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History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
Anatoly Fomenko
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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.
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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03
Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.
Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19
Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.
Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09
There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.
For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.
Very Interesting.......2007-03-07
It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.
History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10
Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.
I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.
Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.
Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.
I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.
This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.
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Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses.
Four very different young men on the threshold of manhood dominate this opening volume of A Dance to the Music of Time. The narrator, Jenkins--a budding writer--shares a room with Templer, already a passionate womanizer, and Stringham, aristocratic and reckless. Widermerpool, as hopelessly awkward as he is intensely ambitious, lurks on the periphery of their world. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, these four gain their initiations into sex, society, business, and art. Considered a masterpiece of modern fiction, Powell's epic creates a rich parorama of life in England between the wars.
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"Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."--Chicago Tribune
"A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell's world is as large and as complex as Proust's."--Elizabeth Janeway, New York Times
"One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."--Naomi Bliven, New Yorker
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Slow waltz.......2006-11-25
Just as the taste of some "petites madeleines" with tea was the impetus that started Proust on his seven volumed A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, the sight of workmen gathered around a coke fire, served as a similar spark for Anthony Powell's own epic literay effort. Although the two works differ in the language used to write them and deal with different stratum of society, the similarities are obvious to anyone who has read the two works. Both are fairly obsessed with the concept of time and how it influences memory and imagination; both authors create elaborate universes, peopled with hundreds of characters and places, which are then minutely examined and described from a vantage point somewhere in the future (the examination and description themselves affected by the passing of time); both dealt obliquely with the idea of war and how it impacts the accepted social milieu, and both works are quintessentially passive in style.
The "First Movment" of the Dance comprises the first three novels of the series and centers on the years immediately following Worl War I through the first part of the 1930s. Although these years would prove to be momentous in the history of Britain and, indeed, the rest of the world, Powell is less interested in history (compare this to Proust's detailed account of the Dreyfus case) than he is in the human condition. The four main characters of these three novels - Jenkins, the narrator; Templer and Stringham, school friends who find the adjustment to adulthood difficult; and Widmerpool, the ambitious outsider - seem to exist in a world of social functions and very rarely comment on the historical realities of their time such as the Germany's slide toward fascism or the depression affecting the economic foundation of Britain's world position. To Powell, the passage of time has more to do with the interaction between people than it does with political and economic machinations.
Indeed, it is Powell's elaborate creation of believable characters that makes the work succeed as it does. The main characters become so well known to the reader that their actions are almost anticipated in advance, and the cast of supporting actors is brilliantly crafted - Jenkins' iconoclastic relative, Uncle Giles; the inimical literati, Members and Quiqqin; the womanizing artist, Barby; and the pathetic Mr. Deacon. However, Powell's women characters are not as impressive and, with the exception of Gypsy Jones, seem to be more mannequins (indeed a couple of the women characters are former models) than living, breathing humans. Predictably, the interrelations between the male characters have more life than those between the sexes. The sexual dynamics, such as exist, are as passive as the other action of the novel and described in such a way that would not cause even Jerry Falwell to blush.
Powell's style takes a while to get use to, but soon the diligent reader becomes immersed in its languidnesss and, because of the sheer length of the work, begins to feel the various rhythms of one's own music of time.
An Anglophile's Delight.......2006-07-08
Very dry social comedy, very English, not terribly profound, but lots of well drawn characters, one or two of whom stand comparison with the best of Shakespeare and Dickens. The style is lapidary, like Evelyn Waugh's, but without that writer's gift for wild farce. You don't have to be an Anglophile to enjoy these books, but it certainly helps.
The first volume of a massive but worthy literary effort.......2005-11-19
Anthony Powell's twelve-volume sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" tracks wealthy Englishman Nicholas Jenkins and his social circle from youth in 1921 to senescence in 1971 and features a cast of over four hundred characters. The title and concept behind the work are expressed through Jenkins' reminisces while watching constructionmen at work on a winter's day:
"Something in the physical attitudes of the men themselves as they turned from the fire suddenly suggested Poussin's scene which the Seasons, hand in hand and facing outward, tread in rhythm to the notes of the lyre that the winged and naked greybeard places. The image of Time brought thoughts of mortality: of human beings, facing outward like the Seasons, moving hand in hand in intricate measure: stepping slowly, methodically, sometimes a trifle awkwardly, in evolutions that take recognisable shape: or breaking into seemingly meaningless gyrations, while partners disappear only to reappear again."
The grand theme of Powell's work is nothing less than life itself--specifically, how our lives are defined by our relation to other people. In A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING, we are introduced to Nicholas while he is in his final years at Eton, along with his roommates Templer (a young man desirious of women and money) and Stringham (a melancholy soul with a tumultuous family life). Widmerpool, who eventually becomes the villain of the cycle, is an awkward and little-liked boy who exists on the edges of this world. As the novel progresses, Jenkins finishes school, stays for a time with both of his former roommates, spends a summer in France, and experiences the first year at university. It may seem like there is little to it, but Powell's observations about life and growing up are more than substantial enough to make for a novel.
In A BUYER'S MARKET we catch up with Jenkins three years or so later, when he's finished with university and working at a firm that publishes art books. Here he and his peers are entering society, attending numerous parties and balls meant to facilitate this process, and already having some taste of power. A large portion of the novel takes place in the course of a single night as Jenkins goes from dinner to ball to low house party, a homage to Joyce's ULYSSES. He runs into Widmerpool again, who starts to show something of his true nature, and a few other characters already known to the reader, as well as a host of new associates who play major roles here and in the future.
The main topics of THE ACCEPTANCE WORLD, set at the end of the 1920s not long after the Great Depression, are the literary world and Marxist politics. Two men known to Jenkins at university have become writers and are vying for favour from the elder statesman of literary life, St. John Clarke. Quiggin, one of the promising writers, a fervent supporter of the Party (later dismayed that another character has become a Trotskyist). Jenkins begins his first serious relationship--while his friends are already married, some already divorced--and feels that he has finally come of age.
My only real complaint about this thoroughly entertaining set of novels is that Powell is quite imprecise about chronology, favouring expressions like "a year or more earlier", "eighteen months or less", "ages ago", etc. to relate one event to another. I felt that with a little great effort he could have made the reader more certain of what happens when.
"A Dance to the Music of Time" is not accessible to many readers simply because of the concentration and spare time required to get through it. Still, if you are taking a long sea voyage or boarding the Trans-Siberian, this is a good book to take along. Few writers have been capable of so massive a work with so grand a theme.
The Fall of the British Empire.......2005-09-26
Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time, First Movement introduces us to Jenkins, the writer, Templer, the sex addict, Stringham, the rich man, and Widmerpool, the aspiring but inept businessman. The excitement of the 1920's gives us insight into a world of hope and idealism amidst rapidly changing dynamics of 20th century British society.
Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time, Second Movement continues the story at the eve of World War II. The idealism and hope of the 20's is muted amidst the growing fears of war, and the even greater fear of a loss of an empire.
Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time, Third Movement reminds us that there is no center to any war, especially World War II. Instead there are literally thousands of events which still present just a glimpse of the horrors of the war. The idealism of the 1920's is gone, replaced with uncertainty as to the post-war world on the horizon.
Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time, Fourth Movement introduces us to the notion of a social melancholy, a lost empire. Orhan Pamuk, author of Istanbul describes the state of huzun, translated as melancholy, as he describes the social emotions in Istanbul between the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the uncertainty of the embrace of western values. As Powell concludes his epic, "it might be much worse," we wonder in the context of the 21st century, when the horizon suggests an even deeper huzun as the culture of the west and the east both face uncertainty.
As we witness the encounter between the western culture, past its apex, and the new Islamic culture, on its ascendancy, one only wonders how Powell and Pamuk may be describing the same melancholy or huzun. While often compared to C.P. Snow's epic Strangers and Brothers, Powell's portrayal of the fall of the British Empire is sloppier and filled with a greater variety of social characters, more like Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. In this it is more realistic and compelling in its presentation of a dynamics of social emotions.
Heaven is a place...........2005-06-02
thoughts after completing the first volume...
If this magnificently droll farce were played more broadly than it (is? "appears to be" might be a more suitable term given that I have only cracked the tip of this very dry iceberg)
it would bear an even greater resemblance, in a certain very odd way, to the television series "Seinfeld"....that is,it appears to be an immense series featuring the same characters in manifold and perverse situations who keep turning up at the oddest moments,and further, most importantly, that it is about...NOTHING. In fact it appears to exceed the television series in this respect....it is REALLY about NOTHING. These characters appear to walk through their lives and we are witnesses to this unbelievably slow and prosaic process, with even the melodramatic situations,though inherently farcical, (and hilarious) somehow so unbelievably understated that one cannot imagine not being exposed, in equally droll fashion, to Nick Jenkins' morning toilet rituals at some distant point further down the road...the only salient feature giving the movements meaning are the magnificent interpretive pontifications of Nick, who appears to have gained a vast and intricate knowledge of the subtleties of the English language at some point vastly removed in time from the events of the first volume...this drollery is an art form that appears to have passed from the world entirely,and it makes me curious to explore Balzac's "Droll Stories"; somehow I don't think they will be this hysterical.
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Bryght's Story.......2007-06-11
This is the second in the Malloren series and while not nearly as good as the first book, My Lady Notorious, still quite entertaining.
Anyone who read the first book will recall Bryght was selected to fetch a letter that implicated his first love, Nerissa in a scandalous affair and the family has kept the letter since that time. When Bryght went to the house where the letter was hidden he was almost shot by Portia St. Claire who mistakenly though he was a thief. Bryght was attracted to Portia then but then runs across her in London and learns her brother's gambling has left them in dire straights. When loan sharks demand Portia sell her virginity in a brothel to pay her brother's debts, Bryght outbids everyone to rescue the disguised Portia so that her virtue and identity will remain safe.
This was a sensual interesting book and Bryght a wonderful hero. However, Portia got on my nerves a bit. Although, I can understand a little reluctance on her part, her coldness to Bryght even after all his sacrifices left this reader cold.
Horrible read.......2007-04-23
I apologize that this review is brief and so negative, however...
Portia St. Claire is THE most idiotic, one dimensional and STUPID heroine that I have ever encountered in a romance.Ever. I guess I should thank Jo Beverley for providing the benchmark for what I now consider to the brainless and boring heroine.
PLEASE do not waste money buying this book. Borrow it from the local library if you must.
Tempting, balderdash.......2005-12-07
This book is not worth one star. I haven't even finished it, but I don't think I will. The characters are sooooo boring. I can't find the romance that I like about Jo Beverley's books. I am an avid reader and find myself diisapointed lately with the "Historical Romances" This book is not worth reading. Maybe if I had read the first book it might be different,but I don't think so.
Good read - much better if read in order!.......2004-10-17
I read this book several months ago - and relly was quite confused - recently I read My Lady Notorious and realized why - these books need to be read in order. Why authors do not make this more clear is beyond me - one would think they would want us to enjoy them to the fullest. So much of what happens in Tempting Fortune is based on the relationships of the first book. Tempting is a good book - I loved Bright Malloren a lot as the male rouge hero - he had for me great appeal. There were many times though that I found Portia a little hard to take - she seemed attracted but so difficult. If I were Bright by the end of the book I would have told her to perhaps hit the road. I thoroughly do enjoy this series of Beverley books and I did the series of the Rouges. Jo Beverley is one of the best!
Don't waste your time.......2004-07-08
My advise to anyone looking to read this book, is don't waste your time. The plot of the story has real potential. A head-strong country girl is in the mist of trying to regain her family's home after her brother gambled it away.
The down fall however, is not so much the story but the characters,with the main disappointment being the heroine Portia. The opening chapters you see a glimpse of strong a personality, however by the end of the book the few intriguing traits she has have turned the reader sour. This book litearlly had me shooting to Portia "why are you so stupid." Due to the lack of development of the heroin it's hard to follow why the hero fell in love with her or root for a happy ending.
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