Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #32
February 26, 2005
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Origins and Prehistory
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Anthropologist resigns in 'dating disaster'
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Posted by ovrtaxt
On News/Activism 02/19/2005 4:36:58 AM PST · 38 replies · 815+ views
worldnetdaily.com | February 19, 2005 | WorldNetDaily
A flamboyant anthropology professor, whose work had been cited as evidence Neanderthal man once lived in Northern Europe, has resigned after a German university panel ruled he fabricated data and plagiarized the works of his colleagues. Reiner Protsch von Zieten, a Frankfurt university panel ruled, lied about the age of human skulls, dating them tens of thousands of years old, even though they were much younger, reports Deutsche Welle. "The commission finds that Prof. Protsch has forged and manipulated scientific facts over the past 30 years," the university said of the widely recognized expert in carbon data in a prepared...
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Anthropologist resigns in 'dating disaster'
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Posted by Woodworker
On News/Activism 02/19/2005 7:36:30 AM PST · 809 replies · 7,521+ views
Worlnetdaily | February 19, 2005 | unattributed
Panel says professor of human origins made up data, plagiarized works A flamboyant anthropology professor, whose work had been cited as evidence Neanderthal man once lived in Northern Europe, has resigned after a German university panel ruled he fabricated data and plagiarized the works of his colleagues. Reiner Protsch von Zieten, a Frankfurt university panel ruled, lied about the age of human skulls, dating them tens of thousands of years old, even though they were much younger, reports Deutsche Welle. "The commission finds that Prof. Protsch has forged and manipulated scientific facts over the past 30 years," the university said...
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Disgraced Anthropologist Drinks 40,000-Year-Old Milk (Humerus break)
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Posted by InvisibleChurch
On News/Activism 02/19/2005 7:28:21 AM PST · 26 replies · 708+ views
www.scrappleface.com
Disgraced Anthropologist Drinks 40,000-Year-Old Milk by Scott Ott (2005-02-19) -- A disgraced German anthropology professor, who pretended to use carbon dating to establish a link between Neanderthals and modern man, told reporters today that he regularly drinks 40,000-year-old milk and drives a Porsche Carrera made in 736 BC. Frankfurt Professor Reiner Protsch von Zieten resigned this week from a 30-year career as one of the world's leading anthropologists, when a panel concluded his carbon dating of human bones was incorrect by thousands of years. The inquiry found that one skull, which Mr. Protsch claimed came from a 27,400-year-old human fossil,...
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History of modern man unravels as German scholar is exposed as fraud
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Posted by FNU LNU
On News/Activism 02/21/2005 9:44:35 AM PST · 106 replies · 1,425+ views
The Guardian | February 19, 2005 | Luke Harding
History of modern man unravels as German scholar is exposed as fraud Flamboyant anthropologist falsified dating of key discoveries Luke Harding in Berlin Saturday February 19, 2005 The Guardian It appeared to be one of archaeology's most sensational finds. The skull fragment discovered in a peat bog near Hamburg was more than 36,000 years old - and was the vital missing link between modern humans and Neanderthals. This, at least, is what Professor Reiner Protsch von Zieten - a distinguished, cigar-smoking German anthropologist - told his scientific colleagues, to global acclaim, after being invited to date the extremely rare skull....
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Fossils Push Human Emergence Back To 195,000 Years Ago
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Posted by tricky_k_1972
On News/Activism 02/19/2005 8:44:08 AM PST · 46 replies · 665+ views
TERRADAILY | Feb 17, 2005 | Salt Lake City UT (SPX)
Fossils Push Human Emergence Back To 195,000 Years Ago Omo I skeletal parts (National Museum of Ethiopia) The bones of an early member of our species, Homo sapiens, known as Omo I, excavated from Ethiopia's Kibish rock formation. The bones are kept in the National Museum of Ethiopia. When the first bones from Omo I were found in 1967, they were thought to be 130,000 years old. Later, 160,000-year-old bones of our species were found elsewhere. Now, scientists from the University of Utah, Australian National University and Stony Brook University have determined that Omo I lived about 195,000 years ago...
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Biology and Cryptobiology
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Ancient Crocodile Found in Australia
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Posted by FairOpinion
On News/Activism 02/23/2005 11:38:15 PM PST · 89 replies · 1,315+ views
Yahoo News | Feb. 23, 2005 | Reuters
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A new species of crocodile which lived 40 million years ago has been discovered in tropical Australia, filling a gap in the evolution of the prehistoric-looking crocodile, researchers said on Thursday. Two nearly complete skulls and a lower jaw of a new species of crocodile that belonged to a group called Mekosuchinae were unearthed by miners in the northern state of Queensland, said Australia's Monash University researcher Lucas Buchanan. "There is a big gap from about 30 to 60 million years ago of which we have no clue, except for these guys," Buchanan told Reuters on Thursday....
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Ice age bacteria brought back to life
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Posted by aimhigh
On News/Activism 02/25/2005 12:57:59 PM PST · 89 replies · 1,234+ views
www.NewScientist.com | 2/25/2005 | Kelly Young
A bacterium that sat dormant in a frozen pond in Alaska for 32,000 years has been revived by NASA scientists. Once scientists thawed the ice, the previously undiscovered bacteria started swimming around on the microscope slide. The researchers say it is the first new species of microbe found alive in ancient ice. Now named Carnobacterium pleistocenium, it is thought to have lived in the Pleistocene epoch, a time when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth. NASA astrobiologist Richard Hoover, who led the team, said the find bolsters the case for finding life elsewhere in the universe, particularly given this week's...
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Life on the Scales - Simple Mathematical Relationships Underpin Much of Biology and Ecology
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Posted by furball4paws
On News/Activism 02/20/2005 10:36:58 AM PST · 61 replies · 736+ views
Science News | 2/23/2005 | Erica Klarreich
An article purporting to show simple mathematical relationships in Biology and Ecology.
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Prehistoric 'Bear-Dog' Fossil Unearthed
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Posted by aculeus
On News/Activism 02/24/2005 4:22:48 PM PST · 77 replies · 1,199+ views
Wired (AP) | February 23, 2005 | AP
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Scientists are marveling at a fossil find in California's San Joaquin Valley that has produced the remains of a never-before-seen badger-like creature and a monstrous predator that looks like a cross between a bear and a pit bull. Among the discoveries was the skull of an animal that appears to be an entirely new genus within the same family as otters, skunks and weasels. "It just blew me out of my mind," Xiaoming Wang, associate curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, said after seeing the fossil of the badger-like...
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PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
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Cosmic Rays To Solve Ancient Mexican (Pyramid) Mystery
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/21/2005 12:26:52 PM PST · 11 replies · 455+ views
Scotsman | 2-21-2005 | John von Radowitz
Cosmic Rays to Solve Ancient Mexican Mystery By John von Radowitz, PA Science Correspondent Sub-atomic particles created by cosmic rays from space are to be used to probe a giant Mexican pyramid and solve one of the worldís greatest archaeological mysteries. Investigators are to install detectors beneath the Pyramid of the Sun that look for muons ñ charged particles generated when cosmic rays hit the atmosphere which continuously shower the Earth. They hope the rate at which muons pass through the pyramid will reveal any hidden burial chambers inside. The step pyramid, about 30 miles north-east of Mexico city, is...
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Cosmic rays may reveal pre-Aztec tomb secrets
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Posted by wagglebee
On News/Activism 02/21/2005 6:26:33 PM PST · 30 replies · 542+ views
UK Telegraph | 2/21/05 | Nic Fleming
Scientists are using cosmic ray detectors to uncover the secrets of the earliest large metropolis of the Americas. Archaeologists and nuclear physicists are working together to measure the passage of muons, subatomic particles from deep space, through the 2,000-year-old Pyramid of the Sun to discover whether it was a mausoleum or a ceremonial monument. They believe the experiment will lead them to burial chambers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference was told. Many experts believe that the pyramid, the third largest in the world, holds the mysteries of the pre-Aztec Teotihuacan civilisation. Arturo Menchaca-Rocha, the director of...
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Study: Native Americans Weren't The First
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/25/2005 6:08:54 PM PST · 75 replies · 1,138+ views
The Discovery Channel | 9-6-2004 | Jennifer Viegas
Study: Native Americans Weren't the First By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Sept. 6, 2004 ó DNA analysis of skulls found in Baja California that belonged to an extinct tribe called the Pericues reveal that the Pericues likely were not related to Native Americans and that they probably predated Native Americans in settling the Americas, according to an announcement Monday. The finding, released at the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA) Festival of Science in Exeter, England, adds support to the theory that a number of groups arrived in the Americas via different routes and at varying times, possibly...
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Underwater Arrowheads, Tools Dazzle Maritime Historians (Mi'kmaq - 8,000 YO)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 02/20/2005 11:24:20 AM PST · 37 replies · 744+ views
CBC | 2-17-2005
Underwater arrowheads, tools dazzle Maritime historians Last Updated Thu, 17 Feb 2005 15:28:09 EST CBC News HALIFAX - Archaeologists are showing off a treasure trove they call one of the most significant discoveries of Mi'kmaq artifacts in Nova Scotia. Hundreds of arrowheads and tools, some 8,000 years old, were discovered last summer along the Mersey River, near Kejimkujik National Park in the southwest region of the province. Workers from Nova Scotia Power were doing repairs to generating stations on the river. As water levels dropped in some areas, the riverbed was exposed for the first time since dams were built...
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Ancient Greece
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Digs at Archontiko, Pella uncover more gold-clad warriors
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Posted by afraidfortherepublic
On News/Activism 02/23/2005 10:30:15 AM PST · 15 replies · 510+ views
KATHIMERINI English Edition | 2-23-05 | Iota Myrtsioti
Finds in 141 tombs add to picture of ancient Macedonia Bronze helmet with gold decoration from a mid-sixth-century-BC warriorís grave. Many Macedonian officers were buried in full armor, together with swords, spears and knives. By Iota Myrtsioti - Kathimerini The gold of the ancient Macedonians still gleams on the soldiersí uniforms being unearthed by excavations in the ancient necropolis of Archontiko in Pella. Fully armed Macedonian aristocrats, gold-bedecked women in elaborate jewelry, faience idols and clay vases of exceptional beauty had lain concealed for centuries in 141 simple rectangular trench graves that were discovered recently in the ancient settlement. For...
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In Search of the Real Troy
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 02/20/2005 2:33:23 PM PST · 17 replies · 163+ views
Saudi Aramco World | January/February 2005 Volume 56, Number 1 | Graham Chandler, Photographed by Ergun Cagata
It was then that Swiss scholar Emil Forrer deciphered newly discovered writings from the Hittite Empire to the east, finding two place-namesóWilusa and Taruisaóthat sounded convincingly like the Hittite way of writing "Wilios" (the Greek name for the site was "Ilion") and "Troia" (Troy). He also found a treaty, from the early 13th century BC, between the Hittite king Muwatalli and a king of "Wilusa" named Alaksandu. The kingís name, Forrer added, recalls the name of the Trojan prince Alexanderócalled Paris in Homerís Iliad. Critics pooh-poohed, conceding that a place named Wilusa may have existed, but where was it on...
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Ancient Rome
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Ruins may support tale of Rome's origin (Romulus & Remus Given Boost)
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Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 02/19/2005 11:00:06 PM PST · 22 replies · 901+ views
Washington Times | 2/19/05 | Rachel Sanderson
Italian archaeologists digging in the Forum have unearthed the ruins of a palace they say confirms the legend of Rome's birth -- a discovery that may force the rewriting of Western history. Most contemporary historians dismiss as fable the tale that Romulus founded Rome in 753 B.C. and built a walled city on the slopes of the Palatine hill where he and his twin brother, Remus, were suckled by a wolf in their infancy. Andrea Carandini of Rome's La Sapienza University has spent 20 years trying to prove the skeptics wrong and last month he and his team hit on...
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Paleoclimatology
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Global Warming and Global Cooling are as Old as the Black Plague
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Posted by Brian_Baldwin
On News/Activism 02/22/2005 8:25:26 PM PST · 34 replies · 718+ views
2/22/05 | various
In the 1200ís in Europe something began to change. Most of the wealth of Europe came from the produce of land. Pollen evidence, as well as glacial evidence, prove that from 750 AD to 800 AD, and again two hundred years later from 1150 AD to 1200 AD, Europeís weather suddenly starting warming, known as the ìMedieval Warmî. Pollen studies of the beech forests along the Fernau glacier and in the Ardenes region of Northern France prove that these forests started to expand their borders during the late Eight Century from their A.D. 200 borders, and we discover that Alpine...
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Catastrophism and Astronomy
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Researchers have found 9,000-year-old mangrove forests.
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Posted by Lessismore
On News/Activism 02/22/2005 7:19:40 PM PST · 45 replies · 851+ views
Australian Broadcasting | February 23, 2005 | Reuters
Ancient mangrove forests found under reef North Queensland marine researchers have opened a window into the past by exposing ancient mangrove forests entombed beneath the Great Barrier Reef. Dr Dan Alongi from the Australian Institute of Marine Science says they have unearthed 9,000-year-old mangroves in old river channels that were swamped when sea levels rose after the last ice age. He says the relic mangroves show an abrupt rise in the sea level, 20 times faster than previously thought. "Material was very much intact, it didn't even have time to fully decompose when it was buried, so it does tell...
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Tsunami Uncovers Ancient City in India
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Posted by Unam Sanctam
On News/Activism 02/18/2005 6:12:00 AM PST · 16 replies · 677+ views
AP/Red Nova | Feb. 18, 2005
MAHABALIPURAM, India (AP) -- Archaeologists have begun underwater excavations of what is believed to be an ancient city and parts of a temple uncovered by the tsunami off the coast of a centuries-old pilgrimage town. Three rocky structures with elaborate carvings of animals have emerged near the coastal town of Mahabalipuram, which was battered by the Dec. 26 tsunami. As the waves receded, the force of the water removed sand deposits that had covered the structures, which appear to belong to a port city built in the seventh century, said T. Satyamurthy, a senior archaeologist with the Archaeological Survey of...
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Were the dinosaurs done in by fungus?
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 02/22/2005 11:40:37 PM PST · 16 replies · 164+ views
Boston Globe | February 22, 2005 | Carolyn Y. Johnson
"The forests went out. The fungi proliferated, and the Earth became a giant compost pile. An enormous number of spores were released," said Dr. Arturo Casadevall, an infectious disease researcher who proposed last month that air thick with fungal spores after the meteor hit could have overwhelmed animals' immune systems, causing sickness and death... "It's just a beautifully creative suggestion," said Nicholas Money, a mycologist, or mold expert, from Miami University of Ohio and author of "Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores: A Natural History of Toxic Mold." ...Casadevall, of Albert Einstein College of New York... has long been troubled by...
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Let's Have Jerusalem
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Carbon Dating Backs Bible on Edom
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Posted by Pendragon_6
On News/Activism 02/18/2005 7:19:50 AM PST · 25 replies · 682+ views
South Bend Tribune | 17 Feb 2005 | Richard N. Ostling
February 17, 2005 Carbon dating backs Bible on Edom By RICHARD N. OSTLING Associated Press Writer Evidence of biblical kingdom of Edom Some archaeologists are convinced that pottery remains and radiocarbon work in Jordan were from a site that was part of the Edomite state. The Mideast's latest archaeological sensation is all about Edom. The Bible says Edom's kings interacted with ancient Israel, but some scholars have confidently declared that no Edomite state could have existed that early. The latest archaeological work indicates the Bible got it right, those experts got it wrong and some write-ups need rewriting. The findings...
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Coptic manuscripts unearthed in Pharaonic tomb in Egypt
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Posted by xzins
On Religion 02/25/2005 7:30:48 PM PST · 9 replies · 97+ views
Middle East Times
Coptic manuscripts unearthed in Pharaonic tomb in Egypt Published February 21, 2005 CAIRO -- Polish experts excavating in the southern city of Luxor have discovered three ancient Coptic manuscripts in a Pharaonic tomb, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said on Saturday. The find was the single most important Coptic discovery since 1945 when a pair of bedouins stumbled onto the Coptic codices in Nag Hammadi in Egypt's western desert, it said. The manuscripts date to the sixth century and were concealed in a Middle Kingdom (2000 to 1800 BC) tomb in Luxor, about 710 kilometers (440 miles) south of Cairo,...
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Medieval Europe
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VIking ship cracking up (Norway)
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Posted by franksolich
On News/Activism 02/25/2005 12:31:47 PM PST · 94 replies · 1,297+ views
Aftenposten | February 25, 2005 | tr. Nina Berglund
Viking ship cracking upEperts are worried about one of Norway's national treasures. Archaeologists have discovered cracks in the hull of he famed Oseberg Viking ship, which may halt plans to move the vessel to a new museum.The archaeologists have been carefully going over the nearly 1,200-year-old ship, and are concerned about what they see, reports newspaper Aftenposten.Removal of the vessel's top deck has revealed some exciting new details, like graffiti from the Viking age and details of the ship's rigging. But it's also exposed cracks that make archaeologists worry the ship won't tolerate any move to new quarters.There have been...
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Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
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Lincoln: Tyrant, Hypocrite or Consumate Statesman? (Dinesh defends our 2d Greatest Prez)
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Posted by churchillbuff
On News/Activism 02/18/2005 11:27:18 PM PST · 381 replies · 2,849+ views
thehistorynet. | Feb 12, 05 | D'Souza
The key to understanding Lincoln's philosophy of statesmanship is that he always sought the meeting point between what was right in theory and what could be achieved in practice. By Dinesh D'Souza Most Americans -- including most historians -- regard Abraham Lincoln as the nation's greatest president. But in recent years powerful movements have gathered, both on the political right and the left, to condemn Lincoln as a flawed and even wicked man. For both camps, the debunking of Lincoln usually begins with an exposÈ of the "Lincoln myth," which is well described in William Lee Miller's 2002 book Lincoln's...
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Question about steam locomotives
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Posted by franksolich
On General/Chat 02/10/2005 4:02:38 PM PST · 6 replies · 169+ views
blatant shameless vanity | February 10, 2005 | self
Okay, so I am sitting around after work, at peace with the world and seeking argument from no one, when I learn that the famous 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" steam locomotives of the Union Pacific were NOT the largest in the world. I am confused, because every book I have about railways insists the "Big Boys" were the largest steam locomotives, ever, in the world. But the the Guiness Book of World Records throws a loop, insisting that in 1916 the Virginian Railway had a 2-8-8-8-4-6 locomotive, and that between 1914 and 1929, the Erie Railroad ran a freight train using...
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Warren G. Harding Was Black (my head hurts)
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Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 02/23/2005 12:21:00 AM PST · 28 replies · 270+ views
Stewart Synopsis | 2002 (Revised: 02/20/05) | M. Stewart
NORAD encryption uses fractalization from the oil at Teapot Dome Scandal. The US was using the oil at Teapot Dome for early attempts at "Artificial Intelligence" even in Harding's time. The basis for all US Codes and radio encryption started in WW1 at Teapot Dome Scandal. It was this early work that would eventually lead to the Breaking of Enigma's Code and Japan's "Purple" Machine. There are indications that Harding was not aware of the significance of Teapot Dome when he allowed the drilling rights to be transferred.
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