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"The Chinese Pyramids and the Sun" by Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
- Crop Circles
One of the most prevalent and insidious informal logical fallacies is the argument from personal incredulity: I personally can't explain x, therefore the explanation must be y (and y usually takes the form of God or aliens or ghosts, or some...
- Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World...chersiphron & Son Worked On One--temple Of Artemis At Ephesus
An ancient engineering firm worked successfully in the construction of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The engineers used inclined planes, bags of sand and shafts of columns and architraves as wheels and axels. A short paper by Amelia...
- China, Rare Earths--trickle Down Effect
"Japan's rare earth minerals may run out by March: govt" Japan's stockpile of rare earth minerals could dry up by March or April without fresh imports from China, which has stopped shipping them, a senior Japanese government official said Thursday....
- Rosetta Stone
Today, 210 years ago the Rosetta Stone [196 BC] was discovered and Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion around 1822 began to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs based on comparative adjacent languages of Egyptian Demotic and classical Greek....
- Papyrus Of Ani...complete Papyrus
Small section of Papyrus of Ani Utterly fantastic representation of The Papyrus of Ani. This is the complete text and if this were printed out, I wonder how many feet this would be...and how many ink cartridges it would consume. From Vassar College......
Philosophy
Chinese Pyramids and the Sun
Chinese pyramids are ancient burial mounds of several early emperors and empresses of China and their relatives. Many pyramids are located near Xi'an, in Shaanxi Province. In this province, in the Lintong district, we find the huge Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, Shi Huangdi, accompanied by his large Terracotta Army. The pyramids continued to be built for several centuries, during the following dynasties that ruled China. The shape of the Chinese pyramids is different from those of the ancient Egypt, because they have usually a flat top.
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"The Chinese Pyramids and the Sun" by Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
- Crop Circles
One of the most prevalent and insidious informal logical fallacies is the argument from personal incredulity: I personally can't explain x, therefore the explanation must be y (and y usually takes the form of God or aliens or ghosts, or some...
- Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World...chersiphron & Son Worked On One--temple Of Artemis At Ephesus
An ancient engineering firm worked successfully in the construction of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The engineers used inclined planes, bags of sand and shafts of columns and architraves as wheels and axels. A short paper by Amelia...
- China, Rare Earths--trickle Down Effect
"Japan's rare earth minerals may run out by March: govt" Japan's stockpile of rare earth minerals could dry up by March or April without fresh imports from China, which has stopped shipping them, a senior Japanese government official said Thursday....
- Rosetta Stone
Today, 210 years ago the Rosetta Stone [196 BC] was discovered and Thomas Young and Jean-François Champollion around 1822 began to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs based on comparative adjacent languages of Egyptian Demotic and classical Greek....
- Papyrus Of Ani...complete Papyrus
Small section of Papyrus of Ani Utterly fantastic representation of The Papyrus of Ani. This is the complete text and if this were printed out, I wonder how many feet this would be...and how many ink cartridges it would consume. From Vassar College......