Posted on 04/19/2016 11:42:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
What if this tectonic stuff happened during during a sunspot minim? I think that if you go back you can find several earlier events on a roughly 1000 year time line.
Gribbin and Plagemann (sp?) did that book, about 35-40 years ago, "The Jupiter Effect", which claimed that a somewhat superficial review of the data from the previous couple of Grand Alignments of the planets suggested that disastrous, basically apocalyptic quakes occurred (interval something like 178 years, if memory serves). Either that book, or a review of it, pointed out a 22 year (?) cycle of sunspots appeared to correspond to the intermittent alignment cycle of Jupiter and Saturn alone. Thanks Little Bill.
Thanks OT.
There are some interesting stories about the Mandan Indians which may relate to this. I think someone on the Lewis and Clarke expedition had a Welsh speaker who commented on linguistic similarities, and they also had a different cultural organization than other Indians.
The Mystery of the Mandanas
http://100777.com/node/373
Origins of The Mandan (written by a purported descendant of Madoc)
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bos/bos217.htm
That Mandan is not Welsh
http://www.languagegeek.com/siouan/mandan_is_not_welsh.html
Setting the Record Straight About Native Peoples: Norse and Welsh Explorers
http://www.native-languages.org/iaq10.htm
The Mandans and the Corps of Discovery found ways to keep each other warm during the harsh Dakota winter. Baby it’s cold outside . . .
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Earth Lodges helped.
If the Birth of Christ is the reference, "Common" doesn't work: there are other timelines and year references (Islamic, Jewish, Japanese, Nepalese, Chinese, to name a few, especially noted dating coins), so it isn't completely "common", after all, except in modern usage.
If you're doing archaeology, it doesn't hurt to preserve the history of the timeline, too. Anno Domini (in the year of Our Lord) 2016, for instance.
“The Dark Ages May Have Really Been Dimmer”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/01/010102061812.htm
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