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Hello Loopers, Yoopers, and Scoopers







In this issue:



This Week's Show: Scott Marlowe & Lloyd Pye, Giants and Pygmies and
Hobbits, OH MY!




Op/Ed: See Possum Holler News



This Day in History: 20 November



Possum Holler News: Frost on the Pumpkin



Other news: Archaeologists try to date the Brodgar megaliths on Orkney



Events: Send your organization's events to oz@...





Last week's show: Seeing the Elephant





Next week's show: (tentative) Dennis Stone, American Stonehenge



Dec 4: Crystal Trickle, Alignments and Inscriptions in the Heartland



Site of the week : Hobbit bones






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This Week's Show: Scott Marlowe & Lloyd Pye, Giants & Pygmies & Hobbits,
Oh My!


Scott Marlowe of Pangea Institute and Lloyd Pye of the Starchild Project
discuss the history and extant evidence of various "lost races" of humans or
our close relatives. From Sasquatch to Orang Pendat to Flores Island
"hobbits" to Puk Wudjiinees of Keewnaw Peninsula to the Little people of
Lookout Mountain, oral tradition of other humanoids is finding more and more
scientific acceptance.





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Op/Ed: See Possum Holler News, below



Frost on the Pumpkin





This section is for you, the audience. You are welcome to contribute to it.
Submit your "stuff" to

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Today in History - Nov. 20



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a.. 284 - Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor.
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a.. 762 - Bögü, Khan of the Uyghurs, conquers Lo-Yang, capital of the
Chinese Empire.
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a.. 1194 - Palermo is conquered by Emperor Henry VI.
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a.. 1407 - A truce between John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy and Louis of
Valois, Duke of Orléans is agreed under the auspices of John, Duke of Berry.
Orléans would be assassinated three days later by Burgundy.
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a.. 1695 - Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early
Brazil, is executed.
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a.. 1700 - Great Northern War: Battle of Narva - King Charles XII of Sweden
defeats the army of Tsar Peter the Great at Narva.
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a.. 1789 - New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of
Rights.
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a.. 1820 - An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from
Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South
America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this
story).
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a.. 1861 - Secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate
government.
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a.. 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union
agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy
ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
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a.. 1984 - The SETI Institute is founded.
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a.. 1985 - Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
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a.. 1989 - Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague,
Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated
half-million.
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a.. 1992 - In England, a fire breaks out in the Private Chapel of Windsor
Castle, rages for 15 hours, and seriously damages the northwest side of the
building (an investigation found that the fire was ignited after a spotlight
came into contact with a curtain over an extended period).
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a.. 1993 - Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics
Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his
"dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.


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Possum Holler News

Frost on the Pumpkin


As I write this, it's 21 degrees outside at Possum Holler. Have I mentioned
I'm a weather wuss? I like warmth, so this time of year I like being inside.
In years past, I enjoyed sitting by the wood heating stove or open
fireplace. Heck, I even enjoyed cutting the wood myself. My knees,
shoulders, and back have caused me to develop a different opinion of what's
enjoyable. Now I sit near the furnace duct and put on more layers.

I still enjoy an occasional fire outside, where I don't have to pack wood to
the basement and pack the ashes out again (and clean the chimney and spray
for bugs and pay more for insurance). Henry Ford advised to "Cut your own
firewood. You'll be warm twice".

Henry never knew about Denver's clean air statutes...or about "carbon
credits" or "global warming". Henry would be appalled, I think. It makes
good economic sense to conserve, to recycle and to re-use (Henry sure didn't
have a problem with that one), but for a bunch of people to dictate whether
I'm warm or not is, well, dictatorial. Or maybe it's totalitarian, no
significant difference when you're cold. If I or anyone else is shivering,
it's criminal, a veritable crime against humanity to try to make money off
the desire to light a fire and use whatever fuel is readily available, be it
cordwood, crude oil, coal, camel dung, or cow chips.

I like science. I have a strong affinity for scientific method. I wish the
UN did. Study: UN Global Warming Forecast Violates Accepted Principles

The UN report on climate change was written around a desired outcome rather
than what the evidence supported. It was Bad science done by bad scientists
and worse politicians with the sole intended result of wringing more money
out of the world populace.

I think I'm gonna go kill a tree and fire up the stove...naw, I'll pick one
that's already dead, they burn better and make less creosote.




Click on the thumbnail to see Lee Pennington introduce "Secrets of the
Stones"






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Other news:



a.. The secrets of Knowth - 2 days ago Forty years ago, archaeologist George
Eogan became the first person in centuries to see the underground passage
tomb at Knowth in Meath (Ireland), part of Brú na Bóinne (Bend of...
a.. 5 walled cities from 300 BCE unearthed in India - 2 days ago Andhras
flourished much before the advent of the Satavahanas, and were said to be as
powerful as Mauryans. They had 30 fortified walled cities way back in 300
BCE, wrote...
a.. Vietnamese cave reveals relics and tombs from the Neolithic - 2 days ago
Archaeologists have finished the second phase of excavation at Phia Mun
Cave, Na Hang District in the province of Tuyen Quang (Viet Nam) and have
uncovered over 1,000 relics and...
a.. Archaeologists try to date the Brodgar megaliths on Orkney - 2 days ago
The Ring of Brodgar, the third largest standing stone circle in Britain and
the Ness of Brodgar, its accompanying settlement site, have been the focus
of an investigation funded by...
a.. 2,900 year old Phoenician remains unearthed in Lebanon - 2 days ago
Lebanese and Spanish archaeologists have discovered 2,900-year-old
earthenware pottery that ancient Phoenicians used to store the bones of
their dead after burning the corpses.



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Ancient Kentucke Historical Association

Newsletter

Nov. 23rd, 2:30 PM AKHA Meeting at Marilyn Michael’s home
Lee Pennington update on trip to Welsh Caves in Ft.
Payne, AL.; update on the Ancient American Conference in Marquette,
MI.

Nov. 29th, 2:00 PM Falls of Ohio

Africa

It is one of the great ironies of archaeology that the country thought now
to be the very place where human history began would for many years be
considered to have no real history of its own. From medieval times on, the
spectacular ruins of the southern African kingdom of great Zimbabwe could
not be accepted by European settlers as having been built by Africa’s native
people.

European “experts” proposed instead that Zimbabwe was built by everyone
from wandering Phoenicians to the biblical Queen of Sheba, but certainly not
Africans.

A different story has now emerged not only of the fabulous “lost city” of
Great Zimbabwe, but also of the amazing Swahili Coast, which was a thriving
trade center of gold and ivory until the 16th century.

After centuries of racial prejudice and neglect, the world has come to
realize the extraordinary achievements of Africa’s indigenous people


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