Some good news on the movie front.
Not only a new film by Tarantino (a western titled ‘The Hateful Eight’ ), but also an almost complete ‘western’ score by Il Maestro, Ennio Morricone – his first such score for some 40 years.*
Tarantino has in the past used music composed by Morricone for other films – notably in ‘Kill Bill II’ and ‘Inglourious Basterds’.
Some of the score for ‘The Hateful Ei
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Paper Lens
This article is not as gruesome as its title suggests - on the contrary, it is absolutely fascinating.
Robin
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Ancient History
I wonder why this disagreement over what is or is not behind the walls is not resolved by doing what was done with one (?) of the shafts in the Great Pyramid's Queen's Chamber - i.e. drill a hole and insert a fibre-optic lens.
I'm assuming that this has not already been carried out; and no, I hasten to add, I am not implying that there is some kind of conspiracy (a la Cladking?) g
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> I think it's an excellent article.
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> -- Byrd
> Moderator, Hall of Ma'at
I agree whole-heartedly with Byrd.
Going off at a very slight tangent, some folk here might find the following comments by Ennio Morricone interesting - and agree with him, as I do.
Robin (MJ Thomas).
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Hello Roxana, Geotio and all,
The findings, 'Craig Rhos-y-felin: A Welsh Bluestone Megalith Quarry For Stonehenge' is published in the journal Antiquity.
For those of us unable to get hold of 'Antiquity' there is a somewhat better article than the Daily Express effort at:
Robin (MJ Thomas)
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Hello Hans,
With all due respect, why are you allowing cladking to constantly bait you?
The more of cladking's posts I read, the more I feel that he or she is simply trolling.
Regards,
Robin (MJ Thomas)
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cladking Wrote:
> There is a major
> effect lurking right behind these stones.
How can you possibly know this, Cladking?
You are not even speculating here - you are fantasising, and it is to nobodies benefit.
So why do you do it?
MJT
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cladking Wrote:
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> > Does anybody here know whether the scanning now
> > being carried out is able to penetrate granite?
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> It can only see things that affect surface
> temperature. Since the temperature in the the
> region of t
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Hans Wrote:
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> > Does anybody here know whether the scanning now
> > being carried out is able to penetrate granite?
> > Thank you.
> My understanding is that they are looking at the
> exterior only and how it handles heating and
> cooling
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Hello all,
In the south end of the west wall of the King's Chamber there is a block that some people opine has a passage behind it.
Does anybody here know whether the scanning now being carried out is able to penetrate granite?
Thank you.
MJT
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> Does anyone have a picture of this?
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> -Lander
Hello Lander,
AFAIK, the only photograph of this area was taken by one of the Edgar brothers (I can't recall off-hand which one of the two brothers was behind the lens, and which one was in front).
One can, with a liberal dash of imagination, see a ledg
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I wrote, 'Thinking of L Cooper's comments re the Edgar brothers (Pyramidologists extraordinaire) and 'the GP's descending passage and especially of the point at which this passage meets the lower horizontal passage', it is worth mentioning that it was another Pyramidologist (one Adam Rutherford) who discovered that there is a small step at the junction of these floors.
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I should like to add Piazzi Smyth's three volume 'Life and Work at the Great Pyramid' (1867) to L Cooper's choices.
It's a fine example of how very useful a Pyramidology work can sometimes be.
For, as far as I am aware, it is only in Piazzi Smyth's books that one can find a detailed description and set of measurements of the slots in the ramps in the Great Pyramid&
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cladking Wrote:
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> Ramps are as basic to human existence as cups to
> hold water. Some things are simply basic.
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> It's the word "ramp" that is unattested. This is
> a short hand way of saying that there was no
> overseer of ramp builders and no god of ramps.
> It's a short hand way of s
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cladking Wrote:
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> > Yet cladking has no idea how these
> extraordinarily
> > high steps were built!!!
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> > Says it all, really.
> >
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> ...One stone on top of another just like a
> mas
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cladking Wrote:
> The bottom line is we are looking at a pyramid
> built by pulling stones up one step at a time.
Yet cladking has no idea how these extraordinarily high steps were built!!!
Says it all, really.
MJ
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cladking Wrote:
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> I don't know enough about math, masonry, or
> numerous other subjects to provide much of an
> answer.
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> Suffice to say they pulled the stones up one step
> at a time. They built a step and they kept
> pulling stones up even after the second step was
> begun. Each stone on the ent
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> > Cladking, you keep referring to 'steps' up which
> > stone blocks were hauled.
> > How high are these steps and are they vertical or
> > sloping?
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> They are exactly 81'
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Cladking, you keep referring to 'steps' up which stone blocks were hauled.
How high are these steps and are they vertical or sloping?
Thank you.
MJ
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More video at
A new type of rock music?
MJ
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> Or they were using scrap/damaged pieces.
Given the arduous uses the timber was probably put to, I'd be surprised if any of it survived intact and avoided ending up as firewood.
MJ
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> If you want to open a discussion with
> Egyptologists (we have some PhDs here and some
> folks who have or are getting academic backgrounds
> in Egyptology), then yes, there are evidentary
> requirements.
And how many of these learned folk know anything about the pyramids, ramps, etc.?
There are a lot of folks around here with no formal qualifications, yet they could run
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> > > No offense, but I wish someone would come up with
> > something interesting (like 'a conspiracy of the
> > Gods Wives of Amun') but no... it's Giza.
> >
> >
> >
> > -- Byrd
> > Moderator, Hall of Ma'at
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> Absolutely. We
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'. . . floods may explain why there are only three pyramids at Giza.'
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Hello Roxana,
From 'nearly new racing green mini-cooper' I take it you were driving a BMW Mini and not a classic, iconic British Mini Cooper.
If it were the latter, then you probably would not have walked away from the crash!!
Many of us in the UK refuse to see the current Mini as British.
The very thought of 'union jack mirror covers' on a German BMW Mini makes me shud
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Coffee Shop
Hello all,
As pointed out by Katherine, there is a strong possibility that the 'Ripper' victims knew each other.
It is with this in mind that I mention the following.
A prostitute known as Pearly Poll was with Martha Tabram on the night she was murdered.
The next Whitechapel murder victim was Mary Ann Nichols, and she was known locally as 'Polly' Ann Nichols.
A Mrs Eliz
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> > The talk was cancelled due to poor ticket
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> > I find this rather surprising given that
> > Bournemouth is a part of the Ripper story.
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> I suppose that many people think of Whit
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Coffee Shop
The talk was cancelled due to poor ticket sales.
I find this rather surprising given that Bournemouth is a part of the Ripper story.
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