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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 03:30:32 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
Subject: Re: Scientific Interests
Kathy McIntosh wrote:
> Jiri Mruzek writes
> >-[lots and lots of snipping of a very heated argument]-----------------
------------------------------------------
> >Proof of Matthusen's errors - Read the encyclopedia quotes below:
> >SAHARA. The largest of all deserts is the Sahara. This vast sunbaked
> >land of barren rock, gravel, and shifting sand stretches ACROSS
> > northern Africa.
> >snip
> > The name Sahara comes from the Arabic word sahara, meaning "desert."
> >Almost as large as the whole United States, it covers 3 1/2 million
> >square miles (9 million square kilometers).
> >It extends some 3,000 miles (4,830 kilometers)
> >!!!from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea!!!
> >snip
> Jiri,
> you are, of course, right, and the desert to the west of Egypt is
part
> of the Sahara. BUT not everyone calls it that, and unless they are
into
> desert studies, they are very likly to call it by one of it's
> alternative names. Please look at the following quote;-
> "Libyan Desert, desert area of northeastern Africa, comprising the
> northeastern section of the Sahara, located in southeastern Libya,
> western Egypt, and northwestern Sudan. In Egypt, it is also known
as the
> Western Desert."
snip
> My point is, lots of people know this area as the Western Desert,
> not the Sahara. This may be the cause of this bit of your
> disagrements with August.
Kathy,
Thank you for voicing a confirmation. I called Sahara Sahara,
and got some flak for it. It wasn't any other way around. BTW,
I knew about the Libyan part of Sahara being called the Libyan
Desert, but I actually wasn't fully aware of the Western Desert
name. It doesn't matter much, because it's still all one big
desert.
Perhaps, if the roles were reversed here, I would never hear
the end of it, as the guy, who doesn't know the location of
Sahara due to his DTs. I'm happy August simply got carried away
into a booboo, and proved himself a mortal like the rest of us.
So - What's new, let this be forgotten(.)
IMPO, the regulars around here sound like reasonable people,
who are crazy about archaeology, and pre(history), and a little
cynical about some of the heavier traffic.
Speaking of "heavy", I am fully conscious of how incredible my
claims really are, especially at first. Yet, I ask no-one to
believe me. I have my web-page with very unique prehistorical
evidence of the kind that has never been encountered before.
The great thing is that this evidence really amounts to being
a clear proof by nothing less than accepted scientific standards.
The evidence speaks for itself in a mathematical language.
Kathy, because you are so fair, why don't you check my pages
out, and look into the matter? See the proof of Prehistoric Mathematics
(limited to one (1) megabyte by the Compuserve) for yourself ..
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jiri_mruzek/ <enjoy>
( the url is now invalid)
> I hope you two never actually meet, as I get the distinct impression
> that if you did, there would be blood everywhere - or at least all
down
> your shirts!
Kathy McIntosh
Do you really think August is such a bleeder? :)
Speaking of violence, exactly twenty-eight years ago, I was on
a train to Czechoslovakia from Poland (where I had attended
a cousin's wedding), delivering my life into the hands of
fortune and of my country, which was just then invaded by the
Soviets. The train passed interminable columns of tanks, and I was
feeling quite desperate over our chances to defeat such an avalanche
of steel. I was trying to reconcile myself to probably getting killed
in battle within a few short days. It was hard to do, and I felt like
a coward, but at least I was dutifully going back to join the Czech
Army,
like other young men on that crowded train, while still others were
already abandoning the country like rats.
Fortunately, no war broke out, and many had lived to see a better day
relatively soon, thanks to Gorby and the Russian intelligentsia and
technocrats, who really had despised bolshevism all along.
After all, no-one has suffered more under the yoke of bolshevism,
than Russians, and Ukrainians. That's why I tend to treat Russia's
geopolitical interests with much sympathy, seeing how embattled
she suddenly found herself internationally, after having ditched
communism.
The other reasons are personal. I have never seen, or heard of
an army of fine young soldiers and officers (senior officers
were almost invariably bloody swine!) being more distraught and
heart-broken over taking some foreign land in a bloodless (almost)
invasion. As soon as they had experienced the harsh discrepancy
between their propaganda and reality, a vast majority of these
men became kind of bleary-eyed, and very soft-spoken, and devoted
to the study of their boots, when we looked at them.
Strange, but exactly 23 years later, I was visiting the same place
in Poland, when tanks had invaded Moscow. I believe the two events
(tanks on the streets of Prague and Moscow) were directly connected.
Jiri Mruzek