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| de7b5ad | The Julian calendar, which it replaced, computed the period of the earth's orbit around the sun at 365.25 days. Pope Gregory XIII's reform substituted a finer and more accurate calculation: 365.2425 days. Thanks to scientific advances since 1582 we now know that the exact length of the solar year is 365.2422 days. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 87ef1b1 | I poured out a libation on the mountain top ... I heaped up wood and cane and cedar and myrtle ... When the gods smelled the sweet savour they gathered like flies over the sacrifice | Graham Hancock | ||
| 0317515 | At present there are only two land-based cranes in the world that could lift weights of this magnitude. At the very frontiers of construction technology, these are both vast, industrialized machines, with booms reaching more than 220 feet into the air, which require on-board counterweights of 160 tons to prevent them from tipping over. The preparation-time for a single lift is around six weeks and calls for the skills of specialized teams o.. | Graham Hancock | ||
| d40140f | While spinning daily on its own axis, the earth also orbits the sun (again in an anti-clockwise direction) on a path which is slightly elliptical rather than completely circular. It pursues this orbit at truly breakneck speed, travelling as far along it in an hour - 66,600 miles - as the average motorist will drive in six years. To bring the calculations down in scale, this means that we are hurtling through space much faster than any bulle.. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 90100bd | It concerns the growing body of evidence that 12,800 years ago a giant comet traveling on an orbit that took it through the inner solar system broke up into multiple fragments, and that many of these fragments, some more than a mile (2.4 kilometers) in diameter, hit the earth. It is believed that North America was the epicenter of the resulting cataclysm with several of the largest impacts on the North American ice cap causing floods and ti.. | Graham Hancock | ||
| ea3f82c | With a lightness of touch that is almost subliminal, this verse has encouraged us to count Valhalla's fighters, thus momentarily obliging us to focus our attention on their total number (540 x 800 = 432,000). This total, as we shall see in Chapter Thirty-one is mathematically linked to the phenomenon of precession. It is, unlikely to have found its way into Norse mythology by accident, especially in a context that has previously specified a.. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 5b5fa50 | Egyptian Book of the Dead, it had been given to him by | Graham Hancock | ||
| 68b01ae | in order that the lower edge of each stone should hitch like a pawl into a ratchet cut into the top of the walls; hence no stone can press on the one below it, so as to cause a cumulative pressure all down the roof; and each stone is separately upheld by the side walls which it lies across.27 And this was the work of a people whose civilization had only recently emerged from neolithic hunter-gathering? | Graham Hancock | ||
| c7dbb5b | if evidence supports established theories then that evidence will be accepted. But if evidence undermines established theories, then that evidence must be rejected. | Graham Hancock | ||
| cae8200 | Olmecs had worked out the principle of the wheel, | Graham Hancock | ||
| 334f538 | Archaeology is a deeply conservative discipline and I have found that archaeologists, no matter where they are working, have a horror of questioning anything their predecessors and peers have already announced to be true. They run a very real risk of jeopardizing their careers if they do. In consequence they focus--perhaps to a large extent subconsciously--on evidence and arguments that don't upset the applecart. There might be room for som.. | careers conservative jeopardy orthodoxy predecessors questioning truth | Graham Hancock | |
| b24c623 | at Heliopolis, where the Pyramid Texts were compiled, and announced ahead of time to all the other major temples up and down the Nile.53 I remembered that Sirius was referred to directly in the Pyramid Texts by 'her name of the New Year'.54 Together with other relevant utterances (e.g., 66955), this confirmed that the Sothic calendar | Graham Hancock | ||
| c40dc35 | What would have made [seeing Gobekli Tepe from Harran] easier, in antiquity, would have been a tall tower annexed to the temple that once stood here--a temple dedicated to (usually contracted to ), the Moon God of the Sabians. After telling us that there were "powerful images in this temple," the Greek Philosopher Libanius (AD 314-394), describes the tower, noting that "from its top one could overlook the entire plain of Harran." [...] A.. | archeology dig göbekli-tepe harran ruins sabians | Graham Hancock | |
| 6029a12 | The Sanskrit texts make it clear that a cataclysm on this scale, though a relatively rare event, is expected to wash away of the former world and that the slate will be wiped clean again for the new age of the earth to begin. In order to ensure that the can be repromulgated for future mankind after each the gods have therefore designed an institution to preserve them -- the institution of the Seven Sages, a brotherhood of adepts posse.. | civilization cycle institution sanskrit seven-sages wisdom | Graham Hancock | |
| 4ff0336 | This ability to zoom in at very high resolution on a time window just 21 years wide and almost 13,000 years in the past comes to us courtesy of an amazing scientific resource consisting of ice cores from Greenland. Extracted with tubular drills that can reach depths of more than 3 kilometers, these cores preserve an unbroken 100,000-year record of any environmental and climatic events anywhere around the globe that affected the Greenland ic.. | cosmic-impact impact-event preservation science younger-dryas | Graham Hancock | |
| 74cbd64 | The Piri Reis map of 1513 features the western shores of Africa and the eastern shores of North and South America and is also controversially claimed to depict Ice Age Antarctica--as an extension of the southern tip of South America. The same map depicts a large island lying east of the southeast coast of what is now the United States. Also clearly depicted running along the spine of this island is a 'road' of huge megaliths. In this exact .. | exploration ice-age lost-civilization navigation piri-reis-map rising-sea-levels underwater | Graham Hancock | |
| 66b860f | Professor Napier and his colleague Victor Clube, formerly dean of the Astrophysics Department at Oxford University, go so far as to describe the 'unique complex of debris' within the Taurid stream as 'the greatest collision hazard facing the earth at the present time.' Coordination of their findings with those of Allen West, Jim Kennett, and Richard Firestone, as led both teams--the geophysicists and the astronomers--to conclude that it was.. | astrophysics bombardments collision-hazard epoch geophysics taurid-stream younger-dryas | Graham Hancock | |
| e8d8fea | The view of Professor Robert Schoch Schoch is a renowned figure, indeed notorious, for the case he's made, based on strict geological evidence, that the Great Sphinx of Giza bears the unmistakable erosion patterns of thousands of years of heavy rainfall.6 This means it has to be much older than 2500 BC (the orthodox date, when Egypt received no more rain than it does today) and must originally have been carved around the end of the Ice Age .. | Graham Hancock | ||
| f02e28f | A single high NH4 peak, traced to biomass burning across North America, begins at the [Younger Dryas] onset. It is the largest biomass-burning episode from North American sources in the entire record. | cataclysm wildfires younger-dryas | Graham Hancock | |
| 5540e12 | The god believed by the Ancient Egyptians to have taught the principles of astronomy to their ancestors was Thoth: "He who reckons in heaven, the counter of the stars, the enumerator of the earth and of what is therein, and the measurer of the earth." | thoth | Graham Hancock | |
| 7dfe3a5 | At the entrance of one of the Hypogeum's painted rooms, the faint engraved impression of a large human hand, also arbitrarily assigned to the Neolithic, may still be seen. It 'has parallels in similar designs in Palaeolithic sites at Gargas, El Castillo, and particularly with Montespan in the Franco-Cantabrian region.' The impression shows a hand with six fingers [a condition known as Polydactyly that is also seen on at least one of the 'Fa.. | deep-human-history ice-age-civilizations neolithic palaeolithic | Graham Hancock | |
| bd5bfc3 | If a failure to preserve and consider potentially controversial evidence has frustrated a full understanding of the Hypogeum, then the same is also true for the megalithic temples and even the prehistoric cave sites in Malta. Thus, Mifsud points out that archaeologists excavating Ghar Dalam cave in the early twentieth century [...] 'discovered several knives, scrapers, borers and burins in previously undisturbed deposits, and although strat.. | deep-human-history establishment megalithic neolithic pleistocene | Graham Hancock | |
| 5e148a8 | We are used to things starting out small and simple and then progressing--evolving--to become ever more complex and sophisticated, so this is naturally what we expect to find on archaeological sites. It upsets our carefully structured ideas of how civilizations should behave, how they should mature and develop, when we are confronted by a case like Gobekli Tepe that starts out perfect at the beginning and then slowly devolves until it is ju.. | civilizations complex develop devolves evolving göbekli-tepe progressing sophisticated | Graham Hancock | |
| 10d75b4 | After weaning the indigenous people's of Egypt: 'from their miserable and barbarous manners, [Osiris] taught them how to till the earth, and how to sow and reap crops, he formulated a code of laws for them, and made them worship the gods and perform service to them. He then left Egypt and traveled over the rest of the world teaching the various nations to do what his own subjects were doing. He forced no man to carry out his instructions, b.. | egypt indigenous-peoples instructions osiris transmission world | Graham Hancock | |
| 7701c09 | Berossos compiled his from the temple archives of Babylon (reputed to have contained "public records" that had been preserved for "over 150,000 years"). He has passed on to us a description of Oannes as a "monster," or a "creature." However, what Berossos has to say is surely more suggestive of a man wearing some sort of fish-costume--in short, some sort of disguise. The monster, Berossos tells us: "had the whole body of a fish, but under.. | babylon civilization göbekli-tepe mesopotamia oannes tutoring | Graham Hancock | |
| a5c7af5 | I liked the beat, too -- Hollywood and the City of Angels. It had been a long time since any angels had appeared here, but enough of the old buildings and old stars still hung around to remind you of what she'd been once, in a world far, far away. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 1f64d7b | But why always think the worst of people? What would she be doing to herself if she adopted that attitude to life? It was better to think the best and be wrong than to think the worst and be wrong. | life-and-living positive-outlook positive-thinking | Mary Balogh | |
| dbac0b3 | There are voices that are lovely for various reasons or annoying for other reasons [...] | Mary Balogh | ||
| 984cbaf | He suspected in another decade or so the railroad might have laid track right into Santa Barbara. Everything would be connected soon, Wyn imagined with some sadness. Something would be lost when a man no longer had to ride his horse hundreds of miles across dangerous country to get to the next state, or territory. Already things were changing. Soon, men like Wyn would have to search for places still wild, where a man could holler in the mor.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 3495b7f | Alan Ladd as Neale Jordan Veronica Lake as Ellen Hillman Mike Mazurki as Paul Fontana Elisha Cook Jr. as Ciro Ricci Gloria Graham as May Martell Frank Lovejoy as Randolph McGraw Hugh Beaumont as Charlie Gray Lloyd Nolan as Victor Haskell June Lockhart as Janet Haskell James Craig as Eddie Lomax Laird Cregar as Frank Perkins William Bendix as Art Barker Richard Denning as Jerry Markle James Gleason as Sam Menard Tom Drake as Roy Douglas Dick.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| afdbc75 | I was disappointed and relieved at the same time; disappointed because I'd wanted to meet Eddie face to face, get a bead on how all the pieces I had so far tied together; relieved because if Eddie only wanted to give me a message, we weren't at the shooting stage yet. An incurable case of lead poisoning might come later. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 29adcac | I also suspected that lo romantico might be involved as well. Americans so easily fall in love. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 7cc781d | As such things have a tendency to do it got out of hand in the worst way, resulting in the rather gruesome death of Maggie Potter -- no relation to Harry. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| d0822d7 | I wanna show the girls how to use them. In case they get the drop and take away our guns. They probably won't search the girls." Juanita said, "I Chihuahua! You want us carry those things?" "And use them if you have to." Susan looked up and said, "I Chihuahua!" Rick almost spit out his food he started laughing so hard." | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 396cae0 | She was the kind of girl any guy could fall head over heels for in five seconds and I was trying to decide if she was on the up-and-up. We'd talked and sparred and laughed, yet I still knew nothing about her. And when she went to freshen up she hadn't just taken her purse, she had taken that valise as well. My head was telling me to be careful but my heart and a few other parts were ready to jump in with both feet. She was hard to size up. .. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 842d637 | Ellen's smile was like a lighthouse beacon, guiding me away from the war. There was something happening, and it felt natural, as though it was always going to happen, someday. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 8182c75 | Hill City and Hayward is as close to that area as I've ever been. It was a long time back, when it was pretty dangerous. I was on my way to Cheyenne at the time, and in a hurry to get there. I was none too eager to get scalped." Cooper glanced at the Apache. "No offense." | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 9b6a66a | If you've ever watched Andy Griffith, you'll find Geraldine vaguely familiar. She reminds everybody of Aunt Bee. Her size, her sort of scatterbrained reasoning, her sweet manner, and above all, her ability to cook a meal you found it hard to walk away from, all fit that image. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 5b598c2 | All families were like that, with their private damage they kept among themselves, ghosts they lived with that only other family members knew about. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 0d60768 | It was such a beautiful sentiment, so pure in its innocence, so uncaring of the vulnerableness. A great love for Sarah swept over me for which, if pressed, I would never have been able to justify. But maybe that's how love should be. Perhaps love is a magic between two people which should never be questioned, whether it happens in a heartbeat, or over time. Because to question it is to destroy its magic. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 9e80ec9 | Juanita, in a town full of starlets and wanna-be starlets, stood out. She was prettier than Lupe Velez and could handle a gun or a client with equal ease. But she also had the sweetest nature of any girl I knew. She had a lot of fellas and they all seemed to be happy about it and I didn't ask too many questions. She had been helping wait tables beneath our office off and on for about six months before I'd picked up that insurance case. It w.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 930e5ca | I had to drive through a very poor and largely Hispanic section of Miami to get to the apartment complex where Casey Martin had died. There were a lot of beautiful women on the sidewalks and at the outdoor cafes, a lot of tough guys and a lot of guys who weren't tough but trying to look like they were. The streets were alive with what criminally passed for music nowadays, and there were smells of cooking in the air that suggested savory tas.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| a7c4a29 | I felt myself being blown about in a different kind of storm, my landing much more uncertain than those delicate flakes falling from the sky. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 9c3f603 | Manners hadn't been whistling Dixie about the disturbances in the cottage, however. He seemed like a stand-up guy, even good enough to warn me about the house before I'd forked over the cash. He was probably right about Johnny, and probably Deanna too, at least up to the point where she'd jumped. Boy was he in for a shock! | Bobby Underwood |