Chronology
Any and all subjects relating to the study or passage of time. History, genealogy, nostalgia, etc.
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If you want to know what the world will look like in the future, you need to look at social and technical advancements and other trends, as a whole. Understanding what is likely to continue and what is possible is the primary goal of futures studies. Appropriate topics here include, but are not limited to: 3D printing Artificial intelligence Cryptocurrencies Emergent technology Life extension Transhumanism Future history Virtual reality
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In History, we discuss what came before. All forms of experiencing the past are welcome, such as: Interesting or mysterious events in history Forbidden archeology Out of place artifacts Alternate history General nostalgia Stolen history
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I’ve met a few people who have next to no memory of their childhood… But that’s a strange concept for me to grasp. I remember quite a bit of my childhood, and none of it has muddied much with the passage of time. My earliest memory is getting one of these as a gift: These came out in '73, but I was about 3 years old at the time… So the gift was probably a hand-me-down from my brother. I’ve got this flash-bulb memory of needing a fork to lever open a compartment to change the light bulb, and running into the kitchen to get one and bring it over. Super bright and clear memory for no real reason. When we moved back to the west coast, we found this toy in my mom…
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A Roman statue of the Greek mythological figure Hercules was reportedly discovered in northern Greece, according to a report from Heritage Daily. North of the modern city of Kavala stood the ancient city of Philippi, where the discovery took place. When they excavated the region, researchers from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki discovered the statue. The most well-known moniker for Heracles, the son of Zeus, in the Roman language is Hercules, the son of Jupiter. He was a very powerful figure in mythology who was seen as a protector of the vulnerable. When King Philip II of Macedon, the paternal grandfather of Alexa…
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A few days ago, I began moving the Chronovisor section to it's own domain: https://chronovisor.app/ For those who don't know what the Chronovisor is, it's a project which aims to restore now defunct forums about paranormal and weird things from the golden age of the internet. We have the Wayback Machine, but that only gets you so far and I've always wanted to be able to search through these posts and maybe discover a lost treasure. I've just finished moving over what I'd already indexed for the Art Bell forums. and you can find that here: https://chronovisor.app/categories/art-bells-post-to-post-forums.12/ I've set up a way to allow people to make comments on t…
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I once watched a video where native tribal peoples were asked to arrange a series of paper plates representing various events in a timeline. The natives surprisingly arranged them in a circle. When asked about a deceased member of the tribe, they responded with something to the effect of "They are not here now. There are at another time." It represented a different manner of access to time and certainly of experiencing it. While I don't know what video it was, this article about the Amondawa tribe in South America may be about the same people. This dense research article (of which I've only read the Abstract) also references the tribe, along with a couple of others. It…
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Is anyone here interested in genealogy? I’ve been researching off and on for about 10 years now, but usually hit brick walls with records that’d only be found in some 1600s Swiss canton’s church records. Somewhere along the line, we’re related to Amelia Earhart. Andrew Johnson and whoever the first prime minister of Australia was. So I got that going for me, which is nice. I’ve mainly used Ancestry.com and Newspapers.com, but we’ve switched to MyHeritage. I don’t like their records as much, but they have some more interesting ways of displaying connections or context and that makes it more fun to show the kids. So if you’re into this stuff, I’d love to hear ab…
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These intriguing and somewhat befuddling Native American cave paintings were recently found in Alabama and documented using a 3D scanning process. Otherwise, they would be basically invisible or, at best, unintelligible. Attachment available at this link
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This thread is for the general discussion of the game [plain]Mario's Time Machine (1993)[/plain]. Please add to the discussion here.
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This thread is for the general discussion of the book [plain]The Proteus Operation (1985)[/plain]. Please add to the discussion here.
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Using a 3D printing technology, NASA engineers have just produced a new metal alloy that significantly enhances the strength and longevity of components and materials used in aviation and space exploration. Alloy GRX-810, an oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) alloy, is more malleable and can survive more than 1,000 times longer than current state-of-the-art alloys. This is a significant improvement over current alloys. Aerospace components for high temperature applications, such as those inside aircraft and rocket engines, may now be constructed using these new alloys since ODS alloys can resist tougher temperatures before breaking Dale Hopkins, deputy project mana…
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I enjoy finding interviews with people who’ve witnessed extraordinary things, especially when there’s historical significance (or whatever they witnessed is far outside anyone else’s living memory). Mr. Samuel J. Seymour, the last living eyewitness to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. was the mystery guest on the February 8, 1956 episode of the I’ve Got a Secret game show. Mr. Seymour (March 28, 1860 – April 12, 1956) was actually 95 years of age at the time of this appearance instead of 96. My dad was born before this guy died in1956. Crazy to think my father’s life overlapped with this guy’s… Time is amazing.
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Our family has really enjoyed watching a channel on Youtube called Townsends. This guy scours through old recipe books and demonstrates how dishes at the time would have been prepared and served. Some recent ones we found interesting: All of his videos are great though, and he does an excellent job explaining context and why things might have been done a particular way. It’s a great resource to get an understanding of the period, and food (something we can all relate to) is a great way to do that.
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The world in 2050 is a future filled with amazing technology. By 2050, artificial intelligence and virtual reality will be ubiquitous. Quantum computing and advanced prosthetics will rise. We will move around the world with Hyperloop technology, evtols, electric cars, self driving vehicles, and electric/supersonic airplanes. Our packages will be delivered by drones and our power will come from renewable energy. There will be a permanent base on the Moon, humans on Mars, and space hotels in orbit. While our food consumption transforms, vertical farming and biotechnology will rise. Stem cells and CRISPR technologies will regenerate injuries and cure diseases. Lastly, we wil…
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Architectural relics of the castle which once served as a defensive bishops’ residence and an administrative centre, combined with original archaeological build-ups are of immense educational and scientific value. Location and description The structure is located on a hill overlooking the city, at a location of a defensive nature. The hill is toped with the ruins of the high castle (upper castle), whereas the relics of the low castle (ward) are situated to the north of it. The upper castle, surrounded by a wall and a moat, was built on a floor plan that approximates the shape of a triangle, using the natural landforms. A cylindrical tower, which is the most disti…
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Tisulsky Princess
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The Siberian Ice Maiden, also known as the Princess of Ukok (Russian: Принце́сса Уко́ка), the Altai Princess (Russian: Алтайская принцесса), Devochka and Ochy-bala (Russian: Очы-бала, the heroine of the Altaic epic), is a mummy of a woman from the 5th century BC, found in 1993 in a kurgan of the Pazyryk culture in Republic of Altai, Russia. It was among the most significant Russian archaeological findings of the late 20th century. In 2012 she was moved to a special mausoleum at the Republican National Museum in Gorno-Altaisk. She Has 8 million billion years old mummy which denies Charles Darwin theory of Evolution.So called Tisulsky Princess.
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It also set in motion the process that made the vast territory part of America. In 1804, indigenous Tlingit people living near the Alaskan town of Sitka went to war with the Russians. Russian fur traders, actually, and their battle would have far reaching consequences, not just for the Tlingit, but also for the future of Alaska, by setting the stage for it to become part of the United States. The battleground where this took place is now part of the Sitka National Historic Park, but the precise location of the Tlingit fort had been debated, until now. Thomas Urban of Cornell University spotted it in a map he made using ground-penetrating radar and electromagnetic inducti…
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There are several sources to be able to read The Golden Bough written by Sir James Frazer, however, the linked PDF format here is the one I use since I can read the pages on my computer, ipad or phone. Helpful, since reading The Golden Bough can take a lot of time to read and a lot of time to ponder what is read.
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Phones have built in flashlights for the night. Flashing bright lights at night was Bizzare in the 17th century. You would be offline the internet, however smartphone applications can be downloaded for offline use. My thought is if there were a real time Travelers, they may have accidently been burned as Witches practicing witchcraft because of their advanced technology. Seriously. There was superstitiion.
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This was no cozy nook. After two decades spent leading archaeological digs among the 1,900-year-old ruins of the former Roman emperor Hadrian’s sprawling Villa Adriana, Rafael Hidalgo Prieto thought he’d seen it all. Then the Spanish professor and his team discovered an imperial breakfast room unlike anything in the world. The palazzo area once featured a royal four-bedroom complex centered by a semicircular nymphaeum with a private dining area suspended over a pool of flowing water. Vaulted ceilings with niches for sculptures overlooked a marble triclinium—that is, a sumptuous Roman dining area where aristocrats enjoyed expensive food and drink while lying on u-shaped…
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Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Oliver Cromwell is one of the most controversial figures in the history of Britain. Following the English Civil War and the execution of King Charles I, he established himself as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. All of this is well-recorded and still much-debated by historians, but what we really want to hear is the story of how his brother-in-law—who married Cromwell’s youngest sister Robina in 1656—thought he was going to get out to the Moon to meet and trade with aliens, way back in the 1600s. John Wilkins Interplanetary Trade With Aliens Let’s start at the beginning w…
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They sat on top of a fridge for decades. Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar? Not Andy Warhol. While he wasn’t a cookie thief, the pop artist shamelessly burglarized supermarket aisles with his eyes, using the logos for Campbell’s soup, Coca-Cola, and Brillo pads as inspiration for his iconic paintings. And he had a thing for cookie jars, too. Warhol loved spending Sundays at New York’s flea markets, buying the kitschiest ones. “Cookie jars are, after all, a form of Pop Art in themselves,” Wally Amos, Warhol’s friend and founder of Famous Amos cookies, once noted in an interview. He also remembered that Warhol "was particularly fond of the funny figural pieces." …
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Washington Pie is actually a layer cake or bread pudding, depending on the recipe. In 1895, Washington Pie was such a popular recipe that it was also a metaphor. Leading up to Independence Day festivities in Grand Rapids, Michigan, an article in The Michigan Tradesman used the dessert to explain a way to keep the town’s raucous paraders in line, suggesting that they make, “a sort of Washington Pie with that part of the procession—a layer, say, of traveling men and then a filling of Salvation Army jam, and so on, with the brass band by way of frosting.” This article describes the most famous version of Washington Pie, which is actually a layer cake with a jam or jelly f…
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A New Jersey home built from trash and mud was once hailed as the strangest house in the world and one man’s testament to human resilience. Shortly after losing his fortune due to the Wall Street Crash of 1929, 70-year-old George Daynor set out on a 10-day, 112-mile trek to South Jersey. Claiming to be guided by an angel, the mustachioed and eccentric former-Alaskan gold miner spent $4 on a four-acre junkyard, situated on swampland. Daynor’s Bizarre Beginning Shortly after his odyssey, Daynor’s angel reappeared in another dream, encouraging him to construct a palace from bottles, bedframes, mud, and trash. For the next three years, Daynor tirelessly worked on h…
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Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! There are some universal truths in life: water is wet, puppies are adorable, the sky is blue, et cetera. What if we told you that wasn’t always the case? It turns out the color blue is a relatively new concept. Scientifically speaking, it has always existed as part of the visible light spectrum [rainbow], but studies of ancient texts have shown that humans didn’t really “see” blue until modern times! The Odyssey’s Deep Colorless Sea One of the first people to realize blue’s lateness to the party was William Gladstone—the same William Gladstone that served as British Prime Minister four times in the late 1800s. Prior to…
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