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82 pages of results. 301. I.Q.: A University Program [Books] [de Grazia books]
... rather than evolutionary changes of geography, climate, the solar system, the biosphere, culture, and the human mind. These quantavolutions or saltations are capable of systematic scientific study. The hypotheses of quantavolution pursue the following types of propositions: a) The Earth and its people have been subjected to catastrophic natural experiences (flood, heat, earthquake, meteoritic bombardment) of a kind unknown to recent history. b) These have occurred both before and after the passage of homo sapiens from the hominid. Evidence of them is to be located in legends, religions, psycho-social behavior , astro-physics, the geological and fossil record. d) A new general theory touching upon all fields ...
302. Natural Disasters Trigger Hysteria & Panic in Italy [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... From: SIS Internet Digest 1997:2 (Feb 1998) Home | Issue Contents Natural Disasters Trigger Hysteria & Panic in Italy Tue, 21 Oct 1997 11:29:14 -0400 (EDT) Following a number of major earthquakes during the last couple of weeks, Italy has been gripped by an outbreak of mass hysteria and apocalyptic mania. These events are a classic example of how natural catastrophes, depending on their nature and scale, can trigger end-time fears. Natural disasters do not necessarily lead to collective hysteria in form of apocalyptic panic or millennialist movements. In many cases, the scope of the catastrophe is limited in time and extent and the destructive agent is clearly ...
303. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... capable of commenting critically on these papers, for there does not seem to be any discussion of catastrophist ideas for the cracked surface of Europa, in stark contrast to the Phobos situation. APPEASING THE GODS?- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE Feb. 1981, p.205ff Excavations in Crete have recently uncovered the remains of a temple destroyed in an earthquake in the Middle Minoan Era. Inside the temple remains of bodies were found. One of these was a bound youth who had died in a ritual sacrifice, claimed the archaeologists after forensic tests had been performed on his bones. The body of a priest was also found nearby, but he had evidently died as a result of the ...
304. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... was movement without form, as though a great body stretched itself in the darkness, and the sea returned with a sigh and a rattle of stones, not over-full or over-hurried. It was just a normal tide coming in from a long way away. By then we knew, via the wireless set, that there had been a catastrophic earthquake which destroyed Napier and Hastings, the largest towns on the east coast, flattened hills, diverted rivers, and opened great fissures throughout the countryside. The most devastating earthquake that had shaken New Zealand since European settlement, it struck on that warm summer morning without any warning. The sea receded and the land was heaved up, so ...
305. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... the Premise..." in WORKSHOP 6:1 . He raises four main points which I will discuss briefly. 1. DSP opines that there is no certainty that primitive man found nature threatening; on the contrary, he thinks that they lived in harmony with nature. Did they not then fear flood, fire, famine, earthquake, volcanic eruption, disease, hurricane, etc? Why, in the past and to this day among primitive tribes, are animal and human sacrifices made so that the gods will not inflict such hardships upon them? Does DSP really think that the surviving tribesmen in Ethiopia and Sudan are more concerned with praying for planets not to fall ...
306. The World-Wide Losses Of Land (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... the loss of Atlantis has always been regarded as a `local' calamity, although actually both Plato's myth and the biblical descriptions refer, with much stress, to `universal' convulsions of nature. As I hope to have shown conclusively in the preceding chapters, the loss of Atlantis was really due, not to local volcanic activity, earthquakes, and inundations, but to a cosmic cause: to the mighty changes in the distribution of land and water brought about by the capture of a Planet. This means that the cataclysm was not confined to the western hemisphere alone, but was world-wide. The biblical myth contains an unmistakable reference to the capture of Luna, and although ...
307. ...more Myths Monuments and Mnemonics: A Visit To Easter Island [Journals] [Horus]
... the original contingent of settlers to the island from an unknown place called Marae Renga. One version of the story tells that a great catastrophe was in progress and that Hotu-Matua's expedition sailed to escape the destruction in their homeland. According to the legend, an enraged god, Uoke, was causing widespread natural disaster. Accompanied by violent storms, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, the angry god used a giant lever to pry up land from beneath the sea which sank again when he moved to a new place. He worked with such fury and force that great chunks of earth were hurled above the surface. Just before reaching Easter Island, the great lever broke and the cataclysm ceased ...
... the steep rock unscaleable, the walls 150 ft. high on the land side, nevertheless proceeded to fill up the channel through which the sea rushed with great violence in rough weather. After savage fighting it eventually fell. It had sustained many a siege before, and it appears that at the time of the Flood it was destroyed by earthquake and submerged for about seventy years. To tell the story of Tyre would need more space here than I can afford, but the topography agrees, for the present isthmus is an artificial one. Portland has been particularly susceptible to earthquake. In 1665 were violent shocks, the great pier was demolished, and rocks appeared above water; ...
... With the English labouring class this period of the sixteenth century can be called the period of transition and change with them, the change into a slightly colder climate caused a great demand for more cloth for the people." (Lewin, Mona's Records, p.71.) We must recall that 1538 was notorious because of the great earthquake near Puzzuoli, Italy, which built up a new volcano, Monte Nuovo, disturbed the entire area, affected the coast, caused Monte Somma, Vesuvius, to burst into a new eruption, and destroyed its crateral lake. It was from about that time, if the evidence of Holinshead is accepted, that the climate of England ...
310. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... , Norway rising, etc.), so that there is no logical reason why the bottom of this layer and all those underlying, should not be perfectly spherical. Even so, there remain practical difficulties in positioning the stator/rotor interface close under the crust. The Mohorovicic discontinuity is the boundary where the primary seismic shock waves from earthquakes speed up due to entering more dense or solid mantle rock. The primary and secondary waves continue to pass through some 3,500 km of rocky mantle, with speed increases at the 400 and 700 km contours to the Dahm or Gutenburg discontinuity at 2,900 km radius where secondary waves stop - they cannot pass through the liquid ...
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