Ten Economic Blunders from History - John S. Chamberlain. Take cover when you hear a political leader talking about economic affairs. You can bet a bad decision is incoming. Luckily for the leaders, their meddling usually has a slow, erosive effect on the economy. Every so often, however, the great ones manage to land a real whopper that takes them down along with their whole country. Here are ten examples from history. Nuclear Events in Ancient India? Evidence at Mohenjo-Daro When excavations of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro reached the street level, they discovered skeletons scattered about the cities, many holding hands and sprawling in the streets as if some instant, horrible doom had taken place.
People were just lying, unburied, in the streets of the city. And these skeletons are thousands of years old, even by traditional archaeological standards. What could cause such a thing? Why did the bodies not decay or get eaten by wild animals? At one site, Soviet scholars found a skeleton which had a radioactive level 50 times greater than normal. Huge masses of walls and foundations of the ancient city are fused together, literally vitrified! While the skeletons have been carbon-dated to 2500 BC, we must keep in mind that carbon-dating involves measuring the amount of radiation left.
Giant Unexplained Crater Near Bombay by David Hatcher Childress Nexus Magazine A Nuclear Catastrophe in Paleoindian Times? Introduction The claims. History Resources - refdesk. The 42 Commandments of Ancient Egypt. Te map. CommonDreams.org. So...it turns out President Eisenhower wasn't making up all that stuff about the military-industrial complex.
That's what you'll conclude if you read Bob Woodward's new book, Obama's War. (You can read excerpts of it here, here and here.) You thought you voted for change when you cast a ballot for Barack Obama? Um, not when it comes to America occupying countries that don't begin with a "U" and an "S.
" In fact, after you read Woodward's book, you'll split a gut every time you hear a politician or a government teacher talk about "civilian control over the military. " For everyone who supported Obama in 2008, it's reassuring to find out he understands we have to get out of Afghanistan. And here's the part I don't even want to write -- and none of you really want to consider: It matters not whom we elect. Everything you need to know can be found in just two paragraphs from Obama's War. The brass isn't having it: "Mr. And, well, the rest is history.
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Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. The following is an excerpt from Thaddeus Russell's new book, " A Renegade History of the United States" (Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2010): In the nineteenth century, a woman who owned property, made high wages, had sex outside of marriage, performed or received oral sex, used birth control, consorted with men of other races, danced, drank, or walked alone in public, wore makeup, perfume, or stylish clothes -- and was not ashamed -- was probably a whore.
In fact, prostitutes won virtually all the freedoms that were denied to women but are now taken for granted. While feminists were seeking to free women from the "slavery" of patriarchal marriage, prostitutes married later in life and divorced more frequently than other American women. Boom. European History Interactive Map. Into Africa? Fossils suggest earliest anthropoids colonized Africa. Public release date: 27-Oct-2010 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Leigh Kishkishl@carnegiemnh.org 412-622-3361Carnegie Museum of Natural History Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania…Today in the journal Nature, a new discovery described by a team of international scientists, including Carnegie Museum of Natural History paleontologist Christopher Beard, suggests that anthropoids—the primate group that includes humans, apes, and monkeys—"colonized" Africa, rather than originally evolving in Africa as has been widely accepted.
According to this paper, what is exceptional about these new fossils—discovered at the Dur At-Talah escarpment in central Libya—is the diversity of species present: the site includes three distinct families of anthropoid primates that lived in North Africa at approximately the same time. This suggests that anthropoids underwent diversification, through evolution, previous to the time of these newly discovered fossils, which date to 39 million years ago.