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And by the way... if there's anyone who stumbles on to these pages questioning these seeming far out topics at least at first glance, well, calm down. If you're looking for the uninspiring, the uncreative kind of mindless rehashed minutia to fill in your boredom between commercials, please search Yahoo or MetaCrawler. For the rest of us, here's what I'm working on:
Topics:
1. The Destiny of America -- A " curious little book " entitled, Vindication of the True Art of Self Defense published in 1724 by Sir William Hope, Bart., a deputy governor of Edinburg Castle. The book is not of any particular note, but on the blank flyleaves is written in the hand of Sir William Hope an extraordinary prediction concerning the destiny of the United States of America. It was written, signed, and dated by an Englishman (no less) forty-four years before the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Today, this book can be found in the Congressional Library at Washington D.C. where it has been since 1879.
2. Information about the Lost Continent of Atlantis -- in particular, traditions from the Caribbean Island region, considered by some to be the location of the ancient Garden of Eden. It is theorized that it was sunk to prohibit access to the Tree of Life. By the way, which direction does it say that Adam and Eve were driven from the Garden? So which direction were they traveling??
3. The meaning of the well-known phrase taken from the book of Daniel (chapter 5)... the Handwriting on the Wall -- dates back to when Cyrus, the Mede diverted the water supply and took Babylon... the night of Belshazzar's feast the city fell to the King of Persia ...Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin --
Mene (1000), Mene (1000), Tekel (20), Upharsin -- Peres (half a Mene -- 500). 2520 years of what? (Or Daaniel, chapter 4's seven time periods... 7 x 360 (360 days in old Jewish calendar) = 2520) Did someone say "beastial foreign governments ruling"? It is interesting to note what happened 2520 years later... in 1917AD. That was the year when General Edmund Allenby marched into Palestine under the British Mandate to take back the city of Jerusalem. Wow! The General sure got lucky that year... hitting the date right on!
Related to the events surrounding the rebirth of the nation of Israel... one wonders if the Jewish Messiah will someday enter... or the Christ of Christianity will re-enter Jerusalem through the Eastern Gate when He returns. I find it interesting that to date... this is the only ancient Gate once walling old Jerusalem... which still remains sealed up and for all intents and purposes undisturbed. For a Virtual Tour of Jerusalem and her eight ancient gates sponsored by the Hebrew University - Faculty of Medicine... visit:
4. Alexander the Great, among other notable world leaders, was fascinated by the Oracles of Delphi. By his early 30's, he lamented the fact that there were "no more nations to conquer" and actively sought advice from Occult sources. So we learn from history, Nancy and Hillary aren't the only world rulers who have consulted star-gazers and spiritists.
Seriously, and as a matter of fact, most (though not all) people that have effected history, either favorably or unfavorably, have sought the advice of the religious or the mystic. The pursuit of things spiritual is undeniable for any serious reader of the historical records. I say that in case the simple-minded sceptic simply wants to whole sale discount these issues with a little brush of a hand and a lot of smug superiority. You know there are such people that do that, don't you?!
A magnificent artifact, The Mitchell-Hedges Skull is unquestionably the King of Skulls and other ancient Crystal skulls which staggers the experts imaginations as to how it was fashioned. Some postulate that the best of these Crystals may even date back to the times of the Alexander's Oracles.
5. Looking for links to information on the Papyrus Ipuwer as described by Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky in his once best seller books Worlds in Collision and Ages in Chaos. The Papyrus Ipuwer is an ancient Egyptian eyewitness account of a great series of plagues that destroyed much of the country. For now...
Additionally, I'm looking for information regarding traditions and legends of Joshua's Longest Day and the many North and South American Indian legends of the Longest Night (after all, can't have one without the other, right???!).
And... along these lines, here's a rather simple question with a surprisingly complicated answer: Has the Sun always risen in the East? (By the way, for scientific purists demanding accuracy... most of us technologically advanced folk know that the Sun doesn't rise, the Earth rotates... yet we still describe the process using that phrase.) So... has the Sun always risen in the East?
NO... it hasn't!! At least according to John White who wrote Pole Shift back in 1980 in which he supplies ample evidence citing various civilzations in Central and South America as well as in Africa which possess what are believed to be enormously intricate Sun-dials. The problem is that though they are identical to other antiquated yet functional Sun-dials... some of them are curiously mis-directed to a different angle. Notice I did not say: different angleS. Therefore they serve no practical purpose for us today (or for those during the last several thousand years).
Yet these Sun-dials suggest purposeful intention and with recent paleological findings seem to parallel the studies revealing palm trees beneath the frozen tundra in both Alaska and Greenland (a curious name for the most ice covered land mass in the Artic circle) as well as uncovering wooly mammoth still chomping on forage found in the northern regions of frozen Siberia. Hardly the place you'd expect for tropical baby mammals to wander off to.
So.. has the Sun always risen in the East?! I don't know. I left my camera home... and can only rely on the evidence the experts dig (not cook...) up.
6. In all my years of education from elementary and secondary experiences through post-graduate studies, it was not until I got OUT of school that I learned about ancient mariner cartography. Now as an educator, this is particularly curious to me especially since I love studying the history of civilizations, the stories of inventions, geography, oceanography, astronomy… and any thing about any where man can travel (if only in his dreams).
It has only been in recent years and with the seeming reckless encouragement of Dr. Gene Scott… to as many of us who dare to continue learning and never stop… that I stumbled on to this captivating yet half-buried topic: Ancient Maps.
7. Here is definitely a fascinating person worth learning more about. Mother Shipton was born in England in the early 1400s... only a few years before the well known Renaissance prophet and teacher Nostrodamus. Though few of us have probably even heard of her, for nearly the past 500 years, her words have been greatly respected in England. You will find translations of some of her prophectic poems at the following links:
8. Just in case you missed it, here's an opportunity
to boast.. or as my friend Gordon says.. "my braggin' rights":
If I had my way, I'd want you all to learn Romanian.. and meet Gigi Roman
(Chief Editor of Planeta Internet who is responsible to the Romanian
Government for bringing their people into the 21st Century's world of the
Internet.)
9. Along with Dr. Karenga, California State University professor
and originator 
of
Kawanza celebrations back in the 60s and a Virtual Jerusalem "Chanukah"
website, my "Christmas or Saturnalia?"
file was referenced in a WEB BROWSINGS article entitled: "The
year without a Santa Claus: Holiday alternatives on the Web"
on page 87 in the December 1998 issue of CMJ magazine -- the one with Marilyn
Manson on the cover. That's sorta cool! 
Even the comment to those whose Christmas tastes "run a little... spicier" and that my Holiday file "has some entertaining history of the rival celebrations" though "my overly jocular-jabs... can be a little irritating" especially coming from these alternative rock folks who often can be extremely irritating to some... I take as a complement.
I wonder: Does that mean I may have even irritated the author of this festive article? I don't know. More Wonders!
Your help with links to any of these subjects is greatly appreciated. Please e-mail me!
