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Unfortunately certain unnamed but influential moralists seem to have decided that terraforming and colonization are Bad. So forget any kind of expansion into space.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Isn't he the 'face on Mars' man?by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
"I like that. The aliens say: "We're here and there's nothing you can do about it", but then they hide and buzz lonely farmers! There's a little but of a disconnect there I think" Maybe they found out there was something we could do about it?by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Jim, have you ever noticed the vast majority of 'radar' sightings come from the 1950s and early 60s? There is a thing called radar malfunction which was much more common in the early days of the technology. It is interesting that as the bugs have been worked out of the system the radar sighting of UFOs have fallen dramatically...by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Yeah, they've managed to find more witnesses than were actually involved - not to mention all the 'my father told me' 'my friend told' stories. All told thirty or more years after the fact mind you!by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Yeah but the people who do pull it up will be UFO enthusiasts who may well try to track you down and pester you for interviews. Frankly that strikes me as a darn good reason to have your name blacked out.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
How about sheer embarrassment? I mean would you want your name attached to this thing?by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Jim it makes perfect sense. Agent Hottel didn't know it was a fraud - how could he? He was passing on an unattributed story he had heard. It is in short a perfectly genuine memo about a false event.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
My personal opinion is somebody was hoaxing Agent Hottel. I mean an unnamed 'airforce investigator' no indication as to the disposal of the vehicles and remains and no apparent follow up.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Cronkite is spelled Chronkite.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
It has occured to me to wonder exactly why 'Uncle Walter' would elect to share this sensitive information with a total stranger - and apparently nobody else ever.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Somebody please tell me what an infinitive is so I can split it!by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
As a victim of progressive education I am fully sympathetic with those who have trouble with spelling and punctuation - I'm sure everybody here has noticed my own is pretty shaky. However if I can make the effort to remember apostrophes and the correct spelling of Walter Cronkite's last name I firmly believe anybody capable of putting up a website could do the same. I mean if they arby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
I honestly don't see the problem. Granted it is startling - and exciting - to discover a new Human relative and one who survived into Homo Sapiens Sapiens time but it doesn't overturn anything - just adds a new branch to the Hominid bush.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Real tangle isn't it? BTW there's some doubt that Ahmose, wife of Thutmose I, was a King's daughteras her only title is 'sister of the King, and that apparently refers to Thutmose. But Mutnofret may have been a princess, there is an inscription refering to 'the King's Daughter Mutnofret' and in her mortuary temple she is shown wearing the royal cobra. Iby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Call me a grammar snob but I have my doubts about any site that doesn't know there should be an apostrophe in 'President's' and even more about a report that consistently mispells the name of one of the best known men in America.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
David Cross asked: 'does anybody out there know anything about this (Tut's brother) cause i can find it. please help me' I suspect he has no idea just how complicated a question this is The answer depends on who you think Tut's parents were, and who you think is buried in KV 55. The male body in KV 55 is suposedly so similar to Tut's remains as to make thby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Dolphins are pretty smart, aren't they?by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
The dinosaurs are dead - unless you count the birds. Are you seriously suggesting that intelligence is *not* a pro-survival trait???by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Are we talking about Salem or Scotland? Because the division in Salem was not along generational lines and the backlash from the hysteria did a lot of damage to the leading lights of the Puritan church and the judges who presided over the courts, and belief in witchcraft in general.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
You're right. I do agree with that. There is no real question that there was personal malice behind some of the Salem accusations - especially those coming from the Putnam household. But the motivation was a lot more subtle than mere desire for gain.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
1) ALL of the victims were from New Salem, while the accusors (& executors) were all from Old Salem? I think you must be talking about the divisions between Salem town and Salem village which were indeed pretty bitter. However it should be pointed out that of the first three women accused two, Tituba and Sarah Good, had no property at all. The majority of those hung were married womeby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
I don't know a darn thing about Scottish witchcraft trials but I am fairly well versed in the Salem witchcraft trials. Current medical opinion is that the 'afflicted' were either suffering from hysterical delusions - or possibly ergotism or some other actual illness which produces delusions. Whatever the cause there is no question that the 'afflicted girl's'by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
But spectral evidence *was* acceptable evidence by the rules of that time if not ours. We musn't be so ethnocentric as to force our rules on another civilization - even if it was ancestral to ours.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
No one can't. Almost *Everybody* in seventeenth c. Europe - and outside it too - believed in witchcraft. And even those who didn't believe it worked knew that there were people who did it and that they could do real mischief through the fear they created. Nazism and the Taliban's extreme brand of Islam were both innovations enforced on peoples who had formerly believed andby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
I think about half the board - if not more - would sign on for chocolateby Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Dispite their PR the Egyptians were not a mystical people. I mean they believed you really could 'take it with you'!by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
Sounds like a lot of hardware to carry, still it would be a heck of an effect! Also it seems to me like there could be a risk of people walking into walls or pillars while looking at the VR images.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
That would be material evidence; 'poppets' ie: dolls, hands of glory, that sort of thing. Not everybody accused of witchcraft in the olden days was an innocent victim. Some really were practicing folk magic and malicious magic can kill in a society that believes in such things.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History
A nice thought but kind of redundant. The people back in the 1690s already apologized, paid reparation and generally did what they could to make up for the hysteria.by Roxana Cooper - Ancient History