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

Book Description

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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Enjoyable read....but
No words..
A promising novella maybe but not a full length book
A tedious text.
Has Yarbro read Stoker's text?

Sisters of the Night : The Angry Angel
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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Enjoyable read....but.......1999-11-06

This is my first novel from this particular writer so I was a bit weary....especially all my vampire reading have been from Anne Rice novels.

This novel I thought was beautifully written and had such great detail. I could clearly see the Kelene's family and could relate to them on many levels. The father and mother to me ver yvery well thoughtout and described, along with the other minor characters. Kelene's character throughout most of the book was rather sad/tragic and interesting.

But one problem I did have with the book was it's treatment of Dracula's and Kelene's relationship. I thought the character of Dracula was well done...he was ominous and tragically sad at the same time, and it left me wanting more about him throughout the book. Iknow this is the first of the series so I will eargly await more info. But for his relationship with Kelene.....during the first couple parts of the book..it was very good...and griping, but towards the end it just became repetitive. During the whole journey to his castle it seems to me that thye were repeating the same scene over and over again. I felt these last couple of chapters could have been cut short.

Overall, I was pleased with this book and look forward to the next installment.

No words.........1999-04-11

I am still reading this book, but I would like it to never end.... Only few books are capable of touching divinity...and here is one.. M.

A promising novella maybe but not a full length book.......1999-03-09

When I first received this book, I looked forward with anticipation to reading it. 20 pages into it, my enthusiasm was dampened mainly by the use of the phrase "Militant Angel" in every other sentence (are there no editors anymore?). However, I thought if I persevered, it was bound to get better and it did for the most part. This book has so much promise, so much potential that is lurking just below the surface, you just want to scream at the author to keep working on it, to reach for those hidden details and fleshed out storylines. As it stands now, "The Angry Angel" could be shortened by a third or more and be a very good novella but as a book it loses some of its punch in the padding. This is probably due to the publisher making a trilogy out of this but I'm going to bet the story of all three "sisters" could be told in one longer book. I will probably check out the next one but from a library before I buy. To summarize, not a bad book but one that disappoints as much as it entertains.

A tedious text........1999-01-19

The promise of this book was great. It was so tedious to get past the first 150 pages that I almost gave up repeatedly. Finally, it improved and Dracula entered the scene. I thought I would scream in the beginning while the book dribbled on about the "militant angels". A little of that went a long way.

Has Yarbro read Stoker's text?.......1998-12-05

While at the 1997 Vampire Con in Los Angeles, I was very interested to learn of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's pending series Sisters of the Night consisting of three books which would provide voices for Dracula's brides. Yarbro would tell readers how the three brides came to be turned and their stories would be told. I was excited at this prospect despite that I usually dislike such vaults into poetic license (such as Alexandra Ripley's Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind from Mass Market Paperback 1992 and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea 1996 from W.W. Norton & Company). I find they do not represent the vision of the original text, and, rather, operate in a direct affront to it (namely Marie Kiraly's Mina: the Dracula Story Continues from Mass Market Paperback 1996-who, when I asked her what she did to prepare to write Mina, responded that she simply "thought" and did not even have the respect for Stoker or the character of Mina to read the original text. For shame, Ms. Kiraly! But, as we know, is reflected in the mediocre work that she produced). I had hopes that Yarbro, based on her Saint-Germaine series, would have a bit more panache than other similarly assuming writers.

The first of the series, The Angry Angel (Avon, 1998) is an interesting work. The writing is fantastic, with gorgeous landscapes and interesting characters. I thoroughly enjoyed the Romanian proverbs and quotes Yarboro offered at each chapter opening. However, to cast Dracula as a psychic, sadistic pedophile? Yarbro completely misses her mark in representing Dracula, and instead writes a fetish text with nice scenery. While I come to care about Kelene and her family, I am too distracted by the ill formation of Dracula to much care for the text as an elaboration of Stoker's story. One of the most detracting, annoying plot points that gives Yarbro away as having not truly read the text from where she hopes to leap is that she makes Dracula fatally vulnerable to sunlight. Dear readers, vampires withering into dust when struck by sunlight originated in our collective conscious in 1937 when Mr. Bela Lugosi penetrated to our hearts' darkest corners as The Count to which all others would be compared. Stoker's Dracula, as emulated in Francis Ford Coppola's film representation, does not die when exposed to the sun. Vampires, according to Stoker, merely lose their superhuman powers during the daylight hours (they are weakest at noon and strongest at midnight). Vampires, during the day, are just regular Joes.

As for Kelene as a character, I'm not terribly impressed, either. She is marked as the blond vampire bride, about which Stoker's Jonathan remarks, "I seemed to somehow know her face, and to know it in connection with some dreamy fear, but I could not recollect at the moment how or where" (p. 38, Bantam edition). She is the first female vampire who will approach Jonathon and lick "her lips like an animal" after she finishes gloating over him. I am to believe that Jonathon Harker will find this slip of a woman-child "deliberate[ly] voluptuous"? (p. 39). Are we then to see Harker as the same pedophile Yarbro casts for Dracula? I think not.

Kelene just doesn't measure up and the fair girl who is "the first" and responds to Dracula's threats with "a laugh of ribald coquetry" (p. 40). For as much as I enjoyed the mechanics of Yarbro's text: the striking imagery, the creative mind who provided the "fair girl" a name, a history, a mind, I am even less impresses with Yarbro for sexualizing and erotisizing a pre-pubescent girl. Yuck! I can only hope that for the next two books in the series, that Yarbro actually bothers to read all of Stoker's text and does some forward thinking before writing the tales of the remaining two vamps who require more ritual and fanfare to kill than the Count himself.

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Great quick read!

Could not put it down!

Night Stalks The Mansion

good read

a good read, a true haunting

Night Stalks the Mansion: A True Story of One Family's Ghostly Adventure
Constance Westbie , and Harold Cameron
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Book Description

Now in paperback, this true story recounts a Philadelphia family's encounter with a supernatural presence in their eighteenth-century mansion. After experiencing footsteps at night, opening doors, strange sounds and activity that centered around the library, they investigate, unearthing the mansion's tragic past and changing their beliefs about the supernatural world. Winner of the 1977 National Writers Club Award for Nonfiction.

Customer Reviews:

Great quick read!.......2007-09-17

Every Fall I love to read ghost stories, and this is a good one. Not too scary, but very touching and poignant. I read it in one day...couldn't put it down.

Could not put it down!.......2007-09-07

A huge thank you to the author for reprinting his family's true account of living with the paranormal and how they dealt with it! I would not have wanted to live in that house! You will not be able to put this one down! Well written.

Night Stalks The Mansion.......2007-07-20

When I read the first page of "Night Stalks The Mansion" I was hooked.
I could not put down the book. A well written spine chilling true story that made me feel as though I was there. Image how difficult it must have been to turn footsteps, a few bumps in the night(not to mention smells) into a hair raising story. Maybe it is easier for those who have experienced
some of the same activity (as I have, but not in that particular house) can instantly be transported back nearly 50 yrs ago to a perfect memory and still have the hairs on the back of your neck rise up. Great read.

good read.......2007-03-21

This is definitely a good read. It is a little sad, but very intriguing. I like the way it was written. It was not a scary book, a little creepy at times, but you can definitely turn the lights out after reading this one. It focuses more on seeking the cause behind the haunting. I really liked the family in the book as well, you did not get the impression that they were dysfunctional and seeking attention. I would recommend this one.

a good read, a true haunting.......2007-02-01

I purchased this book about 20 years ago, and have reread it a few times over the years, each time thinking it just as good. The events are told matter of factly and sound very plausible. But it also reads like a novel, meaning that the writing is good. Most "true haunting" stories today are very poorly written and edited, and/or they go into demonistic extremes. This is just a classic haunted house, fascinating, a bit spooky, something you'd like to read about on a windy night but not necessarily live with. I didn't even know this was back in print and came across it on Amazon looking up another ghost story, and thought I'd give it the "Recommended" that is its due. Well written, well edited, and a good haunting story. Wish there were more like it around to buy.

Preachers by Night: The Waldensian Barbes (15th-16th Centuries) (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)

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Preachers by Night: The Waldensian Barbes (15th-16th Centuries) (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)
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Arabian Society in the Middle Ages: Studies from the 1001 Nights

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Arabian Society in the Middle Ages: Studies from the Thousand and One Nights

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Arabian Society in the Middle Ages: Studies from the Thousand and One Nights
Edward William Lane
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The Middle Ages after Dark
A Delightful Diversion

Night in the Middle Ages
Jean Verdon
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Customer Reviews:

The Middle Ages after Dark.......2003-02-14

Spanish mystic poet St John of the Cross captured a deep emotion, and deep sense of the Middle Ages, when he described the `dark night of the soul.' The notion was mined by many a diarist and poet over the years that followed.

In Night in the Middle Ages, night takes center stage, and while the souls that make their transits there show their personalities at times, its night's dominion over them that is the story.

How dark was it? Very. Night in the Middle Ages is determined. Jean Verdon digs amidst all kinds of documents to tell as well as possible what went on at night back then. If a murder took place, and it was after dark, then it is fodder for the author. Sometimes the feel is of a police blotter, and the perspective may be skewed. The feel is also that of Wisconsin Death Trip, which found a landscape of suicide, vagrancy and general doom in a late 19th Century Wisconsin that most folks' memories had turned into a prarie of little happy homeland houses.

Sometimes Night in the Middle Ages seems unremitting. It becomes like one of those nights, when sleep is a job, the dreams come in series, and morning is always an eternity away. But St John, Francois Villon, Gregory of Tours and others make appearances. Which is a worthwhile. For a person who cant get enough of that medieval stuff, who finds enchantment in those wine cask days in those Scholastic years, may rate a good read.

A Delightful Diversion.......2002-12-02

Professor Verdon's latest book is a splendid extravagance. It serves no practical purpose, but it is lots of fun. Reading this book will not help you to acquire a better job, nor will it improve your performance in your current employment (unless you are an history teacher). It won't help you to become a better person. It will not improve your relationships. It will not deepen your spirituality, or help you to present a more temperate personality to the world. Unless you are an avid player of "Trivial Pursuit," you won't even be able to make use of the facts presented in this book.

Still, Professor Verdon has given us a text that challenges the intellect. He delights his readers with well researched and written prose. In short, he has given us a delightful diversion.

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