Sovereign Sale

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A sales strategy helps when you’re selling crateloads of Carolingian clones.

Imitation as Flattery

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If the History of Europe before 1400 AD was fabricated by the Clergy of Europe then the Kings of Europe should show some signs of skulduggery.

Willy The Fink and the Replica Royals

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Watch Willy The Fink finger the fakes in the finale.

Matthew Paris and the Replica Royals

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Matthew Paris prepared the ingredients for the 1915 Short-Cross Sandwich.

Hecker Horizon and the Plunging Penny

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Don’t miss the spectacular slide of the silver English Penny and it’s surprising synchronicity.

Bordeaux Bilge

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The standard explanation for the Crescent on Bordeaux’s Coat of Arms demonstrates historians have neither a flare for fact nor fiction.

Bordeaux Brickwork

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Back to basics with Bordeaux brickwork…

Southern Beech

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The Southern Beech supplies the segue for a series of Southern Hemisphere surprises.

The Orion Fly-By

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The iconography associated with the Orion constellation is [quite literally] an open book but it’s pictorial narrative depends upon the pages being correctly sequenced.

Gunnar Goes North

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Metal detectors unearth pots of gold and the occasional can of worms.

Ravenna Revealed: Curious Clues

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The mosaics of San Giovanni Evangelista provide some very curious clues.

Ravenna Revealed

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Serendipity serves up some surprises.

Three Flavours of 700 Year Old Fudge

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The last 2,000 years have been punctuated by three catastrophic horizons that have spawned three different versions of history.

Dennis Rawlins: Olbers’ Magic Square of Sky

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Heinrich Olbers is best remembered for discovering Pallas and Vesta.

The Dodwell Dead End

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The Aleppo Test provides some painfully penetrating perspectives.

Alaskan Muck: Sol Invictus

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Buckle-up for a bumpy ride managing your cognitive dissonance as the Alaskan Muck series ends with a bang as the Solar Parallax and Sol Invictus fall into place.

Alaskan Muck: Prime Suspects

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In the blame game the prime suspects are usually eliminated [one-by-one] from the investigation until a neatly packaged single actor scenario is revealed such as “Miss Scarlett” in the “Conservatory” with the “Dagger”.

Alaskan Muck: The Road To Aleppo

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It’s unlikely travellers on the Road to Damascus will convert to catastrophism or challenge the chronology but travellers on the Road to Aleppo have an opportunity to observe the pieces of the puzzle falling into place.

Alaskan Muck: Alaskan Ash

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Alaska has a lot of volcanoes.

Alaskan Muck: Windy Dome Ice Core

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The ice in Franz Josef Land [also] only dates back to the Heinsohn Horizon.

Alaskan Muck: The Canning River Region

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In 1919 Ernest de Koven Leffingwell dated Alaskan Ice by dating Ice Wedges. The elegant simplicity of his stunning scientific achievement highlights just how far the Earth Sciences have retreated from rationality, reason and reality in the last 100 years.

Alaskan Muck: Anaximander’s Cake

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It’s a delicious irony to discover Domestic Science reveals more about the inner workings of our planet than the medieval mindset of the self-proclaimed Earth Sciences.

Alaskan Muck: When Then Was

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Recalibrating the Alaskan muck produces some familiar dates!

Hecker Horizon: Konrad von Megenberg

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The Black Death story succumbs to shaking, suffocation and sand in Germany.

Hecker Horizon: Ho Ho Ho History

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Tracing the ancestry of Father Christmas involves some black-face Morris Dancers, William the Conqueror, Julius Caesar, the reign of Jam and some New Year’s Day continuity problems.

Fiery Trigons: Fire Birds

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There is one abiding mystery associated with Johannes Kepler’s Fiery Trigons.

Fiery Trigons: 3rd Millennium Prognosis

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Esoteric astrology and modern astronomy are combined to create a long range weather forecast.

Fiery Trigons: 1st Millennium Diagnosis

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Can Johannes Kepler’s esoteric astrology provide 1st millennium insights?

Fiery Trigons: Great Mutation Cycle

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Kepler’s chart collects another curious climate cycle coincidence.

Fiery Trigons: Great Conjunctions

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Could Kepler’s chart contain the key to climate cycles?

Korean Horizons

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The good news about the Korean Annals is that they appear to contain unadulterated data.

Hecker Horizon: Chasing The Dragon

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The Double Gleissberg Cycle of 155 ± 11 years is a novel historical yardstick.

Hecker Horizon: Enter The Dragon

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Sometimes spreadsheets supply several shocks.

Hecker Horizon: Eclipse Canon

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The Hecker Horizon narrative suggests the Earth likes to rock and roll and that gradualism is more akin to domestic science than hard science.

Hecker Horizon: Triple Conjunction

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It’s amazing what you find down the back of the sofa when you rummage through the dustier corners of the academic archives.