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So your saying Richard III could murder his nephews but not lie about it?! That is simply hilarious!! Also what an utterly amusing sense of morality. After all Isabela had zero trouble lying about murdering Edward II, and Henry IV had no trouble lying about murdering Richard II. I could also mention the story of Henry I and William II, hunting in the forest and William dying by a "hunting ac
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Humanities
You say:
"My personal opinion is Henry didn't know what happened to the boys and was never able to find out leading to the Tyrell confession."
The Tyrell confession is bogus. Thomas More's story of the confession is nonsensical. The fact that Tyrell was an ally of Henry VII, if Tyrell was involved in the murder of the nephews, that would of course be embarrassing to
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Humanities
You say:
"For me the conclusive evidence is that Richard publicly denied on oath he had conspired to kill his wife and marry his niece. But never said a word about the even more damaging accusation he murdered his nephews."
You have got to be kidding. Richard III had enough nerve and gall to murder his nephews but could not lie about it!? you can't be serious. In the past Eng
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Humanities
There bottom line remains, that although there is much mysterious about the Princes in the tower disappearing it is still most likely that Richard III did away with them, in 1483.
That said there are still questions, such as:
1), Why did the Princes just disappear? Traditionally when inconvenient Kings / pretenders died it was announced and some sort of cock and bull story put out. In this
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Humanities
After thousand dollar hammers I guess the Pentagon wanted to waste even more money.
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Humanities
So this is one of the latest stupidities to become a fad. I suppose the past history of various civilized societies in which people avoided "raw water" has much as possible and got a lot of their fluids via drinking ales, beers etc., because "raw water" was a health hazard has past these idiots by.
The bottom line is drinking "raw water" is often a significantly h
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Humanities
Your being silly. Writing it down would make it too easy so of course it had to be encoded in buildings and hidden in some fashion otherwise it would be too too easy for us!!
By hiding it in this fashion the Ancient Egyptians were hopping to enable people thousands of years in the future to figure out the secret knowledge and thus demonstrate that they are special unlike all of the rest of us
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Ancient Egypt
Many in the South were victims of the "King Cotton" delusion. In fact one Mississippi politicians openly stated the state of Mississippi cut a greater figure in the world than the British Empire because of cotton.
In the late 1850's it was easy find among Southerners much delusional speech about how Britain could not survive without Southern cotton. That the European economies w
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Coffee Shop
QuoteNo kidding. I gave up on Jeff. Davis's history. There's only so much of the south was as pure as the driven snow defended by the most noble and outstanding sons of the soil that ever sprang forth from mother earth while the north was a bunch of serial killers led by a megalomaniac bent on the destruction of a nation build on the immortal and imperishable principles of God, that I c
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Coffee Shop
I suspect there will be the usual list of fringe "experts" spouting their favorite fringe CT fantasies about the Templars.
I suspect that one real expert will either not appear at all or if he does will be almost entirely left on the cutting room floor will be Malcolm Barber. He is a expert on the Templar Knights and has absolutely no patience for CT / fringe nonsense about them.
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Paper Lens
Actually the Babylonians had the zero earlier. During the Seleucid period, (c. 320-60 B.C.E.), The Babylonian Priest Astronomers developed a positional numerical system complete with a symbol indicating a zero. (See Georges Ifrah, The Universal History of Numbers, New York, 1998, pp. 152-154, and Georges Roux, Ancient Iraq, London, 1992, pp. 362-364.)
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Humanities
QuoteExactly as I suspected ...
LOL ... I honestly didn't think there was anyone left who believed the JFK - Oswald nonsense .. I see I was wrong ... Not much more to be said here ...
Do you have any idea how funny and utterly predictable you are?
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Paper Lens
Isn't just so remarkable that the jaw pieces that the Soviets found just "happened" to match Hitler's dental records. Yeah right!! It is extremely unlikely the these bones come from anyone else other than Hitler. The skull bone of the woman younger than 40 is probably Eva Braun.
Quotes to say I am sure you believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and shot 3 times in 6.5 second
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Paper Lens
Don you say:
QuoteFrom my understanding the Russians are alleged to have dragged the body outside and then set it on fire.
What? Every account of Hitler's death states that after Hitler's suicide his body along with Eva Braun's was taken outside and burned by the residents of the Bunker and not by the Soviets. For a brief description of Hitler's last days see John Toland
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Paper Lens
The "defamer" in this case was a Bishop Pierre D-Arcis of Troyes who referred to a previous investigation by former Bishop of Troyes named Henry in which to quote the letter:
QuoteEventually, after diligent inquiry and examination, he (Bishop Henry) discovered the fraud and how the said cloth had been cunningly painted, the truth being attested by the artist who had painted it, to w
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Ancient History
Read the article. It is a rehash of shroud gawker claims. The pollen "evidence" one is particularly old. Basically this article is simply repeating the same old dull rehash of refuted claims. May I point out that aside from the carbon 14 test results my biggest problem with the idea of the shroud of Turin being authentic is the fact it is undistorted. If the shroud image had in fact bee
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Ancient History
I agree with this:
QuoteI know it's terrible but my thought is her early death spared us two decades of tabloid scandals.
Which doesn't alter the fact that it was a tragedy for her boys. Even a flaky and embarrassing mother is better than no mother.
I will add that one of the side effects of this tragedy is that the overall standing of the Royals has improved to a large extent h
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Paper Lens
This is a surprise!? The Mycenaeans spoke Greek has shown by the Linear B tablets. So the modern day Greeks being their descendants is no surprise in the slightest.
I must however take issue with the following: "... Greeks have long idealized their Mycenaean “ancestors” in epic poems and classic tragedies that glorify the exploits of Odysseus, King Agamemnon, and other heroes who went in
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Ancient History
It's been 20 years since she died does anyone have thoughts from 20 years of hindsight?
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Paper Lens
The article contains this rather dubious statement:
QuoteThere's been a very long-running debate about whether the Indo-European languages were brought from migrations from outside, which is what most linguists would accept, or if they evolved indigenously.
Practically nobody outside of Hinduveta true believers have seriously believed that the Indo-European languages spoken in India tod
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Ancient History
Wasn't this idiotic claim made on Alex Jone's insane radio program? Anything said on that show is a fantasy, falsification etc., unless proven by overwhelming evidence otherwise. THe fact that so many of Jone's followers take his hysterical drivel seriously while ignoring Jone's long history of failed predictions is amazing.
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Humanities
Actually their are no surviving sources contemporary with the voyage of Pytheas that describe the voyage. And the accounts that have survived are very poor.
The main source is the writer Strabo in his Geographia written in the late 1st century B.C.E. to the early 1st century C.E. Sadly not only are Stabo's references to Pytheas brief, but Strabo seems to have held Pytheas' and his ac
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Ancient History
It is now May 13, 2017 and the world obviously did not end in 2013!!
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Apocalypse
Opps!! I seem to have misread a few things I thought the documentary was recent. (Like the last year.) My bad!!
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Ancient History
A recent episode of the series Timeline talks about new evidence concerning the discovery of cocaine and nicotine in Egyptian mummies. I'm intrigued.
See
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Ancient History
There is an article in The Oxford Handbook of the Aztecs (2017) called The Independent Republic of Tlaxcallan, pp. 535-542. In the article more or less what is said in the Science article is said. For example:
QuoteFirst, supreme political authority was vested in a ruling council that consisted
of somewhere between 50 and 200 titled officials. Together they reached decisions and
set policy
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Ancient History
I agree. I cannot get worked up about Nicholas and Alexandra's brutal deaths, given just how incompetent they were. However the murder of their 5 children, including a boy with hemophilia, and the 4 servants is just so horrible and horribly beyond any sense. In effect their deaths sums up in one action the whole Bolshevik regime, just how brutal and "unnecessarily" so it would be.
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Humanities
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