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221 pages of results. 261. Bookshelf [Journals] [SIS Review]
... have the book recalled for major cosmetic surgery, I recommend that you obtain a copy immediately, as it may become a rarity (and it has appeared in only a limited edition.) However irritating for some of the parties involved, de Grazia's refreshing frankness performs a valuable historical service. He is well aware that the bulk of such writing is emasculated in myriad ways; the threat of legal action, possible effects on the writer's career, apprehensive publishers, the wrath of friends et. al., but he has decided to publish, be damned, and rely on the First Amendment The biographical data have not been "smoothed out", like radiometric dating curves to ...
262. Chapter II: The Events [The Age of Velikovsky] [Books]
... was all, and the Pharaoh and a large portion of his already decimated army were drowned. In present day el-Arish, a black granite shrine was found inscribed with hieroglyphics and performing the un-shrinely task of being a cattle trough. The name King Thom was written in a royal cartouche, which indicates an historical instead of mythological characteristic of the writing. Two cities were built by the Israelite slaves for the Pharaoh of the Oppression. One was Pithom. Pi-Thom means "the abode of Thom.18 So it is possible that the inscription concerns the time of the Exodus, although this is not where it is placed under conventional chronology. In the mutilated description, there is mention ...
263. Reviews [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... was a newish approach at the time. He compares him with other writers of the period and earlier. He points out where they differ, shows where he has used other sources (which is most of the time), and what they are, and locates the parts where we rely totally on Josephus. He discusses the reasons for writing the different books and for which readers. There is an assessment of Josephus as a Jew and as a historian, taking into account his relationship with the Romans as well as his own people. There is a chapter on the Jews and the Romans, two on the life of Josephus, one on his relationship to his predecessors, ...
264. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... was quite surprised to find similar, very obvious allusions to a Velikovsky-type scenario in Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha'. Hiawatha himself is early portrayed as a god figure with many of the attributes of Christ, perhaps an Osiris character, who battles with his own father and later is associated with the first cultivation of corn and the invention of writing. I was intrigued to find the comet called Ishkoodah, with fiery tresses', and the Master of Life causing the forests to burst into flame and creating a column of smoke to touch the sky. A new variation on the rivers of blood theme are waters red with washed-off war paint. The monster to be overcome is the ...
265. A New Theory of Celtic Festivals [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... 3 ] Lugnasad has a date, the first of August, which does not accord well with a pastoralist economy. It seems rather to have had to do with ensuring the ripening of crops, for the observances were undertaken to ensure the harvest and not to thank for it. ' These festivals were not gentle rustic celebrations. Anne Ross writes: Each part of the year was preceded by a great religious festival commemorating some cult legend. The festival was accompanied by feasting and merrymaking, by fairs and marketing, games and sport, and by solemn religious observances and, in Gaul at least, the sacrifice of humans as well as beasts. ' [5 ] Significant omissions ...
266. Donnelly (The Atlantis Myth) [Books]
... country about a century and a half before Plato's time, he was prevented from doing so by political difficulties. So the myth remained a family tradition, its record passing from Solon to his kinsman, Dropides, and down the generations, the elder Critias, Callaeschrus, and the younger Critias to Plato. Though Solon was not able to write his epic about the battles of the forebears of the Athenians with the Atlanteans and thus to introduce the forgotten tradition into Greek literature and hence to the world in general, he seems to have been successful in partially reviving the memory of it, for a time at least, through the establishment of the ceremonial of the Lesser Panathenaea, ...
267. Towards a New Evolutionary Synthesis [Books]
... 12,15,17-19]. Eventually, they concluded that not even the resources of the entire Galaxy were sufficient to have allowed complex life to have arisen in a natural fashion and, therefore, there must have been some form of supernatural involvement [12,15,20,21]. In The Intelligent Universe, Hoyle (writing by himself on this occasion) calculated the odds against the 2,000 enzymes of a bacterium being formed by the random coupling of amino-acid building-blocks as being 1 in 1040,000, i.e . remote beyond imagination, and gave the following analogy: "A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, ...
268. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... only in the final letter, which is silent in both cases. The vowel points, which were not added to the text until a late date, differ but if the Assyrian rendition is even close to faithful, it is likely that the Masoretes altered the vowels in order to avoid accidental pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton (no Orthodox Jew will write or pronounce this Name). That the name Yhw' would be transliterated as Yaua is reasonable, considering that the only consonants in the name are y and w. The Hebrew h is not represented in cuneiform (the h' you see in transcriptions of cuneiform represents the guttural Hebrew het and at times the guttural ayin- the Cambridge ...
269. Letters [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... km 40 50 60 70 80 90 MI ratio 50 40 33 28 24 22 These values are slightly high because a uniform core density is assumed. In the last paragraph of my letter, I referred to the NEW SCIENTIST report of 13th November 1980 that Venus is losing 15% more heat energy than it receives from the Sun. Ellenberger writes that this is an erroneous report, as was stated in a letter from F.W . Taylor published in NEW SCIENTIST, 29th January 1981. The position is that the report was mainly about what was discussed at the R.I . meeting, a full report of which has not yet been published, as far as I ...
270. Isaac Asimov in Absurdity [Books]
... in Absurdity Charles Ginenthal "Science writers, if they do it well, both inform and entertain, but the task of informing is primary. They must, under no circumstances, misinform. If they do, their work is worthless and harmful- all the more worthless and harmful if it is entertaining and attracts readers." Isaac Asimov "Writing of Two Sorts," Planets, ed. B. Preiss (1985), p. 20 Isaac Asimov in 1969, published a diatribe full of rage and invective about Velikovsky's theory titled "Worlds in Confusion" in the October 1969 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a pulp magazine. Three years later it was reprinted in ...
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