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Just kind of a side point on Abram's rescue of his nephew lot. When he was returning they met the priest Melchizedek (meaning king of righteousness), king of salem and gave him a tenth of the spoil, many scholers believe that Melchizedek may have been Shem, Noahs son, Shems life overlapped that of Abram by many years. Shem's death occured 13 years after Sarah, and ten years after the marriage of Issac and Rebekah.
Lots of shows and books debunking it. He brought this on himself by trying to pass it off as factual. I did read it and it was a page turner, though I thought the premise was a bunch of malarky.
The publish date is 1975 by Dennis McLoughlin. The title is wild and woolly, an encycloperida of the old west.
I am not to famileir with how a forum program works, does the software tell you the search phrases or did you have to do the homework yourself?
Both volumes are really a good read, even if your not in to his fiction stuff, he really knows his naughtical history, you'll find his discovery of the CSA sub The Hunley interesting.
I dont have anything anymore, but I once owned an army cot that had a majors name stenciled underneath and the date 1944.
I actually am going to NY this fall and plan on visiting the area. I really liked gangs of new york. However Asburys book on which the movie is based is not entirly accurate. If you want to read a good acount of the riots, (even though the book is fiction) read love and war by John Jakes. It's a pretty accurate description of what happened.
On June On June 28, 1914, at approximately 11:00 am, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were killed in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a member of Young Bosnia (or perhaps The Black Hand). The event, known as the Assassination in Sarajevo, was the trigger of World War I. Franz Ferdinand is interred in Schlo? Artstetten, Austria.Nothing has been the same since.
Check out Clive Cuslers 'Sea hunters II' I think he has a very plausable theory about the fate of the Mary Celeste.
Patrick Kennedy sailed from Ireland in 1849 on the Ship The Washington Irving bound for Boston. He had a son they called PJ,Who after his father died when he was ten months old grew up in Boston and worked odd jobs until he saved enough money to buy a saloon in Haymarket square. He became partner in two more saloons and finally became a wholesale liquor distributor. In 1886 he was elected to the Massachusetts house of representitives and later to the senate. P.J.'s son Joseph got his start much the same way. He made a fortune on the stock market and also bootlegging whiskey during prohibition.
I've never visited the northeast, But I have been to St Augustine Florida. Settled by the spanish in the 1500's it was incredible, if you go visit the lighthouse, the original I think was built in 1563, or there abouts.
It most certainly was not Columbus. Not taking away from his feat of sailing across the atlantic at a time when it was not so easy to do, but I think this whole 'Columbus discovered America' thing is certainly one of the biggest historical myths of all time. Not only were 'native americans' here but the vikings had made it here long before columbus.
