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119 pages of results. 891. Isaac Asimov in Absurdity [Books]
... flames as a snowflake melts and disappears in water, and almost as quickly. Six-story buildings would take fire and disappear forever from sight in five minutes by the watch . . . . The fire also doubled on its track at the great Union Depot and burned half a mile southward in the very teeth of the gale . . . . Strange fantastic fires of blue, red, and green played along the cornices of buildings. '" Hon. William B. Ogden [the Mayor] wrote at the time: " 'The most striking peculiarity of the fire was its intense heat. Nothing exposed to it escaped. Amid the hundreds of acres left bare there is not ...
892. Sagan's first problem: The ejection of Venus by Jupiter (Carl Sagan & Immanuel Velikovsky) [Books]
... the inner planets born from Jupiter at .the same time as well as throwing off an object thirty-five times more massive than all these bodies in the process. Apparently Lyttleton was so naive and ignorant as not to know that Sagan's calculation would require more energy to accomplish this than the Sun would produce in thirty-five years. Yet, for some strange reason, Lytdeton produces a calculation that permits Jupiter to fission, yet does so without exploding the planet that formed into a fine powder of dust and atoms. Big comets One point raised by Sagan in his book Cosmos, is that Venus is, "some 30 million times more massive than the most massive comet known."20 ...
893. The el-Amarna Letters and the New Chronology [Journals] [SIS Review]
... been written during his early career. Albright writes: "That the latter's beginnings were insignificant also appears in one of the earliest letters from him to the pharaoh, which was written by a scribe so untutored that he wrote the second half of the letter in almost pure Canaanite, obviously not knowing enough Akkadian to translate it even into the strange jargon taught in the schools. The truculence of Labaya's tone in writing to the court contrasts oddly with the grovelling subservience of most Palestinian chieftains." [21] Substitute Hebrew' for Canaanite' and Albright might just as easily have been describing a letter from the early Israelite king Saul. Labayu appears not to have known much Akkadian ...
... lavas and igneous rocks in all parts of the world are reversely magnetized. But what is more startling is to find that the reversely magnetized rocks are a hundred times [or a thousand times] more strongly magnetized than the earth's magnetic field could have caused them to be. H. Manley writes in his review, writes It may seem strange that a rock which is made magnetic by the earth's field' should become so strongly magnetized [Manley states] compared with the generating force. This is one of the most astonishing problems of paleomagnetism."11 Apparently Sagan when he stated that "there is no sign of rock magnetism of terrestrial rocks ever having been subjected to such ...
... fifteen myriads of angels who go out with the sun, and attend him during the day, and the thousand angels who attend him by night. Each angel has six wings, and they go before the chariot of the sun, while one hundred angels keep the sun warm, and light it up. He saw also the wonderful and strange creatures named phoenixes and chalkidri, who attend the chariot of the sun, and go with him, bringing heat and dew. They showed him also the six gates in the east of the fourth heaven, by which the sun goes forth, and the six gates in the west where he sets, and also the gates by which ...
896. The New Science of Immanuel Velikovsky [Journals] [Kronos]
... bridges the past recognition that there has been dramatic inconstancy in the past, in the quest for a basis for a source of unquestioned stability. At virtually the same time as he acknowledges that there have been great cataclysms in the past, Plato urges that those who do entertain such dangerous beliefs be severely punished. In the Laws, that strange work of his old age, Plato declares that the most dangerous and subversive teachers are those that deny the eternal constancy of the heavens. To Plato, such constancy is the only guarantee we have for intellectual, political and moral order. As Stecchini* points out, Plato, and later Aristotle, seem to protest altogether too much ...
897. Homeric Troy and the Greek Dark Age [Journals] [SIS Review]
... [54]. Neither do I wish to burden historical revisionists with it. The readers of this periodical, however, are not strangers to cosmic catastrophism and the mythological motifs associated with it. Are any of them willing to assume that Heracles commenced his frenzied career on Earth as a man of flesh and blood before someone, for some strange reason, decided to deify him as the god of the planet Mars? Granted - the excision of the Greek Dark Age would reinstate the genealogical link between Heracles and the early Spartan kings, but only in a general manner of speaking. Even so, what would this prove beyond the fact that classical chronologists were intelligent enough to calculate ...
898. Cosmology And PsychologyY [Journals] [Kronos]
... to support the prophets of doom. James I of England "was convinced that it was an omen, not only of the fall of the House of Stuart, but also of the Thirty Years War (1618-48). John Evelyn, the diarist, also blamed the comet for the war."(67) Yet these reactions are strange indeed since the wars of the seventeenth century were, in a sense, only a resumption of those of the sixteenth century. But for all that, the entire fabric of the seventeenth century is dramatically altered. "It is broken in the middle, irreparably broken, and at the end of it, after the revolutions, men ...
899. The Legends of the Jews: Volume II - Moses in Egypt [Books]
... children born of the marriage in Jethro's house should be divided into two equal classes, the one to be Israelitish, the other Egyptian. When Zipporah bore him a son, Moses circumcised him,[97] and called him Gershom, as a memorial of the wonder God had done for him, for although he lived in a "strange" land, the Lord had not refused him aid even "there."[98] Zipporah nursed her first child for two years, and in the third year she bore a second son. Remembering his compact with Jethro, Moses realized that his father-in-law would not permit him to circumcise this one, too, and he determined ...
900. The Legends of the Jews: Volume II - Joseph [Books]
... put yet other outrages upon thee if thou dost not obey me." But Joseph replied, "The Lord executeth judgment for the oppressed." Zuleika: "I will push matters so far that all men will hate thee." Joseph: "The Lord loveth the righteous." Zuleika: "I will sell thee into a strange land." Joseph: "The Lord preserveth the strangers."[139] Then she would resort to enticements in order to obtain her desire. She would promise to release him from prison, if he would but grant her wish. But he would say, "Better it is to remain here than be with thee and ...
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