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  Topic: Naturally occurring biological warfare.
Jorn

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PostForum: NEW CONCEPTS   Posted: 7:02 pm   Subject: Naturally occurring biological warfare.
Attractive...but we know that large parts of the European Neanderthal area remained afforrested until long after their disappearance. Why didn't they just hunker down and exploit their advantages in t ...
  Topic: Naturally occurring biological warfare.
Jorn

Replies: 38
Views: 27039

PostForum: NEW CONCEPTS   Posted: 3:45 am   Subject: Naturally occurring biological warfare.
Alcohol was never banned in Scandinavia...

D'you get a lot of plague in Scandinavia?

Nothing like the 1350 one.

As for comparisons with other countries, I don't know. Like always you got more ...
  Topic: Naturally occurring biological warfare.
Jorn

Replies: 38
Views: 27039

PostForum: NEW CONCEPTS   Posted: 3:04 am   Subject: Naturally occurring biological warfare.
The Brits produced one in India in 1877

The death toll from this famine is estimated between 5.5 million to 29 million.
Then another one during the Second World War.

I don't really buy that one ...
  Topic: Naturally occurring biological warfare.
Jorn

Replies: 38
Views: 27039

PostForum: NEW CONCEPTS   Posted: 8:29 pm   Subject: Naturally occurring biological warfare.
"Ban alcohol."

Alcohol was never banned in Scandinavia until the 20. century. Forcing everybody to brew beer is some of the oldest laws we have.

It is a quite a rational law as well, a ...
  Topic: Naturally occurring biological warfare.
Jorn

Replies: 38
Views: 27039

PostForum: NEW CONCEPTS   Posted: 7:49 pm   Subject: Naturally occurring biological warfare.

Starvation in short. But the only instances of mass starvation that come to mind were engineered deliberately and then covered up for many decades (not even talked about 'at home').

I am not awar ...
  Topic: Naturally occurring biological warfare.
Jorn

Replies: 38
Views: 27039

PostForum: NEW CONCEPTS   Posted: 8:18 pm   Subject: Naturally occurring biological warfare.

But is there another way to explain "The Plague?"
Economic collapse.

Your answer lacks the simplicity and elegance present in my father's proposal. Your model also lacks his model's i ...
  Topic: Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November
Jorn

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PostForum: British History   Posted: 7:05 pm   Subject: Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November

On second thought, I don't think the "bon" in "bonfire" has anything to do with bones. I think this is just a word meaning "great" or "good." The word survive ...
  Topic: Naturally occurring biological warfare.
Jorn

Replies: 38
Views: 27039

PostForum: NEW CONCEPTS   Posted: 6:03 pm   Subject: Naturally occurring biological warfare.

But is there another way to explain "The Plague?"

If we assume it wasn't a plague at all, what could produce death-by-disease on such a massive scale?

Economic collapse.

The popu ...
  Topic: Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November
Jorn

Replies: 280
Views: 185540

PostForum: British History   Posted: 2:31 pm   Subject: Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November
It seems that the knowledge is lost, that you need something that eats the dead animals and insects in a well, for the water to stay disease free.

Wikipedia recommends:

The well should be clean ...
  Topic: Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November
Jorn

Replies: 280
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PostForum: British History   Posted: 2:27 pm   Subject: Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November
I looked it up.

Bone meal was used as a flux, and even to refine metals.

One trick if your silver has a lot of base metals in it is to melt it with lead.
This is the best way to do electric ...
  Topic: Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November
Jorn

Replies: 280
Views: 185540

PostForum: British History   Posted: 1:12 pm   Subject: Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November
Or perhaps you could just tell us. I did try.

It has been a while since I read about it, and the use seems to have varied from place to place and also through the ages.

Basically bone fire ash ...
  Topic: What About Them Apples?
Jorn

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PostForum: History   Posted: 10:02 am   Subject: What About Them Apples?

We are all Doggermen.

http://nextnature.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/2007_dogger_re-engineered_satelite_photo_530.jpg

Scandinavia seems to have been settled in three waves.

One group fro ...
  Topic: Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November
Jorn

Replies: 280
Views: 185540

PostForum: British History   Posted: 9:32 am   Subject: Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November

The dragon, serpent and snake, are all symbols of knowledge and self-awareness. (See the physician's symbol) . In Christian Sunday Schools, we were taught that snakes giving us knowledge is a Bad T ...
  Topic: Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November
Jorn

Replies: 280
Views: 185540

PostForum: British History   Posted: 9:10 am   Subject: Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November

Bone Fire = Bonfire

How about reading why they burnt bones?

If you google burnt bone fertilizer, you will get an idea.

They might also have used the ashes to make other chemicals they need ...
  Topic: Does the Celtic Cross pre-date Christianity?
Jorn

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PostForum: History   Posted: 10:00 pm   Subject: Does the Celtic Cross pre-date Christianity?
The answer is yes.

The sun cross, also known as the wheel cross, Odin's cross, or Woden's cross,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_cross

I think sun cross is the best name, as it represents the ...
 
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