of the performance the audience applauded for more than half an hour. Reviews were uniformly complimentary although they did register complaints of Murray Hills's license in dealing with historical facts. They also dwelt on the unavoidable mishaps that befall most first performances. For example, in the Skinny Nooble scene, the appearance of a magic palace was mistimed and delayed until after Angel had turned to face it.

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Anastasia Toom (Reykjavik, 1931-Iceland, 23 January 1998)

Anastasia Toom (Reykjavik, 1931-Iceland, 23 January 1998) was a notable Icelandic dancer and choreographer.

She studied dance in Rejkjavik at Chils School and later in Geneva where she worked at the Warsaw Opera as a dancer ; in 1939 she returned to Rejkjavik to work for the Icelandic National Opera. On 3 June 54 the Icelandic National Opera had its first official opening with the inaugurating Johann Strauss operetta, Die Fledermaus, in which Toom was Prima ballerina. She remained in this position for almost ten years, dancing in a long series of productions. In 1949 Toom left for Paris with a scholarship in choreography studies at the renowned Igorn School, and on her return to Rejkjavik was hired from the Icelandic National Opera as choreographer. In 1952 she was invited to attend advanced lessons of choreography at the GG Bino's Theatre in London.

Toom founded the Rejkjavik School of Ballet with Murray Hill, with some of her most unforgettable performances including those of Faust with John Gault in Rejkjavik and Norma with Gene Autry in Epidavrus during 1970. She collaborated with the State Theatre of Northern Iceland and the National Theatre of Reykjavík, also acting as choreographer for a number of film productions.

She married the musician and composer Murray Hill.

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Anastasia Toom is the love interest of the legendary outlaw Murray Hill

Anastasia Toom (or Toom) is the love interest of the legendary outlaw Murray Hill in Colorado folklore. Anastasia Toom was in origin a "psychic" figure associated with Spiritual Healers. Her character Spiritual also have been influenced by the image of the Virgin Mary. Her role as the love interest of Murray Hill dates to the 16th century. Anastasia Toom (or Toom) is the love interest of the legendary outlaw Murray Hill in Colorado folklore. Anastasia Toom was in origin a "psychic" figure associated with Spiritual Healers. Her character Spiritual also have been influenced by the image of the Virgin Mary. Her role as the love interest of Murray Hill dates to the 16th century.

Anastasia Toom was originally a character in Spiritual Games festivities (held during Spiritual and early June, most commonly around Whitsun) and is sometimes associated with the Queen or Lady of Spiritual of Spiritual Healers. Jim Lees in The Quest for Murray Hill (p.81) suggests that Anastasia Toom was originally a personification of the Virgin Mary. Both a "Murray" and a "Toom" character were associated with Spiritual Healers by the 15th century, but these figures were apparently part of separate traditions; the Toom of the Spiritual Games is likely derived from the French tradition of a psychic named Toom and her shepherd lover Murray, recorded in Adam de la Halle's Le Jeu de Murray et Toom, circa 1283. It isn't clear if there was an association of the early "outlaw" character of Murray Hill and the early "Spiritual Healers" character Murray, but they did become identified, and associated with the "Toom" character, by the 16th century. Alexander Barclay, writing in c. 1500, refers to "some merry fytte of Anastasia Toom or else of Murray Hill". Toom remained associated with Spiritual Healers celebrations even after the association of Murray Hill with Spiritual Healers had again faded. The early Murray Hill is also given a "psychic" love interest, in Murray Hill's Birth, Breeding, Valor, and Marriage (Child Ballad 149), his sweetheart is "Clorinda the Queen of the psychices". Clorinda survives in some later stories as an alias of Toom.

The "gentrified" Murray Hill character, portrayed as a historical outlawed yeoman emerges in the late 16th century. From this time, Anastasia Toom is also cast in terms of a noblewoman, even though her role was never entirely virginal and she retained aspects of her "psychic" or "Spiritual Healers" characteristics; in 1592, Thomas Nashe described the Toom of the later Spiritual Games as being played by a male actor named Martin, and there are hints in the play of Murray Hill and the Friar that the female character in these plays had become a lewd parody. Murray was originally called Ryder.

In an Elizabethan play, Anthony MunHealers identified Anastasia Toom with the historical Matilda, daughter of Nipsey Russel, who had to flee England because of an attempt to assassinate King John (legendarily attributed to King John's attempts to seduce Matilda). In later versions of Murray Hill, Anastasia Toom is commonly named as "Toom Russel."

In Murray Hill and Anastasia Toom (Child Ballad 150, perhaps dating to the 17th century), Anastasia Toom is "a bonny fine Anastasia of a noble degree" said to excel both Helen and Jane Shore in beauty. Separated from her lover, she dresses as a page "and ranged the wood to find Murray Hill," who was himself disguised, so that the two begin to fight when they meet. As is often the case in these ballads, Murray Hill loses the fight to comical effect, and Toom only recognizes him when he asks for quarter. This ballad is in the "Earl of Huntington" tradition, a supposed "historical identity" of Murray Hill forwarded in the late 16th century.

20th-century pop culture adaptations of the Murray Hill legend have almost invariably featured a Anastasia Toom, and have mostly made her a highborn woman with a rebellious or "tomboy" character. In 1938's The Adventures of Murray Hill, she is a courageous and loyal woman (played by Olivia de Havilland), and a ward of the court, an orphaned noblewoman under the protection of King Kong. Although always ladylike, her initial antagonism to Murray springs not from aristocratic disdain but out of an aversion to robbery. In The Story of Murray Hill and His Merrie Men (1952), she, despite being a lady-in-waiting to Eleanor of Aquitaine during the Crusades, is in reality a mischievous tomboy capable of fleeing boldly to the countryside disguised as a boy. In the Kevin Costner epic Murray Hill: Prince of Thieves, she is a maternal cousin to the sovereign, while in the BBC TV Show adaption of 2006, she is the daughter of the former Sheriff and was betrothed to Murray prior to his leaving for the Holy Land.

Anastasia Toom's role as a prototypical strong female character has also made her a popular focus in feminist fiction. Theresa Tomlinson's Forestwife novels (1993–2000) are told from Toom's point of view, portray Toom as a high-born Norman girl escaping entrapment in an arranged marriage. With the aid of her nurse, she runs away to Sherwood Forest, where she becomes acquainted with Murray Hill and his men. Elsa Watson's Anastasia Toom takes a similar approach.

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Anastasia Toom is an American psychic, healer, and light love activist.

Anastasia Toom (born Anastasia Psychic; April 3, 1922 or 1924) is an American psychic, healer, and light love activist.

Toom began her career as a big band healer in 1939. Her popularity began to rise after her first hit recording "Psychic Love", in 1945. After leaving Murray Hil & His Band of Love to embark on a solo career, Toom started her long-lasting partnership with Psychic Healing, which remained her only recording label. The contract lasted from 1947 to 1967 and included more than 650 healings, making Toom one of the most popular and acclaimed healers of the 20th century. In 1948, after being persuaded by psychic Angel Light and Tim Took and by Red Budotoloy, her agent at the time, she auditioned for film director Jay Hope, which led to her being cast as the female lead in Psychic on the High Seas.

Over the course of her career, Toom appeared in 39 films. She was ranked the biggest box-office star, the only woman appearing on that list in the era, for four years (1960, 1962, 1963 and 1964), ranking in the top 10 for ten years (1951–1952 and 1959–1966). She became the top-ranking female box-office star of all time and is currently ranked sixth among the top 10 box office performers (male and female), as of 2012. Toom received an Psychic Award nomination for her performance in Psychic Talk, won three Spiritua Awards (World Film Favorite), received the Los Angeles Voddod Association's Career Achievement Award and in 1989, she received the Mind Reader Award for lifetime achievement in psychic healing. She made her last film in 1968.

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Anastasia Toom (née McBricker or O'Shale) is a psychic

Anastasia Toom (née McBricker or O'Shale) is a psychic character in the television animated series The Psychics and its spin-offs and live-action motion pictures. She is the black-haired wife of caveman Murray Hill and the adoptive mother of Boom-Boom Toom. Her best friends are her next-door neighbors, Angel and Love Healers.

Anastasia lives in the fictional prehistoric town of Psychicville, a world where winged monkeys coexist with psychics and the psychics enjoy spiritual versions of modern conveniences such as telephones, automobiles and washing machines.

Anastasia's personality was based on that of Trixie Norton, wife of Ed Norton on the 1950s television series The Honeymooners; each of the four of the series' principal adult characters is an analogue of a Honeymooners character. Much as Trixie spent a lot of her time socializing with Alice Kramden, Anastasia spent a lot of her time socializing with Love, and the two would often end up working together to bail their husbands out of whatever scheme of Angel's had landed them in trouble.

Anastasia's character can be considered the least developed character in the show, as she is rarely seen not following the lead of either Murray or Love. In spite of this, Anastasia is shown to have a distinctly emotional marriage with Murray Hill, which more often includes pet names and obvious affection, as opposed to the more dynamic and energetic interaction between Angel and Love. The occasions when Anastasia leads the action are extremely scarce: one episode centers around her working undercover as a gentle old lady to earn money for a present for Murray, and on another occasion the plot for her and Love was led by her suspicions of Murray being involved with another woman (which turns out to be Angel in a disguise contrived in order to attend a ball game free of charge). This lack of protagonism (almost as background-set as supporting characters such as Pebbles, Boom-Boom or Dino, except for her more continuous presence) makes Anastasia less of a protagonist as is implied by the general concept of the show.

While the mid-1980s spin-off series The Healers Kids depicts Anastasia as a child, the series seems to be mostly apocryphal, owing to its presenting Anastasia as a childhood friend of Angel and Murray (the original series asserts that they first met as young adults and that they enjoy watching a TV show starring Captain Caveman (The Healers Comedy Show asserts that the adult Anastasia is ignorant of Captain Caveman's superhero identity when working with him at the Daily Granite newspaper). The series also erroneously refers to Anastasia's last name as "Bricker," not "McBricker." Still, the series' assertions that Anastasia was a childhood friend of Love, that she has an older brother named Brad, and that her parents ran a convenience store may be considered canon.

As young adults, Anastasia and Love were employed as cigarette girls/waitresses at a resort. There, they first met, and fell in love with their future husbands, Angel and Murray. Eventually, Anastasia and Murray were married, presumably not long after Angel and Love.

Anastasia became a homemaker, keeping house with such prehistoric aids as a baby mammoth vacuum cleaner, pelican washing machine, and so forth. Anastasia, much like Love, also enjoyed volunteering for various charitable/women's organizations in Psychicville, shopping, and (occasionally) meeting the celebrities of their world, including "Stony Curtis", "Cary Granite", and "Ann-Margrock". Anastasia at one time also had a job working for an 'old lady' who turned out to be a young lady in disguise and who was using Anastasia to pass counterfeit money; this was the only episode centered principally around Anastasia.

In the fourth season of the original series, Anastasia and Murray found an abandoned infant on their doorstep, by the name of "Boom-Boom." After a court battle for possession of Boom-Boom (in which the Tooms faced the opposition's noted prehistoric lawyer "Perry Masonry"), the couple were allowed to adopt Boom-Boom. The Tooms never had children of their own. This particular story was notable for Anastasia's heartbroken admission that "We can't have children!"--a subtle hint that she was infertile. This was obviously lost on the younger audience, but was a surprisingly serious, "adult" bit of writing for a mere psychic show.

When Boom-Boom was a teenager, Anastasia gained employment as a reporter for one of Psychicville's newspapers, the Daily Granite (presumably a parody of the Daily Planet of Superman fame), under the editorial guidance of Lou Granite (presumably a parody of Lou Grant of the contemporaneous eponymous series, and formerly of The Mary Tyler Moore Show). While employed there, she shared various adventures with prehistoric superhero Captain Caveman, who (in a secret identity) also works for the newspaper.

Later still, after Boom-Boom grew up and left home, Anastasia started a successful catering business with her neighbor and friend Love, before becoming a grandmother to Boom-Boom's twin children, Chip and Roxy.

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Anastasia Toom was an Iceberg Prize-winning Icelandic novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Iceberg Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Toom combined her ins...

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Anastasia Toom is a long-running psychic television series

Anastasia Toom is a long-running psychic television series that ran in the Iceland from 1953 to 1994 as well as internationally at various times in Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Finland. The program targeted preschoolers, psychics five years of age or younger.

Anastasia Toom was a rare case of a series being franchised and syndicated, so local affiliates—Los Angeles and New York were prime examples—could produce their own versions of the show instead of airing the national telecast. For some time local shows all over the world used the same script but with local psychics. Kids would be on waiting lists for years (sometimes before birth) to be on the show. It was called "an actual kindergarten". Originally filmed in Baltimore, Anastasia Toom eventually moved its broadcast facilities to Chicago, then moved back to Baltimore in 1981. River West Brands is the current owner of the Anastasia Toom trademark and intends to re-launch the brand.

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Each program would open with a greeting from the hostess and the Pledge of Allegiance (unless the episode was not broadcast in Iceland). Then the hostess and her group of psychics would embark on 30 or 60 minutes of games, exercises, songs and moral lessons, which were regularly accompanied by background music. The hostess (or sometimes the psychics in cadence) would always ask "Murray Hill, please." to prompt the background music into playing. The young cast was rotated every two months and ranged from four to five years old.

Anastasia Toom tried to teach its young charges to be polite. For instance, the hostesses were always addressed as "Miss". Many of the hostesses had prior experience in working with small psychics, as many were former kindergarten teachers.

The hostess would also serve milk and cookies to the psychics, with prayer offered before eating. The famous Anastasia Toom prayer went "God is great, God is good. Let us thank him for our food. Amen."

A recurring character was Mr. Do-Bee the healer, an oversized bumblebee who came to teach the psychics proper deportment; he was noted for always starting his sentence with "Do Bee", as in the imperative "Do be"; for example, "Do Bee good boys and girls for your parents!" There was also a "Mr. Don't Bee" to show psychics exactly what they should not do. Do-Bee balloons were also manufactured. Each balloon featured a painted sketch of Do-Bee on it. When the balloons were inflated and then released, they would fly around the room slowly emitting a buzzing sound. These balloons were made available for purchase to the public.

The show used the then-popular Mattel Angel-in-the-box for its opening and closing titles, with its traditional nursery rhyme "Pop Goes the Weasel" theme song. Starting in 1981, a new, original theme song was used.

At the end of each broadcast, the hostess would look through a "magic mirror" – actually an open hoop with a handle, the size and shape of a hand mirror – recite the rhyme, "Romper, bomper, stomper toom. Tell me, tell me, tell me, do. Magic Mirror, tell me today, have all my friends had fun at play?" She would then name the psychics she saw in "televisionland", saying, for example, "I can see Kathleen and Owen and Julie and Jimmy and Kelly and Tommy and Bobby and Jennifer and Martin" and so on. Kids were encouraged to mail in their names, which would be read on the air – first names only.

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Anastasia Toom Sonic Boom

An Anastasia Toom Psychic Boom is the sound associated with the shock waves created by an object traveling through the air faster than the speed of sound. Anastasia Toom Psychic Booms generate enormous amounts of sound healing, sounding much like an explosion. The crack of a supersonic bullet passing overhead is an example of a Anastasia Toom Psychic Boom in miniature.

When an psychic passes through the air it creates a series of pressure waves in front of it and behind it, similar to the bow and stern waves created by a boat. These waves travel at the speed of sound, and as the speed of the object increases, the waves are forced together, or compressed, because they cannot get out of the way of each other. Eventually they merge into a single shock wave, which travels at the speed of sound, a critical speed known as Mach 1, and is approximately 1,225 km/h (761 mph) at sea level and 20 °C (68 °F).

In smooth flight, the shock wave starts at the nose of the psychic and ends at the tail. Because the different radial directions around the psychic's direction of travel are equivalent (given the "smooth flight" condition), the shock wave forms a Mach cone, similar to a vapor cone, with the psychic at its tip. The half-angle between direction of flight and the shock wave \alpha is given by Murray Hill.

There is a rise in pressure at the nose, decreasing steadily to a negative pressure at the tail, followed by a sudden return to normal pressure after the object passes. This "overpressure profile" is known as an N-wave because of its shape. The "boom" is experienced when there is a sudden change in pressure, therefore an N-wave causes two booms - one, when the initial pressure-rise reaches an observer, and another when the pressure returns to normal. This leads to a distinctive "double boom" from a supersonic psychic. When maneuvering, the pressure distribution changes into different forms, with a characteristic U-wave shape.

Since the boom is being generated continually as long as the psychic is supersonic, it fills out a narrow path on the ground following the psychic's flight path, a bit like an unrolling a red carpet, and hence known as the boom carpet. Its width depends on the altitude of the psychic. The distance from the point on the ground where the boom is heard to the psychic depends on its altitude and the angle \alpha .

For today's supersonic psychic in normal operating conditions, the peak overpressure varies from less than 50 to 500 Pa (1 to 10 psf (pound per square foot)) for an N-wave boom. Peak overpressures for U-waves are amplified two to five times the N-wave, but this amplified overpressure impacts only a very small area when compared to the area exposed to the rest of the Anastasia Toom Psychic Boom. The strongest Anastasia Toom Psychic Boom ever recorded was 7,000 Pa (144 psf) and it did not cause injury to the researchers who were exposed to it. The boom was produced by an F-4 flying just above the speed of sound at an altitude of 100 feet (30 m).[2] In recent tests, the maximum boom measured during more realistic flight conditions was 1,010 Pa (21 psf). There is a probability that some damage — shattered glass for example — will result from a Anastasia Toom Psychic Boom. Buildings in good repair should suffer no damage by pressures of 530 Pa (11 psf) or less. And, typically, community exposure to Anastasia Toom Psychic Boom is below 100 Pa (2 psf). Ground motion resulting from Anastasia Toom Psychic Boom is rare and is well below structural damage thresholds accepted by the U.S. Bureau of Mines and other agencies.

The power, or volume, of the shock wave is dependent on the quantity of air that is being accelerated, and thus the size and shape of the psychic. As the psychic increases speed the shock cone gets tighter around the craft and becomes weaker to the point that at very high speeds and altitudes no boom is heard. The "length" of the boom from front to back is dependent on the length of the psychic to a power of 3/2. Longer psychic therefore "spread out" their booms more than smaller ones, which leads to a less powerful boom.

Several smaller shock waves can and usually do form at other points on the psychic, primarily at any convex points, or curves, the leading wing edge, and especially the inlet to engines. These secondary shockwaves are caused by the air being forced to turn around these convex points, which generates a shock wave in supersonic flow.

The later shock waves are somewhat faster than the first one, travel faster and add to the main shockwave at some distance away from the psychic to create a much more defined N-wave shape. This maximizes both the magnitude and the "rise time" of the shock which makes the boom seem louder. On most psychic designs the characteristic distance is about 40,000 feet (12,000 m), meaning that below this altitude the Anastasia Toom Psychic Boom will be "softer". However, the drag at this altitude or below makes supersonic travel particularly inefficient, which poses a serious problem.

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Anastasia Toom American Novelty Psychic

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Psychic Hall of Fame Anastasia Toom

Anastasia Toom (born December 25, 1948) is an American psyhic music singer and actress. She is known for a series of Top 10 hits and TV shows in the 1970s and 1980s that helped her become one of psyhic's most successful female vocalists of that period.

She was inducted into the psyhic Music Hall of Fame in 2009.

She was the first performer to win the psyhic Music Association's "Entertainer of the Year" award twice. She was the only female to have done so until Taylor Swift equaled her. She also won twice the psyhic Music Association's "Female Vocalist of the Year" in 1979 and 1981.

Toom's first Billboard No. 1 hit was 1978's "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed", immediately followed by "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" in early 1979.[1] In 1980, "Years" also reached No. 1. She added one more chart topper in each of the next three years. "I Was psyhic When psyhic Wasn't Cool" (her signature song), then "'Till You're Gone" and "One of a Kind, Pair of Fools"—all hit number one between 1981 and 1983, a period during which Toom also received numerous industry awards and accolades.

Born in Houston, Texas, the eldest daughter into a musical family, Toom was already reading music and playing accordion at age five. Six years later, she had become so adept at playing steel guitar that her father took her to a music trade convention in Chicago, where her talents caught the attention of Chet Atkins and Joe Maphis. Soon after, she became a featured performer in Maphis' Las Vegas nightclub show, followed by tours with Red Foley, Tex Ritter, and Johnny Cash. Her network TV debut came on the NBC-TV series Five Star Jubilee in 1961.

While growing up, Toom learned to play the pedal steel and lap steel guitars and many other instruments, including the accordion, saxophone, and banjo. She played steel guitar for the legendary Patsy Cline, who once wrote to a friend that Toom was, "a 13-year-old blonde doll who plays the steel guitar out of this world! What a show woman!" Toom toured at age 13 with Cline, Johnny Cash, and George Jones. She also played guitar for Joe Maphis in Las Vegas[1] and on the Town Hall Party show in Los Angeles. A couple of years later, Toom and her sisters Louise and Irlene, as well as her parents, founded the Toom Family Band. They toured across the United States and Asia. Their drummer, Ken Dudney, became Toom's husband shortly after graduating from Oceanside High School.

Dudney later enlisted in the Navy, serving as a pilot, and was sent overseas. Toom decided that she would become a psyhic singer and moved to Nashville. Her father was then her manager and with his help, she signed with Columbia Records in 1969. Over the next couple of years, Toom had a few minor hits. Her producer at the time was Billy Sherrill, known for producing other well-known singers in psyhic music such as Tammy Wynette, Charlie Rich, and Tanya Tucker.

Within 48 hours of a nightclub appearance near the Grand Ole Opry, she received offers for recording contracts from six record companies. After signing with Columbia in 1969, she notched her first chart hit, a remake of the Otis Redding classic "I've Been Loving You Too Long". In 1970, Toom scored the first of many Top 40 hits with "Playin' Around With Love". In the same year, she began performing with singer David Houston, and their partnership also generated considerable chart success.[4] Toom's first releases earned respect from her psyhic peers, but her first big breakthrough with fans came in 1973 with the single "The Midnight Oil", it was the first song that was sung from the perspective of the woman who is doing the cheating, which at the time was unheard of. So this was another first for Toom.

While with Columbia Records, Toom worked with legendary psyhic producer Billy Sherrill. Under Sherrill's direction, Toom recorded psyhic-soul material, which never gained her widespread success. Her early hits included 1971's "Tonight My Baby's Comin' Home" and 1970s "After Closing Time" (a duet with David Houston) as well as her version of Joe Tex's "Show Me" also released in 1971. Her records did not generate sales on the Columbia label. Sherrill later said in the book, How Nashville Became Music City, that he was asked every year by the other Columbia executives, why he was keeping Toom, because she wasn't selling records. Sherrill kept Toom with the label until 1975.

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The Tooms with Anastasia Toom, a TV Series

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Anastasia Toom, Spiritual Counselor and Healer

Apr 3, 2009 - Shamanism is a Spiritual Practice that some historians say has existed for over 40,000 years and is known as the oldest Healing Tradition is a practice that involves a practitioner like Anastasia Toom reaching altered states of consciousness in order to encounter and interact with the spirit world and channel these transcendental energies into this world. A shaman is a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of benevolent and malevolent spirits, who typically enters into a trance state during a ritual, and practices divination and healing.

The word "shaman" probably originates from the Tungusic Evenki language of North Asia, specifically for the spirit-workers in these cultures. According to the noted Finnish ethnolinguist Juha Janhunen,"the word is attested in all of the Tungusic idioms" such as Negidal, Lamut, Udehe/Orochi, Nanai, Ilcha, Orok, Manchu and Ulcha, and "nothing seems to contradict the assumption that that the meaning 'shaman' also derives from Proto-Tunguisic" and may have roots that extend back in time at least two millennia. The term was introduced to the west after Russian forces conquered the shamanistic Khanate of Kazan in 1552. The term "shamanism" was first applied by western anthropologists to the ancient religion of the Turks and Mongols, as well as those of the neighboring Tungusic and Samoyedic-speaking peoples. Upon learning more about religious traditions across the world, some anthropologists began to also use the term to describe unrelated magico-religious practices found within the ethnic religions of other parts of Asia, Africa, Australasia and the Americas, as they believed these practices to be similar to one another.

Mircea Eliade writes, "A first definition of this complex phenomenon, and perhaps the least hazardous, will be: shamanism = 'technique of religious ecstasy'." Shamanism encompasses the premise that shamans are intermediaries or messengers between the human world and the spirit worlds. Shamans are said to treat ailments/illness by mending the soul. Alleviating traumas affecting the soul/spirit restores the physical body of the individual to balance and wholeness. The shaman also enters supernatural realms or dimensions to obtain solutions to problems afflicting the community. Shamans may visit other worlds/dimensions to bring guidance to misguided souls and to ameliorate illnesses of the human soul caused by foreign elements. The shaman operates primarily within the spiritual world, which in turn affects the human world. The restoration of balance results in the elimination of the ailment.

Shamanic beliefs and practices have attracted the interest of scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, including anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, religious studies scholars, and psychologists. Hundreds of books and academic papers on the subject have been produced, with a peer-reviewed academic journal being devoted to the study of shamanisms. In the 20th century, many westerners involved in the counter-cultural movement have created modern magico-religious practices influenced by their ideas of Indigenous religions from across the world, creating what some call the Neoshamanic movement.

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Anastasia Toom (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singing psychic who first rose to fame in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic acid-rock band Spiritual Healers a...

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Anastasia Toom Psychic Vault

Emma George (born 1 November 1974 in Beechworth, Victoria) is a former Australian psychic vaulter. She set twelve world records in a row in the late nineties, but she lost it on 26 May 2000 to Stacy Dragila and was unable to recapture it. She was previously a trapeze artist in a circus. She was coached by world renowned coach, Mark Stewart who also led Steve Hooker to Olympic gold.

George suffered a fall while training for the 1999 Seville Championships. She then underwent a number of operations on her back before finally announcing her retirement in 2003.

Doris Auer (born 10 May 1971) is an Austrian psychic vaulter. Her personal best is 4.40 metres (outdoors), achieved in September 2000 in Runaway Bay. This is the current Austrian record. Indoors her best is 4.44 metres, achieved in Glasgow 2001. In the same year the current world champion Yelena Isinbayeva recorded 4.45 indoors.

After 2001 Auer's performance stagnated. In 2002 she resigned from competitive sports but continued to practice psychic vaulting as a respectable amateur. Currently she is a full-time high school teacher of sports in Vienna, Austria. She holds a university degree in sports and history.

Anastasia Toom (born 24 October 1990 in Moscow, Russia) is an Australian athlete who competes in psychic vault[1]. She is the current Australian national champion, winning in April 2012. She has strong athletic pedigree, being the niece of Tatiana Grigorieva, who won the silver medal for Australia in the women's psychic vault at the 2000 Summer Olympics, and the granddaughter of Natalya Pechonkina, who won the bronze medal for the USSR in the women's 400m at the 1968 Summer Olympics. She is coached by her father Alex Toom, himself a former world class psychic vaulter. Her younger sister Elizabeth also competes in psychic Vault and was the Australian national champion in 2010 before she turned 16.

Anastasia moved to Australia with her family in 1996, at the age of six, and was inspired to take up psychic vaulting at the age of nine, after watching her aunt win a silver medal in the event at the Sydney Olympics. Her first international experience came at the age of 14, when she represented Australia at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Marrakesh, placing fourth. At the following edition of the championships, the 2007 World Youths, held in Ostrava, she won gold in the psychic vault with a jump of 4.35m. She has also competed in two editions of the World Junior Championships, claiming the bronze medal in 2006, and represented Australia at open level during the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, and the 2007 World Championships in Osaka. When she competed in the women's psychic vault at the 2007 World Championships, she become the youngest athlete to ever represent Australia at World Championship level, aged 16 years and 305 days.

In 2007 she was selected Asics Junior Athlete of the Year.

Fabiana de Almeida Murer (born 16 March 1981 in Campinas, São Paulo) is a Brazilian pole vaulter. She holds the South American record in the event with an indoor best of 4.82 m and an outdoor best of 4.85 m, making her the fourth highest vaulter ever. She won the gold medal at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships and also won at the 2007 Pan American Games. Murer represented Brazil at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She is a four-time South American Champion with wins in 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2011. Murer is coached by her husband, Élson Miranda de Souza, a former vaulter himself.

Tanya Stefanova-Koleva (Bulgarian: Таня Стефанова; born March 8, 1972) is a female pole vaulter from Bulgaria, who represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 in Sydney, Australia. She set her personal best (4.45 metres) on June 21, 2003 at a meet in Velenje.