Category: Historical Events

Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors

Historical Events Media 19 Comments

“Shut up!”, they argued.

Netflix recently released an eight-part documentary series titled Ancient Apocalypse, where Graham Hancock (who has a been a household name for “alternative archeology” since the release of his book ‘Fingerprints of the Gods’ in 1995), introduces us to his central theory that human civilisation is considerably older than current archeological orthodoxy believes, but that most evidence for this was wiped out by a colossal natural disaster around 12,000 years ago.

He supports this theory with physical evidence for such a natural disaster, curious geological anomalies and seemingly ancient megalithic structures. […]

These questions might sound intriguing to you, or you may be indifferent to them, or you may even vehemently disagree with them, but I bet you didn’t know they were racist, did you?

That’s right. Racist. Don’t believe me, you conspiracy theorist? Just ask the Guardian.

God Save The Queen

Historical Events 38 Comments

BBC;

“Following further evaluation this morning, the Queen’s doctors are concerned for Her Majesty’s health and have recommended she remain under medical supervision,” a statement said.

“The Queen remains comfortable and at Balmoral.”

Prince Charles has travelled to Balmoral with the Duchess of Cornwall.

The Duke of Cambridge is on his way to the Scottish estate, about 40 miles (64km) west of Aberdeen.

The announcement comes after the Queen, 96, pulled out of a meeting of her Privy Council on Wednesday, with doctors advising her to rest.

Concern: All the Queen’s children are either at or travelling to Balmoral, says our Royal Correspondent Jonny Dymond.

BBC has suspended regular programing.

RIP, Mikhail Gorbachev

Historical Events 26 Comments

Nearly a decade ago, the National Post commissioned several columnists to prepare advance obituary columns for some of history’s aging giants. George Jonas, who had fled communist Hungary after Soviet troops crushed the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, was asked to write about former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who was then 81. Gorbachev, who died Tuesday, ended up outliving Jonas, who died in 2016. We present here Jonas’s reflections on Gorbachev, written in 2013 but never published until now.

The Sound Of Settled Science

Historical Events Unsettled Science 23 Comments

Nevermind the eyewitness accounts, Science had explained;

Mysterious mounds in the southwest corner of the Amazon Basin were once the site of ancient urban settlements, scientists have discovered. Using a remote-sensing technology to map the terrain from the air, they found that, starting about 1,500 years ago, ancient Amazonians built and lived in densely populated centres, featuring 22-metre-tall earthen pyramids, that were encircled by kilometres of elevated roadways.

The complexity of these settlements is “mind blowing”, says team member Heiko Prümers, an archaeologist at the German Archaeological Institute headquartered in Berlin.

“This is the first clear evidence that there were urban societies in this part of the Amazon Basin,” says Jonas Gregorio de Souza, an archaeologist at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. The study adds to a growing body of research indicating that the Amazon — long thought to have been pristine wilderness before the arrival of Europeans — was home to advanced societies well before that.

h/t The Greek

Slavery, Company Towns, and the World Economic Forum

Baiting The Left Historical Events Little Known Facts 19 Comments

The average life expectancy of an Irish immigrant worker after arriving in America was just fourteen years =

In the current year, when the 1619 Project is considered history, Django Unchained is treated like a documentary, and Gone With the Wind has been thrown into the burn pile, most Americans have a very distorted understanding of how the institution of slavery operated on a day-to-day basis. Pop culture portrayals (the ones that have not been banned) would have us believe that sadistic Southern plantation owners routinely starved, beat and killed their slaves for the sheer thrill of it. When we meet Leonardo di Caprio’s planter character in Django Unchained, he is amusing himself by forcing two slaves to fight a gladiator death match. Well, as with all historical events that are integrated into a founding mythology – for example, the American Revolution, slavery & the Civil War, and World War 2 – the truth is a bit more complicated than the legend.

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