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1 July 1940 - Goering and other Nazi officials look across the English Channel at the Cliffs of Dover, the closest they would ever get to invading Britain

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frompalestinewithlove

Someone please motivate me to continue working on my senior projecttttttttt.

jororowyourboat

same^^

angels-are-watching

Can we please talk about how our history teacher sent a barbie to the smithsonian as proof of the presence of man two million years ago

bonequeer

pleas,e for the love of God read the whole letter, there are tears streamign down my face rn

derinthescarletpescatarian

Can we please talk about how your history teacher has done this sort of thing enough times that he has his own specimen shelf in the Smithsonian

physticuffs

“yours in science” tho

sinesalvatorem

“B. Clams don’t have teeth” is the part where I lost it.

flyingpurplepizzaeater

@zozi-writes

coffiend-jackalope

The letter says:

“Thank you for your latest submission to the Institute, labeled “211-D, layer seven, next to the clothesline post. Hominid skull.” We have gien this specimen a careful and detailed examination and regret to inform you that we disagree with you theory that it represents ‘conclusive proof of the presence of Early Man in Charleston County two million years ago.’ Rather, it appears that what you have found is the head of a Barbie doll, of the variety one of our staff, who has small children, believes to be the ‘Malibu Barbie’. It is evident that you have given a great deal of thought to the analysis of this specimen, and you may be quite certain that those of us who are familiar with your prior work in the field were loathe to come to contradiction with your findings. However, we do feel that there are a number of physical attributes of the specimen which might have tipped you off to it’s modern origin:

The material is molded plastic. Ancient hominid remains are typically fossilized bone.

The cranial capacity of the specimen is approximately 9 cubic centimeters, well below the threshold of even the earliest identified proto-hominids.

The dentition patters evident on the ‘skull’ is more consistent with the common domesticated dog than it is with the ‘ravenous man-eating Pliocene clams’ you speculate roamed the wetlands during that time.This latter finding is certainly one of the most intriguing hypotheses you have submitted in your history with this institution, but the evidence seems to weigh rather heavily against it. Without going into too much detail, let us say that:

A) The specimen looks like the head of a Barbie doll that a dog has chewed on.

Clams don’t have teeth.

It is with feelings tinged with melancholy that we must deny your request to have the specimen carbon dated. This is partially due to the heavy load our lab must bear in it’s normal operation, and partly due to carbon dating’s notorious inaccuracy in fossils of recent geologic record. To the best of our knowledge, no Barbie dolls were produced prior to 1956 AD, and carbon dating is likely to produce wildly inaccurate results. Sadly , we must also deny your request that we approach the National Science Foundation’s Phylogeny Department with the concept of assigning your specimen the scientific name ‘Australopithecus spiff-arino.’ Speaking personally, I for one, fought tenaciously for the acceptance of your proposed taxonomy, but was ultimately voted down because the species name you selected was hyphenated, and didn’t really sound like it might be Latin.

However, we gladly accept your generous donation of this fascinating specimen to the museum. While it is undoubtedly not a hominid fossil, it is, nonetheless, yet another riveting example of the great body of work you seem to accumulate here so effortlessly. You should know that our Director has reserved a special shelf in his own office for the display of the specimens you have previously submitted to the Institution, and the entire staff speculates daily on what you will happen upon next in your digs at the site you have discovered in your back yard. We eagerly anticipate your trip to or nation’s capital that you proposed in you last letter, and several of us are pressing the Director to pay for it. We are particularly interested in hearing you expand on your theories surrounding the ‘trans-positating fillifitation of ferrous ions in a structural matrix’ that makes the excellent juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex femur you recently discovered take on the deceptive appearance of a rusty 9-mm Sears Craftsman automotive crescent wrench.

Yours in Science,

Harvey Rowe

Curator, Antiquities”

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(sorry if there are misspellings or wrong wordings. this was long and i was reading it off my phone)

dendrytes-deactivated20211218

“I for one, fought tenaciously for the acceptance of your proposed taxonomy, but was ultimately voted down because the species name you selected was hyphenated, and didn’t really sound like it might be Latin.“

snailune

@glumshoe

smithsonian

We give a lot of credit to whoever wrote this, but we can say with certainty that we haven’t been given any Barbie doll heads for our paleoanthropology department. (@amhistorymuseum does have plenty of Barbies, all with bodies too.)

But we have been offered some interesting things over the years. A few examples: a corn flake in the shape of Illinois, a two-legged dog, and the world’s longest beard.

We took the beard.

Yours in science,

The Smithsonian

jororowyourboat

history people are so cool :)

libertarirynn-deactivated202006

“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” 1 Tim 6:10

But hey, who needs proper quotations when you can be edgy?

lucym-aud-blog

“describe world history in a few words”

survivingchurchblog

Christian Ouroborosists

When I listen to many modern day Christian apologists, I end up wondering if they worship Christ or if they worship rationalism.

The extent to which they go to prove that their faith is reasonable, to me, just proves that reason is their highest good.

If reason is the highest good, why be a Christian? Why not be a rationalist?

The apologists, of course, will say that their reason leads them to be Christians.

And so the dog goes on, chasing its own tail.

Or is it Ouroboros, eating its own tail?

jororowyourboat

@survivingchurchblog

Without being more specific about which apologists you’re talking about, I can only say that this is a broad generalization and it really doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Certainly it’s not unlikely that some Christians seek to validate their faith to everyone in order to defeat some doubt in their own minds, feeling that if they can just convince one person of the validity of Christianity, then the power of the Gospel and the presence and existence of God will be made real to them, assuaging their fears. That would amount to worshiping reason and would definitely be wrong.

However, that scenario is extremely specific. Apologetics, as based on the principles of reason and logic, is an entirely valid and biblical discipline by which many can be brought to faith. It is demonstrated multiple times in the book of Acts. The following is a great example:

And he entered the synagogue and continued speaking out boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God. But when some were becoming hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the people, he withdrew from them and took away the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. This took place for two years, so that all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

Acts 19:8-10

The Apostle Paul uses reasoned arguments to evangelize. He does it persistently and consistently, and it is effective. The passage says that Paul continued this until all of Asia had heard about Jesus. From these verses alone it is clear that the pursuit of reason as a defense of the faith and method of evangelism is entirely valid. Furthermore, in Titus 1:9 the ability to make an evidential defense of Christianity is a requirement for Christian leaders. Second Corinthians 10:5 urges Christians to “ demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” This includes our thoughts, and the verbalized thoughts of others.

Now, to your point, Paul does withdraw from those who became “hardened and disobedient”, because no one was ever meant to be argued into confessing Jesus Christ, but he does not refrain from using reasoned arguments to evangelize.

Beyond that, an understanding of God as Creator means that He created reason. If Christians are meant to give everything to God, that means our reason. This is what is meant by loving God with your all of your mind. God created people with mental faculties and we are meant to use them for His glory.

“There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.”

I Corinthians 12:4-7

To some God gifts a desire for knowledge and a zeal for defending the faith, fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah that “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate” (Isaiah 29:14). Presenting the Gospel is enough to convince some, but for everyone else, there is apologetics.

#apologetics #Christianity #Bible

archaeologicalnews

Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age battle

About 3200 years ago, two armies clashed at a river crossing near the Baltic Sea. The confrontation can’t be found in any history books—the written word didn’t become common in these parts for another 2000 years—but this was no skirmish between local clans. Thousands of warriors came together in a brutal struggle, perhaps fought on a single day, using weapons crafted from wood, flint, and bronze, a metal that was then the height of military technology.

Struggling to find solid footing on the banks of the Tollense River, a narrow ribbon of water that flows through the marshes of northern Germany toward the Baltic Sea, the armies fought hand-to-hand, maiming and killing with war clubs, spears, swords, and knives. Bronze- and flint-tipped arrows were loosed at close range, piercing skulls and lodging deep into the bones of young men. Horses belonging to high-ranking warriors crumpled into the muck, fatally speared. Not everyone stood their ground in the melee: Some warriors broke and ran, and were struck down from behind. Read more.

#archaeology #bronze age #battle

kabane52

A Fourfold Case for the Christian Faith

In the past, I have argued for the truth of Christianity by essentially attempting to prove some key proposition- such as the resurrection of Jesus. If the historical argument for the resurrection is substantial and valid, this implies that a God who raised Jesus from the dead must exist. While such an argument might be technically valid, it carries very little weight to one who is unconvinced that the universe as a whole reflects design and purpose. If we truly do live in the “cosmic boondocks” as Carl Sagan put it, if mankind as a whole was essentially pagan until a series of historical accidents led to the spread of monotheism, and if human history appears to proceed accidentally, then the resurrection, no matter the historical arguments, will seem intuitively implausible. It is “out of step” with the way that the universe seems to operate more generally. Because of this, I want to offer four points which Christian theism is uniquely capable of accounting for in that larger sense.

Keep reading

#apologetics #christianity #resurrection

liberalsarecool

Deficits grew much bigger when Republicans borrow and spend. The Bush wars were put in the US credit card, AND Bush cut taxes. No president has ever started wars and cut taxes. It is the worst economic policy possible.

The Bush double-whammy will haunt us for decades.

jororowyourboat

Because if a Democrat had been president when terrorists flew planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, the Democrat would obviously have refrained from overwhelming military action against those who aided and abetted the terrorists. We can obviously blame Republicans for the actions of terrorists. The American public would have accepted nothing less than military action in the wake of 9/11. If you think otherwise, you must only be 15 years old.

Furthermore, the deficit today has its roots at the beginning of this century with World War One. That put us massively in debt, but we mostly got out of it. Then the Depression hit and I don’t know if you know this, but the Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt authorized some of the largest spending programs in American history and the largest up to that time. Millions of dollars in aid led to huge deficits. This was largely because Keynesian economics preached against a balanced budget in times of economic recession. Government spending was meant to prime the pump of the economy. This led to unprecedented spending. The entitlement programs FDR created still exist today (mostly).

World War Two sent the deficit skyrocketing, another unavoidable conflict. FDR authorized all of the spending as a necessity, which it was. The spending from the New Deal looks paltry in comparison. After the war, Truman and Eisenhower brought that spending under control and ran the last budget surpluses of the century. This was followed by the Great Society of LBJ which called for even more spending, on things like Food Stamps and Medicare/Medicaid. These entitlement programs and the necessity of Cold War defense spending led to deficits under every president, not to mention the recession in the 70s followed by the oil shock in 1979.

Ronald Reagan essentially spent the Soviet Union into oblivion, while also being forced to maintain entitlement programs. This massive spending was in part curtailed by Bill Clinton, who didn’t have to spend nearly as much on defense now that the Cold War was over. George Bush saw this continue until 2001, at which point he had no choice but to prosecute a war halfway around the world.

Not only did Barack Obama continue the fight against global terror, he expanded spending in many areas, increased the size of the federal government and tripled the deficit in 2009 and 2010.

So before you make some random claims about how the deficit is all the fault of George Bush, how about you go open a book, google a few things and do some research. Just like everything else in the world, the deficit has historical roots. Blaming everything on one man, whose job is executive and not economic, showcases a complete ignorance on your part. There are dozens of contributing factors, dozens, to the current deficit. Liberals always point to military spending, but the things that the government spends the most on are entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. These programs are mandatory.

But of course, it’s all the Republicans fault. Democrats have never put a foot wrong, ever.

#deficit #budget deficit #republicans #democrats #history #do your research

Monmouth poll of Florida: Trump leads Rubio by eight — but Rubio leads Trump in early vote by 25 (Sent from allPolitics)

The Lawyer in the Trump University civil suit says the evidence speaks for itself. Just like Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump has broken the law and is trying to get away with it. He's a fraud and a con man. America can do so much better.

#trump #fraud #con artist #civil suit