A man shot three detainees, two fatally, at an ICE facility from a nearby rooftop before fatally shooting himself as federal agents closed in on his location
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It is said that the Book of Thoth contains a number of spells, one of which allows the reader to understand the speech of animals, and one of which allows the reader to perceive the gods themselves. Legend says that he who read the contents of the book would obtain the means to decipher the secrets and master the earth, the sea, the air and the celestial bodies. One of the most mysterious books to have ever been mentioned in the history of mankind is the Book of Thoth—a sacred and mysterious book of the ancient Egyptians, written by an ancient God. According to historical records, the Book of Thot was a collection of ancient Egyptian texts which were written y Thoth—the ancient Egyptian god of writing and Knowledge. They include numerous texts that were claimed to exist by ancient authors and a magical book that appears in an Egyptian work of fiction. The Book of Thoth appears fragmented in diverse papyri, the majority pertaining to the second century of the Ptolemaic period. The Book of Thoth is cited for the first time in the so-called Turis papyrus, published in Paris at the end of the eighteenth century, which describes a failed attempt to kill a pharaoh, using a series of spells taken from the Book of Thoth.  *Note: Philip Coppens writes how the “Turis Papyrus, it does not exist but was probably derived from the well-known Turin Papyrus. The Turin Papyrus of Kings, also known as the Turin Canon, is a hieratic manuscript of the 19th dynasty of Egypt, listing the kings of Egypt from the earliest times to the reign of Ramses II (1279–13 BC), under whom it was written. Thus, not only does the Turis resemble the Turin in name, but also in date of origin.” In addition, there are different versions, although the compilations have led to reconstruct a history common to all of them, basically a dialogue in which there are two interlocutors, the god Thot and a disciple who “aspires to know”, although there is another god, probably Osiris, who also speaks with the disciple. The literary framework could be compared with the Greek hermetic texts, which also show dialogues between Hermes-Thot and his disciples; however, the presence of some texts prior to the first-century place it ahead of the first Greek hermetic philosophical texts. The name of ‘Book of Thot’ has been applied to numerous texts. Manetho—an ancient Egyptian priest—claimed that Thot had written 36.525 books, although some investigators like Seleukos affirm that they were around 20,000. The fictional Book of Thoth appears in an ancient Egyptian story from the Ptolemaic period which speaks of a brave ancient Egyptian prince called Neferkaptah who decides to recover the Book of Thoth, hidden at the depths of the Nile. The book, written by Thoth, is said to contain two spells, one of which allows the reader to understand the speech of animals, and one of which allows the reader to perceive the gods themselves. “The Book is at Koptos in the middle of the river. The fictional Book of ThothLegend suggests that the book was originally hidden at the bottom of the Nile near Coptos, where it was locked inside a series of boxes guarded by serpents no man could kill. The brave ancient Egyptian prince Neferkaptah decided to recover it. He fought the serpents and succeeded retrieving it, but in punishment for his theft from Thoth, the gods killed his wife Ahwere and son Merib. Neferkaptah eventually committed suicide and was said to have been entombed along with the book. Generations later, the story’s protagonist, Setne Khamwas (a character based on the historical prince Khaemwaset), manages to steal the book from Neferkaptah’s tomb despite fierce opposition from Neferkaptah’s ghost. Setne eventually meets a beautiful woman who seduces him into killing his children and humiliating himself in front of the pharaoh. He discovers that what he had seen was, in fact, an illusion put forth by Neferkaptah, and in fear of further retribution, Setne decides to return the book to Neferkaptah’s tomb. At Neferkaptah’s request, Setne finds the bodies of Neferkaptah’s wife and son and buries them in Neferkaptah’s tomb, which is then sealed for eternity. The story is meant to reflect the ancient Egyptian belief that the gods’ knowledge is not meant for ordinary humans to possess. Fragments have been found in Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Florence, Copenhagen and New Haven. It was believed that he who read the contents of the book would obtain the means to decipher and master secrets related to the earth, the sea, the air and the celestial bodies. It also conferred the faculty of assimilating the language of animals, giving life back to the dead and acting on distant and nearby minds. The church father Clement of Alexandria, in the sixth book of his work Stromata, mentions forty-two books used by ancient Egyptian priests that he says contain “the whole philosophy of the Egyptians”. All these books, according to Clement, were written by Hermes (an ancient pre-existing Greek god that the Greeks likened to Thoth, claiming they were one and the same god, due to the fact they had similar qualities, i.e. both invented writing). Sources used: Among many breathtaking and meticulously engraved details, the map features a group of mermaids holding what appears to be a disk in the form of a UFO near Patagonia, a legendary land that was rumored to be the home of giants. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the lands of the Western Hemisphere were a complete and utter mystery. After Christopher Columbus set foot in the New World—oh and he wasn’t the first European to do so—curious Europeans began to tell fantastic sagas about sea monsters, exotic wildlife, and strange civilizations. In 1562, the Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez and the Dutch engraver Hieronymous Cock made an attempt to create a detailed map of the Americas. It turned out to be a huge six-panel print.  It was published in Antwerp under the name ‘Americae sive quarte orbis partis nova et exactissima, Latin for The Americas, or A New and Precise Description of the Fourth Part of the World’. While the minutely engraved map shows precise geographical features in many cases (the east coast of the Americas and the western coasts of Europe and Africa), it is also plagued by what mainstream scholars consider folklore. You can find many of the legends and rumors about the New World that circulated at that time: sirens, hungry sea serpents, cannibals, erupting volcanoes in Mexico and a land of giants. I wonder if all of them were just a myth? Since most of the sixteenth-century European population was not able to read, maps were not just a navigation tool, but a popular medium for telling stories about specific places and ancient civilizations. They were practically considered something like a storytelling book. Interestingly, the west coast of South America depicted on this ancient map seems particularly dangerous and mysterious. We see a threatening whale that squeezes a defenseless ship, a dragon, a huge snake and a group of mermaids holding what appears to be a disk in the form of a UFO near Patagonia, a legendary land that was rumored to be the home of giants.  The region that is now part of Argentina and Chile was described by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan after encountering the indigenous Tehuelche tribe in 1520. According to his accounts, the Tehuelches were very tall and must have seemed gigantic to Spaniards who were particularly ‘small’. In order to prove that he really did encounter Giant beings in the new word, Magellan captured two Tehuelches and tried to bring them to Spain. However, they did not survive the trip to Europe, and Magellan had nothing left but stories and myths of a land of giants. The map is a mixture of reality and myth Despite the fact that we see what is considered as fictitious material on the map, Gutiérrez and Cock also name settlements, rivers, mountains, and capes that really do exist. It shows engravings of the Amazon River, Lake Titicaca, Mexico City, and the rivers in South America and Florida. You can see numerous correct coastal features of South, Central, North and Caribbean America, which makes me wonder, why create such a weird blend? Is there a chance that European explorers really encountered all of what was depicted on the map? Featured image credit: Artisanmaps. The suspect, who has been previously arrested for barricading himself from LEOs with a “weapon of mass destruction,” tried to stab himself with a pen after hearing the guilty verdict
A research team has successfully developed a self-locked Raman-electro-optic (REO) microcomb on a single lithium niobate chip. By synergistically harnessing the electro-optic (EO), Kerr, and Raman effects within one microresonator, the microcomb has a spectral width exceeding 300 nm and a repetition rate of 26.03 GHz, without the need for external electronic feedback.
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The quantum many body problem has been at the heart of much of theoretical and experimental physics over the past few decades. Even though we have understood the fundamental laws that govern the behavior of elementary particles for almost a century, the issue is that many interesting phenomena are the result of the complex collective behavior of many interacting quantum particles. In the words of condensed matter theorist Philip W. Anderson: “More is different.”
The field of ultrafast magnetism explores how flashes of light can manipulate a material’s magnetization in trillionths of a second. In the process called all-optical switching (AOS), a single laser pulse of several femtoseconds (≈10-15 seconds) duration flips tiny magnetic regions without the need for an externally applied magnetic field.
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While many are unaware of this, there is a Pyramid (now in ruins) in Greece referred to as the ‘Pyramid of Hellinikon ‘ which according to studies is older than the oldest Pyramid of ancient Egypt by at least 100 years (Djoser – 2620 B.C.) and predates by at least 170 years, the Great Pyramid Giza (Khufu – 2550 B.C.). Whenever we hear the word ‘Pyramid’ we always jump in our minds to ancient Egypt, and their supermassive, majestic Pyramids. However, despite the fact that Egypt is well-known for its three main pyramids at the Giza plateau, the truth is that there are thousands of pyramids scattered across the globe. There are pyramids nearly on every continent on Earth. There are pyramids in America, in Europe, in Asia, and even in India. And curiously, one of the European pyramids is located in Greece and is known as the pyramid of Hellenikon in Argos, Greece. The Pyramid of Greece (now in ruins) was well described in ancient times and Pausanias—a Greek traveler and geographer of the 2nd century AD, who lived in the time of Roman emperors Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius—documented the structure in his Description of Greece, referring to it as the Pyramid of Hellinikon close to Argos.  “On the way from Argos to Epidauria there is on the right a building made very like a pyramid, and on it in relief are wrought shields of the Argive shape. Here took place a fight for the throne between Proetus and Acrisius; the contest, they say, ended in a draw, and a reconciliation resulted afterwards, as neither could gain a decisive victory. The story is that they and their hosts were armed with shields, which were first used in this battle. For those that fell on either side was built here a common tomb, as they were fellow citizens and kinsmen.”—Pausanias: 2.25. The Pyramid is extremely interesting for a number of reasons, but mainly because of its supposed age. If reports are accurate, the Greek Pyramid could be older than the oldest Pyramid of ancient Egypt by at least 100 years (Djoser – 2620 B.C.) and predates by 170 years the Great Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu – 2550 B.C.). In 1938, archaeologists from the US placed the construction of the monument between 300 and 400 BCE.  In 1991, a different scientific team, led by Dr. I. Lyritzis of the Academy of Athens, concluded that the Pyramid of Hellinikon was built around 3000 BCE. However, later research by the Academy of Athens and the University of Edinburgh placed the monument to around 2720 BCE. Dating measurements were performed by the Laboratory of Archaeometry at Dimokritos Research Institute in Athens and by the Nuclear Dating Laboratory of the Department of Physics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The number speak for themselves. If the dates of the construction of the Pyramid are correct, it would mean that his Greek Pyramid is OLDER than the Pyramid of Djoser in Egypt—considered the oldest of all Egyptian pyramids. While incomparable in size to its Egyptian counterparts, the pyramid of Hellinikon has the shape of a tour with its external sides sloping and surrounding a rectangular building of total dimensions 7,03 by 9,07 m. The ancient Pyramid was built from gray limestone of the area together with large blocks in a trapezoidal and partially polygonal system. |
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