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55 pages of results. 421. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... Geological Process source: Nature 16.11.89, pp. 226-227 Particles of black matter called fusain have long been found as a component of coals and many other rocks. Recent work has shown fusain to bear a strong resemblance to the charcoal produced from the combustion process in modern forest or heath fires. Dispersal of combustion products in ... 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 ...
... bound have left their footsteps, which attest to the antiquity of that fable. But the north wind opposes and beats upon the shore, and dashes mighty waves against the rocks which receive them, and renders the haven more dangerous than the country they had deserted. Now as those people of Joppa were floating about in this sea, in ... himself, well groan to purpose; that God we mean who hath created the souls of the Jews of such a temper, that they despise death. O Josephus! art thou still fond of life? and canst thou bear to see the light in a state of slavery? How soon hast thou forgotten thyself! How many hast thou ...
... proper ornaments. And when the high winds were laid, he sailed to Mytilene, and thence to Byzantium; and when he heard that Agrippa was sailed beyond the Cyanean rocks, he made all the haste possible to overtake him, and came up with him about Sinope, in Pontus. He was seen sailing by the ship-men most unexpectedly ... not yet hindered by old age, but was in that period of life when he must be the most skillful in governing; and that he was not deficient in other arts of management that might enable him to govern the kingdom well, and to rule over his children also. He further told the rulers under him, and the soldiery ...
424. The Demands of the Saturnian Configuration Theory [Journals] [SIS Review]
... open-minded geologists to boggle' [157]. The Russians, who have conducted studies on this muck, have in some places drilled down more than 4000 feet without reaching rock bottom [158]. Entire forests have been found buried in this area, including plum trees complete with their leaves and fruits [159] and also palm trees ... Planet' [61]. In the Papyrus of Ani, in which the deceased is prepared to enter heaven, he is addressed with these words: O thou who art without motion like unto Osiris! ' - and this passage is twice repeated [62]. It thus becomes evident that Osiris was not only remembered as a sun ...
425. The Origins of Modern Geological Theory [Journals] [Kronos]
... of the original members were geologists. "The little talking dinner club," as Davy put it, was a club for gentlemen given to talk, not to hammering rocks. The following year 26 Fellows of the Royal Society joined, including Joseph Banks, the President of the Royal Philosophical Society, and the year after the number of ... economic policy, in which paternal monarchical power was again eliminated in favor of a free-ranging liberalism. [* The "Discourses" are three: "A Discourse on the Arts and Sciences...... A Discourse on the Originality of Inequality," and "A Discourse on Political Economy."] "Some Judicious persons ...
... had not read Hapgood's book: Hapgood is neither original, nor right. Hapgood also admitted to me in a letter that his theory cannot explain the magnetic phenomena in the rocks, whereas my can, and then I must be right. With Einstein I had the occasion to discuss Hapgood's theory, and I could show that the catastrophes had ... . Asip wrote to Velikovsky on January 21, 1955, concerning a contact he had made on Velikovsky's behalf with William C. Hayes, the Metropolitan Museum's curator of Egyptian art. He had written to Hayes to inquire if any Eighteenth Dynasty objects had been radiocarbon dated; Hayes knew of none and added that "in the light of the ...
427. Thoth Vol III, No. 11: Aug 25, 1999 [Journals] [Thoth]
... is that the energy diffuses into the earth, but there's evidence to the contrary: Mountain climbers are warned to avoid hiding from storms not only under tall trees but under rock overhangs (lightning striking the peak has been known to appear quite some distance away between an overhang and the rock below). And a local telephone company had to ... , or a prominent star group. Most of the diverse figures of the mother goddess and warrior hero are paired in various ways, to represent the cosmic twins in later art. The good and evil brothers, dark and light, male and female, above and below, two faces looking in opposite directions, right and left - all ...
428. Letters [Journals] [SIS Review]
... typical northern phenomenon, unknown in the Mediterranean. I identify the Phaeacian land in Southern Norway, south of Stavanger, in an area very rich in Bronze Age remains and rock carvings portraying ships. The Phaeacians, famous sailors' mentioned in the Odyssey, are unknown in the Mediterranean. However by following Ulysses's course (narrated by the Odyssey ... , Zysman and Raspil, stand any chance of explaining world myth. Jill Abery, Rodmersham, nr. Sittingbourne, Kent References 1. Larousse Encyclopaedia of Prehistoric and Ancient Art, ed. Huyghe. p. 67 2. Larousse. p. 209 3. Mythology- an Illustrated Encyclopaedia, ed. Cavendish. p. 84 4 ...
... of Mey on Pentland Firth: When an ordinary gale has been blowing for many days, the whole force of the Atlantic is beating against the shores of the Orkneys; rocks of many tons in weight are lifted from their beds, and the roar of the surge may be heard for twenty miles; the breakers rise to the height of ... his purpose afterwards. Now, it was his craft in this matter that first awakened in the deeper observers a suspicion of his cunning. For his skill in a trifling art betokened the hidden talent of a craftsman. . . Lastly, he always watched with the most punctual care over his pile of stakes that he had pointed in the ...
430. Darkness and the Deep [Journals] [Aeon]
... all dark. It was always night. There was no day. (120) We cross the Pacific to the archipelagos of Micronesia where we find that a pre-existing "rock" was believed to have been the matrix of the "universe." But even this "rock of ages" is "associated with an endless stretch of original ... know its name- And address it as Tao. (44) On this "all-embracing First Principle," Lao-tze based an entire philosophy whose influence on Chinese thought, art and literature, despite its varying interpretation, has been prodigious. But that its basic idea derives from the primeval events with which we are presently concerned, there seems ...
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