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| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 61c1fb1 | I wondered how in the world I could possibly sleep now, knowing a wonderful girl who loved me was just down the hall. Slipping into Johnny's pajamas, I figured I might as well see what Perry and Della were up to. The detective yarn was good enough to distract me from a million questions I had no answers to, and in a short while my eyelids grew heavy. I barely managed to mark my place before exhaustion overcame me. It had been the most event.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 329b410 | No one was more curious and excited about other cultures and peoples than Caroline. She sometimes still remembered facts about cultures, ancient secrets and rituals, sites of ruins that excited her when she talked about them. But her knowledge was partial where it had once been whole, her frequency of recall erratic and often fuzzy, like a station she couldn't quite get tuned in on the dial so that it was clear. The drugs that had been give.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| da32abb | Buford woke up in a cold sweat because someone was screaming. The voice was his own, the dream always the same. The young Navajo girl, born prematurely to an alcoholic mother, trying to kill him with her grandfather's shotgun. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| fb3f0b0 | She hadn't smiled, just watched him cautiously as he got out of his truck and approached. Buford couldn't blame her. It was lonely here at this time of morning and he realized he must look suspicious. He had a light beard and mustache because he hadn't shaved for several days. He'd thrown on his oldest and most comfortable pair of jeans and a ratty old Jimmy Buffet T-shirt to go fishing in. At least his black felt cowboy hat with the small .. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 6c44cdc | That made her smile. She said in a rush, as though she'd been wanting to say it, "It's funny how lonely you can be when you're with a lot of people, isn't it? And how lonely you can be when you're all alone. Yet when it's just one nice person, someone with whom you instantly feel like you've known forever, you're not lonely anymore, because you're two." | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 52351d8 | The station was broadcasting Glenn Miller and his band from some ballroom in Pennsylvania. It was probably one of those "Music of Your Life" stations. Miller's music still sounded fresh generations after it had first been heard. I could hear the tinkling of glasses between numbers as people chatted unaware something wonderful was passing, never to return. Miller himself would not return from WWII." -- | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 12df951 | Neither Amy nor her father seemed to think it the least bit worrisome that they knew nothing about me, really. They had both made their assessments on the spot and decided in my favor. It was heartening, and different from the city I'd left behind. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| ab913eb | Mrs. Atwater will see you now." She spoke in a tone which conveyed her disappointment, but her smirk indicated the pleasure she'd derived from startling me. We stood there a second or two before I realized she wasn't going to walk me down to Mrs. Atwater's office. I said, "Don't ever let the world dampen that bubbly personality of yours, Ellen, it's what makes you so attractive." I didn't look back as I ambled toward the office but I could .. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 06a2bf4 | I packed up the office files, then swung by the apartment to pay up my rent and let the sour-faced old bat who collected it know I was moving out. She didn't seem heartbroken. | Bobby Underwood |