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The history of astronomy


Malaga Bay
Sun, 05 Nov 2017 23:23 UTC
History of Astronomy
© The British Library
The History of Astronomy provides some of the best supporting evidence for the 700 Phantom Years of History theory proposed by Gunnar Heinsohn.

In 1898 Arthur Berry noted the 900-year near-stagnation in Astronomy during the Middle Ages.
Recommended by the Encyclopaedia Britannica as a standard work, Berry's "History of Astronomy" has the unusual distinction of more than fifty years of continuing popularity.

Used by college students in both England and America, it has also provided laymen in both countries with an accurate and easily understandable account of the great achievements of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and the 19th-century astronomers of France, Germany, England and America.

A study not so much of men as of their work, it makes a stirring record of our advances in knowledge of the universe accessible to all.

The author devotes his first three chapters to pre-Copernican astronomy, covering primitive views, the speculations of the Greek astronomers from Thales and Pythagoras to Hipparchus and Ptolemy, and the 900-year near-stagnation of the Middle Ages.

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Short History of Astronomy - Arthur J. Berry - Dover Publications - 1961
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The Balfour centenary is also the centenary of the rise of the Zionist lobby

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Fri, 03 Nov 2017 20:28 UTC
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Chaim Weizmann
On the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, many voices tell us of the damage this colonial document did to the Palestinian people, and the obligation on Britain and its imperial successor, the United States, to support Palestinian rights at last.

As someone keenly interested in Jewish history, I have a different angle on Balfour: the declaration marked the arrival of the Zionist lobby in international affairs. That amorphous coalition that is called the Israel lobby or the Jewish lobby announced its presence with the Balfour promise of 1917. It is the one element of the Balfour history that will not be anatomized in the press these days, because it so touches on a delicate issue, "Jewish influence," which is widely thought to be an anti-Semitic idea. But no history of Balfour is complete without understanding Zionist agency in producing the colonial entitlement. And no effort to rectify Balfour will be possible without reckoning with the role of the lobby in our policy-making to this day.

The why's and wherefore's of the Balfour Declaration were extremely complicated. Britain was still a colonial power, and had colonial interests in the Middle East. And it was also a combatant in the Great War as one of the Allied Powers (France and Russia) against the Central Powers (Germany, Austria and the Ottoman Empire).
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First indigenous map of the US


Native American Pride Blog
Sun, 29 Oct 2017 16:06 UTC
USA Map Showing Natives
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Aaron Carapella, a Cherokee Indian, has taken it upon himself to create a map that shows the Tribal nations of the U.S. prior to European contact. The map is of the contiguous United States and displays the original native tribal names of roughly 595 tribes, and of that, 150 tribes are without descendants. Without descendants means that there is no one known to be alive from that tribe and are believed to be extinct.

Aaron Carapella, a self-taught mapmaker in Warner, Okla., has designed a map of Native American tribes showing their locations before first contact with Europeans.

Aaron's journey to making the Native American Nations map began 14 years ago. At the age of 19, Aaron had already gained a great deal of knowledge from listening to stories from his family, elders from his tribe, and reading books on Native American history. To explain where his knowledge came from Aaron said, "My Grandparents would tell me, you're part Native American and that's part of your history. They would give me books to read about different tribes' histories, so, I grew up with a curiosity of always wanting to learn more about Native American history."

After reading the many books on Native tribes and not finding any authentic type maps which failed to accurately represent the hundreds of modern day and historical tribes, Aaron decided to start creating a map for himself that would be authentic and cultural. "The maps in the books were kind of cheesy, they only had maybe 50 to 100 tribes on them," said Aaron.
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'The Russian Revolution in Colour' - How the Bolsheviks subverted the 1917 Russian revolution (Documentary)


dailymotion
Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:56 UTC
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This is a 2-part documentary on the Russian Revolution, first aired on the UK's Channel 5 in 2005. The first part centers around the mutiny of the Kronstadt sailors, which helped ignite the February 1917 revolution. Once Bolsheviks like Lenin and Trotsky entered the fray, the anti-war movement for democratic change took on a completely direction and flavor, so that the October 1917 revolution - 'The Bolshevik Revolution' - saw Russia's continued participation in the First World War, the devastation of once-prosperous Russia in the Russian Civil War, then the creation of the totalitarian Soviet Union.

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Lenin's proclamation of the 1917 October Revolution to be shown in UK for 1st time


RT
Sun, 05 Nov 2017 09:53 UTC
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© SputnikRed Guards of Putilovsky factory with the armoured car "Lieutenant Shmidt" taken from cadets at night on October 23, 1917. Petrograd
An artefact marking a turning point in Russian history - the proclamation of the 1917 October Revolution by Vladimir Lenin - will be shown for the first time in the UK, the Independent reports. The event marks the uprising's 100th anniversary.

The poster, proclaiming the overthrow of the provisional Russian government, was put up on walls in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) on November 7, 1917 (October 25 in the old Russian calendar). It was written by Lenin and published in the name of Petrograd Revolution Committee.

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The history behind National Unity Day


Sputnik
Sat, 04 Nov 2017 21:15 UTC
On Saturday Russia is celebrating National Unity Day - a relatively new state holiday, albeit one with deep historical roots.

Russian statue
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National Unity Day was first celebrated November 4, 2005 and established in memory of the events of 1612, when a Russian merchant by the name of Kuzma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky led a volunteer army to liberate Moscow from Polish occupation. Dmitry Pozharsky was even heralded as the 'Savior of the Motherland' for his merits.

These events were connected to the end of the period in Russian history called the Time of Troubles.

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Mysterious stone sarcophagus cover dates back more than 1,400 years found in Turkey


RT
Sat, 04 Nov 2017 16:52 UTC
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© Przemysław Sakrajda / Wikipedia
An ancient sarcophagus cover inscribed with a prayer to the dead has been discovered by construction workers in northern Turkey. Historians believe the artifact dates back more than 1,400 years, but there are very few clues as to who it belonged to.

Best known for their use in the ancient burial rituals of Egypt, Rome, and Greece, sarcophagi are a type of coffin whose decoration often reflected of the status of the person within. Perhaps the most famous sarcophagus is that of the 'boy king,' the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, whose burial case consisted of four layers, one made from solid gold.

A much more rudimentary design in the form a stone sarcophagus cover has now been discovered in the northern Turkish province of Gümüşhane.
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100 years of the Balfour Declaration: The cause of injustice and suffering endured by generations of Palestinians

John Wight
Sputnik
Fri, 03 Nov 2017 14:55 UTC
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© AP Photo/ Majdi Mohammed
On 2 November 1917 the British government in the form of the country's then foreign secretary, Sir Arthur Balfour, addressed a letter to Lord Rothschild, a leading figure within the British Jewish community.

In terms of its significance and impact this brief letter, known to the world as the Balfour Declaration, remains unsurpassed. Depending on your point of view it enjoys a place in history as the catalyst of Jewish salvation, leading to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, or the cause of the unremitting injustice and suffering and endured by generations of Palestinians.

In the letter Balfour writes:
"His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by the Jews in any other country."
The stance enshrined in these words - involving the government of a European state arrogating to itself the right to hand over part of the land of another people to a third people without bothering to ask or consult said people - is staggering in its iniquity. It bespeaks the injustice upon which the British Empire rested and the country's engagement with the developing world, one rooted in domination, exploitation and naked self-interest.
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Orwellian NSA wanted to use the Espionage Act to prosecute a journalist in the 80's for using FOIA

Emma Best
Muckrock
Tue, 24 Oct 2017 16:38 UTC
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Declassified memos show agency's leadership argued there was "criminal intent" in Puzzle Palace author's public records requests

Declassified documents in the Central Intelligence Agency's archives show that while the CIA was looking to include the Freedom Of Information Act in its war on leaks, the National Security Agency was seriously considering using the Espionage Act to target target Puzzle Palace author James Bamford for using FOIA.

While Bamford has briefly discussed this on a handful of occasions, the declassified memos and briefings from NSA confirm that this was more than just an intimidation tactic or a passing thought - the NSA had truly wanted to jail a journalist for his use of public records. When the Agency determined that this was unlikely to happen, they moved on to exploring other legal avenues which could be used to punish Bamford for his FOIA work.

Comment: In this case, justice may be best served by buying and reading James Bamford's book. After all the trouble the NSA went to supress it, aren't we a little curious about what it says?

The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization

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 The Balfour Declaration set in motion the ethnic cleansing of Palestine

Rana Askoul
Mondoweiss
Thu, 02 Nov 2017 16:08 UTC
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© Palestine RememberedThe Palestinian village of Suhmata in the early 1950s before its destruction by Israel.
Dear Ms. May,

I was in London for a summer visit a few years back. After a long day, I headed to Pret for a cup of coffee and a falafel wrap. A few minutes in, and as I was about to tuck into my wrap, a man seated next to me started a conversation with me about the weather. As we got to the part of the conversation where I told him that I'm in London just for a visit, he asked me where I was from. "Palestinian" I said.

"I like Palestinians," he responded. "But do you know what's wrong with the Palestinians?" he followed up.

"What?", I answered, curious as to what he is about to share.

"The problem is that the Palestinians can't move on. What happened has happened, but what are you going to do next, and when will you start looking towards the future, instead of continuing to be stuck in the past." I didn't respond to him then, but promised him that I would give what he said a thought.

I never thought back to that exchange until recently. Actually, specifically until four days ago. See, Ms. May, this past October 30 marked the 69th anniversary of the fall of my small village in Palestine - Suhmata- at the hands of the Golani brigade. With a little over 1300 inhabitants at the time, a mosque, a church and two schools, the village was aerially bombarded at first. Shortly after, Suhmata was captured by the Golani infantry brigade. They killed some of the villagers - maternal relatives of mine - and gave a choice to the remaining people to either stay and get killed or leave.

Comment: For an excellent historical account of what happened to Palestine as a consequence of the Balfour declaration, we recommend Illan Pappe's book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Illan Pappe is an Israeli professor of history, and his book uses as sources internal documents of the Israeli military.

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