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Ancient Discoveries
hillsbororiver:
Hi Everyone,
As some of you know I am very interested in ancient history and science and I know that there are others here who find these things fascinating as well.
Tonight at 10PM (EST) there is a program on the History Channel about the size and strength of ancient navies that we probably did not learn about in school
Here is the lead in from the website;
What you thought was modern may in fact be ancient...
Ancient Discoveries.
Robots and helicopters, trains and cars, cranes and machines for building the mammoth structures that mark our largest cities. All testaments to our modern intelligence and ingenuity, right? Maybe not. Perhaps all these inventions, and many more, were conceived thousands of years ago in places like ancient Egypt, Greece, and the Far East. Go back millennia to see how our ancestors’ grandest ideas mirror those of modern society in the series ANCIENT DISCOVERIES.
Ancient Super Navies
Using the latest scientific techniques to solve the greatest mysteries of the ancient world's naval technology, our team of modelmakers, underwater detectives and elite naval commandos are investigating legends that speak of lethal, high explosive grenades... covert underwater attack equipment... and highly toxic biological warfare. Their life-threatening experiments will forever transform our understanding of antiquity's greatest naval inventions.
Rating: TVPG
Running Time: 60 minutes
Genre:Mysteries of History
http://www.history.com/minisite.do?mini_id=52979
Enjoy!
hillsbororiver:
Ecc 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
Ecc 1:10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. ;D
Peace,
Joe
Matt:
I will mark my calender! Fortunately for me, most of the programs here are recorded in the US and broadcast 1 week later for the military on the Armed Forces Network.
I especially love these topics mentioned. My dad used to read me bedtime stories from the encyclopedia, so I was the only kid in 2nd grade who knew strange topics like the speed of light, the accomplishments of Archimedes, black holes, etc... Other kids watched Sesame Street, I had to watch Cosmos!
Great Scriptures too!
:)
Matt
hillsbororiver:
--- Quote from: Matthew on February 04, 2008, 05:59:10 PM ---
My dad used to read me bedtime stories from the encyclopedia, so I was the only kid in 2nd grade who knew strange topics like the speed of light, the accomplishments of Archimedes, black holes, etc... Other kids watched Sesame Street, I had to watch Cosmos!
Great Scriptures too!
:)
Matt
--- End quote ---
;D
Hi Matt,
We have a similar background in regard to the bedtime stories of our youth, I am a few (well,maybe more than a few) years older than you (53 currently) and as a 7-8-9 year old television was not quite what it is today (both good and bad there for sure). We had only 2 channels (CBS & NBC) until 1961 when ABC was added, a year later we got our first UHF channel, needless to say without computers, the Internet, cable TV, etc. books were more than paperweights and decorations on bookshelves for most everyone I knew but especially my Mom who always had a book or two going and the local librarians all knew her on a first name basis.
At that time (early 60's) A&P grocery as well as Loblaw's (another grocery chain) had hardcover children's encyclopedias where a new edition would be released every month, all that was needed was to buy a certain amount of groceries (maybe $20 worth) and you get a free book, these books were great and opened up the world of science, astronomy and history to me and I read and reread them all cover to cover at night in bed, sometimes under the covers with a flashlight if it were past "lights out" time.
You gave me a laugh as I remembered the looks from classmates when I would speak of Ptolemy, Aristotle, Galileo, Peter the Great, and a host of other things, it would surprise me when they did not know of this stuff, I thought everybody read those books!
I am looking forward to that program in a couple hours and I hope you enjoy it too.
His Peace to you,
Joe
Arthyron:
A friend of mine linked me to an interesting website (not all the information there is valid, but there are some gems of truth there) called http://s8int.com that just has a lot of historical and scientific anomalies discovered through time that are grounds to re-consider what we know as "history." Many of them seem to be Biblically related. Again, take it with a grain of salt, but it reminds me very much of this history channel documentary.
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