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34 pages of results. 291. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... The ship may have been Greek: this is deduced from a miniature seal very similar to that used by later Greek merchants. Its cargo included Greek cups similar to those dated to 1400-1350 BC, and copper ingots with characteristic handles resembling those depicted at Thebes in Egypt circa 1350 BC. There was also a cache of nearly two dozen cobalt-blue glass ingots - also the earliest ever found - and which may have been the raw material for jewellery or goblets. The mixture of cargoes appears to derive from three ancient cultures; Mycenaean, Cypriot and Canaanite: "a mix of goods that puzzles us no end". May we kindly suggest that if the chronology were corrected the puzzles ...
292. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 13.9 .86 More on the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary enrichment with rare earth metals, and this time the news is from the Austrian Alps. Boundary clays there are found to be abnormally enriched in iridium, chromium, cobalt and nickel; they contain almost no fossils, which indicates rapid deposition; and the clays contain fall-out' materials like glass particles indicative of melting, and shocked and deformed quartz particles, indicative of impact events. Ammonite King Rediscovered source: BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGIST 48, 3, September 1985, pp.l69-72 An excavation at Tell el-Umeiri in Jordan by Andrew's University revealed a significant Ammonite seal impression which confirms Old Testament information on Ammon. Found in 1984, the ...
293. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 19th century are well attested: that of Tambora in 1815 and that of Galunggung in 1822. The Antarctic ice core records of volcanism (acid maxima, etc) show two significant volcanic events from about that time - and the scientists automatically assumed they had identified the eruptions in the ice core record. Two French researchers have analysed the volcanic glass particles and have decided that the earlier event in the ice core record does not match Tambora, which they now ascribe to the second event. The earlier ice core acidity maximum has now to be ascribed to an earlier eruption of an unknown volcano. It is painfully obvious from this that the ice core data is capable of being misinterpreted ...
294. The Velocity of Light In Relation to Moving Bodies [Journals] [Pensee]
... ; also, the problem remains whether the (hypothetical) c v velocity of light traveling toward a mirror remains the same after being reflected (related to the mirror), or becomes c v. Light loses energy when it exerts pressure on reflecting surfaces and when it encounters resistance in various transparent media, like air, water, or glass. In Baranov's scheme one half of the beam is reflected from four mirrors and passes through two semi-silvered ones, whereas the other half of the beam is reflected from six mirrors and passes through none. In my experiment, as devised in 1944, a beam of morning sunlight is permitted to travel through a slit provided with a shutter ...
295. RECONSTRUCTING THE SATURN MYTH [Journals] [Aeon]
... the cometary explanation and you are placing the comet very close to the center of ancient imagination. Also, if something like a comet was involved, this would require a comet of a vastly more spectacular sort than ever experienced in our time- again, a possibility that will likely seem abhorrent to those accustomed to viewing ancient symbolism through the looking glass of modern astronomy. Ascending Soul Let me summarize very briefly the stories of two gods already noted above. The ancient Egyptians worshipped the former sun god Osiris as ruler of the Golden Age, founder of the kingship rites and the model of the good king. It was he who, on the summit of a mountain reaching to the ...
296. Night of the Gods: Polar Myths. The North [Books]
... castle of Tokio (Yedo) is also in the South. At the promulgation of the decree creating a Japanese parliament, on 11th February 1889, the Mikado's "throne faced the South."27 The temple of the Japanese thunder-god faces N, although the shrine of his symbol, the Sword, faces East. "Send round the glass to the South, from the left to the right hand. All things should front the South." ' This is just the Chinaman's taking his position at the N. But we must now discuss in some detail the aspecting of religious buildings. THE A UGUR'S TEMPLUM. One of the oldest, most permanent, indubitable connexions of ...
297. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of continental drift [l ] and the description of the mechanism behind it in terms of plate tectonics and sea-floor spreading [2 ]. But Gould sounds the warning himself. A mere eight pages after his "most conclusive refutation of Velikovsky's example", Gould discusses a classic case illustrating how things are distorted by the wearing of continental drift glasses and admits: "The new orthodoxy colors our vision of all data; there are no pure facts' in our complex world. .. . Many readers may be disturbed by my argument for the primacy of theory. Does it not lead to dogmatism and disrespect for fact? It can of course but it need not. The ...
298. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... up a large amount of gold grave goods. One tomb is that of a queen of Tiglath-Pileser III, whilst another contained vessels inscribed with the names of the queens of the next two Assyrian kings. A third tomb contained a huge empty stone sarcophagus, but its ante-chamber yielded an astonishing variety of goods in gold and ivory plus an ornate glass jar which showed that Assyrian craftsmen had an entirely unsuspected mastery of the art of glassmaking'. There are many notable quotes including: "The astonishing fineness of the work on the jewellery will revolutionize our knowledge of Assyrian metallurgy "the workmanship would be difficult to duplicate today" and the sheer amount of gold alters our perception of Assyria ...
299. The Birth of Planets [Journals] [SIS Review]
... of electrical energy would imply a limitation to the rotational kinetic energy so that the Sun need not speed up as much as one would normally expect as it subsequently contracted. Another phenomenon that can be explained with this charge concept is that of tektites. Juergens (1976) reports that artificial button-like "tektites" have been produced by immersing cold glass spheres in the plasma jet from an electric arc, and also that "tektites" have been obtained by subjecting Earth materials to a beam of electrons. Tektite-like objects have been found on the Moon and the ray patterns from various craters behave remarkably like glass-beaded projection screens in their reflection characteristics. GASKELL (1970) and BLACK note that ...
300. The Goddess of the Stones and the Charged Cosmic Body [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Solar System for a very long time, notwithstanding its present unusual characteristics. One of the most striking effects of a charged cosmic body spiralling in and crossing the orbit of Earth is that it is likely to be surrounded by light and dark bands of striations of an electrical discharge into the near-vacuum of space. These striations have been demonstrated in glass tubes containing gas at a very low pressure and having an electrode at each end. When a high voltage is applied to the electrodes a small current flows. Electrons from the negative electrode are accelerated and cause excitation by collision with gas atoms. The gas glows, but the electrons lose kinetic energy and there is a dark space in ...
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