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It all began, as usual, with the Greeks |
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It all began, as usual, with the Greeks. The
ancient Greeks were the first civilized people to use their reason to
think systematically about the world around them. The Greeks were the
first philosophers (philosophia — lovers of wisdom), the first
people to think deeply and to figure out how to attain and verify
knowledge about the world. Other tribes and peoples had tended to
attribute natural events to arbitrary whims of the gods. A violent
thunderstorm, for example, might be ascribed to something that had
irritated the god of thunder. The way to bring on rain, then, or to curb
violent thunderstorms, would be to find out what acts of man would please
the god of rain or appease the thunder god. Such people would have
considered it foolish to try to figure out the natural causes of rain or
of thunder. Instead, the thing to do was to find out what the relevant
gods wanted and then try to supply their needs.
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Apocalypse 2012
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Seeing Angels |
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Abandon all your possessions and run for the
hills: It has been foretold that the world is coming to an end sooner than
you think, in the year 2012. It seems that you can't pick up any newspaper
or magazine without reading that the apocalypse is almost upon us.
What really is going to happen in 2012?
Asteroid 433 Eros is going to pass within 17 million miles of the Earth in
January; the United States will hand over control of the Korean military
back to the Koreans in April; there will be an annular solar eclipse in
May and a solar transit of Venus in June; the Summer Olympics will take
place in London; the Earth's population will officially pass 7 billion
people in October; the United States will elect a new President in
November; construction of the new Freedom Tower will be complete in New
York City; the sun will flip its magnetic poles as it does at the end of
every 11-year sunspot cycle; and, as I'm sure you've heard by now, the
Mayan calendar completes its 5,125 year cycle, presumably portending the
End of Days.
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Battle of Mons was the first major action by the British Expeditionary
Force during World War I. From August 22-23 1914, despite being heavily
outnumbered by German forces, British troops were actually able to hold
the line at the Mons-Conde Canal near Mons, Belgium before being forced to
retreat. Despite heavy casualties, the British troops inflicted even
greater losses on the Germans during the battle and gradual withdrawal
which lasted nearly two weeks before the Allies were able to
counter-attack at the Battle of the Marne. It hardly seemed surprising
that the British success in holding off superior troops during a
well-ordered retreat became a propaganda coup for the British
government. While technically a defeat, the story of the British troops
at Mons became legendary.
And in more ways than one.
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History mystery: Rudolf Hess'
strange journey to England |
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 Rudolf Hess was born in Alexandria, Egypt on
26 April 1894 to a wealthy German merchant. He was educated in Germany
from the age of twelve at Godesberg. Later on, he joined his father’s
business in Hamsburg. In August 1914, Hess
joined the German army. He served in First Bavarian Infantry Regiment
during World War I. He eventually went on to become the official pilot in
the Germany Army Air Service in 1918.
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War Finance: Theory and History |
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 That
war is not productive may seem self-evident to Misesians but it is not to
the "educated" public who have been taught that World War II ended the
Depression and that deficit
spending (of whatever kind it doesn't matter)
spurs economic growth. Americans show not the slightest awareness that
every dollar spent on the ongoing Afghan and Iraqi wars, the continuing
occupations, and the rebuilding of those failed societies is one less
dollar that can be spent at home, and that the whole adventure represents
a giant transfer of American capital to the sweltering deserts and
sun-baked slums of the Middle East. If they were aware of these economic
realities would they not be more skeptical about administration claims
that the terror war is enhancing our security?
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The Search for Extraterrestrial Life |
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 Can we find any trace of
extraterrestrial life? And, if we do happen to discover another
civilization, can we communicate with them?
Every year, millions of small meteorites fall
onto the Earth. Might there were some tiny alien life hitching a ride
aboard the meteorite?
But Earth isn't the only planet in the Solar
System.
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Space Astronomy, The Study Of Outer
Space |
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First off, the general word astronomy is the
study of outer space and everything in it to the last detail. In order to
study all that mass it has to be broken down into separate categories.
These are just a few types of space astronomy. Some of the different types
include planetary, solar, stellar, and galactic. Understanding the
different types of astronomy might give you a basic knowledge of how
things are broken down in the universe.
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Bloop |
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Bloop is the name given to an ultra-low frequency and extremely powerful
underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) several times during the summer of 1997. The source
of the sound remains unknown.
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Global Warming - The Real Scandal |
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It has long been known that
greenhouse gases contribute to global warming. In 1827, Jean-Baptiste
Fourier suggested that greenhouse gases kept the earth warmer, whilst in
1938 an Engineer, Guy Stewart Callendar predicted that doubling the
concentration of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning would lead to a
global increase of 2 °C, with the poles warming more. This was a
remarkable prediction, since it is exactly on course to what we observe
today! Calendar's predictions were later confirmed by several independent
but more detailed studies in the 1970s, including one by an elite group of
ex-military physicist's dubbed the 'Jason's'.
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Special Report - The Art Of Economic
Espionage - Why China Is Crushing America's Global Supremacy |
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Modern historiography specialists have
long argued that an essential segment in the study of human evolution is
inextricably tied to the basic understanding that societies generally
emerge, progress and fall cyclically. Such frequency in social evolution
is not just a consequence of endogenous factors, it also results from the
impact of the external environment, be it close - neighboring
constituencies vying for the same resources - or far - as part of a larger
geographical area.
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The man behind the
Iron Mask |
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 On
November 19,
1703,
a
man
who
had spent 40 years of his life in several prisons throughout France
was buried
in
Bastille’s
Saint Paul Cemetery.
Scripts by Voltaire and,
mainly,
Alexander Dumas,
made
this man
one
of the most famous prisoners of all ages, even if his name was never
revealed. He is known as the man behind the Iron Mask.
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Result
of a man's creative fantasy or a fact that reaches the realm of science
fiction?
