In a more serious vein, Wharram Percy is only one of many thousands of ghost villages in the UK. The village was finally razed to clear the ground for sheep, at which time only four families remained in residence.
The loss of villages is normally due to 3 causes, clearance by the Lord for sheep grazing, the Black Death, or economics.
The village has been examined on a number of occasions, but this business about the skulls is a new development and leads me to wonder if there is any connection with the fact that only the 4 families remained at the time of eviction.
Wharram Percy's mysterious round skulls
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Early 16C Min.
Too late for Vikings.....too early for football hooligans.
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From the middle of the 13C to the middle of the 17C Britain was struck by various 'plagues' about once every 10-15 yrs, they were a fact of life.
The 'Black death' is reputed to have killed at least a third of the population, but resistance to Bubonic plague is now known to have a genetic component and some areas suffered much worse than others. A village that lost the Blacksmith or other specialists was likely doomed even if the majority survived, but if the majority were lost the village could no longer survive as an effective economic unit.
Sheep were claimed to have eaten England, in areas such as Wharram Percy to this day sheep are still the only viable farming course, the soil on the hills is simply too thin to plow.
When sheep run free they ultimately destroy everything bar the grass by preventing regrowth, but in the Middle Ages they were hugely profitable and wool exports were England's largest export earner.
Those who were displaced to make room for sheep started on a course that would lead to the Industrial revolution.
The 'Black death' is reputed to have killed at least a third of the population, but resistance to Bubonic plague is now known to have a genetic component and some areas suffered much worse than others. A village that lost the Blacksmith or other specialists was likely doomed even if the majority survived, but if the majority were lost the village could no longer survive as an effective economic unit.
Sheep were claimed to have eaten England, in areas such as Wharram Percy to this day sheep are still the only viable farming course, the soil on the hills is simply too thin to plow.
When sheep run free they ultimately destroy everything bar the grass by preventing regrowth, but in the Middle Ages they were hugely profitable and wool exports were England's largest export earner.
Those who were displaced to make room for sheep started on a course that would lead to the Industrial revolution.
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Rokcet Scientist wrote:As it did Europe-wide.Digit wrote:
The 'Black death' is reputed to have killed at least a third of the population
Those guys knew how to have a plague.
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You know, I read somewhere that 2/3 of the Earths population lives in the crescent the goes from Japan around to India. (Including China.)
And that people in the know are just waiting for the TB bomb to drop there. There are just too many people, too close together, to stop a disaster.
It reminds me of the stories my Grandmother told me about the so called Spanish Flu. The family lived way out by themselves in the plains of Illinois.
The nearest neighbor was two miles down the road. They would not visit each other. When the mail man came, they would go out and take it from the mail box with a long tweezes type of thing and lay it in the sun for a day before touching it. If something blew away, too bad. If it was important they would send it again.
My grandfather went to town twice a year. In the spring to get seed, and in the fall to sell the harvest.
In the four years they lived like that, she lost one child in childbirth. But the other seven grew into tall, healthy, Franco/Scandinavian adults.
I hate to sound like a retro Hippie, but you may have something going for your lifestyle DB.
That said, RS, how many times have dodged the bullet of popular TV news scare stories?
And that people in the know are just waiting for the TB bomb to drop there. There are just too many people, too close together, to stop a disaster.
It reminds me of the stories my Grandmother told me about the so called Spanish Flu. The family lived way out by themselves in the plains of Illinois.
The nearest neighbor was two miles down the road. They would not visit each other. When the mail man came, they would go out and take it from the mail box with a long tweezes type of thing and lay it in the sun for a day before touching it. If something blew away, too bad. If it was important they would send it again.
My grandfather went to town twice a year. In the spring to get seed, and in the fall to sell the harvest.
In the four years they lived like that, she lost one child in childbirth. But the other seven grew into tall, healthy, Franco/Scandinavian adults.
I hate to sound like a retro Hippie, but you may have something going for your lifestyle DB.
That said, RS, how many times have dodged the bullet of popular TV news scare stories?
Gibbon says that in the first century, there were whackos running around saying that the world was going to hell in a basket, and Jesus was coming back any day now.
Some things never change. But that being said, with all the whacko scare stories going round, only one of them hasta be right. But I've worried about it ever since the 73 OPEC oil embargo woke me up to the fact that we burn gas we haveta buy from other people.
And of all the crazy mutherfuckers on the planet to rely on, the Arabs would be near the top of the list.
But I remember Shelby Foot, commenting that while the North was having a hard time dealing with the confederates, they were doing it with only one hand, and all they hadda do, was bring out the other hand.
It all depends on just how crazy people have gotten. The increase in the number of kids with autism, ADD, ADHD, ICD, and adults with the latest collection of neurotic behavior patterns is obvious, but the scale of the problem is obscured by so much other shit going on.
It thot today, how is it that the fathers can put a man up on the moon, but sons cant even keep the bridges and levees up? Huh? And so many of the sons are so fuckin nuts, they dont believe the fathers did it.
I post this photo, and mostly dont see much feedback.
http://www.911myths.com/assets/images/molten_steel.jpg
But the sheer stupidity of those who cannot believe their own eyes- I dunno. What can I expect of guys who work at desks all the time?
I been sayin to ask a welder, but maybe they dont know any. I live in a different world where people are in more direct contact with what is going on around them. When I was a boy, men worked with draft horses that were older than I was, and now their sons and grandsons work with machinery, trying to keep it working, that is older than they are.
We see a lotta welding. http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/oilburners.html
This page lists several liquid fuels, some not that different from Jet fuel. but then- look at the fucking blower on the forge. Even a dude with a desk job should be able to figure out that there's a *reason* the iron age came after the bronze age.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showt ... p?t=425225
is a thread by dudes trying to build a liquid fueled forge. It aint easy, and didnt happen by accident at the WTC.
So- why has this bullshit about 911 gone on so long? the power of denial. People want to believe their leadership. Scary not to, and I dont mind if they dont ever get it, but if they do, they are likely to start dragging the bastards out to be shot.
You do not wanna be in town if that starts happening.
Some things never change. But that being said, with all the whacko scare stories going round, only one of them hasta be right. But I've worried about it ever since the 73 OPEC oil embargo woke me up to the fact that we burn gas we haveta buy from other people.
And of all the crazy mutherfuckers on the planet to rely on, the Arabs would be near the top of the list.
But I remember Shelby Foot, commenting that while the North was having a hard time dealing with the confederates, they were doing it with only one hand, and all they hadda do, was bring out the other hand.
It all depends on just how crazy people have gotten. The increase in the number of kids with autism, ADD, ADHD, ICD, and adults with the latest collection of neurotic behavior patterns is obvious, but the scale of the problem is obscured by so much other shit going on.
It thot today, how is it that the fathers can put a man up on the moon, but sons cant even keep the bridges and levees up? Huh? And so many of the sons are so fuckin nuts, they dont believe the fathers did it.
I post this photo, and mostly dont see much feedback.
http://www.911myths.com/assets/images/molten_steel.jpg
But the sheer stupidity of those who cannot believe their own eyes- I dunno. What can I expect of guys who work at desks all the time?
I been sayin to ask a welder, but maybe they dont know any. I live in a different world where people are in more direct contact with what is going on around them. When I was a boy, men worked with draft horses that were older than I was, and now their sons and grandsons work with machinery, trying to keep it working, that is older than they are.
We see a lotta welding. http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/oilburners.html
This page lists several liquid fuels, some not that different from Jet fuel. but then- look at the fucking blower on the forge. Even a dude with a desk job should be able to figure out that there's a *reason* the iron age came after the bronze age.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showt ... p?t=425225
is a thread by dudes trying to build a liquid fueled forge. It aint easy, and didnt happen by accident at the WTC.
So- why has this bullshit about 911 gone on so long? the power of denial. People want to believe their leadership. Scary not to, and I dont mind if they dont ever get it, but if they do, they are likely to start dragging the bastards out to be shot.
You do not wanna be in town if that starts happening.
Any god watching me hasta be bored, and needs to get a life.
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there were whackos running around saying that the world was going to hell in a basket, and Jesus was coming back any day now.
They are still running around saying that, DB. Some things never change.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
-- George Carlin
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The reason for that DB is that, in my case, I don't know what I'm looking at!I post this photo, and mostly dont see much feedback.
I see smoke, flame and some debris, what am I missing?
What you say about pen pushers is true of a whole generation over here, few people can repair anything, each year some idiot gets swept away in fast flowing water, or goes hill climbing in thick mist etc etc.
Today's local press, a 37yr old woman lets her two young children swim out past the the headland of a local bay and they are swept away. The broken water clearly visible beyond the two headlands meant not a damn thing to her, next she compounds the problem by going into the water to 'save' them and local surfers finally rescued all three.
Last week a middle aged woman from London set out on a 7 mile hike along the local coastal path in bright sunshine and had to be rescued suffering from dehydration, at the same time a boat with holiday makers aboard overturned on the Bar at the river's mouth and father and son had to be rescued. Quite how deep they thought the water was with birds feeding I simple can't imagine!
Last year one fell off a cliff and 3 drowned because a shallow beach didn't mean a thing to them, and of course the tide came in fast between the headlands and they were trapped.
Each year its the same sorry tale again and again.
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There's a cartoonist over here by the name of Scott Adams who writes "Dilbert." In one of his books, he made a comment about people being stupid most of the day. Everyone has something that they understand and a whole lot of things that about which they are clueless because the world has gotten way too complicated. Some of those things can kill you.
DB, I'm not sure what you're trying to say with that photo, either.
DB, I'm not sure what you're trying to say with that photo, either.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
-- George Carlin
-- George Carlin