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176 pages of results. 171. Senmut and Phaeton [Journals] [SIS Review]
... panel of Senmut, we find a bull-like animal floating along extremely close below Scorpius. It is clearly on or near to the ecliptic and it seems reasonable at least provisionally to accept Dr Velikovsky's claim that bull- or cow-like animals ... . SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES AND REFERENCES 1. Velikovsky: Worlds in Collision (1950), I, v: "East and West" and II, vii: "Poles Uprooted". 2. Pogo, A. "The ... Ceiling-decoration in the Tomb of Senmut", Isis XIV (1930) 301-325. The serious student will also need to inspect Ludlow S. Bull's description and illustration of the Seti ceiling, published in Isis VII (1925) 262-263 ...
172. Noah's Ark: I - The Ship on Ararat (Part A) [Journals] [Kronos]
... the ark still rested on the mountain: "In Armenia there is a noble city called Ani . . . Near it is Mount Ararat, where Noah's ark rests, and at the foot of that mountain is the first city ... Pordenone, the famous Franciscan monk, missionary, and Beatus of the Roman Catholic Church, travelled extensively in the east during the later middle ages. This indomitable man had wanted to climb Ararat but was told that no one could ... attempt to convince the world that the remains of Noah's ark were still lodged upon Ararat's slopes in what is now eastern Turkey. This particular venture was headed by former U. S. astronaut James Irwin. Unfortunately, Irwin fell ...
173. Planet in Crisis: the Earth's Last 12,000 Years [Journals] [SIS Review]
... forms in the crust. A discontinuity occurs where the Mantle's upper surface and the crust's underside meet (actually very near the Earth's surface [4 ]) : the Mohorovicic Discontinuity', often referred to as the Moho' line ... 900 miles and an equatorial diameter of 7,926 miles - the Equatorial Bulge'. Rotation from West to East, round a tilted axis, occurs once every 24 hours. Earth's outermost solid shell is the crust or lithosphere ... New Guinea [48, 49, 50], while the slightly earlier drowning of the territory now submerged between eastern New Guinea and Melanesia (Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands) and extending northwards to neighbouring Micronesia (now mostly ...
... as can be seen in the planets and satellites which survive. Thus we find planets with a specific gravity very near 1.0 (water), like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and their satellites, which ... As the Earth was still rotating more quickly than the satellite revolved round it, the satellite seemed to move from east to west relative to the terrestrial surface. (Diagram 5.) The satellite's gravitational pull caused a tidal hump ... more to the south and partly more to the north of it. Most of the material came down on the eastern' hemisphere of the Earth, however, for the simple reason that the pointed end of the terrestrial ovoid still ...
175. Celestial Records of the Orient by Isaac Vail [Books]
... would assume apparently to one in the latitude of Greece or Rome. In India and Egypt it would assume more nearly a circular form, but always to an observer on the equator it would appear as a vast semicircular arch in ... So that a rift in the canopy would appear broad at the zenith and taper to a sharp point in the east and in the west. That "beam shaped" bridge cannot be identified in the bow, but in a ... hand represents or symbolizes the holy palm of Apollo's sky-formed isle. The dactyli or fingered pillars were universal in the eastern and western canopy. Every belt and band was palmated on the curved heavens at the pole, and it was ...
176. Pot Pourri [Journals] [SIS Review]
... were later radiocarbon dated to AD 760 (Teddington) and AD 650 (Pennsylvania); the Akyayla boat' near Mt Ararat has a chemical composition consistent with soil and shows no evidence of wood, being an ophiolite outcrop, ... follows those who believe that world civilisation began not in Egypt or southern Mesopotamia but in Anatolia and regions to the east and south. With justifiable caution in view of the vagaries of radio-carbon dating', he attributes to this area ... and quite probably settled communities. This disaster and its effect on survivors is the obvious source for the various Middle Eastern and Mediterranean flood traditions. This does not invalidate the theories of people like David Rohl who argue for later floods ...
177. The Israelite Exodus and the Volcanic Eruption of Thera [Journals] [Catastrophism & Ancient History]
... place on a clear day). The flames and red-hot ashes ejected, of course, would not have risen nearly that high. So it is very improbable that someone in Egypt would have seen the volcano's flames (or even ... of Egypt could have developed from a sighting of Thera's smoke on the distant horizon. The Israelites headed in an easterly direction out of Egypt (different theories have them marching anywhere from a northeasterly to southeasterly direction). But Thera ... related to the exodus. More importantly, the evidence from Crete and from a number of deep-sea cores from the eastern Mediterranean makes it extremely unlikely that the eruption of Thera could have had the effects in Egypt ascribed by this theory ...
178. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... C&CR 1996:2 (Letters, p. 57), Laurence Dixon enquired about some strange formations near Masada, on the western shore of the Dead Sea. His accompanying photograph shows features which he interprets as a ... continued across the Pacific Ocean, where a high wave (over 4m) surged into the bay at Whitianga (east side of Coromandel Peninsula) and over the low dune and road at the head of the bay. When it ... it exposed the wreck of a small coaster which was normally below water 4-500 metres from the shore. People had ample time to walk out and inspect it. Tsunamis do their damage as they overrun land and then retreat. Experts ...
179. The Great Comet Venus [Journals] [Aeon]
... largest portion of Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision is devoted to aspects of his thesis concerning Venus, a planet he says nearly collided with the Earth twice- first around 1500 B.C . and then again some 52 years later. ... both its rotation rate and direction of rotation as bizarre. Whereas the usual planetary pattern is rotation from west to east, Venus rotates from east to west. And while the enshrouded orb of Venus spins very, very slowly, ... the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle gave this report: .. .In this year King Harald came from York to Westminster at Easter, which was after the mid winter in which the king (Edward the Confessor) died. Then was seen ...
180. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... to locate Amarna in the time of Saul and David, can quite amicably be resolved by adopting a chronology very nearly the same as the conventional model. Okay, perhaps John Bimson is correct and Shoshenk was not the biblical Shishak ... in Mesopotamia she notes the following: Khabur Ware is represented within an area defined by the Ushnu-Solduz valley to the east, the Zab river to the south, and the Balikh river to the west, and its distribution is seen ... compelling. By considering, in turn, the problems posed by the supposed Dark Ages in each of the major Eastern Mediterranean empires, Greek, Hittite, Assyrian, Palestinian, Cypriot, Egyptian, etc., he comes to ...
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