Columbia: Its Meaning

Columbus, i, m. and oftener columba, ae, f. a pigeon or dove [...]

"Columbus," Alexander Adam's A Compendious Dictionary of the Latin Tongue, Edinburgh: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1805 (, p. 74).

Columbia: a Designation for America

[...] Columbia, (which is the Lilliputian Name for the Country that answers our America,) [...]

The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, London: printed by Edward Cave, vol. 8, 1738, (June, "Debates in the Senate of Magna Lilliputia,") p. 285.

So far as I have been able to find out, this Lilliputian name for the country answering to English America was the first appearance of "Columbia" anywhere.

Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, series 2, vol. 2, 1885-1886, (December, 1885, "The Name 'Columbia',") p. 163.

The Unverifiable Assumption of Radiocarbon Dating: a second statement of

There are two basic assumptions in the carbon 14 method. One is that the carbon 14 concentration in the carbon-dioxide cycle is constant. The other is that the cosmic ray flux has been essentially constant--at least on a scale of centuries.

 Kulp, J. Laurence, "The Carbon 14 Method of Age Determination," The Scientific Monthly, 75 (November, 1952), 261.

The Unverifiable Assumption of Radiocarbon Dating

All calculations of radiocarbon dates have been made on the assumption that the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide has remained constant. If the theory presented here of carbon dioxide variations in the atmosphere is correct, then the reduced carbon dioxide amount at the time of the last glaciation means that all radiocarbon dates for events before the recession of the glaciers are in question. 

Plass, Gilbert N., "Carbon Dioxide and the Climate," American Scientist, 44 (July, 1956), 314.

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The Three Way Struggle for World Dominion

Willing or not, ready or not, we are all involved in an all-out, no-holds-barred, three-way global competition. Most of us are not competitors, however. We are the stakes. For the competition is about who will establish the first one-world system of government that has ever existed in the society of nations. It is about who will hold and wield the dual power of authority and control over each of us as individuals and over all of us together as a community; over the entire six billion people expected by demographers to inhabit the earth by early in the third millennium.

The competition is all-out because, now that it has started, there is no way it can be reversed or called off.

No holds are barred because, once the competition has been decided, the world and all that's in it--our way of life as individuals and as citizens of the nations; our families and our jobs; our trade and commerce and money; our educational systems and our religions and our cultures; even the badges of our national identity, which most of us have always taken for granted--all will have been powerfully and radically altered forever. No one can be exempted from its effects. No sector of our lives will remain untouched.

Martin, Malachi, The Keys of This Blood: The Struggle for World Dominion Between Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Capitalist West, New York; London; Toronto; Sydney; Tokyo; Singapore: Simon and Schuster, 1990, p. 15. 

Flora and Fauna Fossil Records are Indicative of Past Climate Conditions

The best barometer we can use to test the character of a climate is the fauna and flora which lived while it prevailed. This is not only the best, but is virtually the only barometer available when we inquire into the climate of past geological ages. Other evidence is always sophisticated by the fact that we may be attributing to climate what is due to other causes; boulders can be rolled by the sea as well as by sub-glacial streams, and conglomerates can be formed by other agencies than ice. But the biological evidence is unmistakeable; cold blooded reptiles cannot live in icy water; semi-tropical plants, or plants whose habitat is in the temperate zone, cannot ripen their seeds and sow themselves under arctic conditions.

Howorth, Henry Hoyle, The Glacial Nightmare and the Flood, 2 vols., London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Limited, 1893, vol. 2, p. 427.

The French Revolution Predicted One Hundred Years in Advance (2)

'Tis to be observed, that in the Text, 'tis not in the streets, in the plural, as the French translation reads; 'tis in the street, in the singular. And I cannot hinder my self from believing, that this hath a particular regard to France, which at this day is certainly the most eminent Countrey, which belongs to the popish Kingdom. Her King is called the eldest Son of the Church, the most Christian King, i. e. the most popish, according to the dialect of Rome. The Kings of France have by their liberalities made the Popes great at this day; it is the most flourishing State of Europe. It is in the middle of the popish Empire, betwixt Italy, Spain, Germany, England, exactly as a street or place of concourse is in the middle of a City. [...] In a word, 'tis the place or street of the great City. And I believe, that 'tis particularly in France, that the witnesses must remain dead; i.e. that the profession of the true Religion must be utterly abolisht.

Jurieu, Peter, The Accomplishment of the Scripture Prophecies, 2 vols., London: printed in the year 1687, vol. 2, ch. 13, pp. 247-248.