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For those who don't know, the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast has a segment called Science or Fiction, in which the main host Steve gives his panel of skeptics three news items or facts, two of them real and one of them fictitious, and asks them to guess which one is the fake. There was...

A post in the Israeli Jar thread got me thinking. What discoveries do we know of that were discovered by more than one society (or person) in more than one place? Pyramid structures. Use of hallucinogenic drugs (as per the interesting post by @grunion ). Beer/alcohol. What else? And have you...

Was a Letter from Thomas and Abraham Lincoln lost because of a flawed expert opinion? At my last Family reunion I saw my Great Great Great Grandfather's Bible, and a letter that was supposed to be from Thomas Lincoln too him, this was in 1987-1988. It was written on back of a Map Drawn by...

I have just listened to the first episode. It was great. I never heard of the attempted (and successful) coup in France in 1934, before:

Quite busy reading about Leon Battista Alberti whom I've never known of before and finding his life and accomplishments inspirational at my ripe old age. Considering how long ago he lived it is understood why it took me this long to find out about the man. Too new to me to who he was to say...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOd0hfECvKE&t=59s&ab_channel=SkepticSalamander

The History channel was running a show yesterday called The New Nostradamus, profiling mathemetician/social scientist Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, who has a computer program/model that can reputedly make accurate predictions about various human affairs and conflicts. Alas, I did not get to watch...

Forget the Moon Landings, everyone knows they were faked. What people don't know and should know is that an even more important and rare first was achieved over nine years earlier within the bathyscaphe Trieste. Don Walsh was a deep cover CIA operative that had covertly infiltrated the US...

Specifically I'm wondering how things like the American War of Independence or Civil War are taught outside of America. Now the War of Independence did involve a lot of countries so I'd imagine it'd have to be covered to some degree but I'm curious as to how extensively it's covered and what the...

I can understand the uproar over Churchill, Hitler, Gandhi, and others being cut from school curriculum, but is there a reason Wilberforce shouldn't be taught? I realize he's not as historically significant as the others, but Randi's commentary left me with the suspicion that Wilberforce was...

I heard about this ten years ago. http://www.angelfire.com/biz5/piso/ Quick summary, the Roman Piso family wrote the Gospels. It is hard to sum it up, but it is an extensive theory that goes into great detail of the hows and whys. In my experience, the author gets hammered by just about...

So I have just spent the last few weeks travelling up and down the east coast of Australia - had to go to Melbourne for a wedding. I did some site seeing as well and travelled a distance of 4240 kilometres - phew !! Anyway, on my trip I meet a high ranking public servant who works for the...

Who might be considered the greatest Canadian of all-time?

Inspired from discussion on "The Dark Ages are coming back fast… " , would one ever want to live 'back then', where 'back then' is any time in the past? Who'd want to forsake all the improvements that we know have occured since that time in the past? Or, would you forsake the known...

Some of these programs depicting UFO's in ancient paintings and ancient texts do seem a little interesting. Why was there such an interest in those periods, some more than others. I am watching a show that "heaven" in the bible simply means sky and that god "could" have been an alien. I...

Probably ties in with the new movie but it appears the History Channel will be running several shows on the WTC and 9/11. Looks like each show is broadcast at 7pm and repeated at 11pm (central time) 8/14 - The Miracle of Stairway B, about the 16 survivors from stairway b that survived the...

I'm debating the Bible with a Christian on another forum. He claimed the bible (New Testament) was true, because it was written by eye witnesses. I then made the claim that the Bible as we know it today was put together by the Council of Nicea, and that many books didn't make it into the book...

In the current issue of Natural History Magazine http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/ there are multiple pro/con/debate articles of interest on Intelligent Design and Evolution including introductory articles by Dawkins and Behe. Keep scrolling on Position statement intro by Behe: and………...

My letter to the History Channel To whom it may concern As an avid fan of your Cable channel and a serious history buff I must express my dismay at your new show “Psychic History”, what place does this kind of nonsense have on your network...

http://imnh.isu.edu/index.htm http://imnh.isu.edu/News/Bigfoot_web.pdf Title says it all.

From the Fortean Times:

I've been re-reading a couple of George MacDonald Fraser's excellent "Flashman" novels. Start with the fine upstanding character of Brigadier-General Sir Harry Paget Flashman, V.C., K.C.B., K.C.I.E., Chevalier, Legion of Honour, U.S. Medal of Honour, etc., etc. Flashman is a professional...

I don’t know if this will be of interest to, well, anyone at all, but I wanted a place to write down what I found out about this song, and if it did interest anyone, feel free to correct me, or add what you know :) Anyway, I watched Walk the Line the other night, a film about Johnny Cash (jolly...

In another thread a discussion began about american history and the civil war. Rather than pollute someone else's thread, I thought I would move the discussion here. Many years ago I was visiting a friend in New York for christmas. I left right after school let out and arrived about 10 days...

For me, Cezanne. You?

I am having a discussion with a person who has been going on about what a moral cess pool we are as a society and that the only period of high morality was in ancient Israel. I pointed out that issues like slavery, prostitution, Gambling, Homosexuality, Child Labor, Government Corruption and...

Was surprised when my site search didn't turn up anything on this. This morning the History Channel was once again running their documentary/interview with Bob Lazar, supposed former Area 51 employee and engineer on alien spacecraft. Aside from the obivious that it is eye witness testimony...

An issue very dear to me: The preservation of history. Our history. Mine, yours, ours. It tells us who we are, where we come from. And, possibly, where we are going. Stonehenge. The Pyramids of Egypt. Angkor Wat. The Colosseum. Sure, a doozy. Big tourist attractions. A quick-and-dirty way of...

My wife and kid and I were just in Fort Erie Ontario visiting her family last week and we decided to take my kid and a couple of his cousins across the border into Buffalo to check out the Nat History Museum (They have dinosaur skeletons there, so the kids were really keen on going.) I had...

I was watching the Roman Engineering documentary series on the History Channel, when I saw a familiar jawline. Then the title "Peter Weller, Syracuse University," appeared on the screen. I knew he had taken a break from acting in the late 90's to pursue a masters, but I had assumed it was in...