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Ottoman archives hold records of Jerusalem deeds

Yeni ลžafak
Truthaholics
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
Jerusalem deeds
© Unknown
There are 171,306 deeds recorded in 46 registries of Jerusalem in Ottoman archive records. Of these, 133,365 are private property and 37,671 belong to foundations. In addition to this, Turkey's archives also have records of Jerusalem between the hijri years 950 and 1917.

Among the records of private property were 139 deeds belonging to Sultan Abdul Hamid II, 137 of which were transferred to the treasury in the past. The remaining two are in Jerusalem's Erihav region. The records show that there is a plot of land approximately 30,000 square meters in size that is recorded under the name of Sultan Abdul Hamid II [1842-1918].

The deeds proving that Palestine belongs to Palestinians were handed to Palestinian officials. Israel did not ask for deed records from Turkey. Had Israel requested these records, it would mean that Israel would be accepting that it is occupying Palestine.

A memorandum was signed between Palestine and Jordan. Procedures such as the maintenance and repair of foundations in Jerusalem were transferred to Jordan. Therefore, in 2016, upon the request of Jordan, Turkey provided copies of the deeds of foundations in Jerusalem to Jordan.
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Vader

US repeatedly promised Russia "no NATO eastward expansion" - declassified docs


Sputnik
Tue, 12 Dec 2017 18:18 UTC
Reagan Gorbachove
© Sputnik/ Yuryi Abramochkin
NATO expansion was a key issue as the US, Western European and Soviet leaders negotiated the reunification of Germany.

US and Western European leaders repeatedly promised their Soviet and Russian counterparts in the early 1990s that NATO would not expand into Eastern Europe, according to a series of declassified documents posted by George Washington University's National Security Archive on Tuesday.

"US Secretary of State James Baker's famous "not one inch eastward" assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991," a press release summarizing the document cache stated.

Comment: Russia's mistake was in actually believing the U.S. would stand by its word. The suffering of the 90s brought on by the West's pillaging of the country taught them otherwise. They have taken the lesson to heart

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Bad Guys

Did the CIA use Gloria Steinem to subvert the feminist & civil rights movements for the purpose of further separating people?

Stuart Jean Bramhall
Stuart Jean Bramhall
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:51 UTC
Co-opting Radical Feminism for Corporate Interests

Gloria Steinem
© Ms. Foundation for WomenGloria Steinem
While preeminent American feminist Gloria Steinem's CIA background receives wide attention on the Internet, it's a totally taboo topic in either the corporate or the so-called "alternative" media. Steinem's work for the CIA front group Independent Research Service first entered the public domain in 1967 when Ramparts magazine exposed both the Independent Research Service and the National Student Association as CIA front organizations.

Fearing unflattering publicity, Steinem gave interviews to both the New York Times and the Washington Post defending her CIA work (see video below). In both articles, she claims to have taken the initiative in contacting Cord Meyers, who headed the CIA's International Organization Division and their top secret Operation Mockingbird.* Her goal, allegedly, was to seek CIA financing to encourage American participation in the seventh postwar (Soviet-sponsored) World Youth Festival in Vienna in 1959.

Comment: How feminism continues to separate people:

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Fish

Ancient fish hook reveals women did all the hard work 12,000-years-ago

Andrew Masterson
Cosmos Magazine
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 15:31 UTC
Fish Hook
© O'Connor et al, ANUFish-hooks placed around the neck and jaws of an adult Indonesian woman.
The discovery of five 12,000-year-old fish-hooks has exploded the assumption that during the Pleistocene era fishing was men's work.

In a paper published in the journal Antiquity, a team led by Sue O'Connor from the Australian National University's College of Asia and the Pacific, reports finding fish-hooks fashioned from sea snail shells in a rock shelter on the island of Alor in Indonesia.

The hooks had been deployed as grave goods - items left on or next to a corpse. In this case, they had been placed carefully under the chin and around the jaws of a deceased adult female.

Items used in burial or other funeral practices provide strong clues to the cultural values of the people involved, because they are inevitably either items associated with the person during life or things thought to be required for success in the afterlife.
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Cow

The medieval craze for almond milk and how cows milk was mainly consumed as butter or cheese

Jim Clarke
Atlas Obscura
Fri, 08 Dec 2017 12:00 UTC
A woodcut illustration from the Kuchenmaistrey, the 15th century-era German cookbook, depicting two cooks in the kitchen. Public Domain
© Public DomainA woodcut illustration from the Kuchenmaistrey, the 15th century-era German cookbook, depicting two cooks in the kitchen.
In recent years, almond milk has been touted as the future of non-dairy delicacies. It's become a staple for lactose-intolerants and coffee shops alike. Yet almond milk's popularity today pales in comparison to the high and late Middle Ages, when the upper class went nuts for it.

Almonds have been central to Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisines as far back as the Roman era, yet almond milk is likely a religiously-motivated, European innovation. The first mention of almond milk appears in a medical context in 12th century Salerno, but it quickly spread from the Mediterranean as far as Germany, England, and Denmark. During Lent, European Christians were barred from consuming milk, as well as eggs and meat. So they needed a substitute.

While making almond milk is straightforward, it involved a considerable amount of labor. First, cooks ground up a generous number of almonds and steeped them in hot water. Then, they strained the mixture through a fine mesh or cheesecloth. The resulting mixture-fairly thick, and not chunky or textured at all-became an ideal thickener for a dish.
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Archaeology

Archaeologists confirm multiple ancient Bronze age tools made from meteorites, knowledge of time needs to be 'revised'

Chris Ciaccia
Fox News
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 12:00 UTC
Using cutting-edge technology, scientists have discovered that ancient Bronze Age tools were created using iron from meteorites at a time before humans were unable to smelt iron ore.
Using cutting-edge technology, scientists have discovered that ancient Bronze Age tools were created using iron from meteorites at a time before humans were unable to smelt iron ore.
Using cutting-edge technology, scientists have discovered that ancient Bronze Age tools were created using iron from meteorites at a time before humans were unable to smelt iron ore.

Archaeologists have unearthed new ancient iron artifacts that utilize iron from meteorites, at a time when early humans were not thought to be able to smelt iron ore.

According to a study in the Journal of Archaeological Science, the artifacts were determined to have extraterrestrial iron using an x-ray fluorescence spectrometer. The spectrometer is used to detect iron elements in the tools and other objects and has been an advancement in techniques used for testing as it does not degrade the items, a key fear for archaeologists.

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Pyramid

Trove of statues depicting lioness goddess Sekhmet discovered in Egypt

James Rogers
Fox News
Sun, 10 Dec 2017 07:57 UTC
Trove of statues depicting lioness goddess discovered in Egypt Sekhmet
© Egyptian Ministry of AntiquitiesOne of the statues unearthed during the Luxor excavation
One of the statues unearthed during the Luxor excavation (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities)

A trove of black granite statues depicting the lioness goddess Sekhmet have been discovered at an ancient site in Egypt.

Researchers with the Egyptian-European Archaeological Mission unearthed the 27 fragmented statues during excavation work at the temple of Pharaoh Amenhotep III in Luxor.

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Cold War airmen found fun where they could: Pilot reveals Soviet bomber crews asked US jets to barrel-roll & took pics


RT
Sun, 10 Dec 2017 17:39 UTC
russian bomber barrol roll
© US Navy / Sputnik /FileAn F4D Phantom fighter of the U.S. Air Force escorting a Tu-95 Bear strategic bomber above the Arctic Ocean
An aviation blog has posted a photo of a US AF F-4 jet flying upside down as it intercepts a Soviet Tu-95 strategic bomber. The story behind it is one of how mid-air encounters now deemed "unsafe" were once regarded as professionals having a bit of fun.

The picture was published by the popular military aviation blog The Aviationist on December 4 as an illustration of how the definition of recklessness has changed since the Cold War. Maneuvers like barrel rolls or aggressive turns during interception missions are now usually branded by the Pentagon as "unprofessional" or "unsafe" if performed by Russian or Chinese pilots responding to American aircraft.

But a few decades ago such stunts were quite routine and not perceived as anything dangerous. Military aviation blogger David Cenciotti cited a US spy plane veteran pilot calling such episodes "ho-hum." He added that American pilots actually behaved in the same manner, as evidenced by the photo with the 'Phantom' flying upside down alongside the 'Bear.'
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Archaeology

Ancient Roman shipwrecks containing stunning artifacts discovered near Egyptian port

James Rogers
Fox News
Wed, 22 Nov 2017 10:01 UTC
votive bark
© Egyptian Ministry of AntiquitiesThe votive bark, or boat, depicting the pharaonic god Osiris found in Abu Qir Bay
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered three Roman-era shipwrecks and other stunning ancient artifacts on the Mediterranean seafloor off the coast of Alexandria.

Al Ahram reports that the discoveries were made in Alexandria's Eastern harbor and Abu Qir Bay, during excavations by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities' Underwater Archaeology Department and the European Institute of Underwater Archaeology.

In a post on Facebook, Dr. Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities said that the shipwrecks were found in Alexandria's Eastern harbor. Experts are confident that a fourth wreck will also be located, citing the discovery of large wooden planks and pottery remains that may be from the ship's cargo.
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Blue Planet

The 1648 Peace Treaty of Westphalia and what it was intended to do for international relations

Vladislav B. Sotirovic
Oriental Review.org
Sat, 09 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
Peace Treaty of Westphalia
International relations (IR) from the mid-17th century to the mid-20th century were founded on the decisions by the Peace Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 that ended the Thirty Years War. However, from the beginning of the 21st century, the IR are once again more and more framed by the international standards established in 1648. The Thirty Years War (1618โˆ’1648)

This (First Pan-European) war was a confessional-political conflict, in essence, between the Protestant and the Roman Catholic leaders with very catastrophic consequences in population losses and material destructions as, for instance, the German lands lost approximately one-third of its pre-war population with some regions depopulated up to 90%. From the late 16th century onward, Europe, especially her central part, was experienced by religious confrontations between, on one hand, the Roman Catholics, and, on other hand, the Protestants (the Lutherans, Calvinists, and Zwinglians), who seriously challenged the right of the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire to decide on their religion. It is estimated that almost 8 million people in Europe lost their lives during the war.[1]

Comment: It's difficult to know what the net benefit of the Treaty of Westphalia has been for the average person aside from effectively ending the horrific Thirty Year War. As the article states, the Treaty gave rise to new institutions in newly defined nation-states that, however sovereign, gave rise to new acts of imperialism. And how many hundreds of millions of people have suffered and/or were killed by imperial rule since then? If the world's countries had followed the Treaty of Westphalia in spirit - instead of just a politically expedient agreement to end the Thirty Year War, we would be living in different reality today.

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