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Yeah... okay... I didn't do well on my law school standardized entrance test, and I guess I'm still sensitive about that.
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I agree, Lee, but see my addendum above. (We were posting about the same time).
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What I am saying is your test is problematic as evidenced, for instance, by John Wall scoring 66% and Wendy scoring 76%.
That's bogus.
John's knowledge of history is so far above Wendy's as to make it laughable that Wendy might actually outscore him in a (valid) test of historical knowledge.
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I asked Wendy to take the the test because, while she is extremely bright, history is not a subject that interests her at all. She scored 76%.
That relatively high score surprised me, so I asked her how many of the 20 questions she guessed about. She said she knew the answers to 4 of the 20 questions and guessed on the rest.
I then asked her, of those 16 questions she had to guess abo
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Going back to y'all's discussion about the 7th book, I decided to re-read the first book. I'm about half way through, and so far I've come across a couple of interesting passages relating to what you were saying.
From page 85 (First American edition), at Ollivander's wand shop Harry has been chosen by a wand made of "holly and phoenix feather, eleven inches, nice
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And if J.K. does use it-- if only as a feint-- what will the 'R' name be ?
...Surely not 'Rowling' ? But that would be a hoot.
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R.A. B. - 18 years ago
As for the identity of R.A.B., has anyone considered Amelia Bones? If Amelia is the middle name and the first name of the now deceased Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement turns out to begin with an 'R' that will provide a good red herring for the next book.
Heh, heh...
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John Wall Wrote:
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> Khafre's is a total oddball. The replanning theory
> says that's where the apex was originally intended
> to be.
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Ah... thanks.
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John Wall Wrote:
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> Look at Khafre's in plan view and compare with
> contemporary 4th/5th dynasty pyramids. The
> chambers are way off the apex. Why ?
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Dunno. you are the expert. Why are the chambers way off the apex ?
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John Wall Wrote:
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> There's no doubt about the order of the kings.
> Edwards suggests that Khafre's was replanned to
> use the ridge as his causeway. It's an interesting
> area.
You write "replanned". Not planned ?
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Anthony Wrote:
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> And, we must remember that IF a king sent a
> surveyor, it was to create ONE necropolis... not
> three. Some of your "anchor points" are only
> valid when viewed through the multi-pyramid
> complex lens, so to speak.
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If, in the sense you mean that Menkaure tried, retrospective
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Interestingly, though, as near as I can make out, Khufu does not refer to the Sphinx or to the Sphinx ridge. Khafre does, but he is supposed to be the second one at Giza, right ?
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Charlotte Masuda Wrote:
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> best is the English translation by Juan Mascaro,
> Pinguin Classics.
Thanks for that, Charlotte. All these years I've been reading Sir Edwin Arnold's 1882 translation, The Song Celestial, and would now like to read and compare a more up to date treatment.
Hopefully, Juan Mascaro's
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Clive, I'm having difficulties visualizing what you are saying. How about a sketch ?
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Good points, Kat.
I also have problems with the idea the Ming were in some sort of regular contact with South and Central America in, say, the 15th Century AD.
(I will be surprised, however, if we don't eventually find some strong evidence in the Berring Straits or in Alaska of Ming visits).
Caral, though, is a whole different mess of fish. Caral is, what?, some 4500 years befo
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Heh, heh... You should talk!!
I remember the old days before you retired, when you had to look out for your boss while you maintained and monitored this site.
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No, Duncan isn't Indiana Jones. Duncan is Paoputzu.
Click on his handle and you will see.
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Kat... I'm not refering to Marduk but to Paoputzu (i.e., Duncan C.). Paoputzu is who I am agreeing with... not Marduk.
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Duncan C. has provided some additional and very interesting info elsewhere:
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I feel like the old guy with the dogs in the (Cher, Nicholas Cage) movie, Moonstruck: "I'm confused".
I take it Kanga-Lee won the scavenger hunt, but which Lee was it who whupped me on the Southern sayings: Boston Lee or Kanga Lee ?
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Yes, that's true. Well, I certainly enjoyed it, even though I only had time to participate in two of the games.
Thanks to all for the fun !
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What about holding the festivities on the nearest weekend ?
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In Sardinia (Italy), a tower built in Cyclopean style, either simple or complex. It is the equivalent of the Corsican torre, and dates from the third millennium BC
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a stone wall built to enclose and often revet the cairn or barrow built over a chamber tomb.
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Neolithic culture of the eastern Balkans, contemporary with Vinca C, between 4000-3700 BC. It is characterized by the materials from Karanovo's layer V, with dark pottery whose surface tended to be covered by either incised or excised lines which were filled with white paint after firing.
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volcanic earth from the region of Pozzuoli, near Naples, which sets like hard cement after mixing with water and gives Roman concrete its strength
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Jars in coarse shell-tempered wares produced in the Lincolnshire and widely distributed across northern Britain during the 3rd and 4th centuries AD.
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Small temples attached to the main temples of the Late and Greco-Roman Periods. These small temples are where the god of the main temple was born, or if the main temple was dedicated to a goddess it was where she bore her children.
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