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Post by theshee on Feb 1, 2017 9:23:58 GMT 10
Every part of the globe has its own native remedies, their own local plants/herbs for cures. Witches were called wise women by the people and only witches by those in authority. Herbalism goes hand in hand with food history, most of the herbs/plants used with cooking had some kind of medicinal property within it, this knowledge was handed down to each family member at one time. I guess now its so much easier to go buy a ready meal with no or very little nutritional value never mind any kind of 'helping nutrition'.
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Post by theshee on Jan 25, 2017 10:39:29 GMT 10
A mysterious "pinging" noise is emanating from the seafloor in one of Canada's northernmost territories, and officials have yet to identify the source.
The sound has been heard in recent months in the Fury and Hecla Strait, a channel of water in the Nunavut region of Canada. The Canadian Department of National Defence was informed of the strange noises and investigated the ping's origin, to no avail, reported the CBC.
According to internal correspondence obtained by the CBC, the department did not immediately rule out submarines, but did not consider the vessels a likely cause of the sounds, either.
A military patrol aircraft was sent to investigate the area on Tuesday (Nov. 1), reported The Guardian. In a statement to the British newspaper, department spokeswoman Ashley Lemire said various multisensor searches in the area, including a 1.5-hour acoustic search, failed to detect any anomalies.
"The crew did not detect any surface or subsurface contacts," Lemire told The Guardian. "At this time the Department of National Defence does not intend to do any further investigations."
Hunters in the remote Arctic hamlet claimed the "pinging" sound is driving wildlife away, and the CBC reported that the Nunavut legislature discussed the mysterious sea noise last month.
Legislative assembly member George Qulaut told the CBC that the mysterious sound's potential effect on wildlife is concerning.
"That passage is a migratory route for bowhead whales, and also bearded seals and ringed seals. There would be so many in that particular area," Qulaut said, recalling his own days of hunting there. "This summer, there were none."
Locals have different theories for the pinging, the CBC reported, but no source has been confirmed. One theory blamed a mining company that has operated nearby, but the company said it doesn't have equipment in the water. Some locals also suggested Greenpeace could be behind the sound, scaring wildlife away from the hunting ground. However, a spokesperson for the environmental organization denied these allegations.
This isn't the first mysterious noise that the Canadian government has been called in to investigate. For years, a low rumbling known as the "Windsor Hum" has plagued residents of Windsor, Ontario. As of yet, research into that noise has failed to establish its origin.
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Post by theshee on Jan 25, 2017 10:24:34 GMT 10
Totaly agree with everything you've said Shaggie. Our history (what we've been told so far) is a lie. Dates are constantly getting pushed back, explanations they give on other things just doesn't make any sense at all. They pluck wild guesses out of thin air and produce it as fact. The gods only know why, or what they are trying to hide.
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Post by theshee on Jan 25, 2017 10:19:51 GMT 10
A serial cat killer who dismembers his victims may be doing it for a sexual kick, it has been revealed. Previously known as the Croydon cat killer because of the proximity to the South London town of the earlier victims, another two headless bodies have been found in Surrey. They were discovered within 24 hours of one another and the death toll is now estimated to be well over 200. The South Norwood Animal Rescue and Liberty Charity, which collects the corpses, has noticed patterns and says that he’s now killing three or four a week. Tony Jenkins, co-founder of the group, said: ‘We think he gets off on putting the animals on display, preferably under the bedroom windows. ‘Worryingly, we’ve even had a few put next to school playgrounds where little children would be. ‘It looks like he kills them with blunt force trauma, waits for half an hour for the blood to stop circulating then cuts their heads off.’ Many of the cuts are ‘surgical’ but some are ‘more rushed’ and it is possible that the cat killer has even performed some of the beheadings on the owners’ property. He added: ‘We started our investigation in September 2015. Since then we’ve collected about 180 bodies, all with similar wounds – their head or tail cut off, or both, some have had their front paws or back paws cut off, some have literally been cut in half.’ Speaking about the recent discoveries, the charity said ‘We attended the scene of a cat found dead in Godalming and his injuries were an exact match to those seen on other victims of the M25 animal killer. ‘We have brought his body back to London for post-mortem. We would like to thank his family for allowing us to do this. Our thoughts are with them tonight. May he rest in peace.’ The dead cats all bear the same hallmark – a combination of decapitation, removal of the tail or removal of paws. It is believed that these could be some kind of trophy for the killer. Mr Jenkins said vets who had examined the corpses found they were all killed the same way. ‘They were killed with blunt force trauma and then cut up and mutilated with a knife – unless there’s any animal you know that can handle a knife, it’s a human.’ The probe began after headless cats were found in Croydon, Streatham, Mitcham Common, Sutton, Charlton, Peckham and Finchley. But now it is a nationwide problem. A vet found raw chicken in the stomachs of a number of the cats, suggesting the killer was luring them to their deaths. linkHow the hell can anyone do something like this??? Its beyond me!! I can't believe no one has any idea of who it could be, after killing so many. There truly are some sick people walking on this planet.
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Post by theshee on Jan 25, 2017 10:05:29 GMT 10
Many old spells have been lost or forgotten over the years, but careful readers of medieval books can still recognize some of them tucked within old tomes. There is a spell from a 10th-century book which was one of the most wanted recipes for medical emergencies - it was created to cure poisoning and infections.The Tractatus de herbis, a thirteenth-century manuscript of herbs in the collection of the British Library. Magic spells are mentioned in some of the world’s oldest resources. It also seems that people had practiced magic even before they learned how to write. Seeking spiritual or divine aid is still popular today and many people turn to the old beliefs when they face hardship. The traditions and practices that were cultivated before the appearance of Christianity or Islam seem to be making a particular resurgence.
Due to this, old spell books have become more and more popular once again. During the 19th century, publishing houses were also very interested in reprinting old books with ''remedies'' for many different troubles. One of them was a book that contained the Nine Herbs Charm, a concoction that may have been used to save many lives.
With the growing number of spells, people started to sort them and create ''volumes'' with specific remedies for different spiritual and physical issues. Cures for poisons and infections were always important for all members of society – from the farm to the battlefield to the royal court, anyone could be struck with one of these ailments.
The Nine Herbs Charm has been discovered in a book known as “The Lacunga.” This volume contains medical “spells” and recipes that were written in Latin and Old English. It is unknown how many of the old prayers and recipes are ancient, how many were created by Druids, and how many come from other sources.
This text was named ''remedies'' during the 19th century. The newer name came from the editor who reprinted it, Oswald Cockayne. It is not the only medical charm in the book, but the Nine Herbs Charm is one of the best documented examples of herbs that have also been linked to witchcraft for centuries. This recipe seems to have its roots in Germanic paganism, but the text also suggests some Christian influence.A page from the nine herbs charmThe spell is unique because the recipe consists of many important herbs. Instructions on how to combine the ingredients are also presented, so it would be relatively easy to recreate the mixture used in the Nine Herbs Charm. However, casting spells always involved a ritual and unfortunately “The Lacnunga” doesn't explain the ceremonial side of healing in much detail.
In the medieval text, the author mentioned the herbs: Mucgwyrt Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris), Attorlaðe (cockspur grass (Echinochloa crus-galli), Stune Lamb's cress (Cardamine hirsuta), Wegbrade Plantain (Plantago), Mægðe Mayweed (Matricaria), Stiðe Nettle (Urtica), Wergulu Crab-apple (Malus), Fille (Thyme), and Finule Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare).
These herbs are still in use today and are well-known in spiritual practices, but also in the kitchen. Mugwort is one of the most mystical herbs to have been used in witchcraft and it is famous for its healing properties.
The old charm saved by medieval writers explains the procedure to create the mixture. The spell’s author or authors claimed that the charm was very strong and they succeeded in healing many poison victims. ''Now there nine herbs have power against nine evil spirits, against nine poisons and against nine infections: Against the red poison, against the foul poison, against the white poison, against the pale blue poison, against the yellow poison, against the green poison, against the black poison, against the blue poison, against the brown poison, against the crimson poison, against worm-blister, against water-blister, against thorn-blister, against thistle-blister, against ice-blister, against poison-blister, If any poison comes flying from the east, or any from the north, [or any from the south, or any from the west among the people. Christ stood over diseases of every kind. I alone know a running stream, and the nine adders beware of it. May all the weeds spring up from their roots, the seas slip apart, all salt water, when I blow this poison from you. Mugwort, plantain open form the east, lamb's cress, venom-loather, camomile, nettle, crab-apple, chevil and fennel, old soap; pound the herbs to a powder, mix them with the soap and the juice oaf the apple. Then prepare a paste of water and of ashes, take fennel, boil it with the paste and wash it with a beaten egg when you apply the salve, both before and after. Sing this charm three times on each of the herbs before you (he) prepare them, and likewise on the apple. And sing the same charm into the mouth of the man and into both his ears, and on the wound, before you (he) apply the salve.''This poetic charm still sounds very potent centuries later. According to the author of the recipe, the charm should be chanted three times over each one of the herbs. The number three is very meaningful in pagan beliefs and witchcraft as it relates to the power of the triple goddess.
With the growing popularity of paganism, spells like the Nine Herbs Charm are being brought back to light. Although witchcraft has never been forgotten, the growing interest in these practices is helping to recover old magic volumes from dusty bookshelves and they are becoming new treasures for the ones who seek them. linkModern day Mugwort.
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Post by theshee on Jan 25, 2017 9:15:07 GMT 10
Prehistoric architects with no written language or numbers built sophisticated architectural complexes in US SouthwestSatellite image of Sun Temple archaeological site with illustrations demonstrating its geometrical properties. Imagine you are about to plan and construct a building that involves several complicated geometrical shapes, but you aren't allowed to write down any numbers or notes as you do it. For most of us, this would be impossible.
Yet, new research from Arizona State University has revealed that the ancient Southwestern Pueblo people, who had no written language or written number system, were able to do just that - and used these skills to build sophisticated architectural complexes.
Dr. Sherry Towers, a professor with the ASU Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center, uncovered these findings while spending several years studying the Sun Temple archaeological site in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, constructed around A.D. 1200.
"The site is known to have been an important focus of ceremony in the region for the ancestral Pueblo peoples, including solstice observations," Towers says. "My original interest in the site involved looking at whether it was used for observing stars as well."
However, as Towers delved deeper into the site's layout and architecture, interesting patterns began to emerge.
"I noticed in my site survey that the same measurements kept popping up over and over again," she says. "When I saw that the layout of the site's key features also involved many geometrical shapes, I decided to take a closer look." Satellite image of Pueblo Bonito archaeological site with illustrations demonstrating its geometrical properties. The geometrical shapes used within this location would be familiar to any high school student: equilateral triangles, squares, 45-degree right triangles, Pythagorean triangles, and the "Golden rectangle," which was well known to architects in ancient Greece and Egypt and is often used in Western art due to its pleasing proportions.
With some geometrical know-how, a straight-edge, a compass or cord, and a unit of measurement, all of the shapes are fairly easy to construct. But, unlike the ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Maya, the ancestral Pueblo people had no written language or number system to aid them when they built the site. Incredibly, their measurements were still near-perfect, with a relative error of less than one percent.
"This is what I find especially amazing," Towers says. "The genius of the site's architects cannot be underestimated. If you asked someone today to try to reconstruct this site and achieve the same precision that they had using just a stick and a piece of cord, it's highly unlikely they'd be able to do it, especially if they couldn't write anything down as they were working."
During her research, Towers discovered that the site was laid out using a common unit of measurement just over 30 centimetres in length - equal to about one modern-day foot. She also found evidence that some of the same geometrical constructs from Sun Temple were used in at least one other ancestral Puebloan ceremonial site, Pueblo Bonito, located in New Mexico's Chaco Culture National Historic Park.
"Further study is needed to see if that site also has the same common unit of measurement," she says. "It's a task that will keep us busy for some years to come." link
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Post by theshee on Jan 25, 2017 8:58:00 GMT 10
Hundreds of Thousands of Declassified CIA Documents Now Available Online The phrase "magician walks into the laboratory" sounds like the start of a groan-inducing joke. But it's actually the title of a once-confidential document recently released online by the CIA as part of a new initiative to share about 930,000 declassified files — more than 12 million pages — on the internet for the first time. This collection of historical declassified documents represents a database known as the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST), a system installed in 2000 at the National Archives Records Administration (NARA) in Maryland and formerly searchable only in person, according to a statement published Jan. 17 by the CIA. The files were released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) — a law that provides people with the right to request access to information from any federal government agency — and they are currently available to view and download via the CIA website. "Access to this historically significant collection is no longer limited by geography," Joseph Lambert, the CIA's director of information management, said in the statement. CREST holds archived documents dating back to the 1940s — materials are declassified when they are 25 years or older — and is the largest file archive that the CIA has released to date. It covers a wide range of topics, from general CIA records and Cold War dispatches to captions for satellite photos and instructions for mixing invisible ink. The records also include a special collection of documents related to STARGATE, the code name for a U.S. Army unit that spent decades exploring whether psychic phenomena could be harnessed by the military. Secret writing and remote viewers CREST's "Secret Writing" collection is a treasure trove of how-to instructions for sending and reading covert handwritten messages. One file describes an ink recipe made of "a solution of nitrate of soda and starch in water" that "may be carried for example in handkerchiefs or starched collars, starched shirts or anything else starched." Additional options for secret writing included lemon juice or iron sulfate "developed preferably with ferro cyanite of potassium." Another document provides 12 methods for opening a sealed envelope and detecting chemical traces on the paper. But arguably one of the more intriguing CREST file categories is "STARGATE," a project that ran from 1978 through 1995. STARGATE compiled reports of psychic powers used behind the Iron Curtain, and investigated whether such dubious talents could be developed and deployed by the U.S. government. In the 1969 file "'Magician' Walks Into the Laboratory," a Russian construction engineer shares a series of stories about a local psychic who supposedly had "miracle-working" hands that he used to heal people. CREST's database includes experiments to test the psychic abilities of Uri Geller. Geller drew a horse based on "impressions" he received from a hidden drawing of camels. A file from 1973 describes a series of experiments conducted with the performer Uri Geller, an alleged psychic who claimed that he could read minds and manipulate objects with his thoughts. Over eight days, Geller was placed in isolated rooms and tasked with drawing pictures mirroring other pictures that he knew nothing about. Based on his performance, observers concluded that "he has demonstrated his paranormal perceptual ability in a convincing and unambiguous manner." "Unexpected benefits" Before CREST was published online, the only way for people to access its documents was with one of four computers at NARA, and these documents were only available Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. local time, according to Michael Best, who analyzes and writes about government document accessibility on his blog Glomar Disclosure. In 2015, after several FOIA requests for CREST and one lawsuit against the CIA had been filed to gain access to the database, the CIA estimated it would take six years to process all of the files, MuckRock reported. Best began printing out and manually scanning CREST documents at NARA, which eventually prompted the CIA to release the entire archive online in January 2017, he wrote. With more than 12 million pages of documents, the CREST database brings to light many long-hidden historical activities of the CIA — and the people and related agencies that shaped American intelligence policies and initiatives. In a Jan. 18 tweet, Best referred to the "unexpected benefits" that arise from having this archive readily accessible, calling CREST "a window into human history." link
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Post by theshee on Jan 25, 2017 8:53:03 GMT 10
When the CIA recently shared millions of pages of declassified documents online, the agency included a collection of files for what was arguably one of the U.S. Army's strangest initiatives: investigating psychic abilities for use by military intelligence. Known as Stargate, the program launched in 1978 and lasted for two decades, exploring reports of so-called psychic phenomena that originated behind the Iron Curtain and around the world, and conducting experiments testing "mind control" techniques. The Stargate files were recently made available online as part of the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST) database, which included a total of 930,000 declassified files containing more than 12 million pages, CIA officials explained in a statement. One of the CREST documents, a mission statement for Stargate stamped "Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals," described the project's goal: "To establish a program using psychoenergetics for intelligence applications." A search on the Merriam-Webster dictionary site yields a discouraging "Words fail us" result for the term "psychoenergetics." However, the William A. Tiller Institute for Psychoenergetic Science defines psychoenergetics as energy exchanges that can be influenced by consciousness. To understand how these energy exchanges could work — and how they might be used to benefit military intelligence — the Stargate project documented numerous reports of people using their minds to manipulate objects or read others' thoughts. The documents include accounts of spiritual healers in Russia and Mexico, "firewalkers" in Greece, assorted tales of poltergeists and hauntings, and experiments testing metal bending through mind control. Stargate also conducted tests to see if psychic abilities could be performed on command under controlled circumstances. The well-known performer and alleged psychic Uri Geller participated in a series of experiments over eight days in August 1973. During these tests, researchers asked Geller to duplicate drawings that were produced by another person, whom he could neither see nor hear. In one notable example, the word "bunch" was selected at random, and the control subject drew a bunch of grapes. Meanwhile, Geller was expected to duplicate this drawing while isolated in a room nearby that was shielded electrically and acoustically and had no window openings, the summary of the experiment said. Geller first mused about seeing "drops of water," then described "purple circles." He finally said he was "quite sure" he had the picture, and proceeded to draw a bunch of grapes that had 24 globes in the cluster, the same number as in the control drawing. His performance in this and other experiments provided convincing evidence of his psychic abilities, CIA observers wrote in the study. But overall, the Stargate program failed to amass enough data to support or replicate psychoenergetics activities, and was finally dissolved in 1998. linkMind over matter? One government test of paranormal abilities tasked alleged psychic Uri Geller with replicating unseen drawings, such as a bunch of grapes. Geller's result (right) was produced in isolation from the target illustration.
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Post by theshee on Jan 25, 2017 8:36:38 GMT 10
Very interesting theshe, Although only 15 feet tall seems would be later civilizations. Not sure of these walls and or compounds build of wall/columns in past true meaning of ? We read of walls on top of walls. building upon ancient structures. Yet the walls seem to be a mystery to me. Carried on till this day it seems. Thank you for posting. Who knows, what they may find if they get funding to dig below the wall to see what's underneath/how far it goes down. I believe it holds onto a lot of secrets that maybe one day it will give up.
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Post by theshee on Jan 25, 2017 8:29:37 GMT 10
That first laser scan vid was fantastic. The stonework is pretty damn good!!
Dowth - otherwise known as the Fairy Mound of Darkness.
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