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  1. Heres a bit I found online: THE CONTENTS: (AMERICAN WING) Ark of the Covenant 100 MPG Carburetor 3 Martian War Machines Parts of a cut up UFO from "My Science Project" Smashed pieces of the time gizmo from "The Philedelphia Experiment" Engine that runs on tap water A whole bunch of perpetual motion devices. The dead aliens from a crippled UFO the gov't captured. Several Elvis clones awaiting activation (might be ElvisDroids). Hundred of huge crates marked with the name Craig Shergold (containing Business cards and getwell cards by the million). H.G. Wells' working time machine from "Time After Time" The UFO that purportedly crashed in the early '50s in New Mexico Evidence providing the TRUE story of the Kennedy assassination Judge Crater What's left of Flight 19 All of the oddball geological findings that never seem to get displayed in museums, including: The lump of coal with a spark plug in it The piece of sandstone containing human footprints The dinosaur skull with a bullet hole in it A lead-into-gold device A small prototype nuclear fusion plant the Ghostbusters' proton packs Excalibur The steel that the T1000 fell into Microscope slide labeled "Turin Shroud section No. 325", with piece of material reading "Made In Korea" in tiny letters Thunderbird 9 The Wild Card virus (Xenovirus Takis-A) The contents of a house previously owned by the Adams family The contents of a house previously owned by the Munster family An formula/equation that allows for the creation of negative-life energy A large canvas parchment detailing the location of irregularities in the time/space continuum A collection of psychological reports detailing various conditions including: acute paranoia, acute schizophenia, profound catatonia, various phobias, et.al. All the patients have at one time or another analyzed the Necronomicon A copy of "Radioactive Man", issue #1 A collection of coronary reports detailing various suicides and particularly violent and/or gory unsolved homicides. All the victims had at one time or another analyzed the Necronomicon A statue of a monster of vaguely humanoid outline, but with an octopuslike head whose face is a mass of tentacles, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, claws on its hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings An authorization for the assassination of Norma Jean Baker. It is signed by President John F. Kennedy and is dated 4 August 1962 A gun recovered from a grassy knoll in Dallas, Texas by CIA agents on 22 November 1963 Several test tubes filled with swine flu A scabbard which prevents its wearer from being cut and will keep anyone alive, no matter how bad the wound A machine that allows emotions and all other sensations to be recorded by one person and that can be played back and experienced by a second party. There are several tapes including: water slide, carnal relations, surfing, and heart attack Shakespeare's lost play. It is titled THE TRAGORICAL HISTORY OF KING ARTHUR The Tarnhelm A plain gold ring. Unknown script appears on the inside when the ring is heated suffiently. Properties recorded include, but are not limited to: Invisibility of wearer, extreme age-retardation of bearer, and a profoundly increased degree of powerlust in the wearer. The bearer also becomes extremely reluctant to surrender the ring A rope that cannot be broken with traces of wolf hair found on it A primitive yet working subspace radio. It is composed of a record player, a sawblade with holes punched in it, a fork, aluminum foil, an umbrella, and a Texas Instrument See and Spell. The characters it transmits have yet to be deciphered. It was found on a small hill Reeses Pieces with extraterrestrial bacteria on them. Found on same hill as the subspace radio A large stone tablet, reconstructed from pieces, with writing on it. It is Hebrew and has Commandments 11 through 17 Definitive proof that the Illuminati exist and their plans to control the world. It is sealed in a safe with an eye superimposed on a pyramid Papers showing that professional wrestling is real Documentation revealing that in exchange for scientific advances, the government provides UFO's with human beings for unknown reasons Evidence suggesting that officials took bribes from concerned Arab oil men to sabotage cold fusion experiments One cyanide laden apple with a bite taken out of it One glass slipper Several beans with amazing growth potential One red riding hood, slightly bloody 90 yards of golden blonde hair A house made out of stale candy Evidence showing that the reason JFK didn't support the Bay of Pigs Invasion was that the Illuminati threatened to expose several scandals if he did A stuffed Ravenous BugBlatter Beast of Traal Confirmed photo of Adolf Hitler living high on the hog in Argentina Confirmed photo of Adolf Hitler breaking a glass with his foot in his marraige ceremony to Eva Braun Several volumes with the title WHAT THE SHADOW KNOWS Proof that President Bush chose Quayle as his running mate to prevent future assassination attempts Equipment recovered from the laboratory of Dr. Frankenstein Papers showing that the Mafia was created by the government in order to keep the citizenry in line A formula by one Dr. Griffin Information that says that the Illuminati sabotaged the Iran hostage rescue mission so that they could put a puppet president in office. They succeeded with flying colors A map to the Fountain of Youth and its guard, Ponce de Leon Methusela A blackboard with equations that prove that time *is* money Confirmation of a tenth planet and an advanced civilisation living there Papers showing that the government was created by the Mafia in order to keep the citizenry in line Records of the contents of Hangar 33 (and evidence that Hangar 18 was invented as government misinformation) A gaunlet with six gems that provide the wearer with near-omnipotence Proof that Milli Vanilli *did* sing their album A heave metal box, 75cm on a side, painted in military green. Each side has the words, "This side towards enemy" printed on it. (Nuclear claymore mine) And don't forget a Chevy Malibu, with an unidentifiable (but definitely not human) corpse in the trunk, and with black-and-whice cans labelled simply "BEER" and "FOOD" in the back seat All of Dan Quayle's clones (they decided one DQ was bad enough!) Robbie the Robot The Transience Disk The Aeolanthe & Naeolanthe One ENIAC One Tesla Radio Power distribution system John Galt The top 10 vaporware products of all time Laputa A Liliputan The squadren of jet powered Spruce Geese Lassie The pen used to sign the Hitler-Stalin pact What's left of the apple that fell on Newton's head The reliable version of the space shuttle (threatened job security) Amelia Earhart's flight jacket Nazi flying saucers Jetpack, a la "The Rocketeer" Chips of some unknown alloy collected during Apollo missions Big black slab collected by the Leakeys in Olduvai Gorge (and a femur found in orbit) Jimmy Hoffa A Cloudbuster (a rainmaking machine built by Wilhelm Reich - see the Kate Bush video "Cloudbusting") An N-ray detector A dinosaur egg. Fresh. In a crate marked "Africa." A chunk of steel, of an unusual alloy, that bears the label "Tunguska 190?" (Slightly radioactive) A box full of scrolls - written in Aramaic. Box says "Gnostic II." Ronald Reagan Mark I and the animatronics to make him work Bill Gates' Porsche 959 A notebook belonging to Fermat, containing the answer to that damn "Last Theorem," and notes about a much more interesting conjecture A freezer holding the body of Walt Disney The Necronomicon The Terminator's arm Beethoven's Eleventh Symphony A phone booth with an odd antenna on top, and a San Dimas, CA number A blue British police call box A tight-fitting blue costume with a big red "S" on the chest The backup tape archives from the "Terminator 2" lab The Infinite Improbability Generator The 1992 Democratic Presidential Candidate HAL 9000's Failed Turing Test (He got a 57%!) The monolith on the moon The monolith by Jupiter HAL 9000 A Darkness Device Da Shoes! A copy of Bunnies & Burrows Gary Gygax A minute black hole--made of a "knot singularity" The Body of Valentine Michael Smith The center of a tootsie roll pop The Great Virus of '29 The Heart of Gold The Tree of Life The seed to the Tree of Knowledge The "dean drive" which "converts angular momentum into linear momentum." Two and a half tons of Nazi gold recovered from a Swiss mine shaft in 1945 Some plants from the Brazilian rain forest that can cure just about anything The "magic gun" that fired the "magic bullet" that killed JFK Part of a Soviet Sub recovered by Howard Hughes' Glomar Explorer back in 1971 A Typhoon-class submarine with Caterpillar Drive A little silver ball from Starman A searchlight with the sillouette of a bat on it A book entitled "To Serve Man" A three-eyed fish named Blinky JFK's Brain The gold from the lost Dutchman mine The Marylin Monroe Diaries The Holy Grail The "sets and costumes" that were used to film the Apollo Moon Landing The Rhinegold The FBI and CIA files detailing the Career of "Special Agent Elvis" A mountain of letters addressed to Santa Claus A crate marked "The Alamo" with 19th century weapons, uniforms, and one coon skin cap All of the drugs ever seized in DEA raids A bottle with a tag, "Drink Me" One kite, string, and key that are scourched In a corner a Zoltar Fortune Telling Machine A strange looking submarmine named Natulis A row of robots, one marked Gort and another marked Robbie 200 year old crate (damaged) of tea marked "Boston" Joseph Raymond McCarthy in cryogenic suspension. (Due to be woken 2000 AD) Contents of a television studio once based in a desert. Props include Mars landscape sections and lifesized fibreglass spaceships Ted Kennedy's driver license Yoko Ono's talent Diogene's Zippo The Lincoln Savings and Loan cash reserves A portrait, in GIF format, showing Helen of Troy was a real dog Michael Jackson's original nose A petrified turd, left by one of the mounts of the Four Horsemen Indisputable proof that Oswald acted alone All the people who have ever voted in a Chicago election while dead (required an annex) The original blueprints for building the Great Pyramid of Egypt A telephone book for the Planet Mars The original magnifying glass used by Sherlock Holmes A bottle of smoke from the Chicago Fire A crate containing a machine, labeled "Owner - Danny Dunn" Oliver North's diary A brain laleled "Ronald Reagan" Ten crates of clothes labeled "Liberace" 25 crates of confederate money 2500 crates of two dollar bills Several rows of crates marked, "K-2" A large vat of goo, labeled "Keep away from turtles!" The real contents of Al Capone's Vault The solution to the halting problem The "Missing" volumes of the Art of Computer Programming A bottle of the "andromedia strain" Virus Several Bigfoot(s) The bones of the Loch Ness Monster A crate of seed pods from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" All the AV recording made of the Mothership from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" Snake Plisken's death certificate The cursed ship, The Flying Dutchman The missing pages from the logbook of the abandoned Marie Celeste Adolf Hitler's body... intact The Blob... in a large freezer of course Gary Seven's voice-operated typewriter Spock's vacuum tube computer made in the 1930's, found in flophouse All the books which were checked out when the Library at Alexandria burned Undeniable authentication documents for the Shroud of Turin A map showing where the Time Tunnel desert base's drive-in door is located The original plans for Colossus (the Forbin project) Used hypodermic needle; once injected a miniaturized submarine into a neck Copy of hostage-withholding agreement between Bush and the Ayatollah Saucer pieces, mostly melted from magnesium flares, found in (Ant)artic The stiff little finger from the hand of an Invader NASA office note about refusing collect call from a Will Robinson Hollow krypton meteorite, found in Smallville, USA. Cradle inside Three "telepods", non-working, along with a grotesque fly/human/metal body Spy satellite photos, detailing the location of Noah's Ark A working orgone energy machine (see theories of Nicola Tesla for more details) A real, live unicorn A working anti-gravity device (perhaps a sample of Cavorite?) Complete maps and journals of the expedition PROVING the Hollow Earth theory What REALLY happened on the Hindenberg Two strange electronic devices, found with a set of identifcation for "Commander Pavel Chekov, Starfleet." A set of photographs of a tall (6'3"), muscular man wearing sunglasses. Some appear to have been taken at a police station, the rest at a mall A pair of yellow shoes with thick hollow glass soles. One sole is intact and contains three goldfish skeletons Pieces excavated from a stone building of Greek or early Roman design. Found in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean The corpse of a grotesque, bipedal, fish-like being. Roughly 7' tall, the creature wears chitinous armor. In the crate with it are a strange looking spear, net, gun on its shoulder, blade on one wrist, and an electronic thingee on its other wrist Many crates of bizarre super-tech weapons, all marked with swastikas A crate full of papers, computer disks, and models of a modified DeLorean sports car. Among the papers is a photograph of two men standing by a clock, dating back to 1888 A female android, dressed in a pink gown, with her left arm torn out of place. She looks remarkably like Olivia d'Abo Several hundred issues of "Playboy" confiscated from American servicemen in the Persian Gulf A green meteorite attatched to a chain, found in a sewer by the Metropolis department of Public Works Two CDs, one marked "Elvis" and the other marked "Bruce." These are kept with two identically-marked reels of tape and a strange machine Plans and a prototype of a reactionless engine. The notes say it puts out no exhaust mass, only heat and light A circular shield, about 3' in diameter, with concentric red and white rings and a star in the center on a blue field A black sword, with red runes on it, unearthed in western Canada with a petrified human skeleton. The sword is dated as being older than the earth where it was found. Researchers tested the sword to find out what it was made of, but it defied their efforts. Everyone who touched the sword died Hundreds of boxes of very very old, crumbling books found in Egypt. Inside the front cover of each one is a pocket containing a little card with heiroglyphs on it. All but the last set on each card are crossed out A gold medallion with raised markings on each side, and an off-center hole holding a red crystal A glowing green crystal, about 10 inches long and 2.5 inches wide with angled ends, discovered near the North Pole An illuminated manuscript much like a Bible, along with a rabbit's corpse and many pieces of shrapnel A large emerald in the shape of a heart, confiscated from a fence in new York City About 60,000 tapes and CDs by the 2 Live Crew Hundreds of issues of a comic shop newsletter bearing the headline, "DeFalco and Macchio found in adult movie house." Captain Hook's hand A listing of pi which gets to a long stretch of ones and then ends Stacks of mismatched contact lenses Thousands of car keys A chemical formula for the cure for the common cold Formula 7x The recipie for Macdonald's secret sauce KFC's 11 secret herbs and spices 1000 mint-condition WWII army Jeeps, to be sold for $50 each The hover-skateboard from BTTF2 A slightly less than infinite number of wallets (no money in them though) A slightly malleable bit of metal (the world famous Philosopher's Stone) The failed prototype from the Aurora project (yet another "stealth" plane) The remains of a rather strange-looking humanoid... (the "missing link") proof that the president knew the strength of the atomic bomb, and dropped it to prove a point to the soviets Proof that religion WAS created to control the people Proof that communism and socialism WOULD work A complete transcription and dates and times for all of Nosatradamus's prophecies! A box containing proof that Salem really did have witches The REAL McCarthy list, before the politicain's saw it The recording of Nixon saying "I'm not a crook" Proof that Daylight savings, and flouridation really ARE communist plotS The missing part of Kennedy's head The true identity of the kidnaper of the Lindbergh baby Amelia Earhart Six copies of the Mona Lisa, all authentic, except for the words "This is a fake" written on the back in felt-tip pen. A seventh copy of the Mona Lisa, appearing to be authentic, which DOESN'T have Had "This is a fake" written on the canvases in felt tip marker. The complete list of every drink in the Universe whose name is a version of 'Gin 'n Tonic'. The formula for Coca-Cola The missing 80 points of Dan Quayle's IQ Every taxicab in the Metropolitan New York area (only while it's raining) The Golden Fleece A broadsword from roughly 1000 AD with a woman's hand still gripping the handle A grafitti-free subway car A hen's tooth A calendar containing a month made up entirely of Sundays The Ultimate Nullifier The six lost episodes of Dr. Who (and you thought only one was lost...) A pair of red ruby slippers A pillar of salt in the shape of a woman An extremely well-aged apple with two bites out of it Universal Solvent (we think) (bring your own container) (hurry) (never mind...) A letter from an Egyptian princess, saying she'd like to be reincarnated as Shirley McLean The suppressed Penthouse edition featuring Kylie Minogue The REAL reason why the Challenger blew up A spy satellite marked "Made in Taiwan" A diary entry from the president of the Sierra Club saying he's going out duck-shooting A reciept for a rifle and ammo from Dallas Texas, to the account of L.B. Johnson A note from a member of the French Govt. saying they were sorry for the Rainbow Warrior A working cold fusion unit (perhaps one for the back of a car, that you could feed garbage to) The REAL crown jewels of Iran/Persia The Maltese Falcon An old treaty between Argentina and Britian giving the Falklands to one or the other An effective chemical male contraceptive The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything The lost notice to tell Arthur the bulldozers were coming The message from the Vogons warning the Earth of the Hyperspace Bypass The One Ring The White Gold Ring The Virus programmed against the Black Marble Wombat The Wombat listing in VMS Help "That Loving Feeling" Plane tickets proving George Bush was in Paris in the fall of 1980 Recordings of a mysterious five-tone musical work, left over from a certain project that took place at Devil's Rock A slightly radioactive safe marked "S.S. Titanic" Pay stubs with the words "Central Intelligence Agency" and "Lee Harvey Oswald" The autopsy records for JFK (sealed for 50 years!) The totally innocuous file on MLKjr that was sealed -- because it was totally innocuous! The report given to FDR on the Japanese fleet steaming toward Hawaii George Washington's membership card for the Masons Birth certificates for several mulatto children, with the "Father" space marked "Thomas Jefferson" Autopsy records for President Zachary Taylor Telegram from Andrew Johnson to John Wilkes Booth saying "Great opportunity at Ford's Theater -- a definite Do-Not-Miss" a prototype (or working model!) of Alpha Complex's Computer _Another_ government warehouse... 90% of the works of Nikola Tesla Ship with bodies embedded in several inch-thick steel from the "Philadelphia Experiment" A Mac SE hard disk containing plans for "Transparent Aluminum" Plans for the "Wildfire" research station Set of printer plates for the Lyons UNIX book Atlantis Everything ever lost in the Bermuda Triangle A sample of scrith A disc (ring) with a ratio of circumference to diameter equal 3 Political ethics The plan for a balanced US budget Several letters signed "George Washington" and "Adam Weisshaupt", and a memo signed by a grafologist claiming that both sets were written by the same person. The unicorn scene from "Blade Runner" Laserdisc copies of all Hayao Miyazaki films -- UNCUT and in ENGLISH Schubert's last symphony (complete) A short mathematical proof that the travelling salesman problem can be solved in polynomial time An Elder God, dead A pouch of sand, a red ruby on a chain, and a strange insect-like mask The last 7 presidents and vice presidents, frozen -- including Bush & Quayle Several Caroline clones (they work there) a Kirelean photograph of Stonhenge -- showing auras on all the stones, including the missing ones A silver albatross An old-fashioned green railroad-man's lantern, and a collection of green rings of various shapes and sizes The original manuscript for Bible II: The Son Strikes Back Various and sundry archaeological relics from Mu, Lemuria, Atlantis, Shangri-La, and Xanadu A complete set of the Golden Age Suicide Squid comics Two 16-inch Battleship Cannon shells (you know - like the ones on the Ne Jersey) Filled with Quick-Death organism bomblets the British copy of the North American Treaty Several kilograms of Byzanium, along with a 1889 Colorado newspaper and the body of a Red Army corporal A wooden staff, with a claw holding a crystal on the end The Starship Defiant A large number of Swiss Army knives and rolls of Duct Tape. The knives all have the letter M engraved on them The financial records of Stemple's Mill, Seattle, Washington - signed "Ishmael Marx" A large number of Swords A number of semi-transparent, amoeboid creatures, accompanied by semi- neanderthalic humanoids An F-15's gun-camera recording of a Dragon in flight The leg-bones of Miles Vorkosigan One Dozen Red Roses Maps to caves in Ireland, where several spaceships (with markings in Gaelic) are kept Two thousand bottles of NyQuil The coordinates of a rain-swept planet far out in the galaxy, inhabited by a little old man who likes cats (even though he doesn't believe in them) Aristotle's treatise on humor The Freemasons' Ultimate Secret King Arthur's perfectly preserved body God's pair of dice The sixth replicant The Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator A bubble-gum machine full of dehydrated Martians (just add water) A helmet with a scrub brush attatched to the top and a pair of tennis shoes with the name "M. Martian" on both Map & instructions for recovering the treasure on Oak Island The Method used to place the statues on Easter Island The reason the statues were put there The Beethoven manuscripts that disapeared at his death. The first draft of Adam Weishaupt's inagural address The allied plans for the bombing of Russian oil fields, early '41 The German nuke The real recipie for the Pan-galactic gargle blaster Cratefuls and cratefuls of containers remarkably similar to yogurt and ice cream containers, labelled "The Stuff" Two live plesiosaurs Plane tickets from Munich, 1958, stamped "Flight Cancelled". All the missing ozone Lenin's hair The brain of a liberal, the heart of a conservative A magnetic monopole A huge ax and an even bigger stuffed blue ox A photograph of a very large gold menorah (pictured on the Arch of titus in Rome) with report detailing the contents of the Vatican warehouse An archive containing every issue to date of the WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, with marginal notations like, "Hoo boy, we *really* fooled this one!" and "He's getting too close; exchange him." A large tank containing some sort of preservative solution and several slightly radioactive corpses in various states of decay, all of which seem to twitch or move slightly now and then Edison's final invention: The Necrophone, a device enabling one to speak with the dead A handwritten proof, repudiating all claims of truth to the notion of relativity, signed by Einstein A book containing the contents of the Soviet's Warehouse, with _infinitely_ more interesting stuff A text about flouridation and its true effects on the mind An engine that runs on the passage of _time_ (a Soviet physicist, whose name escapes me, has crunched the numbers on this one!) A text written in ancient Hebrew that begins, In the Beginning, but has all the words for god feminine in gender A dummy terminal connecting to nothing in particular, with a prompt. When any name is typed in, the COMPLETE history of the subject is displayed, including what he is doing at this moment, with constant updating The CIA's report on Psychotronic Weaponry, with the Soviet's explaination to what happened to Nixon and Carter, as well athe death of Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, and the meteoric rise to power of one Mikhail Gorbachev, who happened to be head of the KGB when the research was being done One human skeleton, found in casket, with a wooden stake inserted into the ribcage Remains of a sophisticated WWII Japanese fighter, codenamed Kamikaze, with humanoid figures crushed in the machinery, that must have disabled it A strange machine, incorporating a glass cylinder with a weird gel flowing within it, and sealed with a lock that can only be opened from within. Found in the basement of a church in Detroit The bodies of the victims of Crest test #57 Directions to Midian Definitive proof of the Carter thesis that states that petroleum, rather than being a diminishing resource, is constantly replenished naturally by the earth Documentation about the CIA's project into creating the first strain of recombinant DNA, with a formula very similar to that of Human Immuno- deficiency Virus Joseph Smith's golden tablets, containing the Book of Mormon The missing 23 minutes of Nixon's tape recordings Parcelsus' notebooks (that were supposedly buried with him, but weren't there when his tomb was opened, later---for that matter, how about his body?) The Marquis de Saint Germaine Documentation and photos from all the cases of Spontaneous Human Combustion The mummy from the sarcophagus in the Great Pyramid A couple of those computer chips they've supposedly found embedded in the arms of Egyptian mummies All that runic graffiti saying things like "Sven Redbeard was here" from the upper Mississippi A parrot-headed umbrella A giant Lincoln's head penny A table-top fortune-telling machine A curiously heavy black statue of a falcon, with several chips carved out of it A sled with the brandname of "Rosebud" The "Greatest American Hero" suit (with instructions) Rudy Wells' lab notes Several hypodermic needles, labelled "Lot Six" Several spare self-destructing tape recorders Hymie A shoe-phone A birth certificate with MacGyver's FIRST name! Several large hairy bipeds, a small pyramid of silver spheres, and a stack of video recordings showing the bipeds attacking a tibettan monestary in Wales A diary purporting to show the location of the Holy Grail, labelled "property of Prof. H. Jones" Reports, wreckage, and photos from the Starkweather-Moore expedition to Antartica. Contains the bodies of what look like 5-symmetric animals with fan-shaped wings and lots of tentacles. Also contains what looks like a frozen block of blackish protoplasm marked "Do not defrost under ANY circumstances" Photo showing the "Illuminated Five" (Nikola Tesla, Howard Hughes, Adam Weishaupt, H.P. Lovecraft, and Nostradamus) having a beer bash at the Eye In The Pyramid pub in Ingolstadt The Overthruster and Buckaroo Banzai's jet car. Also a strange looking record that when played displays a rather rastafarian-looking alien Proof that Orson Wells' War of the Worlds broadcast was no joke The *complete* manuscript of Coleridge's Kubla Khan Everything dropped by aliens that Eric Von Daniken claims to have seen (which is usually guarded by "wild tribesmen" or drug runners, etc.) One of those movie revolvers that fires twelve or fifteen shots, or at least never needs reloading The Phantom Tollbooth Carrie White The plastic bottle that was taken to the Roman/Chinese emperor, which caused the inventor to be executed, to keep the glassblowers in business Kentucky fried rats Einstein's unified field theory Hitler's REAL diaries ("hot date with Eva tonight---va-va-voom!") The missing chapters of Nostradamus, especially those dealing with the End of Civilization as We Know It (suppressed because the world is not prepared) The sequel to Gone With the Wind that Margaret Mitchell supposedly burned, after finding she didn't like "all the trouble *this* book has brought me." The lightbulbs they used for illumination, in painting Egyptian tombs The map to King Soloman's mines The Viking longship that was discovered in California's Imperial Valley, sometime around 1910 A stuffed Pterodactyl, shot in Africa, earlier in this century Millions of Pet Rocks (everybody bought one, nobody has one now, they have to be SOMEWHERE!) The official U.S. Navy map showing the location of Gilligan's Island Hundreds of millions of dirty socks, each tagged with the time, date and location of the laundry in which they disappeared Bill Watterston Various bits of a 1958 Plymouth Fury (red) A Tanu skeleton (stored with a variety of high-tech weapons and devices found with it buried on the bottom of the Mediterrenan Sea, dated at approximately 6 million years old) A dodo bird A disk pack containing the personnel database for Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems, listing lots of people named John who all applied for social security numbers on November 1, 1938 in Grover's Mill, NJ Boxes of proposal, progress report, and design review documents for Yoyodyne's work on contract # DOD 84-C112001, plus a copy of "Commerce Business Daily" containing the original RFP for the Truncheon Bomber The Great American Novel. Actually, one Great American Novel from the 1960's, another from the '50's, another from the '20's. Probably a couple more without established dates Documents suggesting that "NSA" really meant "No Such Agency," the code name of an elaborate cover for yet another internal security service -- as yet unknown UNIX; a nearly-mythical, small, simple, fully-functional multiuser operating system (mentioned in some theoretical papers by Ritchie and Thompson, c. 1978). Possibly found squished in the very bottom left back corner of one of several huge crates labelled "BSD," "SYS5," etc News software that does something approximately near what one might actually want A book with the title: THE TRUTH One page, one word. Doesn't matter what language you read, or if you read at all. One glance at it and you will know the truth. of course, when somebody learns the truth his head explodes Real live (frozen or otherwise) Jackalopes, Hidebehinds, and other such beasties An atom with the atomic number of 104 A coke can with the old style pull tabs Several cases of the original coke (the ones with cocaine) The location of Car 54 The Golem of Prague Frankenstein's Monster A set of papers referring to the Iran - Contra Affair The primary mirror we were originally going to use on Hubble A passenger pigeon (became extinct in the late 19th century) The Gordian knot. Beside it, a much simpler knot, cut in two Docmuments from the 1960's describing Isaac Asimov's process to "grow" a positronic brain, using a revolutionary crystal-growing process amazingly similar to biological cell reproduction A complete log of everything ever posted to the Internet. Cross-referenced by subversive nature. All Email, too, of course The crashed UFO from White Sands, 1947 A statement stating that Iran-Contra was "all my idea", signed Ronald Reagan George Bush's travelogue from October, 1980 Professor Azland's time bubble A spaceship powered entirely by steam Phone number for the Earth Defense League Crashed and destroyed Yeti, Ogron, and Dalek spacecraft Construction plans for the top-secret lab in Quantum Leap Videotape footage of the Loch Ness Monster. And Bigfoot A perfect glass bowl, with the words "So Long, and Thanks..." engraved on it, containing some water and a sad-looking yellow fish A battered and aged working copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy CIA pay stubs, made out in the name of Mikhail Gorbachev A complete set of Majestic Twelve (aka MJ-12 aka MAJIC) documents, marked "Exempt: not to be declassified Top Secret Burn before reading" A stack of memos to Joe Malik (regarding the Illuminati) A cat. No one can tell whether it is alive or dead A gigantic submarine made of gold. Leif Erikson is written on the side A sacred cow The collected writings of Kilgore Trout The only writings to appear by him are excerpts and brief quotes in several Kurt Vonnegut stories, except for the novel "Venus on the Half Shell" And, of course, the warehouse would need to have, as a relief from all the clutter, a vial containing a perfect vacuum In a dark corner of the warehouse, a cage containing a furry creature, about 10 inches tall, with huge eyes and ears. It has a tendency to sing once in awhile. A sign hangs in front of the cage saying; Do NOT place in bright light! NEVER get it wet! And DO NOT feed after midnight!!! A small glass vile that seems to contain plain water. The label reads; "property of R. Reagan, from fountain of youth, FL" This list (BRITISH WING) All the gadgets designed by Q, including the ones James Bond didn't use All the gadgets designed by q (Q's little brother), such as a vacuum cleaner which, when carefully dismantled and cunningly reassembled, becomes a hair dryer The alien spacecraft from "Quatermass and the Pit" H. G. Wells' time machine Complete inventory of the U. S. Government warehouse The first telephone, invented by Percy forbes-Hamilton. It wasn't much use until Alexander Graham Bell invented the second one A map showing the exact location of Thunderbirds' Island H.Q. A copy of a blackmail note addressed to Pons and Fleischmann, sent by the head of B.P. Plans for converting the Scott Monument into a rocket capable of travelling to Mars and back The date and time of the revolution Geoffrey Boycott's missing test years The real Jules Verne trophy The location of the *first* tunnel under the Channel (built back in Napoleon's time) The Difference Engine Videotape of a secret Special Air Service raid on a U.F.O., shot by a Commander Straker The diary of one "S. Holmes, Consulting Detective." A similar (but often contradictory) diary by a Dr. Watson Several infernal devices created by a Dr. Manchu, in crates shipped in from Hong Kong A bottle holding a bacterial culture labeled "Mutant 59." The manuscripts of all those unwritten Sherlock Holmes adventures, such as the Adventure of the Aluminium Crutch, and The Giant Rat of Sumatra, that Watson kept tempting us with! A "Norwegian Blue" parrot nailed to a perch in a birdcage A device, similar to a laptop computer, wrapped in a dirty towel, with the words "Don't panic" written in friendly letters A Babel fish Miscellaneous documents labeled "Project Tic-Toc" A bottle of pills marked "S. Beamish" A rubber mask that looks just like David MacCallum A manuscript, written in some druidic script, giving operating instructions for Stonehenge An electronic thumb A number of typewritten manuscripts bearing titles such as "Hamlet", "Macbeth" and "George", with the author given as A. Simian Documents detailing payments made to an advertising agency to manufacture a front man to sell the above manuscripts A device for flattening areas of corn The mumified remains of the original M. Thatcher Mark Thatcher's road map A copy of "The Nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter: Witch" A sonic screwdriver (nonfunctional, with a note explaining that it was found in London, AD 1666) An Eyes-Only Scottland Yard File re: a serious of prostitute murders in London in the 1890's A file cabinet, formerly belongong to one Brigadier Arthur Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, containing detailed documents of encounters with assorted aliens and creatures on the British Isles, all stamped with the words "TOP SECRET:UNIT" Blueprints for a "Time Machine", with the initials "H.G.W." signed at the bottom A bag of old jelly-babies The school transcripts and transfer forms of one Vislor Turlough, which gives his home address as "Trion"; and similar, older documents for a girl named Susan whose grandfather claimed on her records that she'd attended "West Gallifrey Junior High." A letter from Downing Street to Argentina, promising someone a large sum of money to make and fail in an attempt to capture some unspecified islands A glass onion A pair of shoes with a tag saying, "Found near Abbey Road" A set of human ribs, one is missing A stuffed hound with a tag saying "Baskervilles" Three pegs with various sized discs on them. A monk is slowly moving one disc at a time Diagrams for a semi-functionnal mind control device, and (pessimistic) progress reports for control of subject "John M." Details of the massive conspiracy which seems to have resulted in most of the British secrets ending up in the US warehouse The names and scorecards of all the international teams competing in the "World Series" The formula for the Top Secret language encrypting system developed by the CIA, which was used to call a game in which something which isn't a ball is hardly ever kicked called "Football" A black doctors bag containing a number of strange automatic devices For performing various forms of surgery A bottle of small yellow pills. The label warns you not to take a pill if you are in a small two-man shuttle craft A bloodstained apron embroydered with masonic regalia and three feathers Margret Thatcher's conscience A report on an MI5 operation involving a poisoned apple, a known homosexual and an infinite tape A geologist's report on the repeated earthquakes in a small region of Monmouthshire, seemingly associated with the ruins of a number of fallen towers Some very old burned cakes John Major's personality The phone number of International Rescue Prince Edward's A Level exam papers The incorporation papers of a company called "Univsrsal Export" A biochemical report proving that one should put the milk in first Neil Kinnock's ideals Satelite photographs showing that the General Galtiari was, in fact, somewhere in the Indian Ocean when sunk A report on the spontanious self-disassembly of an early experimental British nuclear weapon as it was being transported through inner London, and why no one noticed A gene analysis on the reamins of Winston Churchil, showing that he was, in fact, a chicken A map and latitude-longitude coordinates showing the exact location of the Village Schematics for the use of weather balloons as anti-personel devices Papers showing who built the Village, who runs it, and who Number 1 is The reason why Number 6 resigned A door, above which is the brightly lit word "EXIT", and which bears a small plate upon which is written "101" Nigel Lawson's calculator A parchment letter from James I to a group of biblical scholars starting with the words "Thou Creeps" A large leathery egg found on the shores of a Scottish loch Authur Skargil's Tory party membership A marrow bone and a poker Contract between the MoD and BAE to develop an aircraft capable of tracking traffic on the M1 and the plans for the developed system, code named "Babel" MI6's report on machinery of unearthly origin found on an unnamed ship lifted out of Aukland harbour A rain making machine confiscated from the MCC A letter from the Secratary of State for Defence to the commanders of all British submarines pointing out that, contrary to earlier orders, issued due to a previous minister having his hair shampooed and set while typing, it is _Soviet_ trawlers that pose a thright to British security and not, as stated, _Scottish_ ones The final page of the Communist Manefesto containing the punch line, found inside a volume in the British library where it had seemingly been dropped in the haste of getting the book to the publisher The original plans for the analytical engine clearly labeled as "Automatic bacon slicer and piano key carving machine" The launch control system for the Scott monument The formula for the additive inserted into Welsh water supplies 25 years ago to induce small mutations into unborn children which makes the retina and optic lobes much less sensitive to fast moving ovoid objects The minutes of the final session of the Scotish parliament wherein the members decided to take the money and run before the Irish made good on their promise to sue for royalties on Whiskey A transit label found miraculously preserved on the underside of one of the fallen stones at stonehenge bearing the name "M A trnspt ltd, by apointment, intrnl. removals" A shard of crystal found wedged in a crevice on Rockall The complete transcript of Joan of Ark's trial The recipe for British Rail sausage rolls, confiscated for national security reasons A working Advanced Passenger Train The Great Rat of Sumatra (VATICAN WING) Roger Bacon's robot, or the plans for it, or both Pliny's "History of Rome" and the missing parts of the "Mary Magdalin Gospel" A suppressed letter from St. Paul apologizing to the female members of the church at Corinth A complete transscript of Gallieo's trial (including the non-public parts) The Fatima Prophesies (One look at those, and the Pope in office at the time locked himself up for three days) Obviously a copy of the Necronomicon (Know thine enemies!) STORED TOGETHER: (V) The nails used to crucify Jesus (V) The Crown of Thorns (V) Veronica's Veil (Strangely, each of these have been found containing trace quantities of blood. When the blood was scanned for DNA, none was found...) A bunch of fish and bread, still remarkably fresh Lazarus, in a cage A paystub to one Mr. Salmon Rushdie, commenting, "Job Well Done." A paystub to Lee Harvey Oswald, commenting "Job Well Done." The bill for the Last Supper The bill for the Last Brunch At least a couple of demons, imprisoned A big ol' hourglass that _cannot_ be turned over, slowly running out A very large key, inset with pearls, inscribed (in Aramaic) "To Peter, Sorry, you can't take it with you." A dartboard, with most of the space being taken up with signs for Italy, but a few bearing names like France, Spain, Ireland, and a _very_ small one for the USA. Oh, yeaH, there's a dart in it now, pierced through Poland Copies of all the books put on the "Banned" lists (Know Thine Enemies!) An ancient map, dated AD 476 that points to the major locations where all the books were taken (Damn the *^$#$ Dark Ages!) A strange account of a man who appeared before the Inquisition saying, "No, wait, you've got it _all_ wrong... This is _nothing_ like I intended!" The report goes on to show that the man was summarily tortured for Heresy, and when he did not repent, was killed. Strangely, though, it also comments that the body of the heretic disappeared soon after An ancient tome, dating to AD 30, written in a bastardization of Arabic, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin, proposing complex differential equations, and signed QED, JC. (Prince of Darkness) Complete records on all major exorcisms, visitations, and miracles One part of a strange machine built by Da Vinci, which used solar energy to remarkable ends Tons of Stuff by Raphael, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, and Donatello, along with a few others, deemed "inappropriate" for the general populace, but which looked spiffy on the Pope's bedroom wall A bottle of water that says "Taken from top of Everest...Remember!" A pile of ash composed primarily of brimstone, with a card: "remember" A pillar of salt, "I told you NOT to look back!" Various bottles containing insects, frogs, lice, etc., and the last labelled, "Azrael. Open in case of Emergency." The char-broiled corpse of a non-levite, "Don't touch it." A horn, reading, "DON'T BLOW!!!!" A sling and several stones Ark of the Covenant, with a note in Italian reading, "Switch made...replica en route to USA." Samples of the excellent 'shrooms that only grow on Patmos (as in St. John) The Sybilline Books The Lost Centuries of Nostradamus The Grimoire of Pope Honorius The Third Prophecy of Fatima Adolph Hitler's baptismal certificate (SOVIET WING) The Firefox (or at least plans for it) All the material on the Russian ESP "remote viewing" project (which, of course, was stolen by our own remote viewers) The bodies of the executed Romanoff royal family, including Anastasia All the missing Old Masters paintings that the Nazis commandeered Lenin's last orders The UFO that crashed in Siberia in 1908 (JAPANESE WING) The sword given to the first Emperor by the goddess Amaterasu A copy of the telegram from Tojo to Roosevelt giving warning of the Pearl Harbor attack An oxygen destroyer A suspended animaion unit containing a ten-year-old boy, labeled "Akira" Four suits of powered armor custom-fitted for women Satellite photos of Area 88 The manuscript for a book entitled "The Japan That Can Say No" (oops, that one leaked out already!) The manuscript for the "really inflamatory" veersion of "The Japan That Can Say No" Godzilla To Europe and the so-called Gas Chambers with eager scientists from 'round the world, Fred Leuchter, and all Revisionists beg. Questions answered NOW. The Sun could steal the mist of mystery. IT COULD BE SO SIMPLE. Truth denied; investigation denied. Every day the Zionist Giant is taller, and each day has farther to fall (a certainty). Victory is solidly ours, fellow Revisionists. Be patient through the long wait; the cattle WILL find their way home. Pete Faust Institute For Relearning To the best of our knowledge, the text on this page may be freely reproduced and distributed. If you have any questions about this, please check out our Copyright Policy.
  2. Ratzinger is a hard right reactionary, and this is to ensure solidarity in the face of any "liberal" reforms of the Church or political institutions worldwide. Liberal in this discourse would be some one who: Believes condoms should be freely available in Africa, Asia and South America. Would attempt to limit the growth of Catholic families in the developed world. Believes ministers serve their God, their flock and families better as married men. Celibacy is a cruel hoax and led to rampant molestation and hypocritical same sex cliques in power in the United States Catholic Church. The gross disjuncture between commonsense morality and social responsibility and these medieval strictures was bluntly stated by a student here at GSU Atlanta. It isn't as visible as a carbomb or ethnic cleansing, but what the Catholic Church does in the third world and poverty zones globally is best termed: "ATROCITIES"
  3. In June 1972, John Dean cracked the White House safe that Howard Hunt used and Dean cleared out Hunt's safe after the Watergate burglary was blown. A pistol, the forged cables, the raw materials for the forged 1963 Saigon/State Department cables falsely implicating John Kennedy in the Diem assassination, and some tactical notebooks are known to have been removed from the safe by the White House counsel, John Dean. The actual tactical content of the notebooks and any other materiel Dean declined to describe are unknown. Dean held the papers and gave them to L. Rat Grey. The White House safe probably held notebooks, maps and incriminating evidence from a period ten years earlier when Howard Hunt had served as chief of the CIA Western Hemisphere executive sanction division. Nixon was later impeached by the House of Representatives for paying money to maintain Hunt's silence in US court, obstruction of justice.
  4. Anthropologist Raymond A. Dart (1893-1988): Taungs Baby and the Osteodontokeratic Culture I. Introduction Raymond Dart pioneered evolutionary anthropology in the mid-twentieth century, and Dart earned a reputation not inferior to that of Louis Leakey, Sir Arthur Keith, Le Gros Clark, Teilhard de Chardin, Henri Breuil (or any other contemporary colleague) for his work in evolution, human origins and the fossil record. Dart's theoretical approach to anthropology still wields authority, and his landmark achievements are commonly reviewed in human evolutionary texts. As the discoverer of the Taungs Baby fossil skull, he achieved immortality in the field, and as sponsor of the ‘Osteodontokeratic’ theory of a pre-lithic austrolapithecine tool culture, he stimulated an acute and chronic debate. His apparent disinterest (he was a practicing medical neurologist who ran a medical school), his trenchant and spontaneous writing style, and his consistently ambitious ideation set him well above many of his less dynamic academic peers. In addition Dart named the intermediary species Homo habilis, built the important fossil collection at Witwatersrand, and completed a traversa across the continent of Africa. Raymond Dart contributed not one but two academic milestones to science, both central to establishing twentieth-century anthropology as a credible discipline. In 1925 he published his work on the fossil skull (and priceless brain cast) of the Taungs Baby in Nature, naming the Taungs Baby fossil Australopithecus africanus. Dart claimed it as a direct ancestor of contemporary man. While this was enough to earn him a top-tier ranking as a physical anthropologist, Dart followed this a generation later with an even greater intellectual achievement. In January 1957 he published a statistical monograph analysis of the Makapansgat Lime Cavern brecciae and announced the compelling theory of a pre-lithic australopithecine ‘osteodontokeratic’ culture. Both of these theoretical breakthroughs—the naming of Australopithecus as a hominid and the description of their tool culture—engendered animated controversies and long-running scientific debate. II. The Taungs Baby Controversy 1924 – 1947: Dart versus Sir Arthur Keith The Nature article on Taungs Baby came at a pivotal, crucial formative period for the science of anthropology and human evolution. The Piltdown Man was in vogue, a forgery designed to prop up an approach to mankind’s origin which posited that a large brain had preceded other human cultural advances, like the use of tools. Dart’s Taungs Baby (not a forgery) expressed a new and less popular view, that upright bipedal beings with small but complex brains and modern teeth belonged on the direct ancestral lineage of mankind in Africa. The opposition to Dart was immediate, long-running and vociferous. Sir Arthur Keith and other leading human anthropologists did not at first accept Dart’s findings. Dart’s conclusions in Nature (1925) were ambitious and expansive. He claimed that the australopithecines had used their hands, ears and eyes for cognition of colors, shapes, and sounds. They had “that discriminative knowledge of the appearance, feeling, and sound of things that was a necessary milestone in the acquisition of articulate speech.” These conclusions stemmed not from some Hamlet-style musings over his fossil skull, but came directly from Dart’s doctorate in neurology, his understanding of the brain cast. Dart saw the expanded area between the lunate sulcus and parallel sulcus as the source for true cognition. The Taungs Baby brain cast fossil exhibited a forebrain and midbrain much more highly developed than the lobes in the brain of modern chimpanzees and gorillas. Dart saw the comments of Keith, Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, Sir Andrew Smith Woodward and W.L.H. Duckworth posted in Nature one week after his article appeared. Sir G.E. Smith showed a wise forbearance and demurred comment until he could view the skull, face and brain cast fossils with his own eyes. W.L.H. Duckworth, who had worked closely with Dart, believed the Taungs Baby was only a gorilla-like species (this view became the consensus view for many years, in opposition to Dart’s view of Taungs Baby as a type of australopithecine hominid). Sir Andrew Smith-Woodward ruled out the fossil as an extraneous thing. Arthur Keith was also dismissive. Where Dart claimed Taungs Baby to be far in advance of the gorilla and chimpanzee mentality, the older scientists held that Taungs Baby was indeed only a primitive troglodyte with misleading juvenile features. Raymond Dart defended his findings in a conference in 1925, the British Empire Exhibition, and he was not embraced by the British and European anthropologists gathered there. Sir Arthur Keith hardened his opinion, “an examination of the casts exhibited at Wembley will satisfy zoologists that [Dart’s] claim is preposterous. The skull is that of a young anthropoid ape . . . . the Taungs ape is much too late in the scale of time to have any place in man’s ancestry.” With this Keith joined Smith-Woodward and W.L.H. Duckworth in condemning Raymond Dart’s conclusions in Nature. The Piltdown Man (with its Homo sapiens skull and orangutan’s jaw) was heartily embraced by the British—the African theory by the Australian-turned-South African Raymond Dart was sternly dismissed. The Piltdown “fossil” was only one element in the mentalitie of that moment in anthropology. Peking Man, the Zhoukoutien fossils, were also prominent in 1925, when the ‘out-of-Asia’ theory took precedence over the ‘out-of-Africa’ approach of Raymond Dart. For many reasons dealing with Orientalism, Aryanism and skeptical anti-clericalism, the Asian model was preferred—in the Edwardian period—over any Middle Eastern, Nilotic or sub-Saharan theories of human ancestral origins. The work of Swedish paleontologist J.G. Andersson and Austrian Otto Zdansky eclipsed that of Dart in the 1920s. Sinanthropus pekinensis (the Chinese man of Peking) was embraced as a human ancestor while Australopithecus africanus (the Southern Ape of Africa) was not. The weight of anthropological opinion swung to an Indonesian or Asian origin for mankind. South African finds were dismissed as anomalies, extinct primates. Eventually both theories would be vindicated and placed in proper relationship to each other. Sir Arthur Keith’s changing opinion of Dart’s Taungs Baby is instructive. He found value in the fossil from the start and as Lee Berger (2000) points out, Keith’s position was not consistent and more subtly shaded than often believed. Arthur Keith agreed that Taungs Baby was the oldest dolicephalic, or long-headed, specimen fossil to emerge. Dart’s memoirs (1959) carefully charted the changes in Keith’s pronouncements on the controversy. Sir Arthur presided over the 1927 meeting at Leeds of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. After two years of debate and close inspection of the Taungs Baby, Lord Keith “pointedly” made no mention of Australopithecus whatsoever, while he championed the authenticity and importance of Eoanthropus (Piltdown Man) and Pithecanthropus (Java Man, or Homo erectus). In a chapter of J.A. Hammerton’s (1927) The Universal History of the World, Arthur Keith noted that Raymond Dart had claimed the Taungs Baby to be a “missing link” between primates and humans. Sir Arthur Keith rejected this claim in the text of Hammerton’s ‘definitive’ text, using his authority to derogate Raymond Dart’s important concept. By 1929 Dart had the support of Lancelot Hogben, professor of Zoology at Cape Town University, who equated R.A. Dart to A. Keith, and considered them equally astute scientists. Also in 1929 W.K. Gregory, the curator of comparative anatomy at the American Museum of Natural History came out in favor of Dart in the Taungs Baby controversy. In a careful comparison of dental aspects, Dr. Gregory found twenty characteristics of Taungs Baby to be nearer to Homo sapiens, two characteristics of Taungs Baby to be nearer the gorilla, three characteristics common to ‘chimpanzees, gorillas and mankind,’ plus one element ‘common to apes but not man’ and no dental feature ‘nearer to ape than man.’ “In light of all this additional evidence, if Australopithecus is not literally a missing link…what conceivable combination of ape and human characters would ever be admitted as such?” After Dr. Gregory, the German anthropologist T. Adloff also came to the same conclusion as Dart and stated unequivocally that Taungs Baby was a hominid. At this point (1930-1931) Dart completed his eight-month-long rigorous and Livingstone-esque (or Indiana Jones-esque?) motorized traversa of Africa and returned to London “bronzed and feeling like a Rider Haggard character…confident enough to tackle anything.” He was again premature in his optimism, and disappointments were again on the horizon for the paleo-neurologist. On February 17, 1931, Dart joined Elliot Smith, Sir Arthur Keith and Sir Arthur Smith Woodward (Chairman) for a conference at the London Zoological Society. Armed with plaster cast samples and compelling lantern slides, Eliot Smith gave a “masterful” address on the culture of Sinanthropus. Dart followed with an extemporaneous and disappointing “anticlimax” talk concerning Taungs Baby and the australopithecine’s mental development. “What a pitiful difference between this fumbling account and Elliot Smith’s skillful demonstration!” as Dart would write later in his memoirs. Although he gave a better talk the next night at the Royal Society Club, the Royal Society decided not to publish Dart’s complete monograph on Taungs Baby and the “missing link” aspects of Australopithicus. This failure to publish in London was a pivotal event for Dart, he abandoned the Taungs Baby project for many years after the 1931 setback. Dart spent the next few years investigating the Bushmen. In the 1930s he developed a radical theory of Asian origins for the Bushmen, he argued for pervasive Indian Ocean migrations during the Pleistocene period, and deduced this from the fossil and cultural records of prehistoric Rhodesia. In 1939 the aforementioned Dr. W.K.Gregory and Milo Hellman published an article supporting Dart in the Journal of the American Dental Association, entitled “South African Fossil Man-Apes and Origin of the Human Dentition.” Dart considered this article to “mark the turning point in attitudes of most scientists in America, Britain and the Continent.” The carnivorous nature of the Taungs Baby, and its branching away from frugivorous primates, as well as Dart’s theory on the advanced brain type of Taungs Baby were now accepted. Dart’s protégé, Robert Broom, was now actively championed the South African school; Dr. Franz Weidenreich also aligned with Dart’s point of view. In 1946 (little anthropological work was done during the 1939-1945 period) another book was published by R. Broom and G.W.H. Schepers supporting the Dart theory of 1925, and this brought the acquiescence of Dart’s nemesis, Sir Arthur Keith. A few quotations show the degree of Keith’s about-face on the Taungs Baby controversy. In a letter to Broom he stated, “Whatever theory one holds of human evolution, man as we know him must have passed through such a stage as is represented by the Australopets [sic] I agree they may be direct descendants of such a stage.” In a different letter Keith said, “No doubt the South African anthropoids are much more human than I had originally supposed.” Finally in 1947 (twenty-two years after Dart’s thesis) Arthur Keith wrote to Nature: When Professor Dart of the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, announced in Nature the discovery of a juvenile Australopithecus and claimed for it a human kinship, I was one of those who took the point of view that when the adult form was discovered it would prove to be nearer akin to the living African anthropoids—the gorilla and the chimpanzee. Like professor Le Gros Clark I am now convinced on the evidence submitted by Dr. R. Bloom that Professor Dart was right and I was wrong. The Australopithecinae are in or near the line which culminated in the human form…ground-living anthropoids, human in posture, gait and dentition. (A. Keith quoted in R. Dart, 1959: 81) III. Makaganspat Tools and the ‘Osteodontokeratic’ Culture Controversy Whatever the magnitude of Raymond Dart’s discovery of Australopithecus and his neurological theory of their mental capacity might be, a larger debate was engendered by his work on Makapansgat. The theory of a pre-lithic “Bone Age” stimulates hot debate today. The place of the Taungs Baby and the debate over Australopithicinae with Sir Arthur Keith are long settled in favor of Dr. Dart, but the implications of Dr. Dart’s second great theory are still in contention. Unlike the controversy of 1925-1947, this contested arena is not susceptible to a ‘case-closed’ summary, the arguments on both sides have been cogent and incisive. While many scientists have differed from Dart on the meaning of the faunal remains found in the limestone brecciae, C.K. ‘Bob’ Brain has emerged as the most eloquent of the anti-Dart theorists in this contested field. The consensus supports Brain in many aspects, but the compelling nature of the original Dart proposals have been embraced by a vocal minority. Whatever the final outcome, Dart’s monograph on the Makapansgat material will retain its value as a potent exposition of quantified theory. Makapansgat contained over 7000 faunal remains, and Dart carefully identified and interpreted these bones. His conclusions were surprising and ambitious, as usual. He established a theory that the bones found in the cave were in fact a tool assemblage, with scrapers, cutters, clubs, daggers and awls. The relative frequency of certain type bones were interpreted in masterful and compelling detail, leaving a clear picture of a pre-lithic tool using culture. Much as Piltdown Man and Aryan/Orientalism had clouded the debate of the 1920s, the field of anthropology at mid-century was affected by a bias concerning stone implements. Stone tools were being found in mounting numbers, and clear cultural traditions were inferred for the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic period. Olduwan, Acheulian and Mousterian stone tools were type markers in the Old World and the Clovis technology demarcated New World views of human cultural development. When Dart worked at Makapansgat, a ‘cult’ of rock industry largely drove his contemporaries’ approach to the history of primordial mankind, stone culture marked human developmental milestones. Dart found a cultural tool technology outside of the emerging stone-tool ‘gospel.’ He found a human logic behind the selective bone remains of the Plio-Pleistocene limestone brecciae. He showed logic in the bones and pointed to conscious tool-using. This approach gave Australopithecus, an upright and bipedal anthropoid/hominid, power over slaughtering, butchering and high-protein scavenging. The monograph proved its case both statistically and graphically. The bones found in the cave were almost exclusively those of the head and limbs. The absence of vertebral and other post-cranial remains was convincingly explained as a conscious choice made by the tool assembling australopithecines. The great canines, horns, mandibles and femurs of bovids were posited as human tools, and the culture of using these common-sense materials for survival was named the awkwardly compound term “osteodontokeratic culture.” In lighter moments Dart himself would refer to the tradition as the “Bone Age” or the “Bone and Antler Industry.” A theory of early man using and working with non-stone tools in a pre-stone age was appealing to many, but appalling to others. This debate is essentially a philosophical contest, between those who stress violence, hunting and carnivorous behavior and those who see a more placid and vegetarian human condition. L.S.B. Leakey generally supports Dart, and claims that early man was in fact an animal, and behaved as one. Frederick S. Szalay (1975) saw Pleistocene man as a consumer of meat, not seeds. The “strong vertical incisors and incisiform canines must have been tools to tear and grasp meat and fascia,” when hunted or scavenged and “large pongid like canines would interfere with this.” Meat as the strong preference in genus Homo is also proposed by Katherine Milton. She sees the dominance of the small intestine as an indication that the “routine inclusion of meat in weaned children seems mandatory.” Dart put forward evidence of a consciously amassed tool assemblage, and he specifically debunked the theory that other carnivores (specifically the hyena) brought the bones into the cave. Although Dart presented a convincing case that hyenas do not in fact assemble bones in their lairs, this was the core of later assaults on his interpretation. Dart showed that hyenas can eat and digest donkey heads, and rarely if ever leave uneaten bones around. Brain (1968) came to the opposite conclusion, attributing the bones to hyenas. Neal T. Boaz is one writer who sides strongly with Brain in the controversy over how the bones were collected in the brecciae. He states, probably too categorically, that the bones of Makagaspat were not australopithecines’, but rather were dropped by “leopards and saber tooth lions” into the cave. He concurs with Bob Brain that the bones had passed through the digestive systems of hyenas, which Dart would certainly reject. Finally Boaz rejected Dart’s conclusion that the depressions in the skulls of game animals were not made by twin headed femurs used as clubs, but were effects of sedimentation pressure. Boaz characterizes Dart as the source of the prologue to 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick and rails against the “Killer Ape” model of African Genesis by Robert Ardrey and the conclusions of Desmond Morris as influenced by Dart’s “killer ape.” Mary E. Clark embraces the pacifist vision of Bob Brain in toto. She sees the early hominid hunting scenario as a sexist construct and minimizes hunting as a possible behavior. She claims that Dart was “completely wrong.” She sees a matriarchal and cooperative basis for human development and sees the tool assemblage, butchery, and scavenging scenarios as utterly repugnant. She believes in a noble savage, a pre-history devoted to peaceful co-existence and communal vegetarian norms. In this she may be fond, naïve or romanticizing the past, or falling into an axiomatic, teleological and politically correct circular revisionism far removed from Paleolithic behavior and the rock record. Lee Berger follows Dart, and sees migration and game-following in the last 500,000 years, at least. “Game moving through the mountain pass was easier to kill than on the open grasslands. The dead animals were then carried back to the cave, where the meat was eaten and the skins and bones turned into weapons and clothes.” This scenario is to some observers only self-evident, however the debate continues, and it is often informed by post-modern sensitivities about nationalism, race, gender and the fluctuating ideals constructed for human behavior. Were australopithecines hunters, or the hunted? Ian Tattersall of the American Museum of Natural History takes no opinion, but documents three others’ opinions. “Lewis Binford concluded that the putative killer Homo habilis had in fact been a scavenger….on the other hand, analysis of the cut marks left on some of the bones suggested to the archaeologists Henry Bunn and Ellen Kroll that stone tools had in fact been used to dismember the higher yielding parts of the animals” indicating they had killed the animals or chased off the large carnivore that had killed the game. Tattersall sees the academy as split on the issue with most leaning toward scavenging rather than hunting, and against a weapon and butchery tools assemblage. The specifics of the Dart analysis of the site at Makaganspat—as opposed to more general debate over the philosophical and sociological implications of hunting and meat scavenging, was addressed in an extended debate in a major journal in the mid-1970s. Donald Wolberg stated that the Dart thesis was flawed and strongly supported the Brain revisions. This followed on the heels of the original Brain (1968, 1969) papers, which centered on refuting Dart’s (1959) elimination of the role of hyenas. Brain used current Hottentot examples and strangely divergent conclusions (visavis Dart) concerning hyenas’ behaviors. He put forth the theory that only a casual and random collection of bones were in the brecciae, that no tool assemblage was ever found at Makapansgat. Catherine E. Read-Martin at this point in the 1970s became the principle proponent of the Dart position, and she found Dart’s original analysis of the osteodontokeratic nature of the bone assembly to be credible and compelling. Catherine Read-Martin developed research into the Makaganspat deposits in her (unpublished) UCLA dissertation, and she put an abbreviated form of the thesis into Current Anthropology in late 1975. She was as dismissive of Brain as Brain was of Dart. She pointed out that a controversy still raged over the interpretation of Makaganspat. She cited Brain, Wolberg and Isaak (1970) as sponsors of the revisionist view. “Brain (1969)has pointed out similarities between Makaganspat and goat bones of Hottentots.” She states that Brain admitted that “hominid activity, scavenging by other animals and differential preservation” were undoubtedly important, but states bluntly that Brain “ignores tool usage.” In her major article in Current Anthropology, (which ran a series of comments, replies and counter-replies) Read-Martin and her co-author Dwight W. Read stated their conclusions: ….most of the contentions on all sides have been speculative and with little firm support…[however]…the fragmentary animal remains from Makaganspat Limeworks Cavern are shown to support Dart’s contention that these hominids scavenged from Bovids killed by large carnivores and that [australopithecus] often used animal remains as tools…[this] suggests a role for scavenging in the hominid morphological and behavioral evolution. (Catherine Read-Martin, 1975) In the subsequent issue, Andrew Hill calls the Dart theory an “attractive model” to explain the anomalous faunal remains, and clearly states that carnivore action and differential preservation cannot explain the spiral fractures and the fact that mandibles were often divided sectionally “for use as tools.” In a further Reply, Richard G. Forbis of Calgary lambasted the Read-Martin paper and the Dart theory as “sheer speculation.” Robson Bonnichsen in a discussion/criticism addendum indicated that the bone count and lack of randomness that Dart saw at Makaganspat showed obvious “hominid activity” and characterized critics as supporters of non-cultural theories leaning on differential weathering, carnivore and rodent activity which Bonnichsen found less than compelling, as it ignored manifest tool usage related to the bones. IV. Conclusion The monograph Dart presented in Pretoria in 1959 is an elegant, thoughtful and exhaustive review of hominid tool use in the late australopithecine era. His statistical, behavioral and graphic support for the theory retain their cogency. The antler thrust into the femur, the toolbox organization and the drawings of grasped specimens are intuitive. Brain’s (1968) paper leaned heavily on assumptions about the behavior of hyenas which may or may not be compelling, and the ambiguous markings on the bones are interpreted in various ways by opposing parties. The selection and arrangement of certain tool-like bones is a compelling argument for hominid osteodontokeratic culture. The obvious utility of mandibles, canines, femurs and ulnae make Dart’s program hard to disprove. The debate has been subsumed into larger philosophical and sociological debates over diet and behavior. The original work retains its convincing power and Dart’s discovery of a pre-lithic tool assemblage, while contested, made a large contribution to understanding early hominid behavior and culture. While many see the jaws, femurs, horns and mandibles as only so many random accretions in the den of a hyena, many observers cling to the logic of a primordial man fascinated by the potential usefulness of enamel, bone and horns—in the dimly understood era before any stone tool culture had dawned. Raymond Dart led four generations of anthropologists with insight, courage and patience. He was fortunately placed to be able to deal competently with the fossils coming to light across Southern Africa in the 1920s. While building up the Medical School at Witwatersrand, he developed theories for the symbolic rock markings in Rhodesia and postulated a diffusionist (ex-migration/in-migration) racial theory for Africa. He named Homo habilis a favor to his colleague Louis Leakey and also named australopithecus, after he had investigated the posterior lying midbrain lobe and articulated lunate sulcus of the Taungs Baby. By interpreting a tool assemblage found in a South African limestone quarry as a butcher shop, he gained notoriety and cleaved the anthropological mentalitie of the twentieth century. Raymond Dart, Victorian, Edwardian, World War II veteran, Cold War Era scientist and ninety-five year old emeritus of human anthropology, Raymond Dart experienced five full generational transitions of international scientific development, while all along retaining his courage, patience and analytic insight. V. Table Chronology of the Taungs Baby Controversy 1924: Dart receives the Taungs fossil and brain cast from his student, Josephine Salmons. 1925: Nature publishes Dart’s groundbreaking work on Australopithecus africanus 1925: Sir Arthur Keith, W.L.H. Duckworth, Sir Andrew Smith Woodward oppose Dart. Sir Grafton Elliot Smith demurs. British Empire Exhibition. 1927: Keith publishes against Dart theory in Hammerton’s book, declares for Piltdown. 1929: T. Adloff, Lancelot Hogben and W.K. Gregory all support Dart theory. 1931: Smith, Keith and Woodward show no interest in Dart’s Theory at London Zoological Exhibition, Royal Society declines to publish Dart’s monograph. Dart ceases work on Taungs and Australopithecus. 1939: Milo Hellman and W.K. Gregory publish in support of Dart theory. Henri Breuil publishes “Bone and Antler Industry of Choukoutien Sinanthropus” 1946: R. Broom, G.W.H. Schepers and Franz Weidenreich publish in support of Dart theory. Schepers and Broom win the Giraud Award. 1947: Sir Arthur Keith issues full retraction in Nature, after 22 years. Cites the work of Broom and fully vindicates Dart’s theory that ‘Taungs Baby’ was a hominid anthropoid in the human ancestral line. VI. Table Chronology of the Makapansgat Osteodontokeratic Culture Controversy 1854: Makapansgat Cave the site of Kruger siege, 2000 killed. 1892: W.L. Distant publishes on the skulls found inside Makapansgat. 1925: Wilfrid Eitzmann sends Dr. Dart some fossils from Makapansgat. 1937: C. Van Riet Rowe finds handaxes and the ‘Cave of Hearths’ at Makapansgat. 1945: Dart returns to Makapansgat for systematic search. 1949: Dart publishes “Predatory implemental technique of the australopithicines.” 1957: Dart publishes “The Osteodontokeratic Culture of Australopithecus Prometheus” Washburn publishes. 1958: Brain publishes “The Transvaal Ape-Man-Bearing Cave Deposits” 1963: Kitching publishes “Bone, Tooth and Horn Tools of Paleolithic Man” in Britain. 1968: Desmond Morris publishes “The Naked Ape” Brain publishes “Who Killed the Swartkrans Ape Men?” 1969: Brain publishes work on Hottentots, Hyenas and Bone accumulation theory. 1970: Walberg publishes “The Hypothesized Osteodontokeratic Culture.” 1975: Catherine Read-Martin and Dwight Read publish “Australopithecine Scavenging.” 1976: Hill counters Read-Martin, against Dart with “Carnivora and Weathering.” 1993: Boaz publishes “Quarry” against Dart. 1999: Catherine Milton publishes “Meat Eating” in support of Dart. 2002: Mary Clark publishes “In Search of Human Nature” against Dart. Shanet Clark GSU Atlanta 2006
  5. Perhaps the most interesting and disturbing angle on Hughes, the CIA and the Watergate burglaries is the GLOMAR project. I believe Hughes Tool got a highly classified project contract to build a special deep-sea platform "winch" ship and help the US agencies find a Soviet sub, and this project turned into a major cover-up and blackmail routine. One of the cover stories, or disinformation, concerning the special deep sea salvage ship concerned UFO's. This was a ruse to cover the fact that a private company was sesarching for a downed nuclear sub in the Pacific (Indian?) Ocean. By granting this contract to Hughes, the Military and CIA gave Hughes a huge opportunity to engage in extortion. Its late and I haven't run a search engine on "GLOMAR HUGHES" but I'll bet some of "our" characters pop up. It is a very similar scenario to the THRASHER project, which featured BENDIX Corporation. Perhaps the GLOMAR facts were part of the PLUMBERS/GREENSPUN Las Vegas intrigues, but certainly the GLOMAR project gave Hughes a whip hand in dealing with politicians like Richard Nixon. I am going on memory here, but I am sure some other members can provide some details about this operation.
  6. On Liddy: I meant only that he was not implicated in Dallas in a major way like the other burglars. Hunt selected the squad, except for Liddy, who he inherited from CREEP. Before Watergate Liddy was most well known for busting the Millbrook house in New York State, where Timothy Leary hosted sessions. I wouldn't put anything past him, his fondness for "South Americans with German names" is well known.
  7. The guy on the left looks like Ed Harris. The guy on the right looks Nordic, and has a cleft in his chin. Did all these people charter a bus to Dealey Plaza, or what?
  8. James What is the deal with Eugenio Martinez and Virgilio Gonzalez?
  9. Why am I not suprised. Fetzer would be your cup-o-tea. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sounds like you get your tea from the Officer's Club.
  10. We now know that all the Watergate burglars, except G. Gordon Liddy, had ties to the Kennedy assassination. Bernard Barker flashed false Secret Service papers while operating behind the grassy knoll fence. Howard Hunt was CIA domestic executive sanction chief and could not find an alibi when pressed in civil court by Mark Lane. Frank Sturgis is placed in Dallas, with Jack Ruby, and had weapons in his trunk. Vergilio Gonzalez and Eugenio Martinez are implicated, and James McCord is a lookalike in a clear photo of Dealey. Watergate and the JFK assassination share a cast of characters, and this shows me that pressure was being applied to Nixon. Of course, Warren Commissioner Jerry Ford and his henchman Al Haig benefitted most. This is dirty business right out of Shakespeare or the Roman Empire..........
  11. The more I study it, the more I believe FETZER. The anomalies are problematic.
  12. Since so much is classified we have to connect the dots. I may have exagerated, but I'll bet the truth is worse than my suppositions! Again I would stress to the readers the Wall that existed between the CIA and the military spy agencies. It may well be that the CIA was not a sponsor, but that these people at the MI, especially those around ONI, Taylor and Walker were complicit in the assassination. Stay on the case, this is a very promising approach. (Motive & Opportunity)
  13. Hale Boggs widow Lindy Boggs served with distinction in Congress after his death. I suspect he was the recipient of some solid information (on the order of the Audie Murphy material) and was silenced in the plane crash, like Dorothy Hunt, also in 1972. Mike Gravel and Ted Stephens probably know what happened to him...... Wim Dankbaar published correspondence between the Warren Commission counsel and John McCloy that shows that McCloy was very close to admitting the presence of a second shooter on the overpass. "That dog won't hunt."
  14. Thanks a lot for that. The page has now been updated. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> William BITTMAN (not Buttman!) Thanks for clearing up the Egil Krogh angle, very fishy to put a top domestic dirty tricks and plumber's helper in the FAA executive slot at that exact time. (A similar thing happened when Vince Foster "committed suicide" in the park. Swarms of federal officials were there immediately.) Ruckleshaus was unresponsive, almost arrogant in his answer to Reed. What about the reference to 12 watergate conspirators on the plane? This was evidently staged to silence Hunt, the carrot and the stick.
  15. And what's Connally so worried about? ("My God, I wonder if they're going to kill us all.") <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Great Photo LBJ seems to be thinking, "I won't have to listen to this bastard much longer, we got your number, pinko"
  16. The film was obviously doctored. The County records and Jail are matted over and fuzzy. A mysterious blob clings to JFK's parietal temple area. The cloud of blood dissipates in a miraculous fashion. The color is oversaturated and the splices are obvious. The approach to the kill zone is simply missing. (I expect a long winded McAdams style denial, but this is fact)
  17. Fearless individual. Punished for telling the truth.
  18. Colonel is pretty high ranking. According to Military Intelligence magazine, published at Fort Huascacha, Major and above can task national security wiretaps on US soil. Harrod Miller was part of the team (joint agency) that was active in Japan, at Atsugi Air base, during the MK ULTRA period when false defectors were being trained to go into Soviet Russia. John Hurt was his associate, and these men may have been the core recruiters of one LHO.
  19. I have been monitoring certain unique phrases in the Forum, and we do not have the priority we used to have. Phrases that used to go to the top of Google are now buried.
  20. Lee Forman and I went through it frame by frame and there is a lot of questionable "art" in the Zapruder. The Fuzzed Out upper right hand quadrant of frames 1-40 is very suspicious, looks like a matte to cover the County Records/Jail buildings. The on-again off-again left hand margin reference letters, that is fishy. I think the back of Kennedy's head is darkened after the headshot, and the BLOB, or parietal mass, is an addition to remove the front to back trajectory that was originally visible.
  21. There was another post that showed brake lights more clearly. The consensus is 5-10 miles an hour. A big heavy limo will COAST down that grade at 20 mph, so the car was being braked and dramatically slowed during the ambush. Is this the Dal Tex window or the TSBD ?
  22. Tim You are on the right track. Except they don't always go through the legalities of impeachment. It is called EXECUTIVE SANCTION, and it is spelled out in the 25th amendment.
  23. John I have a copy of the McCord memoirs "A Piece of Tape". No Index, but I don't see anything on Dorothy Hunt. It is mainly an indictment of Peterson, Mitchell and Nixon. Interesting chronologies, lots of testimony excerpts. You may be able to track one down on Amazon. If I remember correctly the Chicago police found the satchel with $10,000 in the wreckage with Dorothy's body and Howard Hunt filed for the money, a strange scene when Hunt got the hush money back from the authorities.......... Also, Nixon put a crony (Egil Krogh?) in charge of the National Air Traffic Safety Board right after the crash, I believe, and this has set off quite a few suspicions.......
  24. I will tell the group and the public what I told John in a personal message. I keep pretty close tabs on the relation between the google search engine results and certain key words I am most interested......I have monitored a few unique phrases and recently my results show a downgrading of ED FORUM weight visavis the prominence of the search results. Certain unique phrases I posted on the ED FORUM were very highly placed until about April, when they sank deeply into the results, or were not found at all. OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD, as represented by the known efforts of Ben Bradlee and Cord Meyer, is certainly a "Real" and not imaaginary PROGRAM of domestic press and media manipulation by the US intelligence agency. This is the chilling environment that John Kennedy lived amongst in Georgetown At Washington DC< and this is the context of the assassination in Dallas. John Simkin's has apparently stumbled onto something larger and more grotesque than the simple killing of an elected president. >>>>>>>>>
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