Mystery Stones: The Quarry Of Stonehenge?

Stonehenge.

The mystery of the exact site of the quarry...that question may soon be answered as further research is conducted at the quarry site. If evidence can be found of human quarrying, little doubt will remain that the huge, four tonne stones were either loaded onto barges and sent around St. David's Head or carted directly across the mountainous terrain that sits between Stonehenge and the quarry site.
The researchers found the quarry site by a collecting and analyzing rocks in Pembrokeshire, looking for a match with the rhyolite debitage rocks at Stonehenge. When close matches were found, they took a closer look using petrography, a means for comparing mineral content. They kept up their search till they found specimens that were 99% identical to those at Stonehenge, a sure sign that the two were from the same place. The two believe their findings mean they have pinpointed the place where the Stonehenge rocks came from to within seventy meters.
News of the find has been greeted with excitement the world over - such is the connection people feel with the mystery that is Stonehenge, the circular monument believed to have been built from the period 3000 BC to 1600 BC by early people for an unknown reason. The outer bigger stones, called sarsens, are believed by most archeologists and historians to have been hauled to the site some two hundred years after the bluestones, and came from a much closer place; somewhere in Marlborough Downs, just twenty miles to the north.
If it can be proven that the rocks were in fact quarried by people, likely many other scientists will join in the debate that will no doubt ensue in attempting to explain how such a primitive people could have achieved such a feat as transporting such big and heavy stones such a great distance, and why.
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Angel Of The North...

Angel of the North

To be found in Northern England...
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Did Illegal Logging Contribute To This Disaster?

The disaster agency  in the Philippines said more than 338,000 people in 13 provinces were affected by the disaster, with nearly 43,000 still in schools, churches and gymnasiums.
More than 10,000 houses were damaged by the typhoon and the flash floods, of which nearly a third were ruined. Many schools, roads and bridges were also badly damaged.

Typhoon relief. (Photo: Copyright Control).

More than 15 million pesos ($340,000) worth of crops, mostly rice and corn, were damaged, but the Agriculture department said losses were minimal as the crops were in the early planting stage.
Aquino said the government can also access funds from multilateral financial institutions, including $3 million from the Asian Development Bank and about $500 million in low-interest loans from the World Bank.
Survivors said huge logs thundering down mountainsides crushed residents. Television footage showed many recovered bodies with arms or hands raised as if reaching out for help or clinging on to something.
Cagayan de Oro and Iligan were struggling to prevent disease from spreading in evacuation centres, with construction proceeding quickly of burial vaults and plots in public cemeteries to bury decomposing bodies.(C.S.Monitor).

It's A Mentality Thing!

“An arrest warrant has been issued for Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi according to Article 4 of the terrorism law and is signed by five judges… this warrant should be executed,” Daham said, waving a copy of what he said was the warrant in front of reporters. The ministry showed taped confessions, aired on state-run Iraqiya television and other local media, of men it claimed were members of Hashemi’s security detail. The men said they had been paid by his office to carry out killings.The identity of the men could not be independently confirmed.

My friends, how could such a handsome bastard like me be
involved in such nastiness...besides I was screen testing
in Bollywood. Typical of the fiendish Arabs: the Yanks
leave and next day I get my collar felt! Next question? 

Hashemi, who could not be contacted for a response, was in Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous enclave in the north, Kurdish political sources said. Kurdistan has its own government and security forces.
Political tensions between Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his Sunni partners in the country’s delicate power-sharing deal have sharpened during the U.S. withdrawal as both parties traded accusations and counter charges (nationalpost.com).

It'll prove a vast waste of $800 billion this Iraq escapade. Unfortunately, most in charge of policy among Bush's boys at the time when the US got embroiled in the romantic nonsense of regime change, didn't have a clue regarding the mentality of the Arabs in general. They're not like folks in New England, you know. The outcomes of the so called Arab Spring just might get peoples' attention, even in the offices of the NYT.
You see, liberal/lefie types, it's like this: you let Jonny A-rab near a ballot box, 60% of the mad fuckers will vote for other mad fuckers. Oh...and ditto for Syria when they get their chance!

Memo to the incoming Administration of 2012: Israel is the only democratic state in the region and therefore the only sound ally the US really has. Begin an immediate policy towards making America energy independent. Reverse the misguided and fabricated policy of the "two state" solution; because it isn't a solution. Just read the Fatah and Hamas Manifestos if you're deluded enough to think it is. ( Prior to 1967, both Jordan and Egypt rejected it when they could quite easily have done otherwise...besides it's an old Soviet invention which has become the mantra of every anti Israel tosser out there).
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The Arabs: Deluded & In Denial...So, What's New!

The First Temple

In the 10th century BC, after King David captured the city of Jerusalem and made it the capital of the Israelites, he chose this high place as the site of a great temple to house the Ark of the Covenant (2 Samuel 24:18-25). Prior to this, the Ark had moved among several sanctuaries, especially those of Shechem and Shiloh. The construction project was undertaken by David's son, King Solomon, and completed in 957 BC.

The Temple's two main purposes were to house the Ark of the Covenant and provide a place for people to worship, so the Temple was a fairly small building with a large courtyard. The courtyard included a huge bronze basin for priestly ablutions and was surrounded by storehouses. The Temple itself was a rectangular building oriented east and made up of three parts: a porch (ʾulam); a main room for services (hekhal, Holy Place); and the devir, or Holy of Holies.

The First Temple was looted of its treasures - including the Ark of the Covenant -between 604 BC and 597 BC and totally destroyed in 587-86 BC by King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon. (Incidentally, Nebuchadnezzar's palace gates can be seen at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.) The Jews were deported to Babylonia between 586 and 582 in what is known as the Babylonian Exile.

The Second Temple


In 538 BC, the Persian king Cyrus II (who had conquered Babylonia) allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple. This was completed around 515 BC as a modest version of the original, without the Ark or any other ritual objects. But the Temple resumed its role as the religious center of Judaism, with elaborate rituals conducted by priests and Levites.


The next few centuries saw Jerusalem subjugated to a number of foreign rulers. The Temple was respected by these (Persian and Hellenistic) rulers until Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who plundered it in 169 BC and desecrated it in 167 BC, by commanding that sacrifices be made to Zeus inside. This sparked the Hasmonean revolt, after which Judas Maccabaeus rededicated the Temple. This event is still celebrated in the annual festival of Hanukkah.

The South Wall, Jerusalem.

Herod doubled the size of Temple Mount, surrounding it with retaining walls and gates. The Temple itself was enlarged and faced with large white stones. A series of "courts" allowed access to successively smaller groups of people: Jews and Gentiles; Jews only; Jewish men only; and priests only. Although it still lacked the Ark, the Temple now housed the Scriptures and other Jewish writings. It also became the headquarters of the Sanhedrin, the Jewish court of law during the Roman period.

Jesus and the Temple

According to the New Testament, the Temple of Jerusalem played a significant role in the life of Jesus. After his birth (around 4 BC), Jesus was dedicated at the Temple in accordance with the Law of Moses (Luke 2:22-28). When he was a boy, he impressed the Jewish teachers with his knowledge (Luke 2:41-52). Jesus was later tempted by Satan to jump off the Temple to prove his status (Matthew 4:1-11, Mark 1:12-13, and Luke 4:1-13) and he angrily overturned tables of moneychangers during the "Cleansing of the Temple" (Matthew 21:12, Mark 11:15-19, Luke 19:45-48, John 2:14).

Destruction of the Temple

In 66 AD, a Jewish rebellion against Rome began and culminated in the near-complete destruction of the Temple (and the entire city) by Titus on August 10, 70 AD. This event is commemorated (complete with a relief showing the looting of a menorah by Roman soldiers) on the Arch of Titus in Rome. All that remained was a portion of the Western Wall, which is the focus of Jewish pilgrimage in Jerusalem today. Ever since this destruction, Jews around the world have continued to cherish the hope that it will one day be rebuilt.

The Arabs In Denial.

Chief Palestinian justice: The Temples Never Existed

In a interview, Chief Palestinian Justice Sheik Taysir Tamimi declared the Jewish temples never existed and Jews have no historic connection to Jerusalem. He also claimed the Western Wall really was a tying post for Muhammad's horse, the Al Aqsa Mosque was built by angels, and Abraham, Moses and Jesus were prophets for Islam.
Tamimi is considered the second most important Palestinian cleric after Muhammad Hussein, the grand mufti of Jerusalem.


"Israel started since 1967 making archeological digs to show Jewish signs to prove the relationship between Judaism and the city, and they found nothing. There is no Jewish connection to Israel before the Jews invaded in the 1880s," said Tamimi.


"About these so-called two temples, they never existed, certainly not at the [Temple Mount]," Tamimi said during a sit-down interview in his eastern Jerusalem office.


The Palestinian cleric denied the validity of dozens of digs verified by experts worldwide revealing Jewish artifacts from the First and Second Temples throughout Jerusalem, including on the Temple Mount itself; excavations revealing Jewish homes and a synagogue in a site in Jerusalem called the City of David; or even the recent discovery of a Second Temple Jewish city in the vicinity of Jerusalem.


Tamimi said descriptions of the Jewish Temples in the Hebrew Tanach, in the Talmud and in Byzantine and Roman writings from the Temple periods were forged, and that the Torah (The first Five Books of The Old Testament) was falsified to claim biblical patriarchs and matriarchs were Jewish, when they were prophets for Islam.


Now...how can there be ANY peace with these deluded people! Their allies in the Western media along with the Left are more than happy to further the PLO and Hamas disinformation machine. The Arabs revisionist version of a history (that they were not part of) is always well received in the offices of the many anti Israel governments of the world. These Arab myths must be continually countered by the historical facts. And that is up to all of us who need to stand up and be counted.


I wish that the Obama Administration could just for once actually GET IT!


http://www.sacred-destinations.com/israel/jerusalem-temple-mount

Triassic Time, And The Livin' Was Easy...

The late Triassic was a time of plenty for Earth, and the planet was a veritable paradise for life. Even the land now known as Antarctica was temperate, moist and supported a diverse range of flora and fauna. On the shores of the ancient Irish Sea, four-legged reptiles roamed the land alongside amphibians and even 'mammal-like' reptiles.

I say Sherlock: What happen? Well, Watson...ah now...oh
by the way, have you seen my coke pipe anywhere?
As to what happened, well Watson,
I wasn't about that evening...or ever am for that matter...

Suddenly, disaster struck. In the geological blink of the eye (i.e. 10,000 years), life on Earth began to die. Two hundred million years ago, just before Pangea began to break apart, half of the known species on Earth disappeared. Many of the mammal-like reptiles were wiped out along with a vast array of single-celled and multicellular creatures on sea and land. Theories have been put forth about how this could have happened, but evidence of the true cause has eluded scientists for decades...
Find out more by clicking on the link below:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/28jan_extinction/

The Shrine Of The Book...

The Shrine of the Book (Hebrew: היכל הספר‎ Heikhal HaSefer), a wing of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, houses the Dead Sea Scrolls—discovered 1947–56 in 11 caves in and around the Wadi Qumran.

A fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

With all the disinformation coming out from the various Palestinian factions, I wonder what any of them make of

the Dead Sea Scrolls? They were written in Hebrew over 2000 years ago; 600 years before the Arabs

arrived in this region. Kind of refutes their nonsense about Jews not having any historical

connection to this land...

Click on the lick below to take you to the site:

http://www.english.imjnet.org.il/htmls/article2.aspx?c0=12774&bsp=12737