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Friday, July 3rd, 2026
Genesis 6:4 in the KJV says
There were giants in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Here ‘giants’ translates ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2026
Some have speculated that humans are not the first intelligent life to form a civilization on Earth, that there might have been civilizations created by intelligent dinosaurs millions of years ago that have disappeared and because of the effects of time have left no obvious traces. The name of this ...
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2026
In Plato’s Symposium, Aristophanes presents a theory of love fitting a comic poet. Ignoring the details included to explain/excuse homosexuality, the story is roughly that humans were originally spherical beings with no distinction of sexes, then the gods divided us, forming a male and a female out of each divided ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2026
According to the poetic corpus itself, poems such as Beowulf were typically performed in front of the lord in his feasting hall by a scop, roughly equivalent to the ON skald. There are those who doubt the reality outside literature of this class of persons, but the evidence of all ...
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2021
The doctrines and attitudes and practices that are thought of as typical of the Chan school arose early but gradually after Buddhism had been introduced to China. In particular, the early Chinese Buddhist scholars Sengzhao and Daosheng are considered to have laid the philosophical groundwork for the Chan school. So ...
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Friday, January 10th, 2020
Les historiens pensent maintenant que la chute d’Hattušas était finalement provoquée par une révolte interne plutôt que par des attaques par des ennemies externes. L’effet des pressions externes aurait plutôt été de créer des circonstances qui pouvait mener à un mécontentement avec l’empire dans la population subjuguée, à une croyance ...
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Wednesday, September 4th, 2019
Au sud du Levant à cette époque nous trouvons beaucoup de preuves de dévastation des villes. La plupart des villes les plus importantes sur la via maris (la route qui relie les villes côtières entre l’Egypte et la Syrie) étaient détruites. Nous voyons les couches de destruction à Ashdod, à Ashkelon, à ...
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Wednesday, August 21st, 2019
Les gens qui étaient cités dans les inscriptions de Mérenptah n’étaient pas tous des arrivées nouvelles en histoire égyptienne. Les Lukkas étaient bien connus comme étant des pirates depuis plusieurs siècles. Ils étaient venus des Terres des Lukkas, dont l’emplacement précis n’est pas connu, mais qui devait être quelque part ...
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Wednesday, August 14th, 2019
La seule région d’où nous avons des comptes rendus du déroulement des faits de cet effondrement, c’est l’Égypte. Sous le règne du roi Mérenptah (1213-1203) de la XIXe dynastie et encore une fois sous le règne de Ramsès III (1186-1155) de la XXe dynastie l’Égypte avait subi des attaques d’ennemies ...
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