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Jomon pottery gives clues to ancient culture

Fumiko Yoshigaki
The Asahi Shimbun
Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:48 UTC
Ancient Painted Stone
© Yoshinori ToyomaneA stone piece bearing the painting of a human face and found in Kikonai, Hokkaido.
The first piece of stone painted with a human face dating from the Jomon Pottery Culture (c. 8000 B.C.-300 B.C.) has been found here and hailed as a very important discovery.

"The find is extremely precious in that it could help ascertain what the spiritual culture in the mid-Jomon period was like," said Yasushi Kosugi, a Jomon culture professor at Hokkaido University.

The Hokkaido Archaeological Operations Center said Nov. 29 that the stone fragment from the latter half of the mid-Jomon period (4,300 years ago) was unearthed on Oct. 19 from 50 centimeters beneath the ground where a pit house used to stand.

The discovery location is part of the Koren five archaeological sites in Kikonai.
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Halley's comet and the calendar


Malaga Bay
Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:31 UTC
Heinsohn Horizon
© Malaga Bay
When Europe started carving up the world the acolytes of empire started carving up history to support their beliefs and interests.

By 1850 the acolytes of empire had diced and sliced the Annals of China to create a great and glorious history for Comet Halley all the way back to 11 years before the Christian era.
John Hind
© Malaga Bay
The valuable details existing in the annals of China, and but recently known in Europe, enable us to trace this famous comet with a high degree of probability to the year 11 before the Christian era, - a most important circumstance, not only as regards the history of this particular comet, but as bearing on the constitution of these bodies in general.

On the Past History of the Comet of Halley - J R Hind
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Vol 10 - Issue 3 - 9 Jan 1850
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/10/3/51/2603551
By 1986 the Annals of China [with a little help from the Annals of Babylonia] had provided Comet Halley with a magnificent pedigree stretching all the way back to 240 BC.
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Sigmund Fraud? New bio traces Freud's journey from one crackpot idea to the next

Kyle Smith
National Review
Tue, 19 Dec 2017 19:20 UTC
freud
A new biography demolishes whatever was left of the Viennese con man's reputation.

Writing to his close friend and collaborator Wilhelm Fliess in 1890, Sigmund Freud explained that he couldn't pay a visit because, in a struggling psychiatric practice that suckered rich society women in Vienna, "My most important client is just now going through a kind of nervous crisis and might get well in my absence."

No, Freud wasn't being ironic: He depended on grandes dames to stay in business. On another occasion, referring to a cartoon in which a yawning lion grumbles, "Twelve o'clock and no negroes," he wrote, "The worries begin again whether some negroes will turn up at the right time to still the lion's appetite." That appetite, as Frederick Crews makes clear in his exhaustive, reputation-pulverizing book Freud: The Making of an Illusion, was from an early age for fame and riches, which Freud relentlessly pursued by championing one faddish quack remedy after another, backing away when justified criticism made his position untenable, covering his tracks with misleading or even completely false claims about what he'd been up to, then bustling on to the next gold mine.

Comment: See also: Freud was a fraud!

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Stone Age-carved rocks discovered on Danish island

Ray W
Copenhagen Post
Tue, 19 Dec 2017 19:06 UTC
Over 300 'sun stones' discovered on the Sunshine Island.
Danish Mystery Stones
© Bornholm MuseumScientist are not sure who made the mysterious stones and why.
Danes often refer to the holiday destination of Bornholm as 'the sunshine island', so it is only fitting that a cache of rocks carved in the Stone Age, which were recently excavated on the Danish island, have been dubbed 'sun stones'.

The small stones are covered with designs carved by Stone Age people 5,000 years ago. The approximately 300 stones and fragments earned their name from their round shape and the circular carvings on their surface, which appear to radiate out from the centre. They include square stones carved with what resembles fields and grain and other patterns. Some are decorated with spider webs.
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The WWII baby-in-a-box mystery: Genetics testing and detective work find abandoned baby's family, over 70 years later

Claire Bates
BBC
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:42 UTC
brian jones
Robin was 13 when he found out he was adopted. Later he was told he had been abandoned - left in a box on London's Oxford Street. Now 74, he has spent most of his life wondering who left him and why. But thanks to DNA, and the dogged detective work of one of his daughters, he finally has some answers.

When Robin King discovered he was adopted he ran away from home. He had been snooping around his parents' bedroom when he came across his adoption papers in a holdall.

He fled to a friend's house and the pair then cycled from London to Southend where they slept in a tent until they were picked up by the police a few days later.

"My friend's mum had to pay for us to come back on the train," Robin recalls.

At home, no-one ever mentioned the subject of his adoption.

"I was afraid of raising it as I didn't want any confrontation. I think it affected me deep down," he says.
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Ancient Biblical city destroyed by earthquake 1,400 years ago uncovered in underwater excavations

Simon Green
Daily Star
Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:59 UTC
discovery underwater city corinth
© Youtube
The Greek city, which was rebuilt in 44BC by Roman Emperor Julius Caesar, holds major significance for Christians.

Jesus's disciple Paul is said to have visited there and wrote two letters about his time in Corinth - featured in the New Testament.

Just days ago, another group of archaeologists in Italy were amazed to discover the historic resort of Baiae in perfect condition.

And new underwater excavations of Corinth's harbour at the port of Lechaion have discovered wooden foundations preserved so well that they look new.


Comment: See also: Ancient port of Corinth reveals Roman engineering

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"Great Man-Made River": Muammar Gaddafi's gift to Libya


You Tube
Thu, 14 Nov 2013 00:00 UTC
Great man made river
© WikipediaSchematic drawing of the project. Note that different routes have been proposed for the not-yet-implemented phases (dashed). Tobruk may for instance end up connected to Ajdabiya instead of to the Jaghboub well field.
From the documentary filmmaker and producers Winfried Spinler and its crew, first in Hollywood at the documentary film festival in 2001 presented film, another reality about the states points in Libya and their revolutionary leader Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi. Now in times of the raw material shortage it isn't any more only about oil and other mineral resources, now are looked apparently also the biggest water reservoir of the world as desirable properties. Gaddafi corresponds in this documentary film not to the in general provided world view of the tyrant, but rather to a peace angel for the North-African neighboring states. The worldwide biggest water reservoir to the greening of the wild areas, linked with thousands of kilometers of pipeline, there flowed up to now the biggest shares of the oil income of Libya. It is almost incredibly this now scarcely before the completion of the pipelines (2011) an invasion of Libya begins. Hardly worth mentioning to one of the biggest advocates of this project, to the Egyptian president Mubarak, shortly before the power was taken.

Comment: The "Western democracy" that brought death and destruction to this country didn't spare this project.
On 22 July during the 2011 Libyan civil war, one of the two plants making pipes for the project, the Brega Plant, was hit by a NATO air strike. At a press conference on 26 July, NATO explained that rockets had been fired from within the plant area, and that military material, including multiple rocket launchers, was stored there according to intelligence findings


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The Julian calendar and the Groundhog year


Malaga Bay
Mon, 18 Dec 2017 00:32 UTC
Groundhog Year
© British Library
In the broad sweep of history the mainstream narrative implies the Julian Calendar was in "general use" across Europe throughout the Medieval Period.
The Julian calendar, proposed by Julius Caesar in 46 BC (708 AUC), was a reform of the Roman calendar.
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It took effect on 1 January 45 BC (AUC 709), by edict.

The Julian calendar was in general use in Europe and northern Africa until 1582, when Pope Gregory XIII promulgated the Gregorian calendar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or Medieval Period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_period
Unfortunately, this implied storyline is very misleading because the Julian Year only started to slowly enter general circulation in Western Europe during the 13th century.
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First genetic map of Ireland confirms basis for regional identity, Viking and Breton connections

Kevin O'Sullivan
Irish Times
Sat, 16 Dec 2017 15:06 UTC
provinces of ireland
The provinces of Ireland
The next time a Cork man tells you he's from the People's Republic, or a Kerryman declares that he is from the Kingdom and is, therefore, special, pay attention. They may, in fact, have a point.

The first genetic map of the people of all parts of Ireland carried out by a team of geneticists and genealogists shows there are subtle DNA differences between people across the island.

So far, the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (RCSI) team has identified 10 distinct clusters, roughly mirroring ancient provinces and the impact of the invasions of the Vikings and the Ulster Plantations.

People frequently display a strong sense of regional identity, and it now appears there may be a scientific basis for it, says Prof Gianpiero Cavalleri who the research.

It does not mean someone from Munster is dramatically different to someone from Donegal in looks or traits. Instead, there are "very subtle genetic indications of kinship or relationships", he says.

Comment: Full study is available here:

The Irish DNA Atlas: Revealing Fine-Scale Population Structure and History within Ireland

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Declassified US documents prove Gorbachev WAS promised 'no eastward NATO expansion'


National Security Archives
Sat, 16 Dec 2017 14:47 UTC
Gorbachev Hans-Dietrich Genscher Helmut Kohl
© Bundesbildstelle / Presseund Informationsamt der Bundesregierung.Michail Gorbachev discussing German unification with Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Helmut Kohl in Russia, July 15, 1990.
Declassified documents show security assurances against NATO expansion to Soviet leaders from Baker, Bush, Genscher, Kohl, Gates, Mitterrand, Thatcher, Hurd, Major, and Woerner

Slavic Studies Panel Addresses "Who Promised What to Whom on NATO Expansion?"

U.S. 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, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University .
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