I plastered mine in #86.
Posted on 12/16/2021 10:59:35 AM PST by Red Badger
There are some historical mysteries that may never be solved, from the date that Jesus was born to the identity of Jack the Ripper to the location of Cleopatra's tomb. Sometimes, that's because the relevant excavated material has been lost or an archaeological site has been destroyed. Other times, it's because new evidence is unlikely to come forward or the surviving evidence is too vague to lead scholars to a consensus.
The lack of answers only makes these enigmas more intriguing. Here, Live Science takes a look at 14 of these historical questions that may never have definitive explanations.
WAS THERE A REAL KING ARTHUR?
WHO WAS JACK THE RIPPER?
WHERE IS JIMMY HOFFA?
WHERE IS CLEOPATRA'S TOMB?
WHO KILLED JFK?
WAS CAESARION TRULY CAESAR'S SON?
IS THERE A MONEY PIT ON OAK ISLAND?
IS THE COPPER SCROLL TREASURE REAL?
FATE OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT
WHEN WAS JESUS BORN?
WERE THE HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON REAL?
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(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
The “Hanging Gardens” likely weren’t in Babylon. They are believed to have been the terraced gardens at Nineveh, but I don’t think we know for certain yet.
If your employer offers a Roth 401K I suggest putting your money into that instead of the traditional 401K in almost any scenario you're in. The only way a traditional 401K is best is if you're at a prime point in your career (read: you're in the highest tax bracket you'll ever be in) and soon will lower your income. (I.e. If you're 60 years old and done well at building up your career and plan to retire soon and begin living on a 4% annual withdrawal rate from your retirement accounts, that'll mean your taxable income in a few years will be at a much lower tax bracket, thus save taxes now in the high tax bracket and put your money into a traditional 401K).
Another nice thing about a Roth 401K: when the day comes that you leave work there (whether it's to retire, you quit to go somewhere else, or you're terminated), you can transfer some or all of your Roth 401K to your Roth IRA and withdraw the money immediately or any time without penalty regardless of your age (assuming you started your Roth IRA at least 5 years prior). This is because Roth 401K-to-Roth IRA transfers makes that portion of the Roth IRA count as contributions. And Roth IRA contributions can be withdrawn at any age as long as the Roth IRA was started at least 5 years prior (really five January 1st's prior, because it doesn't matter what time of year you start your Roth IRA, it counts as though you had started it on January 1st of that year to satisfy the 5-year start rule). So a strategy for retiring before age 55 (401K's and Roth 401K's have an age 55 rule) or age 59.5 (that's the other rule, the one most people already know), but still get awesome investing tax breaks, is to:
1. Invest as much as you as needed into your Roth 401k to get the full employer match if they offer one. The match portion by law will go into the traditional portion of your 401K -- so you'll eventually be taxed on that part when you withdraw it. But the employer match is still free money and therefore better than you can do on your own in a Roth IRA.
2. If you still have money in your budget for long term investing put it into your Roth IRA up to the $6,000 annual max ($7,000 if 50 or older). This assumes, of course, your income doesn't exceed the limit for Roth IRA contributions. Spread it out among many different asset classes. I use over 30 mutual funds for the equities portion of my Roth IRA, each fund is a part of a different asset class with only a little overlap (i.e. I'm sure some of the companies my large-cap core mutual fund is invested in are also some of the companies my domestic tech fund is invested in, there's no getting around at least a little bit of overlap like that). And each time you contribute to your Roth IRA (i.e. if you invest $500 per month to get $6,000 per year), but that contribution into whatever asset class (for me that means mutual fund) has the lowest balance at that time. If you do that every time, you're always buying low. That simple step will increase overall performance. To do that you don't have to read Zero Hedge every day or watch Jim Cramer every day to try to stay on top of things. You don't have to know why some of your funds are up and others are down. Just buy into whatever one(s) is down that month, click Submit, and don't worry about it until you repeat the process the next month.
3. If you still have money in your budget after that put it into your Roth 401K (on top of what you're already putting in there to get the employer match) until you reach the $20,500 per year limit (starting in 2022), or $27,000 if 50 or older.
Share this with your girlfriend. Sit down with her and discuss each other's financial expectations and how much of today's immediate gratification you're willing to sacrifice (i.e. tighten down the budget you'll live on) to have a better future together. I promise you it's better to learn from each other now what the expectations are on the four things couples argue about most -- money, how to raise kids, sex, and devotion to God (everybody else states the first 3, but from what I've observed when I used to volunteer in divorce counseling I'd say that one person being way more devoted to Jesus than the other is as much an argument starter as the other three). If you wait until you're married to hammer out the expectations on those things then your marriage will be as much a struggle as the Cincinnati Bearcats fans will have on Dec 31st if they spend the next two weeks chanting "We want Bama!".
And the tomb of Genghis Khan.
flr
He was the only person in history Who has convinced billions of people that He is God Himself in the flesh.
Keyword: kingarthur
Inside a early 70s model car submerged in Lake Huron.
Threshold to Cleopatra's mausoleum discovered off Alexandria coast [01/01/2010]
Oswald met KGB before JFK assassination, delayed records dump shows [12/16/2021]
Indeterminable. Caesar was cremated (unlikely any of his DNA has survived) and Caesarion's remains were put who-knows-where.
The Money Pit never existed apart from folklore. The alternative is, modern technology and over a century of continual searches have been defeated by unknown persons using block and tackle and ropes slung from a tree limb.
Probably used to be, the items were probably uncovered piecemeal, but unrelated unknown parties, by accident long ago, or have ceased to exist.
Probably carried off to Babylon, and/or incinerated; also possibly, was hidden and those who hid it failed to pass on the location..
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The Hanging Gardens of ... Nineveh? [06/01/2013]
What, now? Plato is the only source of the story, he put it west of Gibraltar, and 12,000 years ago, which is when the ocean level was lower due to the glaciers.
Finally, an easy one...
It was and is found only in medieval literature.
I plastered mine in #86.
I’ve been plastered since ‘86..................
The 2nd chapter of the 2nd book of Maccabees tells WHERE the Old Testament Ark of the Covenant was hidden. According to the Bible passage cited above, the Old Testament Ark of the Covenant is in a covered-up cave on Mt Nebo in the Kingdom of Jordan, coordinates 31.765095 degrees N by 35719079 degrees E, just NE of the Dead Sea. It was carried just over 24 miles from Jerusalem, when Jerusalem was about to be conquered & destroyed, including the 1st Temple, by the Babylonians, about 586 BC. Q.E.D.
The 2nd chapter of the 2nd book of Maccabees tells WHERE the Old Testament Ark of the Covenant was hidden. According to the Bible passage cited above, the Old Testament Ark of the Covenant is in a covered-up cave on Mt Nebo in the Kingdom of Jordan, coordinates 31.765095 degrees N by 35719079 degrees E, just NE of the Dead Sea. It was carried just over 24 miles from Jerusalem, when Jerusalem was about to be conquered & destroyed, including the 1st Temple, by the Babylonians, about 586 BC. Q.E.D.
The 2nd chapter of the 2nd book of Maccabees tells WHERE the Old Testament Ark of the Covenant was hidden. According to the Bible passage cited above, the Old Testament Ark of the Covenant is in a covered-up cave on Mt Nebo in the Kingdom of Jordan, coordinates 31.765095 degrees N by 35719079 degrees E, just NE of the Dead Sea. It was carried just over 24 miles from Jerusalem, when Jerusalem was about to be conquered & destroyed, including the 1st Temple, by the Babylonians, about 586 BC. Q.E.D.
Exactly so! The 2nd chapter of the 2nd book of Maccabees tells WHERE the Old Testament Ark of the Covenant was hidden. According to the Bible passage cited above, the Old Testament Ark of the Covenant is in a covered-up cave on Mt Nebo in the Kingdom of Jordan, coordinates 31.765095 degrees N by 35719079 degrees E, just NE of the Dead Sea. It was carried just over 24 miles from Jerusalem, when Jerusalem was about to be conquered & destroyed, including the 1st Temple, by the Babylonians, about 586 BC. Q.E.D.
Ashley was murdered by the renegade Lt Michael Byrd of the US Capitol police.
The 2nd chapter of the 2nd book of Maccabees tells WHERE the Old Testament Ark of the Covenant was hidden. According to the Bible passage cited above, the Old Testament Ark of the Covenant is in a covered-up cave on Mt Nebo in the Kingdom of Jordan, coordinates 31.765095 degrees N by 35719079 degrees E, just NE of the Dead Sea. It was carried just over 24 miles from Jerusalem, when Jerusalem was about to be conquered & destroyed, including the 1st Temple, by the Babylonians, about 586 BC. Q.E.D.
The 2nd chapter of the 2nd book of Maccabees tells WHERE the Old Testament Ark of the Covenant was hidden. According to the Bible passage cited above, the Old Testament Ark of the Covenant is in a covered-up cave on Mt Nebo in the Kingdom of Jordan, coordinates 31.765095 degrees N by 35719079 degrees E, just NE of the Dead Sea. It was carried just over 24 miles from Jerusalem, when Jerusalem was about to be conquered & destroyed, including the 1st Temple, by the Babylonians, about 586 BC. Q.E.D.
You can post the same thing to multiple people, instead of spamming the topic.
There were two men on the 5th floor underneath Oswald, Bonnie Ray Williams & Harold Norman. They heard all three shots and Norman, who was directly under Oswald, heard the cartridge case hit the floor. It was Oswald and only Oswald.
Gotta live a little!
In my previous post I limited the verses to save a little space. Here's verse 4:
4 It was also in the same document that the prophet, having received an oracle, ordered that the tent and the ark should follow with him, and that he went out to the mountain where Moses had gone up and had seen the inheritance of God.
Those who couldn't find the way were looking on Mt. Nebo, in the wrong place. There's the problem right there.
Same reason why no one knows the location of Moses grave til this day, when it's right there on find-a-grave.
“The place shall remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy. Then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord and the cloud will appear, as they were shown in the case of Moses, and as Solomon asked that the place should be specially consecrated.”
King David is the blueprint for the ideal king of all Israel because he was a righteous "dude" [דוד]... a whole-hearted regular guy after God's own heart, in stark contrast to the kings of every other nation [who are better than everyone else]. He'd give you the shirt off his back. His son is about to show everyone exactly how that's done.
David had the best vision for the grand Temple for the name* of the Lord God of Israel in the middle of JerUSAlem, the city of David on the hill.
*I AM WHO I AM, because good doesn't get any more sincere and powerful than that.
Shield eyes from light:
Here's a 2-minute preview of the start of the morning services. Who'd ever want to sit in darkness ever again?
What's especially instructive about that performance is that it demonstrates what can be accomplished when nobody does any work. The less work, the better!
There's more than one way to bring down the house.
And God said, Let there be light; and there was light: And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness:
Yet people tend to mock.
The place shall remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy...
L'Chaim!
The #MarsHelicopter keeps going, going, going! Ingenuity successfully completed its 18th flight.
Check the Hawaiian birth certficate microfilms.
*I AM WHO I AM, because good doesn't get any more sincere and powerful than that.*....
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