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72 pages of results. 51. The Riddle of the Earth [Books]
... 9. The summer months Of I924 were marked by a continuity of severe thunderstorms usually brief, but accompanied by thunderbolts, and heavily charged with electricity and cloudbursts. There were also reported a number of earthquakes in Britain, notably ... Gulf Stream seems to be able to collect. There was not only no sunshine fit to mention; there were thunderstorms, fitful, sudden and dangerous throughout the year; there was a tremendous hurricane during the first days of September ... warning was so great an oppressiveness that people could scarcely breathe, and this was followed by a rumbling like distant thunder. The resultant shock threw down most of the city, then one of the finest in Europe, day was ...
52. Electricity in Astronomy 2 [Journals] [SIS Review]
... air to have a low value of electrical conductivity, such that any accumulated charges will gradually leak away. Under thunderstorm conditions particles of ice and/or water drops are charged by various processes and accumulations of one sign of charge ... m, in central France. He saw a storm in the valley below him about 2 miles away and heard thunder. A few seconds afterwards he felt a strong blast of hot air, so powerful he had to lean against ... mass, especially if the amount in the atmosphere was increased by volcanic eruptions. Fort lists many examples of "thunderstones" associated with lightning but now that scientists have discovered meteorites come from space, they are unwilling to believe any ...
53. The Polar Column: A Physical Model of Myth [Journals] [Aeon]
... column, the mechanical and electrical potential contained in the vortex would have been returned to Earth, accompanied by Jovian thunderbolts and an abyssal cooling. Adiabatic Demagnetization There is a method of cooling paramagnetic materials known as Giauque-Debye adiabatic demagnetization, ... for, as one approached ever higher latitudes, gentle westerly winds would have turned into increasingly violent southwesterly gales. Thunderstorm activity would have increased until ultimately, beyond the point of no return, hurricane winds would have swept from a ... arcing across dielectric strata. This was by no means a quiet phenomenon, this music of the spheres. The thundering hammer of Thor, the lilting lyre of Orpheus, or "the sounding of brass and the tinkling of cymbals ...
54. Evidence for the Extreme Youth of Venus [Journals] [SIS Review]
... have 90% or more of the craters being created in a flurry of enormously powerful electrical discharges. Such cosmic thunderbolts' would occur as a result of the entanglement of planetary magnetospheres during a flyby'. The core ejection hypothesis ... shuttle photographed on the horizon: "a lightning bolt extending an estimated 31 kilometres into clear air above an isolated thunderstorm. At least 15 pilots have reported seeing such lightning at some time in their flying careers." [56 ... Thirty-two minutes after landing, Venera 11 detected a very loud (82 decibel) noise which was believed to be thunder. Garry Hunt suggested at the time that:'... the Venusians may well be glowing from the ...
55. F. X. Kugler -- Almost a Catastrophist [Journals] [SIS Review]
... the path of his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth, and was himself destroyed by a thunderbolt. Now this has the form of a myth, but really signifies a declination of the bodies moving in the ... brilliance, and cross the sky at great speed in various directions, not rarely exploding, to the accompaniment of thunder and lightning, sometimes setting fire to terrestrial settlements and fields with their glowing debris. That, according to the ... he ignores the implications of the Timaeus passage already referred to). Jupiter (Zeuz), Shown Wielding a Thunderbold (Medal of Marcus Aureilus: British Museum) "Besides these local catastrophes, antiquity knows yet another fire and ...
56. Reviewing Velikovsky'S Venus And Mars Theories [Journals] [Velikovskian]
... as 300 miles closer to the new equator. According to Ginzberg's ancient rabbinic sources, one or more powerful interplanetary thunderbolts (from the Angel of the Lord) struck the Assyrian armor, camped just outside Jerusalem. Those thunderbolts were ... brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire. 66 The Lord also thundered in the heavens, ad the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire. He sent out ... when the first photographs of the surface of Mars were taken by Mariner missions, astronomers, geologists and others were thunderstruck. Those Martian photos revealed for the first time the physical geography of Mars. It was discovered that the frigid ...
57. Dragons and Serpents (Moons, Myths and Man) [Books]
... Hydra, the Chimaera, the Theban Sphinx, and others. Zeus alone dared attack the monster, armed with thunderbolts and a sickle. In the fearful struggle which ensued Typhon, though full of wounds, wrenched the deadly weapons ... and 5, which are inserted before Esther i. in the Greek translation: There was noise and turmoil, thunder, earthquake, and terror on Earth. And, lo, two great dragons appeared, either ready to give ... out of his mouth. ' It makes a terrible noise; that is why the dragon is usually called the thunder-bird' in myths of the North American Indians. It sends abroad asphyxiating stinks. All that comes of the dragon ...
58. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning [Books]
... , led Pluto, who feared for the continuance of his kingdom, to induce Jove to strike Aesculapius with a thunderbolt and put him among the constellations. The figure also was associated with Caeoius, the Blinding One, slain by ... oritur magni praepes adunca Jovis. Ovid's Fali. Jove for the prince of birds decreed, And carrier of his thunder, too, The bird whom golden Ganymede Too well for trusty agent knew. Gladstone's translation of Horace's Odes The ... its guardianship to the god Mercury, whence its title Nerenrii Sidus. When the sun was within its boundaries every thunder-storm would cause commotions, famine, and locusts; and Berossos asserted that the earth was to be submerged when all ...
59. The Scenario of Exodus [Books] [de Grazia books]
... and control equipment, The great gods Horus, Thoth, and Amon, the nearest to Israel's Yahweh, were thunderbolting and cosmic fire gods. The word "pyramid" is Greek and "pyr" means "fire" as ... ages since and today. Folklore, however, has long told us that bread dough will not rise in a thunderstorm. The Hebrews could not get their dough to rise, owing to intense electrostatic disturbances, but baked the flat ... Angels waged in the skies. The Egyptian soldiers were met by strong winds, fiery darts, lightning flashes, thunder, hailstones and coals of fire [38]. The chariot wheels and the hooves of the horses were burned ...
60. The Rise of Blood Sacrifice [Journals] [Aeon]
... along the course taken by his father, burnt up all that was upon the earth and himself perished by a thunderbolt- that story, as it is told, has the style of a legend, but the truth of it ... Deluge" epic) with the destruction layers found right underneath the earliest Bronze Age settlements. They acknowledged "the thunderstorm and the yearly flood" (83) as possible vexations of nature. But they could not recognize the catastrophic ... prominence of Ishtar in ancient Mesopotamia: "Proud Queen of the Earth Gods, Supreme Among the Heaven Gods Loud Thundering Storm, you pour your rain over all the lands and all the people. You make the heavens tremble and ...
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