History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

New Museums: Contemporary Museum Architecture Around the World (Universe Architecture Series)

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31 museums in only good photos

New Museums: Contemporary Museum Architecture Around the World (Universe Architecture Series)
Mimi Zeiger
Manufacturer: Universe
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ASIN: 0789312271
Release Date: 2005-09-27

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Since the opening in 1997 of the Guggenheim Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry, museum architecture has enjoyed worldwide attention on an unprecedented scale. That single watershed project demonstrated to municipalities that architecture has the power to transform the image of an entire city, thus making the turn of the twenty-first century the unofficial age of the museum building.
New Museums examines the boom in high-design museum projects in detail, beginning with the Guggenheim Bilbao’s groundbreaking role in the development of contemporary museum architecture. It continues with a beautifully illustrated tour of 30 examples of the most innovative and exciting museum architecture around the world, including Tadao Ando’s Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, Zaha Hadid’s Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Renzo Piano’s Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, and many others.

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31 museums in only good photos.......2007-02-09

31 museums in this small size survey at only 6.5 x 8.25 inches (16.5 x 21 cm) are depicted only by photos, but good ones. Following the introductory part on 12 pages, each of 31 buildings is headed by a description filling up a title page with text followed by 5 pages with only photos. This is an album-like book without any technical edge. It is similar to the book "New Museums" (ISBN: 0714844985), but only a half of its size and... splendor. Like all from the Universe Architecture series, it is compact and well published.
CONTENTS:
6 Introduction
18 Contemporary Art Museum; St. Louis, Missouri; Allied Works Architecture
24 Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts; St. Louis, Missouri; Tadao Ando
30 Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art; Helsinki, Finland; Steven Holl Architects
36 Contemporary Arts Center (CAC); Cincinnati, Ohio; Zaha Hadid
42 Jewish Museum; Berlin, Germany; Daniel Libeskind
48 American Folk Art Museum; New York, New York; Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates
54 Museum of Modern Art, Queens; Long Island City, Queens, New York; Michael Maltzan and Cooper, Robertson & Partners
60 Museum of Modern Art; New York, New York; Yoshio Taniguchi
66 Kunsthaus Graz; Graz, Austria; Spacelab Cook-Fournier
72 Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation; Vienna, Austria; Ortner and Ortner
78 Kunsthaus Bregenz; Bregenz, Austria; Peter Zumthor
84 Tate Modern; London, England; Herzog & de Meuron
90 Dia:Beacon; Beacon, New York; Robert lrwin and OpenOffice Art + Architecture Collaborative
96 0-Museum; Iida, Nagano, Japan; SANAA
102 Kalkriese Archaeological Museum Park; Kalkriese, Germany; Gigon & Guyer
108 Paper Art Museum; Shizuoka, Japan; Shigeru Ban
114 Art Pavilion "De Verbeelding"; Zeewolde, Netherlands; René van Zuuk Architects
120 Makino Museum of Plants and People; Shikoku Island, Japan; Hiroshi Naito
126 Echigo-Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science; Matsunoyama, Japan; Takaharu + Yui Tezuka Architects
132 De Young Museum; San Francisco, California; Herzog & de Meuron
136 Vulcania: Parc Europeen du Volcanisme; Saint-Ours les Roches, Auvergne, France; Hans Hollein
142 Mesquite Heritage Museum and Art Center; Mesquite, Nevada; AssemblageSTUDlO
148 Luyeyuan Sculpture Museum; Sichuan Province, China; Jiakun Liu
154 Stone Museum; Nasu, Japan; Kengo Kuma & Associates
160 asher Sculpture Center; Dallas, Texas; Renzo Piano Building Workshop
166 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Fort Worth, Texas; Tadao Ando
174 Nevada Museum of Art; Reno, Nevada; William Bruder
180 Bellevue Arts Museum; Bellevue, Washington; Steven Holl Architects
186 Moderna Museet; Stockholm, Sweden; Rafael Moneo
192 Museu Serralves; Oporto, Portugal; Alvaro Siza
200 Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College; Saratoga Springs, New York; Antoine Predock
206 Notes
207 Photography Credits
208 Resources

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A Copybook for Japanese Ink-Painting

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A Copybook for Japanese Ink-Painting

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Copybook for Japanese Ink Painting 1ST Edition
Reiko Chiba
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A Copybook for Japanese Ink-Painting
Reiko (Illustrated By Shutei Ota) Chiba
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A copybook for Japanese ink-painting: Edited by Reiko Chiba
Shūtei Ota
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Historically, economists sought to understand the economic significance of macro fluctuations associated with seasons. During the 1920s and 1930s, the focus shifted to business cycles, and seasonal fluctuations were treated as noise that could be removed from data before analysis. Jeffrey Miron seeks to reverse this trend, arguing that seasonal fluctuations have much to teach macroeconomists. He analyzes the economic forces that produce seasonality and discusses the lessons about economic behavior that result from this analysis. Compared to existing work on seasonality, Miron's book focuses on economic rather than purely statistical issues, looking at which of the alternative statistical models of seasonality are plausible for economic variables, and asking why seasonal fluctuations in economic variables require special treatment relative to other kinds of fluctuations.

Miron first addresses the question of why macroeconomists should be interested in seasonal as opposed to business cycle fluctuations. In Part I he identifies restrictions that are uniquely available for seasonal fluctuations; reviews evidence suggesting that seasonal and business cycle fluctuations are driven by similar economic propagation mechanisms; and shows that seasonal fluctuations raise many of the same questions for welfare and policy analysis as do business cycle fluctuations.

In Part II, Miron provides a useful summary of results in the literature that analyzes specific examples of seasonal fluctuations to shed light on the nature of aggregate fluctuations in general. Topics covered include the production smoothing model of inventories, the relation between seasonal fluctuations in interest rates and the founding of the Federal Reserve, and the design of seasonal monetary policy.

Seasonal anthropometric cycles in a command economy: The case of Czechoslovakia, 1946-1966 [An article from: Economics and Human Biology]

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Seasonal anthropometric cycles in a command economy: The case of Czechoslovakia, 1946-1966 [An article from: Economics and Human Biology]
T. Cvrcek
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This digital document is a journal article from Economics and Human Biology, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Anthropometric evidence is used to shed light on the living standards in early communist Czechoslovakia (1946-1966). Height and weight variation of adolescent boys exhibit a pattern that is inconsistent with that for a normal healthy population. The hypothesis is proposed that this pattern arose from periodic food supply shortages, most marked in the spring of each year. The boys in the sample display a remarkably slow growth during the spring but catch up over the summer.

The seasonal cycle and the business cycle.: An article from: NBER Reporter

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The seasonal cycle and the business cycle.: An article from: NBER Reporter
Jeffrey C. Miron
Manufacturer: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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ASIN: B0008SDSDU
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from NBER Reporter, published by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. on March 22, 1989. The length of the article is 2233 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The seasonal cycle and the business cycle.
Author: Jeffrey C. Miron
Publication: NBER Reporter (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 1989
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
Page: p8(3)

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Seasonal Cycles in the Housing Market: Patterns, Costs, and Policies (Mit Press/Wright-Allen Series in System Dynamics)

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Seasonal Cycles in the Housing Market: Patterns, Costs, and Policies (Mit Press/Wright-Allen Series in System Dynamics)
Kenneth T. Rosen
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Seasonal cycles, business cycles, and the comovement of inventory investment and output.: An article from: Journal of Money, Credit & Banking

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Seasonal cycles, business cycles, and the comovement of inventory investment and output.: An article from: Journal of Money, Credit & Banking
Robert E. Carpenter , and Daniel Levy
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Money, Credit & Banking, published by Ohio State University Press on August 1, 1998. The length of the article is 5378 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Seasonal cycles, business cycles, and the comovement of inventory investment and output.
Author: Robert E. Carpenter
Publication: Journal of Money, Credit & Banking (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 1998
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Volume: v30 Issue: n3 Page: p331(16)

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Seasonal fluctuations and business cycles.: An article from: NBER Reporter

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Seasonal fluctuations and business cycles.: An article from: NBER Reporter
Jeffrey A. Miron
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ASIN: B00096MTFY
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from NBER Reporter, published by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. on June 22, 1996. The length of the article is 2495 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: A 15-year research counters the usual method employed in the study of seasonal fluctuations. Instead, the older technique is used to conduct a precise study of the subject, which is treated as appealing by itself in the economic aspect. As such, the study is set to persuade macroeconomists of the subject's fascination and how its analysis can enlighten the subject of business cycles. Moreover, it is aimed to arrive at a more exact study of seasonal fluctuations to develop a better comprehension of aggregate fluctuations.

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Title: Seasonal fluctuations and business cycles.
Author: Jeffrey A. Miron
Publication: NBER Reporter (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 1996
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
Page: p13(4)

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The conventional treatment of seasonality in business cycle analysis: Does it create distortions? (NBER technical working papers)

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The conventional treatment of seasonality in business cycle analysis: Does it create distortions? (NBER technical working papers)
Lawrence J Christiano
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ASIN: B0006RJR6U

A cross country comparison of seasonal cycles and business cycles (CREST working paper)

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A cross country comparison of seasonal cycles and business cycles (CREST working paper)
Jeffrey A Miron
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ASIN: B00071ONTG

The Cyclical sensitivity of seasonality in U.S. employment (Finance and economics discussion series)

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The Cyclical sensitivity of seasonality in U.S. employment (Finance and economics discussion series)
Spencer D Krane
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ASIN: B0006QAU1M

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Discussion paper
R. Anton Braun
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