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114 pages of results. 191. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... as has been similarly suggested for the three great pyramids at Giza. Of note in this respect is that the banks were originally covered in gypsum, also brought in from a distance, which would have gleamed a startling white. A stone axe had been imported from 80 miles away across the Pennines, indicating trade routes. A new stone circle has been discovered near Callanish in Scotland, overlooking the famous standing stones. The circle is larger than those previously found and its stones, up to 12 feet high, were propped up by other stones as its situation on a rocky outcrop made burial impossible. Laser scanning of stones at Stonehenge has revealed more carvings of axes. The ...
192. Editor's Notes [Journals] [SIS Review]
... From: SIS Chronology & Catastrophism Review 1997:1 (Oct 1997) Home | Issue Contents Editor's Notes Probably few articles caused more disappointment in SIS circles than John Bimson's 1986 Hatshepsut and the Queen of Sheba', which presented strong evidence and argument against Velikovsky's proposal that the mysterious and exotic queen who visited King Solomon was none other than the famous Egyptian female pharaoh. This removed one of the key identifications in Velikovsky's Ages in Chaos historical reconstruction and was a key factor in the rejection of his proposed chronology by Bimson and others in favour of the more moderate New Chronology'. It also took away what had seemed a romantic and satisfactory solution to the mystery of the ...
193. The Problem Of The Extinction [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... continent into the polar region is probably responsible for the preservation of the corpses. "It appears that the mammoths, along with other animals, were killed by a tempest of gases accompanied by a spontaneous lack of oxygen caused by fires raging high in the atmosphere. A few instances later their dying or dead bodies were moving into the polar circle. In a few hours northeastern America moved from the frigid zone of the polar circle into a moderate zone; northeastern Siberia moved in the opposite direction from a moderate zone to the polar circle. The present cold climate of northern Siberia started when the glacial age in Europe and America came to a sudden end."2 In Worlds ...
194. Magnetism and Axial Tilts [Books] [de Grazia books]
... has two axes of concern here, its axis of rotation between the geographical north and south poles, and the warped axis of its magnetic field lying between the north magnetic pole and the south magnetic pole. It is easier to imagine the axis of rotation; the imaginary equator divides the globe into two equal halves and this equator marks a circle around the spinning globe which, every 24 hours, completes a turn. The magnetic poles are distant by some hundreds of kilometers from their corresponding geographic poles. They are denoted by the behavior of a compass needle which assumes a vertical position when at or near the magnetic pole; the nearly global distance that lies between the north and ...
195. Quantitative Aspects Of Ancient Cosmology [Journals] [Kronos]
... quantitative information over a century ago to discredit subsequent theories that pyramids are merely chance piles of stone to celebrate the egomania of ancient kings. Yet, we see what happened in academic Egyptology; and this does not give much hope for a triumph of truth over terror of cool, rehearsed, and secretive professional rejection. In academic and management circles, a "fall from favor" has staying power exactly because its perpetrators work in secret with confident, supercilious smiles. To explain one's self is to give the victim a chance. Thus, what will be disclosed here is a concise summary of quantitative results - hardly well-known but available in our sources, plus some observations on the ...
196. The Great Comet Venus [Journals] [Aeon]
... 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, taking 243 Earth-days to complete one rotation, above the surface the massive atmosphere races around the planet at twice hurricane force, or almost 400 kilometers per hour, circling the planet in just four days. No prior theory of planetary dynamics can account for this seemingly impossible situation. Astronomers, in drawing the new profile of Venus, often summon medieval images of the fires of Hell. Venus, it turns out, is a doomsday world looking for an explanation. Massive clouds of sulfuric acid and carbon ...
197. The Environment And Preservation Of The Mammoth [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... must fall into moist, soft soil which loses its frost in early spring to permit germination. Though small trees, mosses, and lichens grow on permafrost, large trees cannot. The ground must be warmer for a longer time and to a deeper depth than the treeline limit of today. Tall trees are not found much beyond the Arctic Circle; they are found well south of it. As Stonehouse further points out,... "The deepest soils, the richest assemblages of plant species and the most complete ground cover occur on the southern tundra where meter-high [39 inches] thickets of shrub alternate with mosses, grasses, heathers and other flowering plants."18 ...
198. A Rage to Deny: The Roots of the Velikovsky Affair [Books]
... a rival publisher: "Tremendous pressure is being exerted against our company by a group of scientists . . . [The new publisher] has no textbook department and cannot be hurt." (23) In response to Velikovsky's surprise and dismay, Brett tried to explain: "Here Mr. Brett picked up a pencil and drew some circles. Academic circles are not isolated groups . . . . ' And he drew larger circles . . . . ' In this way the academic pressure may become widespread. '" (24) During the course of the vigorous debate that followed, Brett resorted to the image once more. "Brett . . . was definitely committed ...
... and throws out a roughly conical section of the giant's material, thus constituting a nova of surpassing brilliance. This expulsion, which, of course, is continuous, is here shown in three ideal stages: stage throws out the topmost lightest layers; stage 2 the intermediate ones; stage 3 the lowest heaviest ones. The first ejecta (circle of the cloud), coming from more rapidly rotating strata of the giant, will follow the rotational impulses inherent in them and awing over towards the left, thus overtaking the less powerfully moving masses from farther below (circle 2, .. .. ,and circle1, - --). Hence a revolutionary trend will be ...
200. Megalithic Lunar Observatories -- A Critique [Journals] [Kronos]
... his summer vacations patiently surveying Megalithic remains in the British Isles. He came to three main conclusions about Megalithic stone rings. Firstly, that they were not all circular, and that those that were not were intentionally laid out in the form of other geometric figures. Some had their perimeters extended into egg-shapes, while others were squashed into flattened circles. Secondly, a common unit of length, which Thom has termed the Megalithic yard, and which is 0.83 meters long, was employed in setting out these shapes. Lastly, Thom contends that many of these stone rings and circles were associated with other stones or prominent natural features to indicate directions on the ground which would ...
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