“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
“At almost any time, anywhere, we can look at the clock – street, wrist or on a mobile phone – and find out the exact time. Everywhere it is counted from midnight and noon. But earlier – even just a few centuries ago – it was not so: the answer to the question “what time is […]
Two Interesting articles from FES – For Y’All’s Information. Axial Precession Dating the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea – Inexistence of Axial Precession Just Saying!
I’m trying very hard to conquer the complexities of the modern Indo – European language research. But with stuff like – “Archaeo-semiotic” and “five-range hierarchical and decentralized communication web” It’s all a bit mumbo jumbo at the mo’ I quite like plain and simple. Like the following… …From NC : “WHERE AND WHEN THE […]
From NC: “In 1929, the famous Russian linguist M.N. Speransky published a mysterious inscription of nine lines, which he found on the flyleaf – a sheet next to the binding – books of the XVII century. The scientist considered the inscription “totally unbreakable”: there were Cyrillic letters in the record, but they alternated with […]
WHO? Two versions of the story. Take your pick :o) Wikiyawn Page – Simeon Bekbulatovich From NC: “SIMEON-IVAN BECKBULATOVITCH. Simeon-Ivan Beckbulatovitch 1572-1584. In the Western chronicles he is reflected as the Habsburg ‘Maximillian II’ 1564-1576 according to [76]. Following the crushing defeat of the oprichnina czarevich Ivan was forced to abdicate. Simeon, […]
I wasn’t looking for this. It found me :o) 23. THE STOPPED SUN. Both in the Bible and in the history of Charles the Great there plays out a familiar theme of the stopped sun. An idea to place the centre of the world in the sun, in other words to bring to […]
I keep writing myself in knots trying to explain all this! Others can do it much better. So – the fourth of the Shakespeare Paper Quadruplets is… Ivan IV Vasilyevich/Ivan Grozny/Ivan the Terrible. The first Tsar of all of Russia. An old man, broken with the storms of state Is come to lay his […]
Yes, I’ve gone back to the Bard. Henry VIII is a play that I hardly know. Although I do know the history. From day dot we are force fed the Tudors here! This whole play/reconstruction/hidden stuff has freaked me out. Aaaaaargh. It’s very different (but ultimately linked) to the other plays presented here. To begin, […]
Not my work. All NC …. with some of my edits (!) Very informative :o) The “ancient” Roman emperor Trajan ruled, as it is today supposed, in the years 98-117 AD, As we will show in further publications, in fact, the era of Emperor Trajan is the 13th century Trojan War, that is, the […]
From NC – The Colour of the Kingdom (Guess what I’m readingI G.B.) :o) So, by the XVI century, when FIRST TIME became interested in his biography, no real traces of Marco Polo in Venice could be found. At the same time, it is impossible not to draw attention to the following oddity. The first […]
From NC…..The Colour of the Kingdom 1. INTRODUCTION. WHO IS MARCO POLO? What is actually described in the famous book by Marco Polo? The reader may say wearily: again – Ancient Russia. The answer is: not only Russia – indeed described by Marco Polo under the names of Tataria, India and China – but also some other countries […]
From Wikiwhatev’s: Stephen is first mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles as one of seven deacons appointed by the Apostles to distribute food and charitable aid to poorer members of the community in the early church. According to Orthodox belief, he was the eldest and is therefore called “archdeacon”.[4] As another deacon, Nicholas of Antioch, is specifically stated to have […]