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Post by missouriboy on Oct 28, 2020 15:23:22 GMT
The red areas added together have more population than the grey areas added together  Welcome to the Republic of Central North America  Add energy and the coasts are screwed.  |
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Post by walnut on Oct 28, 2020 15:27:25 GMT
If you call one old range cow per 1250 acres "farming" lol
Funny how the green belt is approximately on the dry line meridian.
I know that the wheat belt lies in the deep green areas. Also potatoes!
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 28, 2020 17:30:07 GMT
If you call one old range cow per 1250 acres "farming" lol Funny how the green belt is approximately on the dry line meridian. I know that the wheat belt lies in the deep green areas. Also potatoes! My great grandfather tested out the 100th meridian when he took advantage of the Homestead Act and moved the family from Middle Earth out to Hays Kansas (99 W.) about 1870+. They stayed long enough to get title, then sold out and moved back to Middle Earth ... just a few years before oil was discovered.  They were what were called "soddies", which was most of the available building material. I don't think that the "woke" culture would have fared well.  Nor many of the rest of us. We have lost many of the elemental talents acquired and improved on by our horse-mounted, cattle driving, metal-working Indo-European ancestors over the last ~8,000 years.  |
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Post by walnut on Oct 28, 2020 18:03:18 GMT
Amen, would not fare well at all, any lumber or hardware had to be wagoned in from many miles away, food choices limited and expensive, and imagine the cold and the heat. Dirt, wind, dust, bugs, illness... And that was not long ago in real time. And you'd think we have it so bad today, listening to the smart people talk on NPR.
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Post by walnut on Oct 28, 2020 18:10:17 GMT
Speaking of our Indo-European heritage- We mainly only know the Scythians from Herodotus writings, he described them as coarse, bloodthirsty barbarians. But they were successful and wealthy. Look at this fine gold work which was found in a Scythian grave site I believe.  |
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 28, 2020 21:24:59 GMT
The Scythians historically came to prominence in the 8th century BC and testing has indicated that they were R1a peoples, while the Indo-European Celtic forebears were largely R1b, as were the Germans. Major pushes off the Steppe westward came in pulses from about 4000 BC onward. Descendants of the Yamnaya peoples formed the core of these pushes and are identified by two elements of their culture, copper mining and funeral stelae. By 4000 BC they are located in the Danube River delta. One wave moved up the Danube into the Hungarian Basin (3100-2800 BC). A second wave swung south of the Alps and spread across the Med. to Spain. Copper mining was going on in Italy from at least c. 3300 BC and in Spain by 3000 BC. Elements of these people crossed into Britain by 2600 BC. It took them another 4000 years to cross the Atlantic.
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Post by walnut on Oct 28, 2020 21:58:16 GMT
The Scythians historically came to prominence in the 8th century BC and testing has indicated that they were R1a peoples, while the Indo-European Celtic forebears were largely R1b, as were the Germans. Major pushes off the Steppe westward came in pulses from about 4000 BC onward. Descendants of the Yamnaya peoples formed the core of these pushes and are identified by two elements of their culture, copper mining and funeral stelae. By 4000 BC they are located in the Danube River delta. One wave moved up the Danube into the Hungarian Basin (3100-2800 BC). A second wave swung south of the Alps and spread across the Med. to Spain. Copper mining was going on in Italy from at least c. 3300 BC and in Spain by 3000 BC. Elements of these people crossed into Britain by 2600 BC. It took them another 4000 years to cross the Atlantic. I thought maybe they were the lost tribe, maybe the modern Ashkenazi's . I know, they are not, "Uncertainties concerning the meaning of “Ashkenaz” arose in the Eleventh century when the term shifted from a designation of the Iranian Scythians to become that of Slavs and Germans and finally of “German” (Ashkenazic) Jews in the Eleventh to Thirteenth centuries (Wexler, 1993)." www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478715/ |
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 28, 2020 23:31:02 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 28, 2020 23:48:48 GMT
The Scythians historically came to prominence in the 8th century BC and testing has indicated that they were R1a peoples, while the Indo-European Celtic forebears were largely R1b, as were the Germans. Major pushes off the Steppe westward came in pulses from about 4000 BC onward. Descendants of the Yamnaya peoples formed the core of these pushes and are identified by two elements of their culture, copper mining and funeral stelae. By 4000 BC they are located in the Danube River delta. One wave moved up the Danube into the Hungarian Basin (3100-2800 BC). A second wave swung south of the Alps and spread across the Med. to Spain. Copper mining was going on in Italy from at least c. 3300 BC and in Spain by 3000 BC. Elements of these people crossed into Britain by 2600 BC. It took them another 4000 years to cross the Atlantic. I thought maybe they were the lost tribe, maybe the modern Ashkenazi's . I know, they are not, "Uncertainties concerning the meaning of “Ashkenaz” arose in the Eleventh century when the term shifted from a designation of the Iranian Scythians to become that of Slavs and Germans and finally of “German” (Ashkenazic) Jews in the Eleventh to Thirteenth centuries (Wexler, 1993)." www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478715/There is a whole YDNA haplogroup under R1b>U152>Z56 which are Ashkenazei Jews. Don't know much about them, including where they originated, but does seem they are closely related. Lots of interesting stuff out there (not Ashkenazi) radiolemberg.com/ua-articles/ua-allarticles/a-history-of-ukraine-episode-5-indo-european-homeland |
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Post by Ratty on Oct 29, 2020 4:28:09 GMT
Bad language warning .....
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 29, 2020 7:35:10 GMT
 This is your brain on CO2 hysteria. Just say no! |
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Post by nautonnier on Oct 30, 2020 16:39:38 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Oct 30, 2020 17:07:37 GMT
That would be a 10+ on the Richter Scale. |
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Post by walnut on Oct 31, 2020 0:39:24 GMT
A neat old movie that shows the gritty beginning of the great depression, lots of steam engines and rail side diners. Pre code, too. I love the look of it. archive.org/details/OtherMensWomen |
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Post by Ratty on Oct 31, 2020 8:07:27 GMT
Whisky on the rocks? Hailstorm to our West this afternoon .... it's not just the animals here that are dangerous:   |
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Add energy and the coasts are screwed.
They were what were called "soddies", which was most of the available building material. I don't think that the "woke" culture would have fared well. 
Nor many of the rest of us. We have lost many of the elemental talents acquired and improved on by our horse-mounted, cattle driving, metal-working Indo-European ancestors over the last ~8,000 years. 
