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119 pages of results. 321. Thomas Townsend Brown [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... no other scientist of his day had thought of, Brown mounted a Coolidge tube in an extremely delicate balance and began "testing" for results. To his disappointment, he was unable to detect any measurable force exerted by the emitted X-rays regardless of which way he turned his apparatus. But to his amazement, he did note a very strange quality of the Coolidge tube itself. Every time it was turned on, the tube seemed to exhibit a motion of its own- a "thrust" of some sort, as if the apparatus was trying to move! Brown now began a series of experiments designed to determine the nature of the "force" he had discovered, ...
322. New Insights to Antiquity [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... changed one day as I was probing through the loess in Iowa. Thought to stem from the ice ages this silty deposit covers much of that state, as well as Nebraska and Kansas. But before my eyes and in my very hands were extraordinary objects that told a remarkable story very clearly. That story, and an interpretation of those strange hills near my home, form the core of this work. That theme is stark catastrophe- catastrophe, moreover, that does not conform to the Uniformity Principle. We shall therefore be obliged to step outside of The Laboratory in order to understand it even superficially, but having done so we shall be able to resolve a great many ...
323. The Israelite Conquest of Canaan [Journals] [Aeon]
... does not doubt that catastrophic conflagrations preceded and accompanied this military movement. Had this author been asked if anyone ever pointed to the correct archaeological strata for the conquest, the answer would have been: Donovan Courville, who correlated the end of the so-called Early Bronze III with the event in question. Since Courville then invented his own new and strange chronology calculated with the help of biblical numerology down to Solomon, his conquest now fits neither any textbook nor the archaeological level he with all good reason favored. (3 ) Still, Courville's decision to shorten textbook history by bringing down the end of the so-called Early Bronze Age is certainly supported by this author. If he had not ...
324. Horus Vol. 2 No. 3 Fall 1986 Contents [Journals] [Horus]
... human history. Contents The Newark Earthworks Conference (Introduction) .. Ed. The Newark Holy Stones .. Robert W. Alrutz Setting and Using the Stonehenge, Nineteen Year Sun-Moon Calendar .. Alban Wall On Number as Artifact (Part 3: Conclusion ) .. Fred Fisher A Hypothetical Ancient Telescope .. Francis G. Graham The Strange Phenomenon of Solar Prominences .. Alban Wall Cover text: .. .when we find how lavishly the remains of prehistoric races are scattered over the length of the North American continent, we realize that ancient monuments are no more numerous on this side of the Atlantic than over there! [London Spectator, 1892] Subscription: $ ...
325. On Number as Artifact (Part 3: Conclusion) [Journals] [Horus]
... (the Mayans counted toes as well as fingers) to make the unusual 260-day ritual calendar. The 360-day "round yea? was reached, on the other hand, by multiplying 20 and 18. Thus both of the superfluity numbers cited by Smith, above, come into play in the Mayan system. There is always an aspect of strangeness when encountering unfamiliar cultures for the first time. But there is nothing stranger about the pre-Columbians, from a European standpoint, than this infatuation with 13 and 18! If one can draw any conclusions initially at all, certainly one must feel that the Mayans were determined that the lunar-solar gap must be closed: the year must under no ...
326. William H. Stiebing, Jr., and Immanuel Velikovsky [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... F. Weaver informs us that, [i ]f you were on Mercury at dawn just at perihelion passage [when Mercury comes closest to the Sun on its orbit] you would see the Sun come up, hang for a brief time in the sky, drop back down below the horizon, then rise again. Because of this strange phenomenon, Professor Bruce W. Hapke, of the University of Pittsburgh, calls Mercury "the Joshua planet." He refers, of course, to the Old Testament prophet who commanded the Sun to stand still over Gibeon. (20) According to Patrick Moore, "Near perihelion...an observer on the surface [ ...
... no evidence that the earth is contracting but quite a lot to the effect that within historical times it has expanded; and, if it Were contracting and cooling instead of showing violent ebullitions in the shape of earthquakes and the birth or eruption of volcanoes, it would probably gradually cool and reveal chasms where the shrinkage occurred. It is a strange paradox to find a baIl or globe a state of contraction for millions of years that builds up mountain ranges to thousands of feet and throws up volcanoes tapering to a circular or oval summit. I quote here from the New Gresham Encyclopaedia on the subject of volcanoes. The volume happens to be before me, and all the encyclopaedias collect ...
328. Myths, Monuments, and Mnemonics [Journals] [Horus]
... though these were expressed through different levels of technology and many cultural forms. As more evidence accumulates, just how wrong we've been in our concept of the ancestral mind becomes ever more pointed. But why should anyone have resisted the idea in the first place? Why does the concept of advanced intellectual achievement three or four thousand years ago seem strange and unacceptable to so many people? There may be other reasons but one seems to stand clearly as the most general source for this prejudice - the long-standing "caveman" image of the first fully human beings. When the remains of the earliest people biologically the same as ourselves were discovered, the remote time of their origins, their ...
329. Donnelly (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... several islands in the Atlantic Ocean preserved a tradition from their ancestors of the prodigiously great island of Atlantis which was sacred to Poseidon and held dominion over all the islands in the Atlantic for a long period. Proclus says nothing regarding Marcellus's sources; the islands he mentions may be the Canaries and the Azores. This lack of references may appear strange, considering the tremendous imaginative appeal inherent in the Atlantis myth, but reasons are not far to seek. In the first place, but for possible faint traditions, any memory of the lost land had been destroyed in Greece because the transmitters who knew of it had perished-as is repeatedly stressed in Plato's account. Secondly, though Solon, ...
330. Hoerbiger (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... time. Arts flourished in the states then existing, sciences thrived, and industries prospered. The watchers of the stars followed the courses of all the planets: of lively Mercury, gentle Venus, fiery Mars, resplendent Jupiter, and mysterious Saturn. But their skies contained one more planet which must have captured much of their interest: the strangely erratic planet Luna, which at times would outshine even Jupiter, while at others it would fade away almost out of sight. The planet Luna travelled between the orbit of our Earth and that of Mars. The observation and computation of the path of this fickle planet soon became a most important study, in fact an absolutely necessary duty ...
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