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119 pages of results. 731. On The Merits of the Revised Chronologies [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... half was partly due to the same "vested interests" which resulted in the whole of the Revised Chronology being rejected by most Egyptologists (it all depends on whose ox is gored), and partly on the basis of circular reasoning - i.e ., the stratigraphical evidence which was based completely upon the Conventional Chronology did not, strangely enough, support the Revised Chronology. Certainly, there are genuine difficulties with the Revised Chronology. Many of these have already been answered, and those that have not are grossly outnumbered by the serious problems with the Conventional Chronology. After the failure of the "Glasgow Chronology" - the only way to hold on to both the first ...
732. Towards a new Evolutionary Synthesis [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Sciences at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham and a member of SIS Council. A graduate of Cambridge University, he obtained a Ph.D . from London University in 1973 for his research in the field of inborn errors of metabolism. He is the author of Understanding Enzymes (1981) and over 50 research papers and review articles. It is strange how scientists often choose to present a different image to the outside world from that presented to fellow scientists. Take, for instance, the renowned evolutionary geneticist, Ledyard Stebbins of the University of California, Davis. His book, Darwin to DNA, Molecules to Humanity [1 ] is aimed at the non-specialist. It is well-written and ...
733. Holy Dreamtime [Books] [de Grazia books]
... or had heard it from someone who was there [1 ]. One may wonder whether, although Odysseus does not recognize it, the Love Affair, too, is sung "absolutely according to its proper ordering," and as if Demodocus "had been present" himself "or had heard it from someone who was there." Strange it is that Odysseus, when the song is ended, has been transported and is joyfully at ease. One would imagine that the story of an adulterous love triangle might have reminded him of his own plight - long away from his palace and beset by rumors of his wife's unfaithfulness. One might believe that the song was in bad ...
734. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... is quoted as saying: I guess we were just unlucky that the signal looked so convincing'. Phew! What a relief: the previous explanations weren't at all convincing. Planet is Comet source: New Scientist 25.8 .90, pp. 48-51 The mysterious object Chiron, further away from the Sun than any known asteroid but strangely coma-less and tail-less for a comet when first discovered in 1977, has at last begun to show itself in its true colours. Its orbit lies between Saturn and Uranus and is far from circular: analysis shows that the orbit is actually unstable. As Chiron has been approaching the Sun a huge coma of gas and dust has formed around ...
735. Velikovsky And Cultural Amnesia [Journals] [Pensee]
... this aim, in that almost all the normal college functions there occur within one vast building (1000 feet long, 100 feet high) trestled on two sides of a coulee bordering the Old Man River. The creation of Vancouver architect, Arthur Erickson, this Academic Residence Building often strikes those who find themselves spending time in it with a strange sense of futurism, as though its intricate dovetailing of functions should be matched by a dovetailing of disciplines taught there. And as though to give final proof that this challenge had been accepted, the Lethbridge faculty voted to precede Velikovsky's doctorate with a two-day symposium on the most advanced problem in his work, that of cultural amnesia. As ...
736. Reflections [Journals] [SIS Review]
... Eileen's continual sang-froid in any crisis, and her practical advice on all matters. To all, and to Peter and David, many thanks for an incomparable adventure. PETER BALLINGER Albany, California, USA Egyptian Jottings I am truly in Egypt. The union of a dream and its dreamer is beyond description. Exhilarating! Exhausting! I feel strangely as if I have come home at last.... Tell el Amarna: Nowhere have I ever felt heat more intense. It was as if the entire plain was a place made of molten gold - golden sand beneath a golden sky, the water of the river like topaz wine .. . I tried to feel Akhenaten's ...
737. Alexander. Part 2 Ch.3 (Peoples of the Sea) [Velikovsky]
... As for any person, of whom they shall report before thee, A slayer of living- thou shalt destroy him, thou shalt slay him." Then the great god nodded exceedingly, exceedingly. The combination of words in the question referred by the high priest to the oracle of Amon, concerning the "slayer of living", appeared strange, and its meaning was asserted to be obscure; it caused difficulty to its first (Brugsch) and later (Breasted) translators and resulted in the strained passage just quoted. Before the last question and the answer of the oracle to it, the text contains a sentence that appears to be unrelated to the context: "While ...
738. The Radiocarbon Dating Method [Journals] [Pensee]
... through recent photosynthesis. The long time that coal or oil have been underground insures that the original radiocarbon in the plants which produced them would long since have disappeared. The cosmic rays actually produce radiocarbon only indirectly. In the first step of the process they strike the nuclei of the air atoms and disintegrate them. Among the fragments are many strange, short-lived particles, most of which transform almost immediately into longer-lived entities. Radiocarbon is produced by the interaction of one of these secondary particles, the neutron, with the nitrogen of the air. The neutron has been with us now since the early thirties and has come to be part of our daily life since it is the purveyor ...
739. The el-Amarna Letters (Ages in Chaos) [Velikovsky]
... of these places but not by these kings. Much more important is the fact that there is little similarity in the events described in both sources. The episode of the siege of Jericho, the most remarkable occurrence in the first period-of the conquest, is missing in the letters, and Jericho is not mentioned at all. This silence is strange, if the Habiru were the Hebrews under Joshua. No contemporaneous event can be traced in the letters. The pharaohs of the Nineteenth Dynasty, Seti and Ramses II, left memorial monuments in Egypt and in Palestine regarding their passage through Palestine as conquerors of the land lost by the pharaohs of the el-Amarna period or by their successors. ...
740. Sun and Saturn by Morris Jastrow Jr [Articles]
... . I venture to think, that we have in this naive explanation of an atmospheric phenomenon which seems simple enough to the modern astronomer, a suggestion as to the origin and meaning of this interesting association of the sun with Saturn, leading to the wide spread usage of the signs for Šamaš (An-UT and Amna) to represent Saturn. Strange as it may seem to us, the planet Saturn appears to leave been regarded as "the sun of the night" corresponding to Šamaš as "the sun of the daytime" (39) and the cause of such light as the night furnishes. It was argued, that since there was a sun furnishing the light of day ...
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