Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Supplemental Digest #19a
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Ancient Middle East
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The Kurdish People: A Background and History
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Posted by xzins
On News/Activism 04/07/2004 7:54:38 PM PDT · 35 replies · 87+ views
The Kurdish Partnership | Matthew Hand and Mark Brockman
"No Friends but the Mountains" The Kurdish people comprise a large ethnic group of about 25 million that have always lived in the same place, and trace their roots back to the Medes of ancient Persia more than 2,500 years ago. In fact, the Magi, or "wise men" who traveled from the east to deliver their gold, frankincense and myrrh to the newborn Jesus at Bethlehem were most likely Zoroastrian priests, forbears of the modern Kurds. The Kurds are tribal people, many of them lived, until recently, a nomadic lifestyle in the mountainous regions of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and...
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Zoroastrians Fight Extinction
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Posted by freedom44
On News/Activism 12/23/2003 10:01:12 PM PST · 122 replies · 202+ views
VOANews | 12/23/03 | VOANews
The opening bars of Richard Strauss' composition "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" became famous as the theme for Stanle Kubrick's 1968 movie "2001: A Space Odyssey." But apart from academics and some 300-thosuand believers, few people know much about ancient Iranian prophet Zarathustra and his teaching. "Yet only one thousand years ago, millions, millions espoused Zarathustra's monotheistic percepts in nations which stretched from (the ancient Chinese city of) Sian (western China) to the Eastern China across central Asia, northern India, Iran, Asia Minor, Mesopotamia up Greece in the west and Arabia, north Africa and Ethiopia in the south," says Adi Davar, a...
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Ancient Seas and Thereunder
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Satellite Images 'Show Atlantis'
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 06/06/2004 10:00:25 AM PDT · 102 replies · 194+ views
BBC | 6-6-2004 | Paul Rincon
Satellite images 'show Atlantis' By Paul Rincon BBC News Online science staff The imagery may show the former locations of major buildings and rings A scientist says he may have found remains of the lost city of Atlantis. Satellite photos of southern Spain reveal features on the ground appearing to match descriptions made by Greek scholar Plato of the fabled utopia. Dr Rainer Kuehne thinks the "island" of Atlantis simply referred to a region of the southern Spanish coast destroyed by a flood between 800 BC and 500 BC. The research has been reported as an ongoing project in the...
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Something You Didn't Know About Cajuns (Ilenos, Canary Islands)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/06/2002 6:10:13 PM PDT · 39 replies · 404+ views
Intersurf.com | unknown | Gilbert C. Din/Sidney Villere
ISLENOS, CANARY ISLANDS The archipelago of the Canaries consists of seven main islands, having a total area of less than 6 percent of the size of Louisiana, lying about sixty-five miles west of Morocco in Northern Africa. They were formed as a result of volcanic activity. It is a rugged, mountainous terrain, and plains are almost nonexistent. Lack of water is a serious problem. The westernmost islands receive the most rain, while the two islands closest to the Sahara Desert and lower in elevation have some deserts. The higher elevations on some of the western islands have pleasant temperatures, and...
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A 2nd July 2002 Update of the Undersea City off Cuba! - Involves National Geographic!
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Posted by vannrox
On News/Activism 08/12/2002 7:55:09 PM PDT · 32 replies · 319+ views
The Earth Files | JULY 2002 | Paulina Zelitsky and Paul Weinzweig
† † Update About Cuba Underwater Megalithic Research 2002 by Linda Moulton Howe A half mile down in the waters of Cabo de San Antoniooff the western tip of Cuba's Guanahacabibes marked by red X is a 20-kilometersquare area of clean, white sand punctuated by tall, megalithic stones or structures first reported in May 2001 by Paulina Zelitsky, Ocean Engineer, Havana, Cuba. "They (megalithic stones) are very unique structures. They really are not easy to understand and I do not have any easy explanation for them in a natural geological process." != Manuel Iturralde-Vinent, Ph.D., Geologist, National Museum of...
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Where Was Atlantis? Sundaland Fits The Bill, Surely!
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 10/29/2004 5:18:02 PM PDT · 35 replies · 576+ views
Graham Hancock | unknown | Dr Sunil Prasannan
Where was Atlantis? Sundaland fits the bill, surely! by Dr. Sunil Prasannan Dr. Sunil Prasannan takes a brief time-out from his NMR spectroscopic studies to suggest a Southeast Asian location for Atlantis as described in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias. OK, so I'm an orthodox scientist, but don't let that bother you - I'm really an OK guy! As I have already explained on the Mysteries message board, I don't intend this to be an exhaustive essay, but as I have been asked for more detail, I will gladly provide it. Neither do I wish to pretend I am the...
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Asia
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Farming Origins Gain 10,000 Years
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 06/23/2004 4:42:34 PM PDT · 63 replies · 299+ views
BBC | 6-23-2004
Farming origins gain 10,000 years Wild types of emmer wheat like those found at Ohalo were forerunners of today's varieties Humans made their first tentative steps towards farming 23,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought. Stone Age people in Israel collected the seeds of wild grasses some 10,000 years earlier than previously recognised, experts say. These grasses included wild emmer wheat and barley, which were forerunners of the varieties grown today. A US-Israeli team report their findings in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The evidence comes from a collection of 90,000 prehistoric plant remains dug...
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British Isles
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Unearthed, The Prince Of Stonehenge
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 08/25/2002 5:04:48 PM PDT · 62 replies · 242+ views
The Telegraph (UK) | 8-26-2002 | Roger Highfield
Unearthed, the prince of Stonehenge By Roger Highfield (Filed: 21/08/2002) A prehistoric prince with gold ear-rings has been found near Stonehenge a few yards away from the richest early Bronze Age burial in Britain. Earlier this year, archaeologists found an aristocratic warrior, also with gold ear-rings, on Salisbury Plain and speculated that he may have been an ancient king of Stonehenge. The body was laid to rest 4,300 years ago during the construction of the monument, along with stone arrow heads and slate wristguards that protected the arm from the recoil of the bow. Archaeologists named him the Amesbury Archer....
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Catastrophism and Astronomy
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see "Star of the East / Star of Bethlehem" heading
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Origins and Prehistory
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Y Chromosomes Sketch New Outline of British History
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Posted by Pharmboy
On News/Activism 05/27/2003 3:49:55 PM PDT · 28 replies · 103+ views
NY Times | May 27, 2003 | NICHOLAS WADE
History books favor stories of conquest, not of continuity, so it is perhaps not surprising that many Englishmen grow up believing they are a fighting mixture of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Vikings and Normans who invaded Britain. The defeated Celts, by this reckoning, left their legacy only in the hinterlands of Ireland, Scotland and Wales. A new genetic survey of Y chromosomes throughout the British Isles has revealed a very different story. The Celtic inhabitants of Britain were real survivors. Nowhere were they entirely replaced by the invaders and they survive in high proportions, often 50 percent or more, throughout...
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Y Chromosomes Rewrite British History
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 06/24/2003 10:33:30 AM PDT · 78 replies · 406+ views
Nature | 6-19-2003 | Hannah Hoag
Y chromosomes rewrite British historyAnglo-Saxons' genetic stamp weaker than historians suspected 19 June 2003 HANNAH HOAG Some Scottish men's Y's are remarkably similar to those of southern England. © GettyImages A new survey of Y chromosomes in the British Isles suggests that the Anglo-Saxons failed to leave as much of a genetic stamp on the UK as history books imply1. Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Vikings and Normans invaded Britain repeatedly between 50 BC and AD 1050. Many historians ascribe much of the British ancestry to the Anglo-Saxons because their written legacy overshadows that of the Celts. But the Y chromosomes of...
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PreColumbian, Clovis, PreClovis
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Cave Skeleton Is European, 1,300 Years Old (Wyoming)
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/30/2002 3:47:50 PM PDT · 61 replies · 170+ views
Sunday Gazette Mail | 9-29-2002 | Rick Steelhammer
Cave skeleton is European, 1,300 years old, man says Archaeologist group wants a look at evidence Sunday September 29, 2002 By Rick Steelhammer STAFF WRITER MORGANTOWN -- The man who first advanced the theory that markings carved on in a Wyoming County cave are actually characters from an ancient Irish alphabet has found human remains at the site, which tests indicate are European in origin and date back to A.D. 710, he maintains. Robert Pyle of Morgantown says that a DNA analysis of material from the skeleton's teeth roots was conducted by Brigham Young University. That analysis, he says, shows...
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Star of the East / Star of Bethlehem
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Early Christians Hid The Origins Of The Bethlehem Star
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 12/21/2001 5:11:00 AM PST · 150 replies · 392+ views
New Scientist | 12-21-2001 | Marcus Chown
Early Christians hid the origins of the Bethlehem star 13:15 21 December 01 Marcus Chown A US astronomer claims he has found the first mention of the star of Bethlehem outside the Bible. The reference is in a 4th-century manuscript written by a Roman astrologer and Christian convert called Firmicus Maternus. Photo: Bridgeman Art Library Michael Molnar, formerly of Rutgers University in New Jersey, is the originator of the idea that the star of Bethlehem was not a spectacular astronomical event such as a supernova or a comet but an obscure astrological one. The event would nevertheless have been ...
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Legacy of Bethlehem: Amazing intrigue surrounding birth of Jesus, connections to Islam
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Posted by JohnHuang2
On News/Activism 12/25/2003 7:09:28 AM PST · 11 replies · 30+ views
WorldNetDaily.com | Thursday, Christmas Day, 2003 | Hal Lindsey
Bethlehem's legacy Posted: December 25, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern ©†2003†WorldNetDaily.com Bethlehem is a sacred city to both Jews and Christians. It is sacred to the Jews because its greatest King, David, was born there. It is sacred to Christians because Jesus, the Messiah, was born there, as was predicted some 700 years before: But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, too little to be numbered among the clans of Judah, from you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His goings forth are from long ago, from the days of eternity.ñ Micah 5:2, NASB Ironically, the real legacy...
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Police On Meteor Alert After Huge Balls Of Fire Light Up Spanish Sky
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Posted by blam
On News/Activism 01/05/2004 6:45:55 PM PST · 7 replies · 22+ views
The Guardian (UK) | 1-6-2004 | Giles Tremlett
Police on meteor alert after huge balls of fire light up Spanish sky Giles Tremlett in Madrid Tuesday January 6, 2004 The Guardian (UK) Was it a brightly shining star leading the present-laden three kings to the homes of millions of children at today's Epiphany, Spain's biggest gift-giving day of Christmas? As police scoured a remote mountainous district of the northern LeÛn province yesterday for remnants of a large, brilliant, burning object that fell to earth on Sunday, the most likely explanation was that it was part of a meteor. The search concentrated near Renedo de Valderaduey after neighbours saw...
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Researcher has theory on the 'Star of Bethlehem' -
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Posted by UnklGene
On News/Activism 12/14/2003 4:14:42 PM PST · 19 replies · 18+ views
San Antonio Express-News | December 13, 2003 | Rachel L. Toalson
Researcher has theory on the 'Star of Bethlehem' - By Rachel L. Toalson San Antonio Express-News 12/13/2003 All she did was ask him to hang a star above the three wise men adorning their lawn that Christmas in 1998. But Marion Larson's request launched her father into a project that, after hours of research, would carry him across the world. "I was tricked into it," said Rick Larson, a former law professor at Texas A&M University in College Station. "I'm not an astronomer, I'm a lawyer. But when you tell a lawyer he has to have a star, he's got...
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Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
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Doctors link polio to West Nile virus
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Posted by sarcasm
On News/Activism 09/24/2002 2:17:21 AM PDT · 59 replies · 157+ views
Boston Globe | September 24, 2002 | Stephen Smith
<p>In case reports released yesterday, stunned neurologists in Mississippi and Georgia describe the conditions of four patients suffering from the hobbled limbs, impaired breathing, and fevers that are the hallmark of polio, a disease essentially eradicated in the United States.</p>
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Dumbing down: the proof [a copy of a test for 11-year-olds from 1898]
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Posted by snarks_when_bored
On General/Chat 11/28/2004 5:50:10 AM PST · 27 replies · 212+ views
The Spectator (U.K.) | November 27, 2004 | No author
Dumbing down: the proof As a service to Spectator readers who still have any doubts about the decline in educational standards, we are printing these exam papers taken by 11-year-olds applying for places to King Edward's School in Birmingham in 1898. ENGLISH GRAMMAR1. Write out in your best handwriting: -- ëO Mary, go and call the cattle home,And call the cattle home,And call the cattle home,Across the sands o' Dee.'The western wind was wild and dank with foam,And all alone went she. The western tide crept up along the sand,And o'er and o'er the sand,And round and round the sand,As...
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end of supplemental digest #19a
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