"Rommell, you Magnicent Bastard! I read your Book!"
Posted on 01/17/2004 5:37:13 PM PST by djf
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I love this stuff~!
So where are all these big people bones?
"Rommell, you Magnicent Bastard! I read your Book!"
bump for later.
28 events occurred between 1900 and 1946.
Yet there are zero events listed from 1946 through present!
I suppose people stopped looking for stories once TVs became available.
I heard that the original language can be translated to mean "became without form and void".
I love this kind of stuff!
bump
But not nearly as strange as a description referencing a jet plane in AD 1900, eh what?
I think I heard that somewhere along the way, as well.
Scholars?? What say you?
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The link does not work for me.
Very interesting bump.
Strange stories, weird facts
. . . . Fun Stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
The level of machining skill needed to create it was once thought to be impossible for ancient peoples. A close examination revealed that it was in fact a computer that was used to forecast horoscopes years into the future.
The moral of the story is, ancient people were a lot smarter than we give them credit for.
Cheers,
knewshound
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......AD 1478 The Spanish conquer the Canary Islands. The native inhabitants, the Guanches committ suicide rather than submit to foreign domination......
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Canary Islanders first Sapnish settlers in Texas
CANARY ISLANDERS. On February 14, 1719, the Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo made a report to the king of Spain proposing that 400 families be transported from the Canary Islands, Galicia, or Havana to populate the province of Texas. His plan was approved, and notice was given the Canary Islanders to furnish 200 families; the Council of the Indies suggested that 400 families should be sent from the Canaries to Texas by way of Havana and Veracruz. By June 1730, twenty-five families had reached Cuba and ten families had been sent on to Veracruz before orders from Spain to stop the movement arrived. Under the leadership of Juan Leal Goraz, the group marched overland to the presidio of San Antonio de Bexar, where they arrived on March 9, 1731. The party had increased by marriages on the way to fifteen families, a total of fifty-six persons. They joined a military community that had been in existence since 1718. The immigrants formed the nucleus of the villa of San Fernando de Béxar, the first regularly organized civil government in Texas. Several of the old families of San Antonio trace their descent from the Canary Island colonists. María Rosa Padrón was the first baby born of Canary Islander descent in San Antonio.
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