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| Ishy | Jun 27 2011, 02:28 PM Post #1 |
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I'm reading the something awful forums and I come to happen upon the History thread of crazy things and honestly, maybe I didn't even know. So here is one that was posted... >Phantom time hypothesis The Phantom time hypothesis is a conspiracy theory developed by Heribert Illig (born 1947 in Vohenstrauß, Germany) in 1991. It proposes that there has been a systematic effort to make it appear that periods of history, specifically that of Europe during the Early Middle Ages (AD 614–911) exist, when they do not. Illig believed that this was achieved through the alteration, misrepresentation and forgery of documentary and physical evidence.[1] Gregorian calendarThe theory also stems from a claim of Illig's regarding the relation between the Julian calendar, Gregorian calendar and the underlying astronomical solar or tropical year. The Julian calendar, introduced by Julius Caesar, was long known to introduce a discrepancy from the tropical year of around one day, for each century that the calendar was in use. By the time the Gregorian calendar was introduced in AD 1582, Illig alleges that the old Julian calendar "should" have produced a discrepancy of thirteen days between it and the real (or tropical) calendar. Instead, the astronomers and mathematicians working for Pope Gregory had found that the civil calendar needed to be adjusted by only ten days. From this, Illig concludes that the AD era had counted roughly three centuries which never existed.[2] In fact, the Gregorian reform was never intended to bring the calendar in line with the Julian calendar as it had existed in AD 1, but as it had existed in 325, the time of the Council of Nicaea, which had established a method for determining the date of Easter Sunday by fixing the Vernal Equinox on March 20 in the Julian calendar. By 1582, the astronomical equinox was occurring on March 10 in the Julian calendar, but Easter was still being calculated from a nominal equinox on March 20. The Gregorian reform was never intended or purported to restore the relationship between calendar date and astronomical equinox to what it had been at the time of the institution of the Julian calendar in 45 BC, 369 years before the council of Nicaea, when the astronomical vernal equinox took place around March 23. Illig's "three missing centuries" thus correspond to the period between the fixing of Anno Domini reckoning to begin at AD 1 and the fixing of the Easter Date at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325. Basis of his hypothesisThe basis of Illig's hypothesis is the paucity of archaeological evidence that can be reliably dated to the period AD 614–911, on perceived inadequacies of radiometric and dendrochronological methods of dating this period, and on the over-reliance of medieval historians on written sources. For Western Europe, Illig claims the presence of Romanesque architecture in the tenth century as evidence that less than half a millennium could have passed since the fall of the Roman Empire, and concludes that the entire Carolingian period, including the person of Charlemagne, is a forgery of medieval chroniclers, more precisely a conspiracy instigated by Otto III and Gerbert d'Aurillac. Arguments against the hypothesisThere are several dating methods which contradict the theory. Observations in ancient astronomy agree with current observations with no 'phantom time' added; for example the end of the Greco-Persian Wars was marked by two solar eclipses within a year and a half; the only possible dates are 2 October 480 BCE and 14 February 478 BCE.[3] Dating methods such as dendrochronology show that the phantom time hypothesis is incorrect, as do records of sightings of Halley's Comet. [4] Furthermore, written records from China's Tang Dynasty, Korea's North South States Period, India's Chalukya and Chola Empires and the Rashidun Caliphate in Asia Minor coincide with the proposed missing years.[chronology citation needed] >The London Beer Flood occurred on October 17, 1814 in the parish of St. Giles, London, England. At the Meux and Company Brewery[1] on Tottenham Court Road,[1][2] a huge vat containing over 135,000 imperial gallons (610,000 L) of beer ruptured, causing other vats in the same building to succumb in a domino effect. As a result, more than 323,000 imperial gallons (1,470,000 L) of beer burst out and gushed into the streets. The wave of beer destroyed two homes and crumbled the wall of the Tavistock Arms Pub, trapping teenaged employee Eleanor Cooper under the rubble.[3] The brewery was located among the poor houses and tenements of the St Giles Rookery, where whole families lived in basement rooms that quickly filled with beer. Eight people drowned in the flood >The Pig War was a confrontation in 1859 between the United States and the British Empire over the boundary between the US and British North America. The specific area in dispute was the San Juan Islands, which lie between Vancouver Island and the North American mainland. The Pig War, so called because it was triggered by the shooting of a pig, is also called the Pig Episode, the Pig and Potato War, the San Juan Boundary Dispute or the Northwestern Boundary Dispute. The pig was the only casualty of the war, making the dispute otherwise bloodless. >who could forget the Defenestration of Prague? Protestant mob chucks some unpopular Catholic nobles (and their secretary) out of a 70-foot window. They survive the encounter because they landed in a pile of poo poo. The secretary is later made a noble by the Holy Roman Emperor, with the title "Baron of Highfall." >1871: Clement Vallandigham, U.S. Congressman and political opponent of Abraham Lincoln, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound suffered in court while representing the defendant in a murder case. Demonstrating how the murder victim could have inadvertently shot himself, the gun, which Vallandigham believed to be unloaded, discharged and mortally wounded him. The defendant was acquitted. >> I'll add more later when I'm bored. Edited by Ishy, Jun 27 2011, 02:52 PM.
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| Ishy | Jun 27 2011, 02:44 PM Post #2 |
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Also... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths |
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| Valric | Jul 3 2011, 07:40 AM Post #3 |
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WOW what A find you know I am making a list of consperisy's nice add |
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| Ishy | Jul 14 2011, 03:18 PM Post #4 |
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The US Air Force was once looking into making a Gay Bomb:
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| Ishy | Jul 14 2011, 03:21 PM Post #5 |
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The Daily Mail:
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| Ishy | Jul 14 2011, 03:38 PM Post #6 |
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Demon Core:
Nazi Cows
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| Ishy | Jul 14 2011, 03:47 PM Post #7 |
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Trying to include links when and if I can, sorry folks.
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| Ishy | Jul 14 2011, 03:58 PM Post #8 |
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Supersonic Low Altitude Missile
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Edited by Ishy, Jul 14 2011, 04:00 PM.
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| Ishy | Jul 14 2011, 04:02 PM Post #9 |
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Pinball was Illegal
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| Ishy | Jul 14 2011, 04:08 PM Post #10 |
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Tsar Bomba
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