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.

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A great book
Solid Architectural Survey
Medieval Castles of Ireland - expect to struggle through it

Medieval Castles of Ireland
David Sweetman
Manufacturer: Boydell Press
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ASIN: 0851157882

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`The definitive book on the archaeology of Irish castles.' TERRY BARRY, Trinity College Dublin.The great age of Irish castle-building began with the arrival of the Anglo-Normans, traditionally dated to 1169, and continued right up to the seventeenth century. This account of the development of Irish castles proceeds chronologically from the large earthwork and stone castles introduced by the Anglo-Normans, through the later medieval hall houses and tower houses, to the strong houses and fortified houses which marked the end of the medieval period. Blarney Castle (County Cork) and Bunratty Castle (County Limerick) are famous surviving examples of medieval castle-building, but as this book shows, they are in good company, and there are many others to be found in whole or in part throughout the country. The volume is lavishly illustrated with 200 original drawings and photographs.

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A great book.......2007-06-27

There has been quite a bit written about Castles in Ireland. As we discovered when we started to research the history of a tower house castle we are preparing to conserve/restore, the literature varies in value. This book stands out. It provides a great breadth and depth of information while remaining accessible throughout. It is as readable by the novice as by the expert. It achieves this through clear writing, good referencing and excellent illustration and layout.

Solid Architectural Survey.......2005-12-14

Medieval Castles of Ireland is a splendidly-illustrated little gem of a book, filled with BW and color photographs as well as elevations and plans of slected castles. Additionally, it covers the transformation from Medieval fortress to fortified tower houses. This is a book you spend an afternoon engrossed in, rather than a serious architectural survey to explain Medieval fortifications. It focuses much more attention to the buildings and their era rather than the personalities behind them. I recommend this book for anybody who is traveling to Ireland, Medieval warfare/castle enthusiasts and architects.

Medieval Castles of Ireland - expect to struggle through it.......2002-03-01

Based on the publisher's synopsis, one would expect this book to be elucidating, interesting, and entertaining. It is nothing of the sort. While the descriptions of the multitude of Irish castles are organized by structural type and era (i.e. ringworks, stone fortresses, hall houses, etc.), the text within each chapter comes across as almost random. I struggled through the first two chapters twice each, frustrated with nearly every page. The chapters I finished did not provide overviews that invite the reader onward. The author assumes that the reader is fimiliar with technical terms without defining them well or at all. The reader must often refer to the glossary for definitions, yet many technical terms are not included in the glossary. The second chapter on early medieval stone fortresses addresses a number of noteworthy fortifications. However, the chapter is organized by castle features rather than the castles themselves, so one must read in turn about the siting of all the fortresses, then their various perimeter walls, then their keeps and donjons. The illustrations are scattered throughout the chapter rather than being aligned with the text. One must pour over the chapter to try to glean points of interest, recall (or highlight as I did) features of each castle, and out of this mental stew put together a picture of any particular location. The book seems to have been prepared as a series of lectures or a technical paper which someone decided to sell to the general public without editing it to suit its audience. There are certainly other books on the market on the same subject that will hook the reader's interest much more successfully. Having struggled through a good portion of this book, I would certainly not recommend it.

The Tower of London: The Official Illustrated History

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Fabulous detailed and illustrated history of The Tower
Good but narrowly focused

The Tower of London: The Official Illustrated History
Edward Impey , and Geoffrey Parnell
Manufacturer: Merrell
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This addition to the Britain in Old Photographs series brings together a collection of black-and-white pictures spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawn from family albums, local collections and professional photographers, they show the way things were and how they have changed. Every photograph is captioned, providing names and dates where possible, revealing historical and anecdotal detail and giving life to the scenes and personalities captured through the camera lens. Bringing together all aspects of daily life - celebrations and disasters, work and leisure, people and buildings - the collection should inspire memories, as well as serve as an introduction to visitors.

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Fabulous detailed and illustrated history of The Tower.......2000-06-28

I bought another book by Parnell about the Tower (The Tower of Londong Past & Present) that basically consisted of the past 150 years of photographs of the Tower. I was a little disappointed by that book because I wanted juicy history. As a result, I was a little hesitant to order this book without really knowing anything.

Let me tell you- this book is FABULOUS. It is a thorough history of the Tower chock-full of photographs of the Tower and its archaelogical finds, paintings representing the history of the Tower, diagrams, writings, you name it. There's even a picture of the head of Simon of Sudbury.

The book is broken down into two parts. The first part is "The Tower in the Middle Ages" which is largely architectural information about the start and development of the castles, covering the years AD 43 to 1485. Of course, the architectural info only makes sense in light of the political and social realities that dictated the Tower's structure, and there is plenty of that info as well.

The second section continues telling the story of the physical history of the Tower, but talks more about its functions (royal lodgings, arsenal, prison, etc.). "The Tower and its Institutions" covers the years 1485 through 2000 and really covers the role of the Tower in the history of England.

The history provided about the Tower is incredibly thorough and detailed. If you are planning a trip to England, I highly recommend reading this book before you meander through the Tower- it will really let you know what you are seeing so you could appreciate it better. If you've read a lot of British history and just want to see the places where some of that history took place, you'll really appreciate this book. I'm so excited about this book I can't stand it.

A small caveat- this is a history of the Tower, and not a story about the history of England that took place in the Tower. For example, this book does not discuss the fact that Henry the VI was likely killed in the Wakefield Tower in the Tower of London, even though there is a picture of the oratory where tradition says his murder occured (at least, if it's in there, I missed it).

But this is a small complaint- there is plenty of information about the beginnings, growth, development, political role, and all kinds of other good stuff. I've looked a while for a good book on the Tower and so far this is the best one!

Good but narrowly focused.......2000-05-01

I was a little disappointed in this book mostly because I didn't read the description carefully enough. A book that shows the history of the Tower of London in photographs can really only show, say, the last 150 years of changes. Given the thousand years of Tower history, the information this book provides is from a somewhat narrow time frame. I recommend it as long as you know what you are getting into because the changes to the Tower really are fascinating- but if you want to "experience" the eras of Anne Boelyn or the Princes in the Tower, look elsewhere.

Castles: England + Scotland + Wales + Ireland

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very good for the price

Castles: England + Scotland + Wales + Ireland
Plantagenet Somerset Fry
Manufacturer: David & Charles Publishers
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ASIN: 0715322125

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-Based on the original, classic book by Plantagenet Somerset Fry

-The most comprehensive book of its kind

-Full descriptions of all the important castles, along with fascinating accounts of sieges, battles, and personalities From the glory days of European history comes this riveting and classic guide to Britain and Ireland's most famous castles. The scene for some of Europe's greatest historical events--battles, sieges, executions, negotiations, kidnappings, and betrayals--castles today are fascinating and romantic places to visit.

This edition of the classic work Castles has been completely revised and redesigned with hundreds of stunning color photographs and illustrations. The most comprehensive book of its kind, the guide provides complete descriptions of influential castles--including Windsor, Carreg Cennen, Hermitage, and Blarney--along with the stories that still echo through their halls.

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very good for the price.......2007-07-26

I really wanted a nice comprehensive book about this subject. This is a wonderful product but the only thing I would suggest to make this a 5 star book would be more intensive pictures. There are a lot (multitudes in fact) of places, castles, ruins that are simply listed with no pictures or in-depth facts to accompany the listings. That was somewhat disappointing.

Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies)

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Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies)
Gregory Castle
Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing Limited
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ASIN: 0631210059

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This ground-breaking collection of postcolonial discourses takes a region-by-region approach to postcolonial theory, giving a sense of the heterogeneity of postcolonial studies.The development of postcolonial studies is inextricably tied to specific geographical, social, and historical conditions. Gregory Castle's regional approach emphasizes the separate development of different theories, but also enables students to compare different colonial problems and the various postcolonial theoretical solutions that have evolved in different regions.In order to give students a fuller sense of the themes and issues specific to different regions, the anthology includes essays in their entirety. An introductory section includes recent essays by seminal thinkers like Homi K. Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Edward Said. Five sections follow that give coverage to post-colonial thought in South Asia, the Caribbean, Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and Ireland. In each of these sections, issues central to the development of postcolonial thought and its relation to colonial discourse are featured in essays by some of the most important scholars writing today.A general introduction provides the student with an overview of the issues covered in the anthology, detailing how different regions respond to the British Empire and its legacy in the post-colonial world. Though these responses spring from different kinds of problems, they are directed toward the same source of power. The continuities between and among these responses, which are detailed in headnotes for each entry, justify the existence of the so-called postcolonial moment.

Families of County Cork, Ireland (Vol. 4) (O'laughlin, Michael C. Book of Irish Families, Great & Small, V. 4.)

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A very good book on Irish Cork families

Families of County Cork, Ireland (Vol. 4) (O'laughlin, Michael C. Book of Irish Families, Great & Small, V. 4.)
Michael C. O'Laughlin
Manufacturer: Irish Genealogical Foundation
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ASIN: 0940134357

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6x9, hardbound, gold stamped @ 219 pages. Illustrated, Surname Index. Over 1500 families of Co. Cork are included, from ancient times to the coming of the 20th century.

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A very good book on Irish Cork families.......1999-02-23

This is the best single book for history of my family name. I even found out that people with my surname inhabited a castle in Ireland!

Castles in Ireland: Feudal Power in a Gaelic World

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Not suitable as a tutorial
Better Summary Than Explanation
Much too terse.

Castles in Ireland: Feudal Power in a Gaelic World
Tom McNeill
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Medieval Castles of Ireland

ASIN: 0415228530

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The castles of Ireland, captivating in their number and variety, are an integral part of the story of medieval Europe. A lord's power and prestige were displayed in the majesty and uniqueness of his castle. The remains of several thousand castles enable us to reconstruct life in Ireland during these crucial centuries.

By weaving together physical evidence, Castles in Ireland tells the story of the nature and development of lordship and power in R isbn=0415925118 Ireland formed the setting to the interplay of the differing roles of competing lordships: English and Irish; feudal European and Gaelic; royal and baronial. Tom McNeill argues that the design of Irish castles contests the traditional view of Ireland as a land torn by wars and divided culturally between the English and Irish.

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Not suitable as a tutorial.......2004-09-13

The organization and content of the book doesn't lend itself to use as a tutorial. Heavy on equations/proofs and short on conceptual discussion. You'll need a graduate-school level of int/diff calculus, matrix algebra and statistics to get much out of this book, and that's only if you're interested in detailed derivations and historical perspective. I was hoping for something that would allow me to take the proofs "on faith" and get rapidly into implementation, but that's not in this book. I got a used copy for $2.50 so it was worth that, probably would have balked if it had been much more.

Better Summary Than Explanation.......2000-01-28

Don't look to this book as a satisfactory introduction to Kalman Filters. The authors seem to confuse summation with explanation -- this is a good review if you already know the material but it doesn't convey the concepts very well. I studied a 1993 edition of this book with Version 1.1 of the software and the Fortran source code that was provided was incomplete. I see from the author's review that new source code in C has been added since then so this may no longer be the case.

Much too terse........1997-01-10

The authors use non-traditional symbolism and do not always define symbols used. For example, what is wring with the way Papoulis and Peebles define various statistical operators? Changing what is so widely accepted does not make your presentation better. It just takes longer to understand background subject matter and introduces unnecessary confusion into your final topic - Kalman filters.

Windsor Castle: The Official Illustrated History

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Windsor review

Windsor Castle: The Official Illustrated History
John Martin Robinson
Manufacturer: Royal Collection Enterprises Ltd
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ASIN: 1902163214

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The official illustrated history of Windsor castle illustrated in color.

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Windsor review.......2007-08-18

This is a beautiful book with a fair amount of historical information; however, I know the history was not as thorough as it could have been. I also didn't like that it had more drawings than actual photographs. Still, the photos they did have were gorgeous as were some of the drawings. I would still recommend it to people with interests in this field.

Dark Knights and Dingy Castles (Horrible Histories Special)

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Dark Knights and Dingy Castles (Horrible Histories Special)
Terry Deary
Manufacturer: Scholastic Hippo
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Behind the Castle Gate: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance

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Behind the Castle Gate: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Matthew Johnson
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ASIN: 0415261007

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Combining innovative scholarship with fascinating narratives, Behind the Castle Gate uncovers a people's history of medieval English castles. We see how the transformation of the castle, in design and function, reflected the changing identities of its occupants from the medieval to the renaissance eras.

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