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American kids are binge-watching so much of the British cartoon “Peppa Pig’’ that they are developing English accents and even using words like “telly” and “ready, steady, go.” The so-called Peppa Effect had already led kids in the US to mimic the star swine from UK-produced “Peppa Pig” – and all that extra telly time during COVID-19 restrictions appears to be making the phenomenon more widespread. Screen time limits were lifted as parents worked from home and extra Peppa binging ensued. Now parents say more kids are opting for “Father Christmas” instead of “Santa Claus” and throwing out expressions like “give it a go.” Full monty at the NY Post: Link And at the UK Guardian: Link

Underwater excavations at the sunken city of Thônis-Heracleion, in the bay of Abu Qir near to Alexandria off Egypt’s North Coast, has uncovered the remains of a military vessel and a funerary complex. A Egyptian-French underwater mission, led by the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology (IEASM), are carrying out the excavations. Mostafa Waziri, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the submerged city of Thônis-Heracleion yielded the remains of a military vessel. The ship sank whilst loading huge blocks from the famed Temple of Amun when it was completely destroyed during a cataclysmic event in the 2nd Century BCE. https://dailynewsegypt.com/2021/07/20/sunken-city-of-thonis-heracleion-in-egypts-abu-qir-bay-yields-new-archaeological-treasures/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/divers-find-second-century-military-ship-sunken-egyptian-city-180978244/ https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/egypt-finds-ancient-military-vessel-greek-graves-sunken-city-2021-07-19/

Mars Project: A Technical Tale," written by Wernher von Braun. Von Braun's nonfiction book is not a standard essay; it uses a narrative to explain to the average reader how a trip to Mars might look in the Cold War. In his book, Von Braun doesn't say that a person named Elon would lead humanity to Mars but rather that the name of the leader's position would be "Elon." https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-science-fiction-nasa-colonize-colony-planets-solar-system-2021-6

Link And here is Nanci's side of the story Link

Looking like the Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, an ancient undersea volcano was slowly revealed by multibeam sonar 3,100 metres below our vessel, 280 kilometres southeast of Christmas Island. This was on day 12 of our voyage of exploration to Australia’s Indian Ocean Territories, aboard CSIRO’s dedicated ocean research vessel, the RV Investigator. Previously unknown and unimagined, this volcano emerged from our screens as a giant oval-shaped depression called a caldera, 6.2km by 4.8km across. It is surrounded by a 300m-high rim (resembling Sauron’s eyelids), and has a 300 m high cone-shaped peak at its the centre (the “pupil”). https://theconversation.com/weve-discovered-an-undersea-volcano-near-christmas-island-that-looks-like-the-eye-of-sauron-164855

The report, which focuses on directed energy weapons, suggests that force fields could soon become a reality. https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/349063/usaf-report-references-defensive-force-fields

California's largest energy utility firm will bury 10,000 miles of power lines in a massive bid to prevent its equipment igniting more deadly wildfires, its CEO said Wednesday. Pacific Gas and Electric's faulty power lines sparked the deadliest blaze in the state's modern history, which swept through the northern Californian town of Paradise in 2018, killing 86 people. PG&E equipment was again blamed this week for one of the largest fires now blazing in California—the Dixie Fire—after a tree fell on a power conductor on the day the blaze began. Announcing the measure, CEO Patti Poppe said the decision to bury the lines had been brought forward due to the "emotional toll" of the Dixie Fire, which is burning in the wildfire scars of the Paradise blaze. https://phys.org/news/2021-07-california-firm-miles-power-lines.html

Based on the analysis of marsquakes recorded by NASA's InSight mission, the structure of Mars's crust has now been determined in absolute numbers for the first time. Beneath the InSight landing site, the crust is either approximately 20 or 39 kilometers thick. That is the result of an international research team led by geophysicist Dr. Brigitte Knapmeyer-Endrun at the University of Cologne's Institute of Geology and Mineralogy and Dr. Mark Panning at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech). InSight stands for "Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport." NASA's lander, which landed on Mars on 26 November 2018, explores the crust, mantle and core of the red planet. The paper "Thickness and structure of the Martian crust from InSight seismic data' will appear in Science on July 23. https://phys.org/news/2021-07-scientists-mars-crustal-thickness.html https://science.sciencemag.org/content/

The descending passages of the Giza pyramids as well as those of the Red, Bent, and Meidum pyramids are all know as "polar passages" having been constructed to align with the point in the sky directly above earth's rotational axis traditionally observed by way of the “pole star”; the star closest to this central point that stays fixed in the sky. This is the specific region of the sky the pharaoh's soul would travel to take his place among the "Imperishable Ones", the circumpolar stars of which the pole star is chief among them. Because of procession of the equinoxes, the pole star of early dynastic Egypt was not Polaris as it is today, but rather Thuban (Alpha Draconis) which maintained this position from approximately 3,942-1,900BC. Thuban achieved its closest position to true North around 2,830BC remaining within 1 degree of this position for nearly 200yrs. Among others, antiquarian astronomer Richard Proctor calculated Thuban would have been seen through the descending passage of G1 at either 3,350BC or 2,170BC with a +/- error rate of 50-200yrs. If true, we can be reasonably confident to rule out the later date for numerous reasons leaving a time between 3,550BC-3,150BC (avg 3,350BC) the descending passage was constructed to align with Thuban. The averages of the 1995 RCD study are as follows: Saqqara-2768 BC Bent Pyramid-2720 BC Meidum Pyramid-2705 BC Abu Roash Pyramid-2804 BC Abu Roash Temple-2795 BC G1-2738 BC G2-2765 BC G3 2710 BC Of the 11 date ranges for G1 only 3 samples are less than 2700BC. Of the 6 for G2 only one is less than 2700BC and four are 2800BC and above. G3, 5 out of 12 are below 2,700BC and is the only Giza pyramid to have at least one range less than 2,600BC though it is still as old or older than G1 is conventionally dated. Of the 29 ranges offered, 19 (66%) are in the 2,700-2,900 BC range. If we look at the 1984 study the sample dates for G1 are as follows: Sample number-Age-BC-Location 10B (charcoal) 3809 +/-160 198th course top platform, SW corner 10B (wood) 3101 +/-414 198th course top platform, SW corner 06 3090 +/-153 25-26 course West side, NW corner 08 3062 +/-157 108-109 course West side, NW corner 10A 3020 +/-131 198th course top platform, SW corner 14 2998 +/-319 5th course South side, SE corner 13 2975 +/-168 5th course, SE corner 04 2971 +/-120 2nd course core block North side 11 2950 +/-164 Top platform, SW corner 05 2929 +/-100 2nd course North side, near NW corner 07 2909 +/- 97 65th course West side, NW corner 02 2909 +/-104 2nd course North side East face 2nd tier 01 2869 +/- 94 2nd course North side East end 13 2864 +/-362 5th course SE corner 03 2853 +/-104 2nd course North face 2nd tier Averaging these out from the 1984 study gives us a date of 3,021BC +/- (avg) 176yrs i.e 3197-2845BC. While the RCD studies do not conclusively prove Proctor's assessment, they do provide at the very least a credible context for a date of construction between 2,830BC and 3,150BC: the range of Thuban's closet point to true North and the lowest +/- date of Thuban being visible through the G1 descending passage. Adding to this is the recently RCD'd Dixon wood fragments originally found sealed in a QC "air shaft" which gave a date of 3217 BC +/- 123.5yrs (range 3341-3094BC) which even if the wood was few hundred of years old it still falls quite well within the Thuban DP (descending passage) visible range. Also to be considered is the alignment of the DP to celestial true north, perhaps the pole star Thuban, would have been done at the beginnings of construction i.e. making it one of the oldest parts of the pyramid. The RCD samples are all taken from the exterior which even the Dixon wood found in the interior would have been well after the setting of the DP line. One thing for sure is that the DP Thuban date of c. 3,350BC, let alone the RCD, does not coincide with theories of the date of c. 2450BC provided for the "air shafts" of G1 aligning with various stars at this time. Considering all of the descending passages of the main pyramids attributed to the 4th Dynasty are agreed to have been polar passages, whether or not this was the function of G1's should not be in dispute. The only question is when it was meant to align with the pole star. And given it does not seem plausible both 3,350BC and 2,450BC are correct, the latter date not even possible for an alignment of Thuban with the descending passage, the question we are ultimately lead to is were in fact the air shafts designed to line up with stars in 2450BC if at all? As sacrilegious as it may be to some, the answer seems quite clearly no, they were not. The QC air shafts were closed off at the chamber ends as well as both terminating approximately 20ft from the outside of the pyramid. Both continue at some distance then make a significant bends upwards. Both shafts are blocked by a series of doors. The northern KC air shaft makes several zig-zagging bends at various intervals along its 235ft and the southern KC makes two bends. Both exit the exterior of G1 though we have no way of knowing whether they exited the casing stones or not. We are so used to seeing diagrams of the G1 interior that depict the shafts in a straight line, like so: http://www.gizapyramid.com/Beford1.jpg we take it for granted the possibility the shafts align straight to the stars when in reality this is not the case at all. The QC has closed entrance and exits for both of its shafts, makes bends, and each shaft is blocked by at least one door if not two (or more)- hardly the stuff of "star shafts" either literally or symbolically. And are we to assume if the pharaoh were buried in the KC he sometimes vacationed in the QC to use those shafts instead to go to different stars? And despite the fact Khafre would have been present during the construction of G1, if not intimately privy to all of its innovations; star shafts among them, he nor Menkaure incorporated these features into their own pyramids? Or anyone else ever for that matter. Regardless, on what planet do we accept viewing a star, either to actually see or shoot a soul at, whether it is at a certain date or not; is to be achieved through a wall, around several bends, through doors, and then through 20+ft of the exterior of the building? Not happening. And the KC is no better as the northern shaft has no less than four bends zigzagging to and fro and the southern shaft has two with a varying shaft size and shape along its length. The idea the G1 shafts were stellar aligned is nothing new and has been bandied about for several decades; long before the likes of Bauval and Spence. The inherent difficulties of this theory as I have noted above are often conveniently dismissed as “irrelevant” with the idea they did not actually have to make sense as they were merely “magical” in nature and not meant to serve a practical purpose either physically or symbolically. Any engineer who looks at these shafts would agree they are a technological marvel unto themselves and one of the most daunting architectural aspects of building G1 and yet them actually functioning in any logical way to serve the purpose ascribed to them is “irrelevant”? If this is the case then it goes without saying they would truly be “magical” indeed. There will be those that disagree. There will be charts and graphs and all else in between offered to show how these shafts could have lined up with any number of stars at any given time and yet none will trump the physical evidence that clearly contradicts this novel idea. Maybe instead of “magical shafts” that do nothing to actually serve the purpose ascribed to them, maybe the riddle of when G1 and the other great pyramids were built should be taken from a different, much simpler and more practical approach. We know these pyramids were aligned to the cardinal points. We know their descending passages were polar passages just as we know Thuban was the pole star at this time. We know that numerous structures, including these very same pyramids, throughout AE history were aligned to the pole star regardless of the pole star of the time. While the shafts of G1 resemble absolutely nothing one would expect of a star shaft, the descending passages of the great pyramids clearly do, and if so would have been made to view Thuban, the pole star of the time, which could only have been, according to astronomer Richard Proctor, sometime around 3,550BC-3,150BC. There are many variables here so this is a working theory. which may well be wrong, and with more thorough measurements and analysis I expect would refine the dates accordingly. But based on the notion the descending passages of the great pyramids were set as polar passages during a time Thuban was the pole star it stands to reason this may be a way to date them. (Lee Anderson)

Hi, I am 30 years old. A few months ago I experienced something that really surprised me a lot. I have tried a lot how to explain it but I fail. I am wondering if someone has experienced the same. The thing is, a few months back, all of a sudden I started recalling some very old dreams (while awake), including dreams from my childhood when I used to live in a hilly village. Without any feedback from my current surroundings, without any apparent reason and at any point of time during the day all of a sudden I would start remembering some dream I had years ago. This happened with so frequently and so automatically that I was really shocked. Practically all of those dreams I had completely forgotten years ago, none of them haunted me nor appeared in conscious memory because of being interesting, until this process started around January this year. Practically none of was a nightmare either. And I am in good health, had no injury nor do I take any drugs. A I can say that I must have recalled automatically at least several hundred dreams most of which were at least 15 to 20 years old. Has it happened with any of you guys? Did you find any reasonable explanation?

A French couple and their children have found a rather unique way of dealing with a haunting in their apartment. https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/349051/family-sleeps-on-balcony-to-avoid-angry-ghost