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Researchers at NASA analyzing scientific data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope have confirmed Thursday that under the frozen surface of Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons, is an impressive ocean, Reuters informs.<br />
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According to American scientists, confirmation of this ocean of Ganymede contribute to increasing the chances of discovery of alien life forms.<br />
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The discovery also led to decipher a mystery that enveloped the largest natural satellite in the Solar System, after Galileo space probe launched by NASA, US researchers provided a number of indications that Ganymede would have a subsurface ocean to freeze. Galileo probe conducted an exploratory mission to Jupiter and its satellites from 1995 to 2003.<br />
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Scientists at NASA have revealed in a conference that had still needs a little "detective work" to be able to confirm this finding.<br />
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Like Earth, Ganymede has a core of liquid iron generates a magnetic field, but the field of Ganymede is embedded in the magnetic field of Jupiter. This detail creates a special dynamic that lead to spectacular visual phenomena - twin rings of bright auroras around the two poles of Ganymede. As Jupiter rotates, its magnetic field reverses, causing auroras on Ganymede to "swing". Scientists have measured the motion and found that it is not as broad as it should have been. Using computer models of computation, American scientists have concluded that an ocean saltwater conductor of electricity, under the surface of the moon, counteracts the magnetic attraction exerted by Jupiter.<br />
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"Jupiter is like a lighthouse, whose magnetic field reverses rotation with the headlamp. Influences aurora on Ganymede," said Joachim Saur, professor of geophysics at the University of Cologne, Germany. "The existence of that ocean, swaying auroras on Ganymede is reduced considerably," he said.<br />
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Scientists have run over 100 computer models to see whether other factors could have the same impact on auroras on Ganymede. They repeated the analyzes of data collected in the ultraviolet spectrum for seven hours of Hubble and analyzed data from both auroras.<br />
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"These additional checks give us confidence in our measurement result," said Professor Saur.<br />
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Jim Green, director of the Planetary Science Division of NASA says that this discovery is "an extraordinary".<br />
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"My colleagues have created a new approach to look inside a planetary body with a telescope," said Jim Green.<br />
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Ganymede thus joined a list that includes satellites in the solar system containing water beneath their surfaces. Wednesday, scientists announced that Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, has hot water springs under bark covered with ice. Other bodies in the solar system containing water are two satellites of Jupiter - Europa and Callisto.<br />
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Scientists believe that the ocean on Ganymede has a maximum depth of 100 km, making it 10 times deeper oceans on Earth, and is hidden under a crust composed mainly of ice, which has a thickness of 150 kilometers .<br />
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"The discovery is a step forward in finding habitable celestial bodies rich in water, located in the solar system," said astronomer Heidi Hammel, a member of the University Association for Research in Astronomy, whose headquarters is in Washington.<br />
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Animal kingdom can often be a ruthless place, but the images below show that in some cases, the link between parents is as close as that between people.<br />
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Scientists divide animals into two categories, depending on the way they grow chickens: R and K.<br />
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The R category generally have many children at once, and they mature quickly enough. Animals in category K, category in which they are enrolled, in fact, people born less , and they need more time to become adults. Therefore, the "fathers" of caregivers for a longer period of time. Below are ten such examples.<br />
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Source: www.wittyfeed.comAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11687102950100738999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902195588332337808.post-28429611187634215622015-03-11T01:02:00.000-07:002015-03-11T01:02:20.472-07:00March 11, the day which is under the "sign" of natural disasters !<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On 11 March took place over time, several natural hazards, the violent eruption of Etna in Sicily, in 1974, to something recent earthquake followed by tsunami in Japan.<br />
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On March 11, 2011, in Japan there was an earthquake of magnitude 9. This was followed by a devastating tsunami that razed to the ground entire towns.<br />
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Nearly 20,000 people were killed or went missing after the tsunami, a catastrophe followed by the nuclear accident in Fukushima. Abolition of the six reactors devastated by the floods will last 40 years, according to Japanese officials.<br />
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Also on March 11, but in 1974 there was a violent eruption of Etna in Sicily. It has a height of 3,340 meters, is the highest and most active volcano in Europe. Etna is also the oldest active volcano in the world, it having an activity of over 6000 years.<br />
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1513 - He was elected Pope Leo X (secular Giovanni de Medici, son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, Duke of Florence and patron of the arts). Leo pontifical seat occupied between 1513 and 1521.<br />
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1818 - It is published novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.<br />
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1861 - The Confederation of American States Constitution was adopted, the ten southern states who were separated from northern abolitionist. The war of secession lasted between 1861 and 1865.<br />
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1871 - The Conservative government was formed under the leadership of Lascar Catargiu, which will continue until 1976 ("conservative authoritarian government").<br />
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1908 - He died writer Edmondo De Amicis ("Cuore - Heart of a Child") (b. October 31, 1846).<br />
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1918 - Moscow became the capital of Soviet Russia.<br />
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1935 - Hermann Goering creates Lufftwafe, the airborne troops of the Third Reich.<br />
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1955 - He died Sir Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist, discoverer of penicillin (b. August 6, 1881).<br />
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1985 - Mikhail S. Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the CPSU CC. Policy reform ("perestroika" and "glasnost") was the beginning of openness to dialogue of the USSR.<br />
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1990 - was adopted "Proclamation of Timisoara". Paragraph 8 required by law banning election for the first three consecutive legislatures, the right to candidacy of former communist leaders or security officers.<br />
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1993 - Janet Reno becomes the first female US Attorney General.<br />
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1995 - The National Council voted for signing protocol PL'93 electoral CDR, which meant out party opposition alliance.<br />
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2000 - Economic experts from Romania, Hungary and Germany signed in Debrecen, a trilateral agreement on the development of economic relations of the Romanian-Hungarian border.<br />
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2003 - The Blue Helmets of the UN Monitoring Mission for Iraq and Kuwait (MONUIK), carried out along the Iraqi border were ordered to withdraw from Headquarters.<br />
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2003 - Washington sent a diplomatic protest Pyongyang on the interception of a US spy plane on March 2 by four North Korean fighter planes in international airspace.<br />
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2003 - The International Criminal Court is established at The Hague.<br />
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2004 - Held in Madrid, a powerful terrorist attack that resulted in an impressive number of casualties: 200 people died, among them 16 with staying Romanian.<br />
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2004 - The European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on Romania to intensify efforts to prepare for accession to the Union, without which an accession in 2007 might prove impossible.<br />
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2005 - Former Nazi Corporal Paul Schaefer, Colonia Dignidad founder of the German enclave in Chile, convicted pedophile and accused of torturing prisoners during the regime of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), was arrested in Argentina.<br />
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2006 - A Slobodan Milosevic died, the former Yugoslav president, who was suffering from heart disease, died in his cell in prison TPI.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11687102950100738999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902195588332337808.post-63996126735306556962015-03-08T00:09:00.001-08:002015-03-08T00:09:06.378-08:00International Women's Day, celebrated on March 8.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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International Women's Day, celebrated on March 8, was from the beginning an expression of the desire of women working to acquire certain rights, however, over time, turned into an occasion of celebration of womanhood and the fair sex, irrespective of religion and race.<br />
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Currently one day of joy for all women receiving different flowers and gifts, celebration March 8 was perceived as long a time as they were stated social and political rights of women and the progress made in regard to them.<br />
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Formed in a time of great social unrest, International Women's Day was chosen and heritage traditional protest and political activism. In the years before 1910, quite a few women in the developed industrial work. Their jobs, mostly in textiles and household services, however, were subjected to sexual discrimination and were paid more poorly than men. There were trade unions, and from there to the industrial unrest was not only a step.<br />
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<b>1848</b> - takes place in Paris, in his house Balcescu, a meeting of Romanian revolutionaries, it is decided triggering revolution in the country and is drawn revolutionary program.<br />
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<b>1917</b> - A Revolution in Petrograd began which led, on 15 March 1917, the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II.<br />
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<b>1945</b> - Two days after installation Petru Groza government, on March 6, 1945, US President Roosevelt Churchill addressed through a personal and top secret telegram, which is concerned about the installation, by force of a communist government and provide treatment with anti-discrimination Romanians .... In response telegram, the US president, acknowledging mixture Kremlin leadership in appointing a communist government, stated: I think Romania is a good place for us to measure the Russians.<br />
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<b>1945</b> - The Romanian Government Soviet government sent a telegram requesting reintegration Northern Transylvania to Romania, the territory was occupied Hortist as a result of the Vienna Award of 1940. In response telegram, dated 9 March 1945 IV Stalin agrees to reinstall NE Romanian administration in Transylvania. On 13 March 1945, Cluj, held official proclamation of resettlement Romanian government in this part of the country.<br />
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<b>1946</b> - A helicopter was first patented for commercial use.<br />
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<b>1968</b> - In Prague, Czechoslovak students declare their support for the liberalization movement known as the Prague Spring.<br />
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<b>1982 </b>- Soviet interplanetary automatic stations Venus-Venus-13 and 14 reach the surface of Venus.<br />
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After the Revolution of October 1917 Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontai persuaded Lenin to formalize International Women's Day in the Soviet Union.<br />
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Since its emergence in the socialist movement, International Women's Day has become more and more recognition from year to year, came to be celebrated in developed and developing alike.<br />
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Thus, 1975 was declared "International Year of the Woman" by the United Nations (UN). Starting this year, International Women's Day has been adopted by many governments of the countries which until then had found neither its existence.<br />
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A lot has happened over time Women's Day, one of the things it happening in Iran spectacular in 1982, when women have resorted to one of the most courageous gesture of their existence: they have set aside, all day, the veil covering their face.<br />
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Today, Women's Day, popularized more like "Mother's Day" in the communist period is a public holiday in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China, Cuba, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Madagascar, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Zambia. On the other hand, is celebrated without a public holiday in countries such as Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania and Latvia.<br />
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On this day it is customary for men to give women flowers and small gifts in their lives - wives, girlfriends, mothers, daughters and colleagues. In Romania and Bulgaria, retained habits before the fall of communism when, on March 8, Mother's Day, children were gifts mothers, grandmothers, and female teachers of teachers.<br />
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In Romania, Mother's Day was instead declared a public holiday since 2010 and is celebrated on the first Sunday of May.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11687102950100738999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902195588332337808.post-22553691065419453512015-03-07T07:21:00.000-08:002015-03-07T07:21:16.225-08:00Red cyclops eye - James Webb Hubble's replacement.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An eye closes, another opens. Hubble space telescope famous, enjoying his last moments. His successor is called the <b>James Webb</b>. Much cheaper, easier, much larger, more accurate and scheduled for a more distant orbit than any other telescopes, James Webb sentenced to perfection.<br />
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In less than 10 years, will be launched the largest space telescope ever built. Its infrared detectors should help us discover ancient cosmological events. The telescope is an optical instrument that uses light reflection phenomenon on a concave mirror being used in astronomy for observing heavenly bodies. What is the difference James Webb space telescopes of the other? To approach it and analyze it.<br />
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We'll start with the "eye" or: a primary mirror of 6.5 m diameter, larger than all terrestrial telescopes. What makes it special is that it is deformable and developed, because it could not be a question of also carrying a giant diameter in a missile. The eye is composed of 18 hexagonal pieces. Another innovation is spectacular thermal protection system. Under the mirror is a "sandwich" huge, consisting of five layers made of various materials. This shield is designed to decrease the temperature to 27º C at -223º C. Once in orbit, the satellite operates solar panels and antennas. Then side shields are starting to open up piece by piece.<br />
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What could beat who will soon overturn the hierarchy? Excessive heat. Therefore, NASA researchers have designed chose to install it in the coolest place possible orbit Lagrange point, the instrument will be, always, in the shadow of the Earth. Future telescope, very different in this respect from Hubble, will almost blind in order visibility usual, but with eyes wide open the infrared wavelengths between 0.6 and 28 micrometers (one micrometer equals 0.001 mm).<br />
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Another difficulty that welcomes Webb will be that its devices will radiate heat and particularly in this spectral range. The only solution would be cool tools in a drastically. Mirror is designed to operate at temperatures of -220º C, while the detectors are cooled to about -265º C, thanks to an additional cryogenic system. This innovative procedure has not been used before. Design, assembly and testing of Webb were performed over a 10-year record time considering the allocated period of similar construction is 50 years.<br />
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James Webb will be launched by Ariane 5 rocket telesatelitului journey to the place of observation will take about three months. Webb versus predecessor Hubble, Hubble was designed in the 70s and launched in 1990. The new telescope is superior in all respects. For James Webb was spent 1.5 million euros from 2.6 million as cost Hubble; red eyed giant weighs 5.4 tons to 12 of Hubble, but is 18 meters longer than its predecessor (30 m to 12 m); also, Webb is more accurate, thanks to its mirror with a diameter of 6.5 m (3 times larger than Hubble's mirror).<br />
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And finally, the successor will go far and will be placed in orbit around half a million kilometers from Earth. The conclusion is irrevocable: Webb will bring the information for which it was created. For Hubble there are only three options if the operating system will be improved Hubble, the satellite will "live" only four or five years. A recent report by NASA remembers that, every day, Hubble lose altitude, so in 2013 will crash to Earth.<br />
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Three scenarios have been proposed by experts. First, the old telescope work will last until 2010, Hubble with new missions scheduled in 2005 and even in 2010. A more optimistic is that the All 6 gyroscopes will be replaced, and longevity telescope will increase by another 20 years . Finally, catastrophic vision: an automatic task will go to Hubble, aiming attaching a system to make it fall on Earth, under the supervision of experts.<br />
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"Hubble has brought many benefits to science and humanity, James Webb has the potential to do the same thing he" ensure NASA. Webb wants an amazing machine, capable to travel in reverse time! Mirror to sweep an almost virgin space-time images of the universe and bring it looks as 300,000 years after the Big Bang. Visions infrared fact that Webb will see where nobody has ever seen before is because its infrared spectrometers. Looking Infrared Universe means looking at the old universe. Hubble was able to detect the weak glimpses of stars born at about 900,000 years after the Big Bang.<br />
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The giant red eyes might lead back with another 400-500 million years, working with a precision of at least 100 times greater than terrestrial detectors. "I have not seen primordial galaxies. With the help of James Webb, we hope to discover these elementary structures, which were chained to give birth later massive galaxies, "said astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan, from the University of Virginia. Weather for 300,000 years after the Big Bang, the Universe calm reigned. The whole matter was composed of a mass "oily", consisting only of hydrogen and helium nuclei superfierbinti light, and thus kept several hundred million years.<br />
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Then, for a reason unknown composition began to cool and matter to aggregate, forming the first stars. They were different from those of today in the Milky Way is much higher. They were burning and exploding at the same time, which allowed the Universe to be sprinkled with heavier nuclei, then recovered by new stars. In addition, it will manage the new telescope, or penetrating eye, to lift the veil that covers one of the greatest mysteries of the universe: dark matter, hitherto remained invisible? Since the first images, we are promised a fireworks ...<br />
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Hubble's History<br />
<b>1962</b>. National Academy of Sciences USA recommended building a space telescope huge size.<br />
<b>1977</b>. Congress passed granting funds to the project, and construction began Hubble Space Telescope.<br />
<b>1985</b>. The telescope was completed. Mirror's weighed a ton.<br />
<b>April 25, 1990.</b> Astronauts on shuttle Discovery launched the Hubble Telescope orbiting Earth. Hubble photographs sent but lacking focus.<br />
<b>December 1993</b>. Hubble received "glasses". Endeavour shuttle astronauts repaired the telescope and attach a camera to correct its main mirror problems. New photos were clear and brought the first information from the ends of the universe.<br />
<b>June 1994.</b> NASA has released images of the Orion nebula, which confirmed the formation of planets around stars that appeared after cooling "big" hydrogen and helium.<br />
<b>January 1996.</b> Hubble came to over 1,500 images of galaxies in various stages of development, some 10 billion years old.<br />
<b>February 1997</b>. A second mission of service. Astronauts have deleted some instruments of the telescope and added some "beds" in order to maintain the temperature.<br />
<b>November 13, 1999.</b> The fourth gyroscope gave the Hubble Telescope. Because of the inability to focus, Hubble is closed, a new mission awaiting repair.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11687102950100738999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902195588332337808.post-22366739644921615212015-03-07T07:07:00.000-08:002015-03-07T07:07:28.213-08:00Dawn spacecraft reached orbit dwarf planet Ceres. It is the first in history to cut the performance - VIDEO<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dawn spacecraft NASA came dwarf planet Ceres orbit. It is located about 61,000 kilometers of Ceres when he entered the gravitational field.<br />
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"Since its discovery in 1801, Ceres was known as a planet, then as an asteroid, and later as a dwarf planet," said Marc Rayman, chief engineer of the mission. "Now, after a journey of 4.9 billion kilometers and 7.5 years, Dawn called Ceres <Home>," he said.<br />
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Besides visiting the first dwarf planet, spacecraft Dawn is the first that has two missions in space. In the period 2011-2012, the giant asteroid Vesta explored it, giving researchers both indispensable information about celestial body and thousands of pictures.<br />
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"The Assassination of Jesus" is "a three-hour television event" based on a book by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard and produced by Scott Free Productions, the production company of renowned film and television directors and brothers Ridley and Tony Scott.<br />
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The documentary, directed by Christopher Mena, will premiere on March 29th at 21:00 and will be broadcast in 172 countries, in 45 languages, according to a press release issued Tuesday.<br />
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Leading distribution is Kelsey Grammer (known for his roles in the series "Partners", "Boss"), who plays ruthless and ambitious Herod the Great, king of Judea by the Romans called, known for killing all male infants in Bethlehem and Stephen Moyer (from "True Blood"), the role of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor who ordered the crucifixion of Jesus.<br />
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Haaz Sleiman (in "uninvited guests / The Visitor") portrays Jesus, and Rufus Sewell ("Hercules") is Caiaphas, the high priest of Jerusalem and conspirator in the murder of Jesus.<br />
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Built around a screenplay by Walon Green, a writer whose work has been recognized by the Academy Awards and Emmy ("The Wild Buch"), and directed by Chris Mena, winner of a BAFTA ("The Passion of Ayn Rand "," Fatherland ")," The Assassination of Jesus' promises to bring a comprehensive perspective on the story of Jesus, which will intrigue both believers and atheists and people of other faiths.<br />
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The documentary begins at time of birth of Jesus, while King Herod the Great govern Judea, but was concerned about possible threats to his power. This concern pushes to order the killing of all male children under two years. Little Jesus and his family managed to escape. Viewers will be able to pass quickly over 26 years and to follow Jesus began to develop and spread his message and gathering a group of devout believers.<br />
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At the same time, new players policies, including his son Herod Antipas, the ruler appointed by the Romans and Pontius Pilate, are concerned about the growing influence of Jesus, while the Temple Hebrew religious leaders, Caiaphas and Anna, I questioned its teachings and methods.<br />
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By compote, conspiracy and influence, Jesus is finally arrested, partly due to the betrayal of one of his disciples, and crucified. He was buried in a tomb unguarded, and when his mourners returning a few days later to anoint the body, it is not. Until today, the body of Jesus of Nazareth was not found.<br />
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For National Geographic Channel, executive producer Charlie Parsons and Heather Moran are. Tim Pastore is NGC Chairman of the Division of programs and original productions.<br />
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A company owned by National Geographic Ventures and FOX Entertainment Group, National Geographic Channels International (NGCI) joins the National Geographic Society in its commitment to exploration, conservation and education through its six television channels: National Geographic Channel, National Geographic Channel HD Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Wild HD, Nat Geo Nat Geo Mundo and People.<br />
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Globally, National Geographic Channel (NGC including US, which is a partnership of NGV and Fox Cable Networks Group) is available in over 440 million homes in 171 countries and in 45 languagesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11687102950100738999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902195588332337808.post-28995171729751871512015-03-06T01:59:00.001-08:002015-03-06T01:59:22.631-08:00About Babylonian Mythology and Gods.Introduction<br />
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<b>Most records of Babylonian myths date from 700 B.C</b>., when they were transcribed in cuneiform on clay tablets and stored in the library of the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal at Nineveh. However, the two major Babylonian epics probably originated around 2000 B.C.. The Epic of Creation justifies Marduk's rule over gods and men; and it reflects the political supremacy of Babylon in Mesopotamia, since Marduk was the chief god of that city. The Gilgamesh Epic shows the failure of man's quest to overcome death.<br />
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Generally Babylonian mythology lacks the transcendental quality of the myth of Osiris. It is more earth-bound and more materialistic. Death puts an end to the sensual pleasures of life, and the underworld of the dead is the most dismal place imaginable. The Babylonian gods themselves indulge in eroticism, feasting, and fighting. But if the values are coarser and more masculine, the Babylonians produced a literary triumph in the Gilgamesh Epic.<br />
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<b>Major Babylonian Gods</b><br />
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<b>Anu</b>, the head of the gods, reigned in the uppermost part of heaven and had an army of stars to destroy evildoers.<br />
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<b>Enlil</b>, god of the hurricane and deluge, was also the source of royal power and dealt out good and evil to men.<br />
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<b>Ea</b>, a god of the waters, was a benefactor to nature and men by virtue of his all-encompassing wisdom.<br />
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<b>Sin,</b> the moon god, was an enemy to the wicked, shining his nightly light upon their deeds. His children were Shamash, the sun, and Ishtar, the planet Venus.<br />
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<b>Shamash </b>was the sun god, a dispenser of light and justice to the world, but also the god of prophecy.<br />
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<b>Ishtar,</b> one of the most popular Babylonian deities, was the goddess of sexuality, a potent force among beasts and men. She sanctified temple prostitution. Lustful herself, Ishtar had numerous lovers, most of whom had dreadful fates.<br />
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One of Ishtar's lovers was the harvest god <b>Tammuz</b>. When he died of her love Ishtar wailed bitterly. Thinking to retrieve Tammuz from the kingdom of death, Ishtar entered the seven portals to the underworld. At each portal she left one of her garments or pieces of jewelry until at last she stood naked before Ereshkigal, the queen of the dead. Ereshkigal had Ishtar imprisoned and assaulted her with sixty illnesses. During this incarceration the earth withered and became desolate, and the gods of heaven mourned. Finally Ea, the god of wisdom, took matters in hand and through his magical intervention Ishtar was released. Allowed to leave, she gathered up her garments and jewelry, accompanied by Tammuz, who was allowed to stand guard at the gates of heaven. Upon Ishtar's return the earth changed from winter to spring.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11687102950100738999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902195588332337808.post-65282967247691580622015-03-05T23:51:00.002-08:002015-03-05T23:51:20.462-08:00First introduced 146 years ago. Now we all learn in chemistry class. Dmitri Mendeleev table of elements.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>On March 6, 1869, the chemist Dmitri Mendeleev presented to the Russian Chemical Society first periodic table of elements</b>.<br />
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Russian chemist made public version is asemănătoarei that is used today.<br />
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Mendeleev's painting was a complete representation of the complex relationship between chemical elements, and, on the other hand, using that table, Mendeleev was able to predict both the existence of other elements even suspect to exist in his time, and properties their general. Most of his predictions were confirmed by subsequent discoveries in chemistry.<br />
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Day 6 March meanings:<br />
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1475 - Michelangelo Buonarroti Simoni was born painter, sculptor and Italian architect. (D. 1564).<br />
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1883 - Law for the accession to the International Convention meter, concluded in Paris on 8/20 May 1875.<br />
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1919 - Military Council interlude in Paris ("Note Vyx") submitted Hungary decision on compulsory withdrawal of Hungarian troops in Transylvania.<br />
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1897 - Entered into force law rest on Sundays and holidays. Under the law, was free only on Sunday morning and another 14 holidays per year.<br />
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1945 - Establishment of Government dr. Petru Groza (under Soviet military pressure, King Michael is forced to accept his appointment as Prime Minister Petru Groza, he formed a new government, the key ministries were held by communists).<br />
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1948 - was created International Maritime Organization (IMO) - UN specialized agency.<br />
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1989 - The spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry announces waiver "Brezhnev doctrine" in relations with the countries of Eastern Europe.<br />
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1993 - was signed in Istanbul Convention on cooperation in culture, education, science and information in the Black Sea.<br />
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2000 - Olympic Games Sydney 2000. Of the 53 commemorative coins dedicated to this sport events were presented at Sydney 17, one considered the largest in Olympic history (diameter 10 cm).<br />
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2008 - Government of Iceland formally recognized the independence of Kosovo.<br />
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It is said that history is one of the most inaccurate, easy to interpret and twisted of Sciences. And the evidence in support of such claims are more than numerous. In fact, the victory of one party is inevitably defeat another, how it is being played thread happenings, most often subjective. On the other hand, is never easy to judge a man, even in case of all the necessary data before a portrezitari goals and then, history and time shall determine how that will be seen over the centuries. But history is wrong many times, and our perception of historical figures ranging is one radical opposite to what actually happened ... Below, we present a brief list of some of the historical characters deformed substantially by what today call history ...<br />
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<b>Saint Patrick</b><br />
Legends rooted among the Irish, in particular, argue that Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland who drove all the snakes from Ireland and who christened the barbarians in this corner of the world. The reality is that St. Patrick was 100% English, born in Cambria and enslaved by Irish warriors.<br />
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After several years of servitude, Patrick was released, he returning to England, where he became a priest. Saint returned to Ireland as a missionary, converting to Christianity thousands of Irish and Scottish, among them are even being some local leaders. Worldwide, it is seen today as the patron saint of Ireland and one that brought the Irish to Christianity.<br />
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<b>Pontius Pilate</b><br />
Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect in Judea in the year 26-36 AD, is certainly one of the most reviled biblical characters, many Christians accusing him, throughout history, the enormous guilt of command sentenced to crucifixion of Jesus. It is a tributary conception perhaps religious fanaticism developed over the centuries in a Christian environment.<br />
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<b>The Bible says, unquestionably, as Pontius Pilate in Jesus device, trying to prove his innocence them in front of the crowd that demanded his death.</b> Pilate has argued testimony claiming that he sees nothing in actions challenging the Savior, nor any trace of treason against Romanian Hebrew or authority. Prefect even proposed as an ordinary criminal, Barabbas, be crucified to appease the blood of Jesus his accusers, but even this proposal was not accepted by them.<br />
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The best known and most highly regarded general during the war of secession Yankee, winner against Southern armies and future President of the United States. It is said that Ulysses S. Grant was adored by the masses of voters as any other American president has ever been. Yet throughout his reputation was destroyed by the huge political scandals and high-level corruption that marked his career ephemeral political arena.<br />
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<b>History we recognize today as the worst president in US history, an alcoholic and a notorious anti-Semite said. How much truth is, however, in these American historians information revealed only in the last years of the twentieth century.</b><br />
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No one denies that the mandate of President Ulysses S. Grant's proved a disaster in every respect. Historical evidence indicates, however, that Grant was never an alcoholic, but rather, an insecure man, intelligent, reserved, even shy. <b>There is no evidence to confirm the accusations of anti-Semitism thereof. In fact, Ulysses S. Grant was one of the biggest supporters of the civil rights of American citizens, irrespective of their origin.</b><br />
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<b>La Malinche</b><br />
Dona Carina, or La Malinche, is one of the most mysterious figures of Mexican history. About the woman with this name today know very little, and how evidence was twisted role in history. It is clear that La Malinche was the daughter of one leader Mayan, Spanish conquistadors arrived slaves and then, translator and mistress of the famous<b> Hernan Corte</b><br />
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The fact that he knew many local dialects and languages, that besides the proverbial beauty helped her become a trusted advisor and commander of the bloody Spanish. Maybe that's why many historians rushed to categorize as a traitor and an artisan millions of murders that have overshadowed the history of <b>South America during the Spanish conquest.</b><br />
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There are, however, the view that Dona Marina has not forgotten anymore origins and that through the influence it had on Cortez, diminished, if possible, the wave of destruction carried out by the Spaniards.<b> In Mexico, there are many experts and even ordinary people who see it as a savior, a true local hero owes its existence</b>. The truth, however, was lost. Perhaps the mysterious figure of Dona Marina will remain eternally controversial and complex actions they will never be understood.<br />
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<b>King Cnut the Great</b><br />
<b>About Cnut the Great is said to be one of the characters emblematic of the entire Middle Ages. King of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and of a part of since 1016,</b> of England, Knut and put a decisive mark on his time. Unfortunately, as often happens, history and collective consciousness have kept in memory as a madman, so confident in his powers, that he thought he could stop the waves.<br />
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The reality is that King Knut was, indeed, a very strong leader and influential - he traveled to Rome to attend the coronation of King Conrad II and to advise staff Pontiff. Nobody knows today where it started the myth that Knut trying to demonstrate the omnipotence of his subjects who gave evidence, trying to stop the waves.<br />
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<b>Robin Hood</b><br />
<b>Stories about the legendary outlaw and haunted forests of Yorkshire, robbing the rich and the poor sharing their possessions were very popular since the Victorian era. Yet, no matter how historians have tried to find the truth, there is no mention of a man to be worn even name ... or nickname.</b><br />
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Some historians believe that his real name was <b>"robbing hood"</b>, a term which fundamentally change the problem and refers to gangs of robbers who were hiding in the woods. In fact, mentions the existence of these gangs are numerous, and the probability that they steal from the rich to help their families back home is quite high ... more credible action than to divide the spoil of unknown or they and poor.<br />
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<b>Oliver Cromwell</b><br />
In a survey conducted in 2002 by journalists from the BBC, Oliver Cromwell was voted by British citizens as one of the top 10 historical figures of all time. It is obvious today that Oliver Cromwell is a highly acclaimed figure in this country. Still, the general opinion is far from the real image of the man who was Cromwell ...<br />
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<b>We can say, without reservation, that Oliver Cromwell was a tyrant, from all points of view</b>. After he accused the king dissolved Parliament, Cromwell did, in turn, exactly the same thing. He then accuses lawmakers, as king, that are corrupt ... consequently has created its own Board - The Council of Saints. Moreover, in Ireland, Cromwell is seen as a real butcher, after taking extremely bloody campaign against the local population, especially against Catholics, actions which today are considered as acts of genocide.<br />
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<b>A legend says that on the night of his death, in 1658, England was ravaged by a storm, a sign for some of the people that the devil has come to take the soul of the tyrant Cromwell. An epitaph difficult to digest for those who today is a national hero ....</b><br />
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<b>Colonel George Armstrong Custer</b><br />
Case Colonel Custer, defeated the great Battle of the Little Bighorn (1876), is a little different, so long as, for decades, its image is presented as it was actually true. For a long time, Custer was considered a national hero (many still consider it more so), forced to fight for a cause that was not his, that of the Native American Sioux warrior elite exterminate and chayenne.<br />
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<b>It was said in ancient American history textbooks that Custer had just written a touching letter to Congress, in advocating for helping Native Americans. Facing the refusal of the authorities, the same Colonel Custer throw in a fight without odds and chooses to sacrifice himself.</b><br />
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The truth is, however, quite different. George Armstrong Custer showed an almost morbid hatred towards Native Americans, which is apparent even in his own letters. In one of these, he mentioned his wife as she only fun he has in vast Amerindian lands is to shoot Native Americans.<br />
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<b>Custer did not intend to make any personal sacrifice anymore, much less to advocate for Native Americans. </b>Historical sources indicate that it has entered into battle arrogant despite his spies guides and advice, decided to annihilate once and for all Indian elite warriors. Only because of this infatuation, Custer and absolutely all the soldiers whom he had subordinates were massacred by Sioux warriors, Arapaho and Cheyenne.<br />
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<b>Vlad Tepes -(dracula)</b><br />
It is a reality that many of us probably know that the Vlad Tepes is seen as a national hero by the Romans only. The concept is generally accepted among strangers grounded by Irishman Bram Stoker's fictional character, immortal vampire Count Dracula. In reality, Vlad was prince, not count. And that would be just a mistake that grouts are generally Westerners.<br />
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Although it is associated with Transylvania, the truth is that only Tepes was born there, specifically in Sighisoara. Any history book shows that Vlad led the Wallachian, but what details matter when Dracula is a character with a high intake of both public and that for over a century?<br />
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<b>Returning to false conceptions about Wallachian rulers, it must be said that most Westerners see in it a symbol of evil, a true servant of the devil, ready to kill anyone in order to appease the blood. Another glaring mistake, as long as Vlad Tepes was a hero of Christianity and one of the orthodox faith against Islam.</b><br />
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<b>And in terms of story that appears as a tyrant who enjoy the thousands of victims pulled Tepe, it is again an exaggeration of his contemporaries, an exaggeration which, unfortunately, has throughout history as a true story. The truth is, in the period in which he lived Vlad the Impaler was a punishment highly prevalent in northern Africa and into northern Europe. If we look only atrocities committed by Ivan the Terrible in Russian or Western principles in their home countries, Vlad Tepes would seem a veritable saint.</b><br />
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<b>Richard the Lionheart</b><br />
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Few crowned heads of Europe's medieval history have managed to establish itself in the memory of his contemporaries, and those that followed in a more emphatic than I did Richard Plantagenet, known by the nickname of Richard the Lionheart. Richard is regarded today as one of the most important kings of England and also one of the national heroes of this country. The reality?<br />
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Richard was rather contemporary historians believe, a real catastrophe for England.</b> In fact, the 10-year reign (1189-1199), Richard Plantagenet not spent in England than six months, leaving the administration in the care of his intimates and choosing, instead, to listen to their vocation, that of a warrior. Richard refused even to learn English, they could barely tie a few words, choosing, instead, to speak French, the language of his ancestors Normans and more, to spend most of their time in France.<br />
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Eternal wars they undertook were so much exhausted treasury country that taxes imposed on all his subjects had become overwhelming. In addition, Richard has chosen to release all prisoners who could pay even redeem and sell important functions of the kingdom by anyone afford to pay a considerable sum<b>. It remains memorable phrase uttered by the King of England, in one of his short visit to the country: "I sell and London, if there was not a single buyer."</b><br />
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<b>Perhaps the phrase that best describe the life and works of Richard the Lionheart as Sir Steven Runciman English history: "Richard was a bad son, a husband and a king worse and worse. It was, instead a splendid soldier</b>. "<br />
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Creatures scary, demonic, whose simple name is able to arouse horror myths are found in most of the world. Yet, what happened in eighteenth-century France is not a myth. More than a hundred victims, mostly women and children, are proof that 'Beast of Gevaudan' existed in reality.<br />
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It all started in June 1764, close to Langogne, a small village in the former French region Gevaudan, Lozere department today, when the first of what would be a long series of attacks take place in the forest Mercoire. The victim, a young woman in shock declare an animal unknown, like a wolf, but much larger, while attacking their cattle grazed nearby. She miraculously escaped with his life thanks to a bull who managed to escape the scary creature. The story it was going to shock the villagers and in no time you travel round France. In its statements, the beast that attacked seemed kind of monster with a huge head, ears like horns, a tail and claws huge lion little as three human hands. Animal move in jumps of several meters, as confirmed by traces at the battle, and terrible noises.<br />
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Although at first there were skeptics who do not give credence younger words, the coming months will bring the village Langogne a wave of terror that leaves nothing of any doubt. Beast of Gevaudan, as it was called, exist in reality. The victims, most of them women and children, were beginning to be discovered increasingly often. Their bodies were decapitated and partially devoured. The few people who had escaped with his life after the attacks had lapsed into insanity and not reporting the same events.<br />
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Panic will include surrounding villages and people started to talk about werewolves, dragons or even the devil. It seems that it is not a single animal but with so many more as unexplained killings took place simultaneously in places considerable distance from each other. The weapons seemed to have no effect on the monster, as they had to declare two hunters who had had on him only a few steps. The beast collapsed because a few moments later to get up and lose in padure.Urmele blood after they had made people believe that this was seriously injured and he had to lose their lives in the coming days. To their horror, however, many people had to be killed just days after the incident.<br />
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Locals unite into one of the largest ever conducted hunting expeditions. Led by a certain Captain Duhamel and 57 of its soldiers, the villagers who could carry a gun will go in search of the beast. This will prove untraceable but even if people, in desperation, had come to dress in dresses so you can cheat. The hunt would last for a month, during which hunters from all over France joined intrepid expeditions, but without any success. Hundreds of wolves had been killed, but none of them seemed to be mysterious killer.<br />
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Only a few days after the end of the hunt, the attacks had to restart with unspeakable ferocity. People discovered with horror even three victims in one day. The death of two children would be drop to fill the cup. Himself King Louis XV would personally call him Jean-Charles d'Enneval, the most famous hunter of wolves in Normandy, leading an expedition to capture the monster. Jean Charles, accompanied by his brother Jean Francois, will spend several months hunting Gevaudan no less than 1,200 wolves. None of them, however, was not looking at. Meanwhile, attacks continued to do and more victims.<br />
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King will make another attempt, it demitandu D'Enneval and appointing him instead Francois Antoine, Royal Gunsmiths and head hunters in France. On September 20, 1765, Francois personally have to break a giant sized wolf you will IMPA and will send it to Versailles. The animal was about two feet long, 80 inches tall and about 65 pounds. Considering that killed the beast that terrorized the region for over a year, head hunters will return to Paris, where it will be received as a hero. King would reward him with Antoine Francois huge sum of money at the same time prohibiting longer talk about the monster ucigas.Lunile to come will bring relative quiet. Authorities no notes and no beast attacks the victim is no longer registered. But reality was different. The attacks continued despite royal decree not to mention the Beast of Gevaudan about, more crimes come to the ears of Louis XV.<br />
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Two years later, on 19 June 1767 it had to end as mysteriously as begun. A local hunter Jean Chastel, had to kill the beast in a way that will give rise to much speculation. During a new hunting, eyewitness reports as Chastel, approaching an unusually calm such a situation, he sat under a tree where he began reading the Bible. Almost immediately, the beast appeared only a few feet away but without drawing any sign of threat. Chastel would have finished the prayer and then would have raised the gun a few silver bullets were prepared specifically for this occasion. It took only two shots for everything to end. Beast gone.<br />
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It would be stuffed and walk all Gevaudan region so that people can see. Although no one has made any sketch, it appeared that the beast was a wolf huge size, higher than in 1765. killed by Francois Antoine Louis XV Chasel summon the monster Versailles to present the entire court, but such methods had been stuffed some primitive hunter may not offer king than a rotting corpse. Disgusted, the monarch will require immediate burial beast while on Chasel cast him in the palace without giving any reward.<br />
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Only a week after the first animal hunting, another giant wolf, this time a female, will be killed by Jean Teri, a local hunter. It seems that this pair was the monster. With the death of the two beasts, no other attack was not reported.<br />
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Most experts believe that the monster who terrorized France in the eighteenth century was a giant wolf. However, they can not explain atypical behavior of the creature who seems to prefer to attack people rather than cattle. We know that wolves are animals generally avoid contact with humans and attack not only extremely rarely. Moreover, how to kill the beast has nothing in common with the way he breaks wolves prey.<br />
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Instead, the theory that the monster was actually a hyena escaped from some menagerie seems to fit better on their profile. Indeed, it is known that hyenas can achieve impressive stature, and how that attack people, especially in the facial looks similar to the beast. Instead, they can not perform jumps, the more some few meters, which seems to contradict the statements of eyewitnesses. Also, there was no evidence as to any wild animal would be able to escape from a menagerie of time.<br />
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Another theory is that of a trained animal, most likely a giant-sized dog fight. The idea took shape a beast trained since 1765 when several people have reported that the monster would have been in the company of a man. The way they behaved beast in his presence Chastel ii justified many to believe that he was the one who had everything to.<br />
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It is believed that the Beast of Gevaudan was a lion of the Atlas Mountains, the largest species of lion extinct in the early twentieth century. The theory seems to be but only one that you folklore, is hard to believe that people could not recognize such an animal, even if it does not exist in Europe for thousands of years.<br />
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In contemporary society, gender is not much a taboo, and virginity is not preserved until marriage. At least that happens in the modern world, but there are isolated communities and tribes bizarre sexual rituals today are hundreds of years old.<br />
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Ten of the most bizarre sex rituals around the world discover them below.<br />
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<b>1</b>. To prevent sex before marriage, members of several tribes in East Africa, cos young lips and leaves only a small opening for urine and they can remove blood during menstruation.<br />
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<b>2</b>. In Ghana, a tribe requires widows to cleanse the spirit by spending a night with a stranger.<br />
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<b>3.</b> In South Africa there is a polygamous society considers taboo sexual relations during the day. Its members avoid, however, have sex during storms, or having had a nightmare.<br />
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<b>4.</b> northeastern Siberia there is a community that you can ask daughters to a special type of leather pants to protect their virginity until marriage.<br />
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<b>5</b>. A bizarre religious practice appeared in India, Babylon, Arabia, Africa and Greece since the 5th century BC Some women dedicated themselves gods and goddesses of fertility. These sex with priests or those who came to worship these deities. It happens even in temples.<br />
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<b>6.</b> In some communities it is customary Nepalese brothers marry the same wife, thus being forced to divide the land. The wife must have but a well thought and spend time with each of the brothers to avoid any outbursts of jealousy.<br />
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<b>7. </b>A tribe in Papua New Guinea used to leave their children to start their sexual life from a very early age. The girls started to have sex for 6-8 years, while the boys waited until 10-12 years. Although sex before marriage was not a problem before the tribe, however, was forbidden for young people to share a meal before they become husband and wife.<br />
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<b>8</b>. In a community of Mangaia, a small island in the South Pacific, the boys begin their sexual life of 13 years. They have sex with older women that teaches how to last longer during sex and how to please young.<br />
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<b>9. </b>A tribe in Cambodia built special shelters for girls when they become adolescents. Different guys spend their nights with them until they find the pair. Divorce is illegal.<br />
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<b>10</b>. In a community in Brazil, males compete among themselves to convince women to have sexual relations by giving them gifts and fish<br />
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A British archaeologist says he has found, based on an ancient text, written in the year 670 AD, the house where Jesus spent his early life, reports dailymail.co.uk.<br />
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A modest stone and mortar structure, located in the middle of the slope of a hill, it could be the house where Jesus spent his early life. According to a British archaeologist, the house dates from the first century CE and was discovered on a text which speaks ancient building in Nazareth where the Virgin Mary and Joseph raised him Jesus.<br />
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Professor Ken Dark says that text - "The Locis Sanctis" - written in 670 en Adomnan Irish monk, says that Jesus grew up in a house located between two graves and near a church.<br />
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This text, which is based on reports made during a pilgrimage to Nazareth Arculf Franciscan bishop, speaks of a church "in which once was the home where Jesus was raised in his first years of life."<br />
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In the Byzantine period and again in the twelfth century, the Crusades, the ruins of the house were incorporated into the structure of a church - suggesting that the housing is of great importance and should be protected, says one British archaeologist, Professor Reading University.<br />
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The house was located in the middle of a limestone hill slope, have more room and a wooden staircase. One of the original entrance doors survived until today, as a portion of the limestone pavement in the main room.<br />
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In his article published in Biblical Archaeological Review, Professor Ken Dark says that although has no concrete proof, "there is no reason" that makes him believe that the structure was not Jesus' house.<br />
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British researcher studied the ruins, located in the north of Israel, in 2006.<br />
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The house was discovered by chance by a group of nuns from an ancient monastery in the 1880s importance of the discovery was immediately recognized, and the authorities were ordered to carry out excavations. Jesuit priest Henri Senes conducted a new series of excavations in 1936.<br />
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Since 2006, coordinated by Professor Ken Dark archaeologists discovered fragments into the area of cookware, a time and limestone artifacts.<br />
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Objects made of limestone suggests that in that house lived a Hebrew family, as Jews believed that limestone can not be impure.<br />
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British teacher, specialist in Christian archeology century CE, says the building, which he believed to be the house where Jesus grew corresponds notes made by monk Adomnan.<br />
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The house is located below the monastery Sisters of Nazareth, which is across from the Church of the Annunciation.<br />
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Text written by the monk Adomnan describes two Church of Nazareth, and one of them is even Annunciation Church.<br />
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Monastery of the Sisters of Nazareth fits that description, because archaeologists have found evidence confirming the presence into the area of a Byzantine church, which had a fountain and two tombs in the crypt of his principal.<br />
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In 2009, archaeologists from the Antiquities Authority found another house in the first century CE nearby, which is believed to have lived a family of Hebrew. However, they argued that only Jesus could reside in that site, they may not certify this hypothesis.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11687102950100738999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902195588332337808.post-46581259278596912262015-03-02T09:21:00.000-08:002015-03-02T09:21:18.572-08:00The most mysterious book in the world is one step closer to be deciphered<br />
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The book dates from the years around 1404-1438, but it was unknown for 500 years, was discovered in 1912, when an antiquarian Wilfrid Voynich appointed bought it, along with other ancient publications in Italy<br />
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A mysterious book containing images printed on it and some have considered meaningless is now much closer to being deciphered after more than a century of mystery. A scientist announces that language for patterns found in the Book Voynich, which is a cross step in deciphering the mysterious language.<br />
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The message of "most mysterious medieval manuscript" gave fork cryptographers, mathematicians and linguists for over a century. Therefore, many experts thought that the manuscript is a hoax. But now a new study published in the journal PLoS One suggests that the mysterious manuscript has a real message.<br />
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Scientists announced that they had discovered linguistic patterns that suggest the presence of meaningful words in the text.<br />
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Over time, many experts have debated whether the ciphertext has any meaning or not. During the Second World War, the manuscript was analyzed even the best code breakers, who succeeded descriptive messages enemy forces, but who failed to decipher the meaning of the words of the Voynich manuscript.<br />
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The inks used and numerous other indications suggest that the manuscript dates, indeed, the Renaissance. The book is written in the same style as many other contemporary books on herbs that treat many diseases.<br />
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The manuscript is more complex than the forgeries of the time, who did not even remotely the same degree of effort. On the basis of illustrations, the manuscript seems to be a scientific book with herbal remedies, astronomical drawings and detailed illustrations. The book contains 240 pages, with some pages missing, and experts believe that originally had about 272 pages.<br />
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The book is very strange: in addition to being written in an unknown and illegible writing, illustrations are also a mystery. Many plants seem to be invented or hybrids of existing plants. For example, the roots of the plants do not match the drawn over them.<br />
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Marcelo Montemurro, a theoretical physicist at the University of Manchester in the UK, has spent many years analyzing language patterns of the manuscript, hoping to decipher the mystery. Now, experts say new research closer to reality this possibility.<br />
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Text is unique, no similar works and all attempts to decode any text message failed. It is not easy to say that the text is meaningless, because it presents a linguistic structure, "says Montemurro.<br />
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Dr. Montemurro and his colleagues used a computerized statistical method to analyze the text, this method is effective in studying other languages. Researchers analyzed how the words were arranged to extract content words.<br />
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"There is ample evidence showing that those words that tend to occur in text content grouped where they are needed," explains specialist.<br />
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"Over the long texts, words tend to leave a statistical signature. When the subject is changed, it is required ie. Semantic networks we have obtained is clear that those words related tend to share structural similarities. This happens in real lmbile "says the expert.<br />
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Dr. Montemurro thinks it is unlikely that these traits have been "embedded" in the text to make a fake to seem more realistic, because academic knowledge of these structures did not exist at the time the Voynich manuscript has been created.<br />
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Although a pattern, the meaning of words continues to be a mystery. Because the minds of the planet have failed to decipher the text along a century, some experts believe that the only plausible explanation is that the manuscript is a hoax.<br />
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<b>Gordon Rugg, a mathematician at the University of Keele, are among the experts. He says the new study does not eliminate the possibility of forgery. "This study is not necessarily something new. For several decades it is accepted that the statistical properties of the Voynich manuscript language are similar, but not identical, to those of real languages. I do not think chances are high that Voynich manuscript to hide a language unknown, because there are too many other features text that is unlike any other language, "says Rugg.</b><br />
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However, Dr. Montemurro is convinced that a false hypothesis can not explain the semantic patterns that we identified in the research. The specialist is aware that his analysis leaves unanswered many questions, such as whether text is a coded version of the existing languages or is a language invented.<br />
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"In this study, any sentence which supports the hypothesis of a false must provide an explanation for this sophisticated structure. So far, this has not been brainstorm "says Montemurro.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11687102950100738999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902195588332337808.post-58803197586657326802015-03-02T09:11:00.000-08:002015-03-02T09:11:08.333-08:00Lake skeletons, a grim mystery of the Himalayas<br />
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Nobody knew of its existence until 1942, when an employee of the National Park of the Indian Himalayas discovered a huge number of human skeletons, 600, located around a glacial lake. The mystery is even greater as the first carbon dating showed that the remains dating from XII-XV, although there is an explanation about the origin of those people nor their death.<br />
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<b>A European-Indian mixed team, under the aegis of National Geographic tried in past years to unravel the mystery that caused numerous discussions among scientists. And yet, secrets skeletons have only to widen. A new carbon dating showed that the actual age of the bones is at least 1,200 years, with over 3 centuries to the official estimate. Moreover, DNA tests have identified two categories of human physical totally different from each other little people and imposing stature of individuals (perhaps members of the royal family).</b><br />
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The first question that arises is related to the reasons why these people have got a hardly accessible area, situated at 5000 meters altitude (even today it takes at least 4 days of travel in extremely difficult conditions compared the nearest human settlement) away from any religious route ... a question that nobody could provide an answer as to how plausible. Another question is related to the causes of death of so many hundreds of individuals. Most skeletons shows traces of skull fractures that appear to be made of massive blunt objects. A possible explanation would be that which supports the idea of a cataclysm, possibly a scale avalanches that have surprised the whole human convoy. One hypothesis which explains partly why in the frigid waters of the lake were identified other bones, this time full.<br />
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<b>It is certain that unraveling this mystery will take years, maybe decades. By then, however, will remain untouched remains secular around the lake Himalayan, Indian authorities taking the decision to not disturb the secret tomb.</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>o say that the Vatican has historically tried to hide malicious authenticity of the Shroud of Turin may seem, at first glance, a paradox inexpensive and lacking substance. Why would the clergy to deny a truth that, pragmatic thinking, would not only bring benefits? Yet, there are some who argue that a confirmation of the authenticity of the sacred relics could radically change our understanding of Western civilization. In the face of such evidence would inevitably have rewritten history.<br />
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<b>To say that the Vatican has historically tried to hide malicious authenticity of the Shroud of Turin may seem, at first glance, a paradox inexpensive and lacking substance. Why would the clergy to deny a truth that, pragmatic thinking, would not only bring benefits? Yet, there are some who argue that a confirmation of the authenticity of the sacred relics could radically change our understanding of Western civilization. In the face of such evidence would inevitably have rewritten history.</b><br />
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About the authenticity of the Shroud were written thousands of articles, books and treatises. Dozens of experts have tried to prove the truth or that it would only be a medieval forgery. By its nature, the relic born today paradoxes: to be proven as false and destroy such a myth for millions of faithful Christians, or to recognition in the fundamentals of hitting authenticity same Christian religions. The mere chance or good plan in place, the Shroud of Turin remains as controversial as seven centuries ago, and nature, human or divine, and today continues to be a fierce discussion topic.<br />
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<b>Officially, the shroud in which it is assumed that Jesus was wrapped after the crucifixion appears immediately on the scene in 1357</b>, year in which Jeanne de Vergy, the widow Knight Geoffroi de Charny (killed at the Battle of Poitiers in September 13, 1356), finds among goods deceased husband and expose him in the abbey of Lirey, France. <b>Soon, Bishop of Troyes, Henri de Poitiers, prohibit public exposure to under why it would be just a painting and the veneration by the faithful they would be heresy.</b> In 1389, another bishop, Pierre D'Arcis announced that the Shroud was a fake and that the author or was caught and admitted the offense. He does not mention the name but never farsorului and the argument that we bring for his hypothesis is not only that the existence artifact is mentioned nowhere in the Scriptures. A accusations without solid coverage, obsolete over time. Noble Humbert of Villersexel is the first to take the artifact and hides it in his own castle for fear of thieves. Louisa of Savoy (who paid a hefty sum of money annually abbey of Lirey to give up claims of ownership of the relic), is the next owner of the Shroud and expose it to the public in many European cities. <b>Since 1532 relic take possession of the House of Savoy and remains so until 1983, the year is donated to the Vatican.</b><br />
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Shroud and promote its image in the world. But a shock provokes negative photographer. The picture shows how it clear "image of a man in distress" man with all the wounds that Jesus would have had when it was lowered from the Cross.<br />
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<b>Holy See accept radiocarbon dating of the Shroud, an event that takes place in 1988, and that brings a disturbing result</b> ... According to tests, the artifact was a medieval fake, created somewhere between 1260 and 1390. Later, scientists who conducted research has admitted that it is likely that the Shroud of Turin to be genuine, as long as the analyzes were strongly influenced by traces of fire 1532 fire that caused burns on much of the surface of the object and which would be distorted dating results carbon. For better protection of the material, it was locked in a silver box, exposed today in Turin Cathedral. As for the authenticity of the Shroud, opinions are still divided.<br />
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Perhaps the simplest and to urge the originality observation is that the Shroud was created, if we are to believe radiocarbon tests in full Middle Ages, a golden age for counterfeiters relics. Dozens of "head of John the Baptist", a lot of chips and Graaluri Cross which was crucified Saviour, goose feather feathers sold as a cherub or any "artifact" that had contact with anyone who was associated with Jesus circulated fake markets of the time. <b>And yet, there is only one shroud. Why not replicated author or a work masterfully perfected that certainly would have made a lot of money? Why not created and shrouds with images of saints or apostles?</b><br />
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Going on seniority artifact idea is interesting opinion reputed journalist Ian Wilson, one of the most vocal supporters of the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin. He says the linen printed with the image of the Saviour was adored in the first centuries of the first millennium in Edessa (Urfa in Turkey present location), important early Christian center in what was then Syria. Subsequently, the Shroud is transported to Constantinople, in Hagea Sofia, where captures a note left by Archdeacon Gregory Refendarius in 944 - "Non Figure sed tantum facial Totius corporis Figure screening poteris" (You can see not only the face, but also the entire body image ), a testament that makes a direct reference to the sacred relic.<br />
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<b>The year 1205 brings a new proof of the existence of the Shroud before the date that is officially recognized. This is a note of Theodor Angelos, nephew of Byzantium, which describes the Codex Chartularium Culisanense a short inventory of assets taken by the Knights Templar in Constantinople: "Venetians turned their attention to gold, silver and ivory, while French did the same with sacred relics and most valuable of all, canvas in which our Lord Jesus Christ was wrapped after the crucifixion and resurrection before. Items were taken to Venice and France, while the Shroud was taken in Athens. "</b><br />
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Some historians claim that the Shroud took possession knight Otto de la Roche, later Duke of Athens. Another source indicates it Tibault of Champagne, who plundered Constantinople Templar leader, as the author of theft. Coincidentally or not, the abbey of Lirey, the place where the Shroud is mentioned first time from a reliable source, it is right on the field. Interesting to note is the fact that Geoffroi de Charny, knight whose wife expose artifact in the abbey of Lirey, is none other than the grandson of Geoffrey of Charney, Templar leader burned Jaques de Molay with in 1314. <b>Was it Shroud even that Grail which so much has been written throughout history and what is believed to have been discovered by the Knights Templar?</b><br />
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No further assumptions above are from Hungary and a manuscript dated in the period 1192-1195, the Saviour is represented image while it is wrapped in the shroud mortuary. The similarities between the images on the Shroud of Turin manuscript and are striking, emphasizing that it was known long before him to be officially recognized.<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0o4vSOIAuy8/VPSSC-adw2I/AAAAAAAAAto/Au_XlX5H7gI/s1600/Alan%2BAdler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0o4vSOIAuy8/VPSSC-adw2I/AAAAAAAAAto/Au_XlX5H7gI/s1600/Alan%2BAdler.jpg" height="206" width="320" /></a>Aside from data provided by historians, we focus on results provided by chemists, data supporting the authenticity of linen again.<b> The chemist Alan Adler, cited by Time magazine says that blood which is impregnated with the Shroud is real and, moreover, as revealed in the tests, blood clot particularities.</b> If possible forger wanted to give authenticity to his creation a blood spewing, you would expect it to clot? At that time, be it ancient or Middle Ages, the possibility that any person to have knowledge of the chemical composition of blood and the fact that it borders on the absurd change in clotting time. A noteworthy detail is the crucifixion wounds resulting from. Contrary to widespread religious image at the time, do not have crucified character prints of the nails in his hands and feet but in the joints. Only recently it was shown that an execution by crucifixion take place in this way. Where, then, would have known prankster same technique extinct for centuries?<br />
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Those who support the idea of a conspiracy by the Vatican to the Shroud of Turin, including journalists Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen, are convinced that recognition of its authenticity would amount to a veritable storm in the Christian world. Why?<br />
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The fabric and how was buried man whose face remained impregnated shroud are identical to those of a small sect Israel i.Hr proliferated between centuries II and I d. AD ... Essenes. It mentioned that the same Essenes are Gnostic manuscripts and authors of the Dead Sea manuscripts remained largely unpublished in the twentieth century after their discovery. It recognizes that the whole Christianity derives its origins in pre-Christian sect that would mean, first, a denial of one of the principles promoted by Catholicism, is that there was no Christianity before Christ. A true heresy. In addition, if Jesus would have been part of the Gnostics, it would mean that the Vatican has persecuted and killed dozens of followers of an authentic Christian religions. <b>Remember only the culmination of the campaign anti-Gnostic Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars (1209 - 1229), the campaign resulted in the nearly 20,000 victims and legislating Inquisition.</b><br />
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He knew Henri de Poitiers and Pierre d'Arcis, first bishops who have called for a ban Shroud exposure, these details? He had tried them and those who followed them to impose a "monopoly" on the history and image of Jesus? <b>These are questions to which we probably never find the answer. The fact is that despite dozens of tests and historical evidence, the true origin of the Shroud of c will remain unknown for long.</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">UPDATE:</span> In a press conference held on Tuesday, April 7, 2009, in Rome, Barbara Frale, researcher of the Vatican Secret Archives, said the Knights Templar owned and secretly venerated the Shroud of Turin for over 100 years . The announcement not only shed light on the Shroud disappears century of public attention in medieval Europe, but it comes and attest to its age and contradicts radiocarbon tests showed you a fake as the XIV century. However, Barbara Frale not said if the relic is only one authentic or fake, leaving further held suspicions.</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212324; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.003999710083px; line-height: 20.0117149353027px;">Leonidas (n. 540 i.Ch. – d. 480 i.Ch.), -in limba greaca “fiul leului” ,cel de-al 17-lea rege al Spartei din dinastia Agiad, a fost unul dintre cei trei fii ai regelui spartan Anaxandidas II, considerat de mitologia greaca descendent al lui Hercule, gratie fortei si curajului comparabile cu cele ale eroului olimpian. S-a stabilit ca regele Leonidas al Spartei a cazut in Batalia de la Termopilae, in august 480 i.Ch, dupa ce a opus circa 7000 de greci celor 80.000 – 290.000 de persani invadatori.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">O</span>ur world is certainly preoccupied with the issue of origins. We hear about it, read about it all the time. Almost every edition of the newspaper, every edition of the major magazines of our nation discusses origins, how things came to be the way they are, either in terms of the physical universe, or in terms of the spiritual universe, terms of human sociology or human anatomy. To know the truth about origins, we have to go back to the Bible. God has given us the story of origins in the book of Genesis. In Genesis 1 and 2 is the origin of the physical universe, as we know it. <b> In Genesis 3 is the origin of evil.</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he true diagnosis of the human condition stems from that event. God, the creator of the universe, is all good and only good. And His original creation was all good and only good. The goodness of His creation was a reflection of the goodness of His nature. Now, let me get a little philosophical with you here. God is not the author of evil. If God created evil, then God would be both good and evil. And if God were both good and evil, there would be no hope for the ultimate triumph of good which the Bible promises. <b> If God were Himself evil, He could not therefore triumph over evil, so good could not triumph</b>. If God were the source of evil, He would have to be evil Himself. And if He were evil Himself, then there could be no basis for salvation, for God could not save us from evil if evil was in His nature.<br />
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So, the biblical revelation of the original goodness of creation protects the goodness of God. And it makes the source of evil outside of God. Only if the source of evil is outside of God can God conquer evil and can God save sinners from evil. And just as a footnote to that, if God used any kind of evolution to create, evolution is dependent on decay and death, all effects or reflections of evil. So, if God used any kind of evolution to create, then God authored evil. He created decay and He created death. And if God used any form of evolution, then His creation was not all good, it was not perfect when He created it, and it is what it is now because of decay and death, which He must have used in His creation which are evidences of evil, then God must Himself be evil. Our God is not evil. God is all good and only good.<br />
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The question then is: where did evil come from? And the answer to that is that we only know what we know from the Bible. It is really useless to speculate about that. Nobody would argue that there is evil in the world. Everybody admits that. Not everybody admits that we are totally depraved and that we have original sin in us. Not everybody admits that we are evil and wretched to the core. But everyone admits there is evil in the world to some degree.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A</span>nd, in fact, the problem of evil in the world has really occupied the best minds of history. Certainly, we would agree in our own country, in the history of our own country, there has never been a greater brain, a greater mental capacity than that enjoyed by Albert Einstein. Not just the greatest scientist of this century, but maybe the greatest intellect we’ve known in modern times. And for Albert Einstein, just for an illustration, the great scientist that he was, the great mind that he was, the toughest intellectual barrier to the Christian faith was not the question of God creating the world. Simple reason, the reason of cause and effect, was not hard for Einstein to grasp. He saw that the universe was an effect and it had to have a source. He saw that the universe was designed and it had to have a designer. He saw that it was ordered and it had to come out of an orderly mind. And so, Einstein concluded that there must be a mind behind the universe. He rejected the idea of matter simply bumping around endlessly in space until by random it formed itself into the universe that now exists. As he put it, quote: “The universe reveals an intelligence of such superiority that it overshadows all human intelligence.”<br />
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No, Einstein was not stumped by God as a creator. What really stymied Einstein was something far tougher than the doctrine of creation. It was the problem of evil and suffering. He knew there had to be a designer; he agonized over the character of that designer. How could God be good and yet allow terrible things to happen to people? Einstein couldn’t resolve the problem of evil and suffering with a good God and so he turned completely away from the God of the Bible, the God he had been raised in Judaism to believe in.<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UCELty7cgYs/VPVgbf03raI/AAAAAAAAAvU/E6HDohCxzHI/s1600/-Tagore-Einstein-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UCELty7cgYs/VPVgbf03raI/AAAAAAAAAvU/E6HDohCxzHI/s1600/-Tagore-Einstein-11.jpg" height="292" width="320" /></a><b>What really tripped up Einstein was that he was a determinist.</b> That is, he viewed human beings as complicated machines. He saw them doing simply what they were programmed to do by natural, irresistible forces. In fact, Einstein concluded that human beings were like wind-up toys, you wind them up and they do what they’re manufactured to do. If that is so, he concluded, there can be no such thing as morality. There can be no such thing as right or wrong. There can be no such thing as sin. There can be no such thing as guilt. If a person’s actions are determined, if he’s just a wind-up toy, wound up by a cosmic mind to do what it was designed for him to do, then he cannot be responsible for what he does before God. He, said Einstein, is no more responsible for what he does than a stone is responsible for where it goes when someone throws it.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">W</span>ho is responsible?</b> Well, God has to be responsible, Einstein concluded. But if God is responsible, then He cannot be a good God or He’s responsible for evil. <b> And if God is responsible, the God of Judaism, or the God of Christianity, then He makes us do bad things as well as good. If, Einstein said, God was like this, He would be constantly passing judgment on Himself as evil. Well, he couldn’t accept that</b>. Could not accept that God could be both good and evil. And so, he determined that there was no personal God at all. And he rejected the God of Judaism, and he rejected the God of Christianity, rejected the God of the Bible, and he concluded that God exists as an impersonal cosmic mind. Simply a rational force that gave the world its rational structure. Those of you who studied philosophy would conclude that he believed in Spinoza’s god. And Einstein’s premise that human beings were just robots was based upon the fact that an impersonal, rational mind created those robots. But he could not be a personal God with any personal nature.<br />
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Einstein was wrong. And as I told you a few weeks ago when I was talking about Einstein in another context, he never got it. He didn’t even come to the place where he fully understood God as the force in creation, that’s why he was never satisfied and died never having really identified the true power in the universe. But Einstein was wrong about God; God is a personal God. And God is not responsible for evil. And the problem with Einstein is he would not believe his own Scriptures, the Scriptures of Judaism.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">N</span>ow, when it comes to the origin of evil, you have several options. And these are the common options. You can take Einstein’s option, first of all, that there is a cosmic power: unknowable, impersonal, some kind of rational power out there with no personality, no relationship, no ability to connect to us, but some cosmic eternal power, rational power that launched everything in our universe. You can take that view. He is not personal; he cannot know or be known. Or you can take a second view. You can take the view that God does not even exist. That is the view of the intellectual atheist who says, no, there is no force, there is no power, there is no rational mind, there’s absolutely nothing there. And reality made itself. And since there is no God, there is no evil and there is no good in reality. Those are only subjected determinations that human beings invent, but there is no true good or evil.<br />
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Or you could take another view. You can take the view that suffering, and evil, and death don’t really exist. God is good, and therefore everything is good, you just think it’s not good. That is to say that evil is an illusion, suffering is an illusion, and death is an illusion. You say, “Who in the world believes that?” Christian Science believes that. Christian Science, folks, is not Christian or scientific. It’s like Grape Nuts, ever eat that? It’s not grapes or nuts. Christian Science is neither Christian nor scientific. It is misnamed. By the way, Hindus also say the entire universe is an illusion. So, you can take some kind of esoteric mystical approach to the reality of evil and agree with those people.<br />
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Fourthly, you could say God is beyond good and evil. God is transcendent and He cannot be defined by any human concept. That gets very close to Einstein’s perspective, that God doesn’t even dabble in this stuff down here. He’s way beyond that. Maybe the God of the Deists, he is the God who winds it all up but is unmoved, untouched by any of it.<br />
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So, you either believe that God isn’t God, there’s just a cosmic power out there; you believe that God doesn’t exist at all and it’s all just nobody times nothing equals everything; or you believe that suffering sin and death don’t really exist, they’re just an illusion; or you believe that God so transcends all of that stuff that he’s unaffected by it and therefore you protect him responsibility for evil; or you believe that God is in process and that’s the new and popular view, that God really has good desires, but he really is not sovereign enough to get where he wants to get as soon as he would like to get there.<br />
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One other view you can throw in the mix is that just plain old: God made evil. And there are people who teach that. I was reading some of it this week that God made evil, he created evil for good purposes. He wanted to affect some good purposes and he needed to do evil to do it, so he created evil for good purposes.<br />
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None of those is true. None of them. In spite of what Einstein thought, God is personal, and God is relational, and God is good. God does exist. So does sin, and so does suffering, and so does death, and only a fool sees that as an illusion. God is not beyond good and evil. He is not so transcendent that He is not fully cognizant of good and evil and deals with both. God does not have limited power so that He can’t do what He wants and He’s like the rest of us struggling to get somewhere, but He’s not there yet. And finally, God did not create evil.<br />
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Let me put it to you simply. God is not responsible for evil; His creatures are. God is not responsible for evil; His creatures are. Everything, listen to this carefully, that God created was very what? Good. Everything. This is affirmed throughout the Scripture. In Habakkuk chapter 1, “God is of purer eyes than to approve evil or behold evil. He cannot look on wickedness.” Habakkuk chapter 1 verse 13. First Corinthians 14:33 says, “God is not the author of confusion.” Confusion is a product of sin. First John 1:5 says, “God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.” James 1:13 says, “God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts He any man.” First John 2:16 says, “All that is in the world,” all evil categorically, “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life is not of the Father.” Psalm 5:4, “You are not of God who has pleasure in wickedness, neither will evil dwell with you,” Psalm 5:4. In fact, on a positive note, Isaiah 6, the antiphonal cry of the angels was that God was holy, holy, holy.<br />
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You see a glimpse of that, of course, when Jesus came into the world, God in human flesh. He was holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners. God is not evil. God does not do evil. He cannot be tempted to do evil. He never tempts anybody else to do evil. God is not responsible for evil. The source of evil, the source of sin is outside God. When God created angels and God created humans, He gave them intelligence, He gave them reason, and He gave them choice. And there is a sequence. I put those words in that order for a purpose.<br />
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Intelligence gave them the ability to understand things. Reason gave them the ability to process that understanding toward behavior. And choice gave them the freedom to determine that behavior. Intelligence, reason, and choice. Bottom line: with what they knew, and with the ability they had to process that information, they would be brought to a choice. And whether angels or men, they would have the choice either to obey God or not to obey God.<br />
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Listen to this, to disobey God was to initiate evil. Evil is not the presence of something, evil is the absence of righteousness. You can’t create evil because evil doesn’t exist as a created entity. It doesn’t exist as a created reality. Evil is a negative. Evil is the absence of perfection. It’s the absence of holiness. It’s the absence of goodness. It’s the absence of righteousness. Evil became a reality only when creatures chose to do disobey. Evil came into existence initially then in the fall of angels and then next, in the fall of Adam and Eve.<br />
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Just put it this way in your mind. Evil is not a created thing. Evil is not a substance. Evil is not an entity. Evil is not a being. Evil is not a force. Evil is not some floating spirit. Evil is a lack of moral perfection. God created absolute perfection. Wherever a lack of that exists, sin exists. And that cannot exist in the nature of God or in anything that God makes. Evil comes into existence when God’s creatures fall short of the standard of moral perfection.<br />
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Now, let me take it a step further. God did not create evil, He did not author evil, He did not make evil. But listen carefully, very important, God did decree to use evil as a part of His eternal plan, okay? He will not be culpable for it. He did not bring it into existence. That would be impossible because God is good, all good, and only good. Therefore, whatever comes out of Him is all good and only good. God can therefore produce only good. And what is evil but the absence of that good, which is a choice made by the reasonings, based upon the information revealed through His creatures. But, God was not caught off guard. In fact, God decreed that evil would be part of His plan. He is not the creator of evil and He is not the cause of evil. He did not bring evil into existence in a cosmic sense, and He did not and does not bring evil into existence in a personal sense. He is not the cause of sin, nor is He the cause of sins in the lives of people. But He does use it for His purposes.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A</span>nd that’s why in <b>Isaiah 45:7</b>, write this down, you may run across it, it says, “God creates calamity.” Some older translations say He creates evil. That is a really poor translation and not true. God does create calamity. If you read the context of Isaiah 45:7 it is clear that judgment is the issue. God does not create evil, but God does bring judgment on evil, creating therefore the calamity by which evil is judged.<br />
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Now, listen carefully. Scripture written by God always assigns the guilt and responsibility for all sin to creatures, never to God, never to God. Folks, that’s all we know. Okay? I’ve taken you as deep as I can go. There’s nowhere else to go. That’s all we know. Beyond that, we operate in faith.<br />
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We do know some things. We know God is holy, right? We know He’s too pure to look on iniquity, can’t tolerate evil. We know He tempts no man, neither is tempted by any man. We know He’s holy, holy, holy. All the things we went through. No evil dwells in Him. He is all light and no darkness. We know that, we believe that. God is not the author of confusion. He is not the source of sin. We know that, we believe that. Sin comes into existence when the standard of moral perfection is not met and that is an act based upon intellect, reason and choice made by His creatures.<br />
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Now, the question then comes up: why would God allow sin? Come on now. I can only speculate. There’s no specific statement, but I think you can make a fairly reasonable speculation beyond which I cannot go and don’t find any value in tempting to go. And it is this, what did sin coming into the world bring about? Well, it brought about, I would say, three things. And these are the three reasons why I believe God allowed evil.<br />
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Number one, it brought about the salvation of sinners, right? God had to allow sin; God had to decree sin in the plan though never the author of it, in order that He might save sinners. Well, why did God want to save sinners? To put on display attributes that otherwise never would have been manifest, right? How is God going to show grace if there aren’t any sinners? How is God going to show mercy if there aren’t any sinners? That was a part of God’s nature that God wanted to display for His own glory throughout all eternity. So, God provided a means by which He could demonstrate grace, demonstrate mercy. He also wanted to show love, love that is so far reaching that it can reach even His own enemies who hate Him. How is He going to show that if He doesn’t have any enemies?<br />
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So, God allows evil in order that He might demonstrate grace and mercy and forgiveness and salvation. Secondly, He allows evil in order that He might display His wrath, in order that He might put His wrath on display, His anger on display, His judgment on display. How would God ever reveal that part of His true and eternal nature if there were not an opportunity to judge sinners? And so, all you can do is look at redemptive history and you see the salvation of sinners and the damnation of sinners and that is what goes on and you see ultimately a place prepared for those who are damned and a place prepared for those who are saved and you must conclude then that the eternal purpose of God was to save some and judge some in order that He might demonstrate both His grace and His wrath.<br />
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And then, I like to throw a third thought in there. I believe that God allowed sin in order that He might forever destroy it. As long as His creatures have any measure of freedom, as long as His creatures have intelligence, that is they can know and reason, that is they can process that knowledge toward behavior, and choice, that is they can choose what to do, as long as they have that capacity there is a potential for them to fall short of the standard. Right? To make the wrong choice. Well, it didn’t take long for them to do it. We don’t know how long it was before Lucifer made the wrong choice before God. We don’t know how long it was even in the Garden before Adam and Eve made the wrong choice, but it was certainly before they had any children. They had their children probably around the age of 100 or a little more.<br />
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So, there is choice and the potential of a wrong choice is there. A measure of freedom is given to the creatures by which they can choose to honor God, by which they can choose to dishonor. As long as that is there, then the reality, the potential reality of evil exists when the wrong choice is made. And I believe that once the wrong choice is made, then God goes into action and one, He can demonstrate His grace and salvation; two, He can demonstrate His wrath in judgment; and three, He can then finally destroy evil.<br />
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It’s almost as if God wanted evil to come to the surface so that He could excise it. That’s what’s going to happen when the whole of redemptive history is complete, when all the saved are saved and all the lost are cast into the lake of fire, then death and hell are thrown into the lake of fire. What does that mean? No more death and no more hell and no more judgment. Why? Because there won’t be any more sin. And when you go to heaven, there’s nothing there that smacks of a sinful world, right? There’s no more sorrow, no more sadness, no more sin, no more dying, no more death. So, I think God decreed evil within His plan without creating it for those three reasons: to save sinners, to judge sinners and to once and for all and forever destroy evil. It was always potentiated. As long as it was possible, it would need to come to the surface so God could excise it.<br />
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Now, listen, based upon that explanation, and I know that sounds simple to you, but it’s taken me a long time to clarify in my own mind through the years. I mean, in recent years I’ve certainly understood it. But as a young man, you grapple with a lot of that. Summing it up: there is no external cause of sin. Okay? Outside the creature. There’s no force floating out there that God created. It is the absence of perfection. There is no deterministic cause and effect. That is to say some fatalism. It’s just choice. Within God’s decree, He allowed for that choice, knew those choices would be made the way they were made, planned that in to the decree in order to display both His grace and His wrath, and to put a final and eternal end to sin. But always, now mark this, the one who chose evil was the source of it.<br />
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In the case of Lucifer, he was the source of evil initially in the angelic realm and as we will see, he got a third of the other angels to get along with him and join. Now, since angels don’t procreate, Lucifer didn’t sin and pass on sin because angels don’t marry are not given in marriage, as Jesus said. They don’t procreate. They were all created at one time. But when Satan made a bad choice, he managed to seduce a third of the rest of the angels. There are ten-thousand times ten-thousand thousands of thousands, so you can multiply all of that and you’re probably not there yet. So, there are twice as many holy angels as demons since one third fell, two thirds didn’t. But they fell, by choice. We’ll see that choice when we get into the prophets.<br />
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The same happened with Adam and Eve, only it had a different effect. With angels they all sinned their own sin and nobody sin passed to anybody else ‘cause they don’t procreate. In the case of Adam and Eve, when Adam and Eve made the wrong choice, all humanity went with them because we all come out of the loins of Adam and Eve. So, the source of evil is outside of God. The source of evil is the creature.<br />
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Now, let’s go back to Genesis chapter 3. At least we can cover the first three words, maybe in part. This is big subjects. Serpent, big subject. “Now, the serpent,” we’ll stop at that point. It reminds me when I was teaching Romans and I went to start the Book of Romans in my first message I said, “Let’s read our text.” The first word in Romans, “Paul.” And I said, “Okay, let’s stop there.” And we spent I don’t know how long talking about Paul. Well, this is kind of like that. You can’t just read “serpent” and go on. What is this serpent? What is this?<br />
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You’re in the Garden, everything is good. All kinds of creatures are there that had been made by God. There are animals of various kinds. There are birds and cattle. And there are creeping kind of animals, that is, animals that walk low to the ground. It doesn’t mean they slither. It just means they were are low to the ground. It could mean animals with short legs, as I pointed out. It could be insects, and so forth. There are those that are taller, and there are those that are up in the sky, namely birds. And there are those that are in the water. And God made all these creatures.<br />
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Well, here we meet a serpent, nachash in Hebrew. And it’s a name for reptile. We don’t know what this reptile was like. I think most people assume that this animal was a slithering snake. You see little pictures of a snake wound around a tree or hanging off a branch, whatever, slithering up and kind of propped up like a cobra. But we don’t really know that that’s the case. You would notice later in chapter 3 verse 14 that part of the curse on this serpent was that he was going to go on his belly and eat dust. So, if that was the curse, we can assume that at this particular time when the serpent first appeared in the Garden, he’s not slithering around on his belly eating dirt yet. That was part of the curse. So, in some measure this appears as an upright animal. The word nachash in Hebrew relates to the verb “to hiss,” which is associated with sounds that reptiles make.<br />
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<b>There’s another Old Testament word used to speak of reptiles, tannin and they are used interchangeably. There’s a section of Exodus chapter 7 verses 9 to 15 where Moses is interacting with the magicians in Pharaoh’s court, remember that? And they throw down their sticks and they become tannin. But Moses’ stick becomes a serpent called nachash. So, from that text we can conclude that they’re used interchangeably, although tannin is the word that appears for dragon, or sea monster.</b> Nachash then, is some kind of reptile, some kind of reptile like tannin. It could be a snake. Of course, after the curse, after that, and even after the Flood, we don’t know what form reptiles took, we don’t know what reptiles got on the ark and therefore got off and what other ones were destroyed. But some kind of reptile, some kind of dragon, some kind of serpent.<br />
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When you come in to the New Testament, very interestingly, Satan is called in Revelation 12, we’ll look at it later, Revelation 12, Revelation 20, he is called the serpent and the dragon both. So, in the Hebrew he would be called the nachash and the tannin. So, sometimes it’s a dragon; sometimes it’s a serpent. So, we have to conclude we don’t know what it was. This is some kind of reptile dragon, something that maybe we would, maybe you feel comfortable calling it a raptor, if you know what that means, some kind of dinosaur type creature. That’s really all we know about the creature.<br />
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But the serpent is compared to other animals. Look at verse 1, “It was more crafty than any beast of the field,” which indicates that this animal belongs in the animal kingdom. This isn’t some singular kind of creation. This isn’t just some unique animal. This is part of what God made back in chapter 1 verse 24 to 28, referred to again in chapter 2 verses 19 and 20, all the various beasts of the field that God made. This is one of them. This is an actual physical animal. This is a real animal. But it wouldn’t be an animal that we would know, it’s a pre-cursed reptile. Whatever this animal was, it wound up on its belly eating dirt after the curse. So, some kind of a talking reptile, higher and different than we might suppose a snake to be.<br />
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Now, this is not just any other reptile because this one talks. This one talks. Now, I read a commentator who said, you know, there may have been a lot of talking animals in the Garden. And I thought, what? That isn’t in the Bible. He went on for about three paragraphs. There’s nothing in the Bible about that. He’s got a Dr. Doolittle complex or something, nothing in the Bible about talking animals. He brought up, well, what about Balaam’s ass? Well, Balaam’s ass never said a word until God spoke through him on one occasion. No, there aren’t talking animals in the Garden. But there are wonders in the Garden, and then I think Adam and Eve are still discovering the wonders and so Eve doesn’t appear, we don’t have any real information about it. She doesn’t appear to be overly shocked when this reptile walks up and starts a conversation.<br />
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But there’s something different about this particular serpent because he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said you shall not eat from any tree of the Garden?” This particular animal knows about God. This particular animal has a personality. This particular animal speaks with intelligence. This particular animal has a devious, malevolent, evil mind. Let me tell you, people, this is not a fable. Nothing in here says, Let me tell you, let me make up a story to illustrate how sin came. It doesn’t say that. It’s not a fable. This is not a legend with a moral. There is no moral. And if this is a fable, then how do you curse a fable in verse 14? God cursed the serpent. This is not a fable. This is not a legend. This is not a parable. People say, “It’s a parable with a moral.” What’s the moral? There’s no moral. Jewish rabbis said, and I read several of these, they said the serpent wasn’t really talking to Eve but the writer, Moses, uses a serpent as a symbol of evil impulses rising in Eve’s heart. Really? So this is just a sort of symbolic way to refer to stuff that was going on in Eve’s mind? Really? Then, why did God curse the reptile? And where does it say that? Why can’t people just take the Bible for what it says? She was in the garden one day, a reptile walked up to her and said, “Hi. Do you really think God said you shall not eat from the trees of the Garden?” And he was so compelling, she didn’t even seem to step back, she just entered right into the conversation and said, “Well, from the fruit of the trees in the Garden we may eat,” and they were off in a conversation.<br />
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You know what I think? I think that’s exactly the way it happened. And if it didn’t happen that way, then we can’t trust God’s Word. But don’t come and tell me you believe God’s Word if you don’t believe that.<br />
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The crafty, cunning is not a reference to the characteristic of snakes. He’s not comparing snakes to cows, for example, or snakes to lions, or snakes to anything else. He is comparing this reptile to all other animals and saying this one is more wise than any other animal.<br />
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Snakes, in fact, are wonderful creatures. I mean, they’re really amazing creatures. You read Proverbs chapter 30 verses 18 and 19, and you have the wonder of a snake on a rock. But this is a crafty, subtle, malevolent, evil, wicked individual animal because it is being used by a superhuman intelligence to lead Eve and Adam into a choice for evil, a choice that this personality already made. And listen carefully, this personality inside that animal knew the effect of the choice Adam and Eve were going to make. Adam and Eve had no clue. They had no idea what would happen when they made this choice.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>ou see, when Lucifer first made that choice, he made it because he said, “I want to be like God.” </b> And he found out that immediately he became as much unlike God as it is possible to be. God is holy; he became wretched. And he says to Eve, see, the reason God doesn’t want you to eat is because if you eat you’ll become like God. He’s just taking them through the same exact scenario, only he knows exactly what the effect of it is going to be. He doesn’t understand the procreative aspect, but he does understand if they sin, they’re going to experience exactly what he experienced, the desire to be like God becomes the reality of being as much unlike God as is conceivable, and what Eve found out is she thought she could be like God, and ended up in the same situation as much unlike God as possible to be.<br />
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This is a subtle snake. This is a snake who hates God. This is a snake who is angry about the circumstance in which he has found himself, this Satan, this dragon, this serpent. He wants to pull this wondrous new creation, he must have, Satan must have looked at the creation of Adam and Eve: this isn’t anything like I’ve known. Angels don’t procreate, thus multiply and fill the earth, replenish the earth and the sovereignty over these wondrous creatures. You know, it’s amazing for you and I to go to a zoo, but just imagine angelic beings wandering around in the first few days of Eden. What wondrous things God has made. And the malevolent and wicked Satan and his other dominions wanting to pull it all down into iniquity, and this is what leads to this scenario.<br />
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This personality had more natural knowledge. He knew about the prohibition. He knew that God had said, don’t eat of that tree. He claimed not only to know what God said. He claimed, listen, to know more than Eve. He claims to know more than Eve does. In verse 4 the serpent said to the woman, “You surely shall not die.” I know more than you, you think you’re going to die? No, I know more than you. He claims to know more than Eve knows. His thoughts are morally wretched. Snakes don’t have moral thoughts, reptiles don’t have moral thoughts, they can’t make moral judgments. This is a creature who is evil in purpose, evil opposed of God, evil opposed to man. And he offers to Eve the promise of unequalled blessing. I mean, what could be better than being like God? But he knows that when you seek to be like God, the end result is shame, degradation, misery and damnation. He knows already because that’s what he’s experienced. <b>The fact that he was cursed indicates that he was a responsible, moral being.</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">N</span>ow, who was this creature? Who was this? Go all the way to the end of the Bible. This is why you have to take the whole counsel of God because you really don’t get the clear identification of Him. Nothing is said, by the way, in Genesis 3 about Satan. Satan’s never mentioned in Genesis 3. So, we go to the end of the Bible to find out who he is.</b> The book of Revelation, verse 9 chapter 12. Revelation chapter 12 verse 9, there’s a lot here but we’ll just jump to verse 9 for time’s sake. And here you find again these two terms sort of borrowing from the Hebrew where in the Old Testament he’s called nachash and tannin which is both serpent or reptile and dragon. And verse 9, “And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan.” Now, there is a very clear designation. Who is that serpent? Who is that dragon? Who is that original one of old who deceives the whole world? It is none other than the devil and Satan. There he is clearly identified.<br />
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Now, turn to the 20th chapter of Revelation and verse 2, verse 1 actually can start it. “An angel,” this is the time of the Millennial kingdom, after Christ’s Second Coming and judgment described in chapter 19, “<b>and angel coming down from heaven having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand and he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan.”</b><br />
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So really, there’s no problem identifying who this is, because he is identified at the very end when it’s time for God to take over and put an end to his enterprises. He is a serpent or the dragon. And I think the combination of those two words being used in the New Testament, along with the two Hebrew words being used somewhat interchangeably indicate that you don’t just have a snake here; you have some kind of reptile who could be called a serpent on the one hand and a dragon on the other. The difference being as we think of a serpent, we think of a legless creature; as we think of a dragon, we think of a creature with legs, some kind of amazing and wondrous creature that perhaps we have no indication of in the created world today.<br />
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Now, you have a New Testament commentary. I’m going to close with this. We have a New Testament commentary on Genesis 3 in two places. Second Corinthians 11, this continues to help us to understand who this serpent is. And also to demonstrate the veracity of this account. In 2 Corinthians 11:3 Paul says, “I’m afraid lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness.” There’s that same idea of craftiness, there is that serpent and there is Eve again. The bottom line, this is a New Testament affirmation to the reality of the Old Testament account. This is not, again, a legend, this is not a fable, this is not a parable, this is a real account. The serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness. And that simply affirms and gives commentary to what we see in Genesis chapter 3.<br />
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It is also true in 1 Timothy 2. I want you to look at verses 13 and 14, that the pattern of what happened in the Garden is sustained by the New Testament. Verse 13 of 1 Timothy 2. First Timothy 2:13, “It was not Adam who was deceived,” okay, you want to remember that, it was not Adam who was deceived. Adam wasn’t deceived, who was deceived? Eve. She was there, she was deceived, and Adam just says, hey, yeah, if you’re going to do that I’m going to do that too, and jumped in. There was no deception. That affirms the story exactly the way it lays out in Genesis. Is this important? Of course it’s important, because the very fact that that is accurate historic representation supports the fact that the man is the head of the woman, because a woman out from under the authority of her husband, acting independently, is more susceptible to deception. And so, it was Adam first created, then Eve. It was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being quite deceived, fell into transgression. So, there we have in the New Testament the clear identity as to who the serpent was, and the affirmation of this temptation by the devil.<br />
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Now, what can we say in summarizing all of this? The personality, let’s say, in the reptile, is not identified in Genesis 3. But we can know this: there is a real personality there. There is a personality there opposed to God, calling God’s Word into question, calling God’s character into question, impugning God, and saying God just doesn’t want you to know everything He knows because He’s selfish, in effect. So, here is a personality, a malevolent, wicked, evil, vicious personality opposed to God, opposed to man, because he wants to plunge humanity into the same misery that he has. He’s not going to Eve and saying, “Whatever you do, Eve, don’t disobey God. Whatever you do, Eve, don’t seek to be like God, I’m living testimony it is a bad choice.” There is no element of that in Satan. He is wretched and malevolent from the top to the bottom inside out, if you can use those terms of a spiritual being. He seeks only evil.<br />
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And so, he rushes to destroy man. He is deceptive. He is lying. He is hostile. He is wicked. He is a killer. He wants to bring about the death not only of all those angels who went with him, but the death of the whole human race. As powerful as he is, as wicked as he is, as evil as he is, listen to this, he is subject to God’s sovereign control. Now listen, his temptation of Eve does not involve any compulsion on his part. He can’t make her sin. He doesn’t have that power.<br />
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Now, let me tell you something, folks. The devil still can’t make you sin. You hear that? He cannot make you sin. When you sin, you bear the responsibility. He does not have the power to make you sin. He didn’t have the power to make Eve sin. She sinned by her own choice. And Adam and Eve are fully guilty for their sin. He is a malevolent power, but he is subject to God’s sovereign control. We’ll see that when we look at the story of Job next week. And his power has its limits. God says you have so much room beyond which you cannot go. And one of the things that he’s limited in is his power.<br />
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Think of it this way, he thought he could be like God. But guess what? He’s not omniscient, he’s not omnipotent, and he’s not omnipresent. And he’s not immutable. And he’s not sovereign. He’s not like God at all. He’s utterly as much unlike God as a creature could be. He didn’t get what he wanted. And as Martin Luther said, “The devil is the Lord’s devil.” He functions within the sovereign purposes of God to achieve the things that are in the eternal decree of God for the salvation of sinners, the damnation of sinners and the ultimate triumph and destruction over evil.<br />
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Now, the primary word for him, the primary name is Satan. Satan. He is called that, as I just read you in Revelation 12:9 and Revelation 20 verse 2, but he’s also called that in the Old Testament. That’s right. Three times in three passages, he is identified by the name Satan. Satan, to give you a little preview of next week, Satan is a word that means adversary, or opponent. He is the adversary of God, and he’s the adversary of man. He could be called “the adversary” with a definite article, the adversary. And he is the first couple of times. The third time he’s mentioned, 1 Chronicles 21, he’s called adversary and the adversary simply meaning a term to identifying him becomes a proper name and he’s no longer the adversary, he is adversary, with a capital “S”, Satan. From then on, he is Satan. He is the adversary of God and the adversary of men.<br />
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Second Corinthians 11:2 says, “We don’t want to be ignorant of his devices.” So, what we’re going to do next time is I’m going to take you through the Old Testament and show you how Satan is presented in the Old Testament. I’m going to show you also how he fell, why he fell. And once we understand the serpent, then we’ll launch into his approach to Eve with greater understanding and it will help us in our own struggle as well. All right, enough. Let’s pray.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">F</span>ather, Your Word again gives light as the truth is open to us. We thank You for the power that is in us in Christ that allows us to do exceeding abundantly above all we could ask or think. We thank You that Satan has been placed under our feet, as the Book of Romans tells us. We thank You that he is a defeated enemy. Thank You that we can resist him and he will literally flee from us in fear. What a great confidence. Thank You for the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit. We thank You for the sword of the Spirit, the wielding of the truth which causes us to triumph. We thank You that You’ve shown us that You are a good God, and only good, and always good, and all good, and that evil You have not made. Though You have within Your decree a place for evil, that You might put Your glory on display. And that in the end You might bring the potential of evil to reality that it can be destroyed forever. We long for that day when we live in the perfect world where there is no sin, is no sorrow, there is no suffering, and there is no dying because sin is no more. Until that day, may we continue to be triumphant in overcoming the wicked one by the power of Your Word. We’ll thank You in the Savior’s name. Amen.</b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11687102950100738999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902195588332337808.post-25083057785866842892015-02-28T09:36:00.000-08:002015-02-28T09:36:51.465-08:00To really understand the origins of the devil "where is the devil all this time?"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>To really understand the origins of the devil, one must try to understand the culture of early Sumeria, the land of Mesopotamia. Located in a fertile and well irrigated area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now Iraq, the Sumerian civilization is a real mystery to historians.</b><br />
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Sumerians were broad headed people, physically and linguistically different from all surrounding tribes that existed before or after them. They arrive in Mesopotamia almost instantly -- as if from nowhere. What is more perplexing is that their civilization, right from the start, had a government, a highly organized religion, schools that taught mathematics, a system of medicine and highly developed masonry skills. But even more astounding -- the Sumerians could read and write! As far as we can tell, they were the first. Where did they come from?<br />
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A possible clue is perhaps in one of their earliest myths, which takes place on an island called Tilmun. It is believed by some historians to be the present day Persian Gulf island of Bahrain. They have a myth of the god, Oannes - a half-human, half-fish figure who "came from the firmament to give men culture and learning." The firmament of this era consisted of both oceans and the heavens (Besides the firmament, there was the solid earth and the underworld.).But the best known of these Sumerian legends is The Epic of <b>Gilgamesh.</b><br />
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We know the legend of Gilgamesh by its fragmented remains, found in many different locations. It must have been as popular as the Bible of today in some parts of the world<b>. In its complete form it was written on 12 tablets in Akkadian script and was found in the old Hitite capital known as Boghazkoi</b>. We also know that Gilgamesh was a factual person, as opposed to a legend, because of a related fragment depicting the war of Gilgamesh with the king of Kish. Gilgamesh was king of the Sumerian city of <b>Uruk</b> in the first quarter of the third millennium BC.<br />
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The legend opens,<b> "sa nabe imuru,"</b> or, "he who saw everything..." This phrased is used again, by Greeks, to open the Oddesy of Homer.<br />
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"Man, being the king, who is as the image of god..." These phrases relate back to the Atra Hasis, where humans are believed to have been "made" by the Nefilim, in the Nefilim's own image. Gilgamesh was described as being two-thirds Nefilim and one-third human. The birthright of such a hybrid humans was being acknowledged in the same manner as in Genesis 6:1-4, "the mighty men of renown...," who were "born of the union of women with the sons of god."<br />
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<b>The Epic of Gilgamesh focuses on a human character named Enkidu, who is uncivilized and lives, eats and mates with wild animals</b>. He is ultimately tamed and befriended by Gilgamesh. The two become best friends, and they travel to distant lands and have a variety of adventures with friends and foes. The real "meat" of the Epic happens when Enkidu is killed. Gilgamesh is heartbroken. He becomes a man with a mission: to find eternal life.<br />
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Gilgamesh travels to where he has heard of eternal life -- to what is now Lebanon. He comes to a wide river and can go no further. He stops at a tent to rest and eat. Here he meets the innkeeper, Utnapishtam, who just happens to be very similar to the biblical Noah. The flood account of Utnapishtam is an earlier account -- almost 2000 years earlier -- than Genesis. It is likely that Genesis was based on this earlier account.<br />
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According to the Epic of Gilgamesh, Utnapishtam is warned of the flood well before it happens by one of the brother-gods, Enki. We know the complete legend of this warning from other tablets. It goes like this:<br />
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The chief deity, Anu, is disappointed that the hybrid humans have not progressed very far from their animal origins. He is particularly upset that the humans seem to want to mate all the time. He even is quoted as saying that the noise of their copulations kept him (Anu) awake at night, atop his ziggurat (step pyramid). There is talk among the godhead of what to do with the humans that were created, and some suggestions are considered. For a while, humans are deprived of food, at which point they are said to have resorted to cannibalism. Other extinction methods are tried until finally Anu announces that a "final solution" has been found.<br />
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The home planet of the godhead, the Nefilim, is called Nibiru. Anu announces that the next approach of Nibiru to Earth's orbit will take the two planets close enough to cause a massive tidal wave. He proclaims that the humans shall not be warned and, since they live along the coast and in low, fertile area, they will be summarily wiped off the face of the planet. The two sons, Enki and Enlil agree to remain silent.<br />
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The word "Nibiru" literally translated as "place of the crossing," but the "epic of Creation" in the Enumma Elish clarifies this meaning:<br />
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Planet Nibiru<br />
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Above and below, they shall not go across<br />
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Enki who has sympathy for some humans, arranges for Utnapishtam to "overhear" him talking aloud from behind a screen of reeds. He says things like, "a smart man would make himself a ship..." And so Utnapishtam is warned and Enki believes he has not violated his promise to Anu.<br />
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<b>Rather than animals, Utnapishtam was told to bring humans with special skills, like stone masonry and animal husbandry and medicine on to the ship.</b> Ultimately it rains and then floods from huge tidal waves, as predicted, and the ship and its cargo debark near Mt. Ararat in what is now Turkey. Here the story differs significantly from <b>Genesis.</b><br />
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The first thing the sea-weary crew do on dry land is "burn" or cook some meat to eat. At this point, while the meat is burning, they are visited by members of the godhead who reward the survivors by telling them something of their origins and making a "pact" with <b>Utnapishtam</b> and his group.<br />
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<b>Sumerian texts describe telling Utnapishtam that he is capable, by his Nefilim heritage, of abilities that he has never used. They suggest that he be taught how to use these abilities and he is thus initiated into what we would call "priesthood." The promise is made that the abilities must be used for the benefit of mankind only and not for selfish gain. The abilities are each taught in a hierarchy of strength, accompanied by some test of character or control of self. This system of Nefilim awareness is called "dur-an-ki" or the "bond heaven-earth."</b><br />
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Gilgamesh listens to this epic and then seeks eternal life in the form of a plant that grows under the sea. He ties heavy stones to his feet and walks the watery depths to retrieve this special plant, only to lose it to a snake while he rests on shore. The snake sheds its skin and moves on and the epic ends. Unlike the Hollywood "big ending" the message of Gilgamesh is undoubtedly in the adventure itself. It is a way of relating the history and legends of the Sumerains into one coherent epic.<br />
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So what do you make of this so far? Have you long since taken this story for fiction? Well you might well want to do that because the alternatives are equally hard to swallow. If this is merely a legend, how would ancient people "make up" stories of extraterrestrial and other planets, or hybridization? If this was something unique to the Sumerian people, where did they develop this imagination? No prior evidence of Sumerian culture has been found anywhere else on the globe.<br />
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<b>And still you may ask, "where is the devil all this time?"</b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11687102950100738999noreply@blogger.com0Roma, Italia41.9027835 12.49636550000002441.524646 11.850918500000024 42.280921 13.141812500000025tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902195588332337808.post-19709305260349065162015-02-28T08:52:00.001-08:002015-02-28T08:52:12.293-08:00Burke and Willis expedition and adventure dromedaries in Australia.<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #212324; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.003999710083px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20.0117149353027px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="color: #212324; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.003999710083px; line-height: 20.0117149353027px;">10-12.000 years ago, the ancestors of today's direct camels crossed from Asia to North America by the Isthmus Beringiei. About 5,000 years ago, human populations in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula south of beginning the process of domestication of camels, dromedaries. In nearly 200 years ago, the first English colonists brought dromedaries in Australia. For the lovely mammals rightly nicknamed "Ships of the Desert" began an adventure of the species currently completed by hundreds of thousands of feral camels that roam the deserts of Australia, alter the local ecosystem and affect important sectors of the economy from the antipodes island-continent.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212324; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.003999710083px; line-height: 20.0117149353027px;">Based on these qualities and features of the dromedary, Australian explorers have imported in 1860 a total of 24 dromedaries Robert O'Hara Burke's shipping and William John Wills.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212324; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.003999710083px; line-height: 20.0117149353027px;">He was imported a batch of 20 bactriene camels with two humps, China and Mongolia, but they have not adapted as well as dromedaries climate conditions and relief from Australian deserts. Based on past experience, the explorer Ernest Giles used the dromedaries to cross a distance of 354 kilometers in eight days that has not watered the camels. Later, the same explorer traveled 523 km, from Bunbury Downs <b>Queen Vicotria</b> Springs in western Australia in 17 days after the twelfth day of watering every single camel with one bucket of water.</span></span></div>
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And so, dromedaries, drivers and breeders caravan of camels were those who wrote important pages in the history, geography, transport and Australian economy in those days. Caravan leaders were working far way from Afghanistan, India and the Ottoman Empire. Leading the way in Australian wilderness these people have left their mark and today. Trains currently experiencing the vastness of Australia are called "Ghan" in common usage, to refer to the name of the Pashto language that they had cămilarii in his native Afghanistan.</div>
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Resistance dromedary and experience and skill 's Ghana "proved to be crucial in Australia that time. Not only did the early explorers of this state were based solely on them while crossing the desert regions inospitalierele here, but all projects colonized and industrialized Australian wilderness were due more "desert ships". Projects like Overlans telegraph line linking Adelaide and Darwin Transcontinental Railroad and Highway Canning Stock ended safely and on time because the camels.</div>
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<span style="color: #212324; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.003999710083px; line-height: 20.0117149353027px;">But after 1920, the days camels as pack animals and transport were counted. Roads, railways, airports were already built, and these animals could not face competition from cars, trains and airplanes. How some of the camels had escaped from captivity or were abandoned in deserts, people have decided to get rid of them simply releasing them into the mainstream. Dromedaries have adapted extremely well in Australia, and in the absence of natural predators or diseases, their numbers simply exploded. Live and thrive in the central deserts, almost half of their number being located in the central-western part of the state, the rest being divided into the Northern Territory, South Australia and Queensland.</span></span></div>
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A solitary rock located at the bottom lake Spring Mountain, a few kilometers from the resort Durău, captured the attention and aroused the imagination of locals who have legends woven around her demons, ogres and a bet with God. Some say that this night would change their position, while others believe that the Devil would continue to visit and sit on top of it, when the fires are extinguished, and the animals and birds quiet.<br />
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Stone Fucking, located at the bottom of the lake Spring Mountain Bistrita River is a monument of nature with natural reserve status. Rock has a height of 23 meters and is located on a ledge a few feet above the water level. You can see it best when you pass the viaduct that crosses the lake.<br />
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Locals have several legends about the Devil's Stone. The first talks about the devil made a bet with God. The devil wanted to gain control over mankind and God persuaded to make a bet with him to achieve his goal. He boasted that he could steal the top of the cliff Ceahlăului and will bring him until dawn. Devil managed to get past the mountain, but while trying to bring heard the song cocks at sunrise, hopefully and dropped it. Still trying to move out of place, say the locals, but fails never more than a few inches. So it came to believe that the Devil stone changes its position during the night, which is explained by specialists as actually an optical illusion created by the increase or decrease water flow.<br />
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Another legend speaks of God's anger on people who by their behavior dezamăgiseră him. Then the Devil proposed him to punish such a flood of Noah's time. So he hopes to win the world. A storm started and the Devil wanted to stop with a rock during Bistriţei desprisă of Ceahlău and thus to drown people. Although he managed to take her rock and go flying, Satan lost his powers when hearing the song cocks, announcing that the night is over, and dropped it. The flood destroyed local homes, but the rock did not move to the water. From time to time, the devil comes back to it and sits at the top. Then, as if by magic, all fires are extinguished and the animals and birds quiet. This legend appears in the writings of A. Russo.<br />
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Third Stone legends Devil talks about an ogre who lived on Ceahlău. He lured young mountain plateau and turn them into stone. A father whose daughter had been kidnapped by several locals gathered ogre and ogre went to lie in wait on the desire to destroy. Angry ogre waited nightfall, which came with a storm, tore off a cliff Ceahlău and tried to throw over the village rebels. He escaped the stone outside the village, after the Ceahlăului good spirit, depicted as a sturdy young man riding a winged horse, the sword knocked over claws<br />
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<b>If this new theory proves true origin of the universe is the Big Bang.</b><br />
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A group of researchers argues that the theory on the origin of the universe could be wrong. More specifically, they say that the universe does not have a beginning.<br />
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"Our theory suggests that the age of the universe may be infinite," said Das saury, coauthor of the study.<br />
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This new concept could explain what dark matter that makes up almost the entire universe.<br />
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On the other hand, the big bang theory postulates that the universe has expanded by 13.8 billion years ago from the singularity. All matter that exists today was then condensed into a primordial singularity infinitely small, dense and hot. It exploded and gave birth to the universe.<br />
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Singuralitatea starting point is the general theory of relativity formulated by Einstein and Raychaudhuri equation that predicts whether something will converge or diverge to time. Applying equation theory and going back in time suggests that all matter in the universe was once concentrated in a single point, the singularity of the Big Bang.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11687102950100738999noreply@blogger.com0Naples, Florida, Stati Uniti26.1420358 -81.794810325.913972299999998 -82.11753379999999 26.3700993 -81.4720868tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902195588332337808.post-57405457995186368452015-02-28T08:15:00.001-08:002015-02-28T08:15:26.716-08:00Life not dependent on water could exist on Titan, Saturn's moon.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Titan, Saturn's natural satellite could accommodate a dependent life form methane, according to an experiment carried out by researchers at Cornell University.<br />
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They modeled a form "different" life, which does not require oxygen, but methane and that can reproduce and metabolize similar to that of Earth.<br />
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Would have a theoretical cell membrane nitrogen and organic compounds could live at liquid methane or minus 292 degrees.<br />
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On Earth, life is possible with a phospholipid bilayer membranes, a strong membrane permeable organic matter hosting each cell.<br />
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Astronomers currently seeking life forms that thrive thanks to the presence of water, but the theory presented by researchers at Cornell suggests that our galaxy may exist life forms "different" with other substances need to survive. Methane, for example, freezes at a much lower temperature.<br />
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Engineers at Cornell their cell membrane called "azotosome". Azotosome site is made up of molecules of nitrogen, carbon and hydrogen, which are known to exist in cryogenically frozen seas of the moon Titan, but has the same stability and flexibility to the cell membrane on Earth.<br />
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The researchers have used a molecular dynamics method in order to search for compounds of methane to assemble themselves into a membrane-like structure. The most promising "candidate" was a azotsome acrylonitrile presented good stability, decay resistance and flexibility membranes similar to Earth.<br />
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Acrylonitrile is a liquid organic compound, colorless, toxic to be used in the production of acrylic resins and thermoplastics. The compound is present in the atmosphere of the moon Titan.<br />
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<b>"Pillars of Creation"</b> is the most impressive image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope; Gas colossal columns were photographed for the first time in 1995, and recent Hubble "visited" again these formations, creating even more amazing pictures of them.<br />
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Cold gas giant columns, bathed in ultraviolet light coming from a cluster of young stars, massive, located in the<b> Eagle Nebula (M16)</b> -Lights 6,500 years from Earth, is the subject of pictures famous "Pillars of Creation". The original was made by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995<br />
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New version of the photo shown in the meeting <b>American Astronomical Society</b>, has a higher resolution and a wider angle, showing for the first time, and the base of the columns of gas.<br />
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At the request of astronomers around the world, Hubble took pictures operators not only in the ultraviolet, as was done in 1995. The initial image, but also visible light and infrared.<br />
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In infrared light, which has a greater penetration by gas and dust columns appear flimsy and they are suggested by countless stars. Inside the "pillars" are hiding, also newly formed stars.<br />
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"Pillars of Creation" is a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, some 7,000 light years from Earth.They are so named because the gas and dust are in the process of creating new stars, while also being eroded by the light from nearby stars that have recently formed. Taken on April 1, 1995, it was named one of the top ten photographs from Hubble by Space.com. The astronomers responsible for the photo were Jeff Hester and Paul Scowen, at the time both of Arizona State University. In 2011, the region was revisited by ESA's Herschel Space Observatory.<br />
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Images taken with the Spitzer Space Telescope uncovered a cloud of hot dust in the vicinity of the Pillars of Creation that one group interpreted to be a shock wave produced by a supernova. The appearance of the cloud suggests a supernova would have destroyed it 6000 years ago. Given the distance of roughly 7000 light years to the Pillars of Creation, this would mean that they have actually already been destroyed, but because of the finite speed of light, this destruction is not yet visible on Earth, but should be visible in about 1000 years. However, this interpretation of the hot dust has been disputed by an astronomer uninvolved in the Spitzer observations, who argues that a supernova should have resulted in stronger radio and x-ray radiation than has been observed, and that winds from massive stars could instead have heated the dust. If this is the case, the Pillars of Creation will undergo a more gradual erosion.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11687102950100738999noreply@blogger.com0Londra, Regno Unito51.5073509 -0.1277582999999822351.1912379 -0.77320529999998222 51.8234639 0.51768870000001777tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3902195588332337808.post-92027437055114702662015-02-27T07:42:00.001-08:002015-02-27T07:42:20.441-08:00Coffin with the initials of Miguel de Cervantes ( Don Quixote )<span id="goog_1423563324"></span><span id="goog_1423563325"></span><br />
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Historians are looking grave of one of the most famous Spanish writers, Miguel de Cervantes, announced Monday that found in the chapel of a church in Madrid fragments of a coffin engraved initials novelist, Reuters informs.<br />
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Don Quixote (/ˌdɒn kiːˈhoʊtiː/; Spanish: [ˈdoŋ kiˈxote] ( listen)), fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha), is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It follows the adventures of a nameless hidalgo (at the end of Part II given the name Alonso Quixano) who reads so many chivalric novels that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. Don Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is, and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story. The story implements various themes, such as intertextuality, realism, metatheatre, and literary representation.<br />
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Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature,[citation needed] and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published, such as the Bokklubben World Library collection which cites Don Quixote as authors' choice for the "best literary work ever written",[1] and has been translated into more languages than any book other than the Bible. It has had major influence on the literary community, as evidenced by direct references in Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1844) and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).<br />
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Four centuries after the death of the creator of the character Don Quixote, historians and archaeologists are trying to locate the tomb of the famous Spanish writer and hopes that a formal identification of the place where he was buried will attract many tourists and "pilgrims" culture.<br />
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Researchers have begun to use a new generation radar in April 2014 to explore the basement of an ancient church located in central Madrid, where the writer asked to be buried.<br />
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Monday, scientists announced they had found some bones and fragments of a coffin. On one of the fragments, the two metal clips are engraved the letters "M" and "C".<br />
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Spanish anthropologists and forensic experts but urges caution, insisting that analysis is only at an early stage.<br />
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"We can confirm that I discovered Cervantes no guarantee that this is the coffin of Cervantes. The reality is this: I found a coffin in an advanced state of deterioration and several bones in a corner of the tomb," said Francisco Etxeberria in a press conference.<br />
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At least seven tombs were discovered in the basement of that church, but only two of them were open yet.<br />
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One of the greatest writers of the "Golden Century" Spanish Cervantes died, penniless, on April 22, 1616 and was buried the next day, according to documents the era, in this church next to a monastery, whose architecture was modified several times since then.<br />
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Several nuns living in the convent, included in the cultural heritage of Madrid since 1921, which makes it difficult to start archaeological excavations without a precise location.<br />
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Born in 1547, the university town of Alcala de Henares, near Madrid, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a novelist, poet and playwright, considered a symbol of Spanish literature.<br />
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It is primarily known as the author of the novel "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha" ("Hidalgo" is a representative of the gentry), considered the first modern European novel and one of the most valuable works of world literature, originally published in two parts, published in 1605 or 1615. Miguel de Cervantes was nicknamed "Prince ingenuity".<br />
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UNESCO declared in 1995, on April 23 - the date of the death of Miguel de Cervantes - World Book Day and Copyright.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11687102950100738999noreply@blogger.com0