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Ancient Illinois Village Unearths Lode Of Questions
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| 9-02-2002
| Andrea Lynn
Posted on 09/02/2002 4:23:13 PM PDT by blam
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To: #3Fan
It was during a Roman civil war. Julius Caesar's troops intentionally set fire to the waterfront area, and it spread into a citywide conflagration that happened to include the library.
(I've been using my tagline since before Calvin Locke's comment.)
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01/11/2003 11:08:09 PM PST
by
A.J.Armitage
(President of the Ed Gein Fan Club)
To: blam
Dragons...
I'd like to hear any comments about the (very distant, I'll admit) possibility of some truth behind all the dragon stories in europe. I was in Switzerland recently, at a place called Mt. Pilotus (totally gorgeous....) and at the peak they had a trail through some man-made caves (ready made gardrails) where they also had various plaques with text from a researcher who had collected recorded historic accounts of (supposed) dragon sitings, mostly from the 13 and 1400s. Apparently Mt. Pilotus was greatly feared for the dragons they thought were there...
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure 99% of this was hogwash...though our ancestors of 800 years ago surely believed in the reality of dragons.... Still though, what of the 1% possibility of some nugget of truth behind the dragon legends?
Any comments FReepers? Any links to this subject?
To: null and void
Philestine is not equal to Palestinian. But it sure sounds pretty close, which is the whole idea. So then you can create a "Palestine", so all the Palestinians can come back to their "biblical home". Of course - Arafat was born in Palestine, that's why he holds it so dear.
(actually - Arafat was born in Egypt, but don't tell anyone - its a secret).
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01/12/2003 12:15:38 AM PST
by
geopyg
To: AnalogReigns
"Don't get me wrong, I'm sure 99% of this was hogwash...though our ancestors of 800 years ago surely believed in the reality of dragons.... Still though, what of the 1% possibility of some nugget of truth behind the dragon legends? " As much as some people want to believe that there were dragons, there has never been a dragon skeleton found. Dragons were sometimes used to describe comets and meteorites which is more believeable for me.
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01/12/2003 10:03:14 AM PST
by
blam
To: A.J.Armitage
It was during a Roman civil war. Julius Caesar's troops intentionally set fire to the waterfront area, and it spread into a citywide conflagration that happened to include the library. So then our mainstream scientific community could be worse than the Romans. They intentionally destroy evidence whereas the Romans may not have intentionally burned the library. :^)
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01/12/2003 11:47:12 AM PST
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#3Fan
Just updating the GGG information, not sending a general distribution. Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
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05/19/2005 9:05:03 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(FR profiled updated Tuesday, May 10, 2005. Fewer graphics, faster loading.)
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SunkenCiv
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