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Any other religions you would like to dish Lily? Go for your life!

For a number of years I lived near to what certain explorers and others confidently assured everyone were "ruined castles". The fact that they were in a virtual desert and the native peoples were neolithic nomads didn't phase anyone.

Good to hear you are such an authority on Sharia law.

You must give a lecture to Sheik Hasin - everyone seems to think she is in charge.

On the other hand parking is important

Amazed to hear "Bolshevist activistism" is still around.

Any news regarding the Cathars?

Possibly, but one only has one life.

"Several of the conference participants were interested in finding ways of making scientists more open-minded, flexible and risk seeking. Kuhn devoted his contribution to scuppering this aim by arguing that radical change is licensed in science only as the last resort once a series of increment...

One has to start somewhere. I don't have an address for "the Media"

I would argue that the term obscures rathers than helps the less informed.

Silly comparisons are rarely of any value.

Why does everything have to be compared to Pompeii? Great discovery though

Shooting the ordinary people trying to protect tourists and then calling them terrorists so the government can get a good body count isn't a great idea either.

Unfortunately archaeology in Israel has been deeply compromised by far right PC in which the events mentioned in the Torah are taken as fact.

Modern ethnic politics are all important and any interpretations that gainsay them are not permitted. The JP is quite notorious for this.

Top Re: Halley's Comet --> Famine Postby E.P. Grondine » Wed Feb 12, 2014 2:52 pm 1. Sorry we do not know why Mohenjo daro was abandoned but nobody would suggest it was a comet. And we do not know the exact date or decade or century. Some evidence exists that it was not abandoned in the same year 2....

It is certainly nonsense to suggest Mohenjo-Daro was "destroyed" by a mass explosion - ditto Scotland.

And since we have few records from the period it is folly to assert epoch changing famine or plague wiped out Western Europe in the 6th century.