POLIO: HAVE YOU BEEN VACCINATED? Poliomyelitis. It is a virus, and you mostly likely were vaccinated. And as a result, the Americas were declared free of this pestilence in 1994, Europe in 2002. Remember the "March of Dimes?" 2,680,000 of those little metal chimes were mailed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he started [...]
Tag: Egypt
Smallpox: Are We Kidding Ourselves?
SMALLPOX: ARE WE KIDDING OURSELVES? That we killed it? It is an old disease, but not a biblically listed scourge [maybe the population was too low]. But it does seem to be reflected in the older Egyptian record. And there were plenty of people and epidemics on that river down there in the desert [or [...]
A Plague on us: The beginnings of Pandemics!(mini-podcast)
A PLAGUE ON US: THE BEGINNING OF PANDEMICS!
A PLAGUE ON US: THE BEGINNING OF PANDEMICS! I suppose we had forgotten. Until we got our own pandemic. Didn't Salk and Sabin take care of these things? More about them later. Another article. That's Polio. Let us start, then, at the beginning. Except that we can't go that far back in antiquity. [...]
The Sea Peoples
THE SEA PEOPLES Rarely is change so complete. So damaging. So replete. Maybe when the Neanderthals were killed off? When the Roman Empire collapsed? When Chinese dynasties died? Catastrophic change. And none greater than the destruction of the great Mycenaean Palace states of Greece and the Middle East. Empires of chariots and bronze! Who did [...]
THE WORLD ORDER THAT COLLAPSED BEFORE-mini-podcast!
AKHENATEN, TUT, AND ZANNANZA!-mini-podcast
AKHENATEN, TUT, AND ZANNANZA!
AKHENATEN, TUT, AND ZANNANZA! "My husband is dead. I have no son. But they say that you have many sons. If you would give me one of your sons, he would become my husband." And Pharaoh! The request is in Akkadian cuneiform, but from the wife of an Egyptian King. It is written to Suppiluliuma, [...]
THUTMOSE III OF EGYPT: GREATER THAN EITHER ALEXANDER OR NAPOLEON?
THUTMOSE III OF EGYPT: GREATER THAN EITHER ALEXANDER OR NAPOLEON? Power is a growing fire. The more it consumes, the larger the slaughter. It is only bound by the fuel it finds. Opportunity found to grow and follow. Follow a Pharaoh willing to wield its power. Follow him to Canaanite Megiddo. Chariots race the Jezreel [...]
HATSHEPSUT, THUTMOSE, AKHENATEN, AND TUT; THE PRICE OF POWER IN THE 18TH DYNASTY!
HATSHEPSUT, THUTMOSE, AKHENATEN, AND TUT; THE PRICE OF POWER IN THE 18TH DYNASTY! It had to do with a splendid security. Life leavening waters following long, linear banks. A green-fringed river flowing north, flooding north, through the cruelest of deserts. Water! Food! Food for many! And many man made monuments celebrating gods and rulers for [...]