Little known facts

[Kulindahr]

There are cabbage farms in Quebec and Ontario

I remember going shooting once and someone brought a couple of produce boxes full of cabbage -- they were out of sell date and the store just gave them to him.

The goal was to peel one slowly at fifty yards with our .22 rifles, but we just had to hit some dead center with .300 Win magnum rounds -- instant clouds of cabbage juice!

 

[Kulindahr]

what a coincidence! I read about that too

...back in the mid 80s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ebal_site

https://www.thetorah.com/article/joshuas-altar-on-mount-ebal-israels-holy-site-before-shiloh

I wasn't aware that there was even a suggestion that an altar was present until 1987; i forget who first made that identification. Before that it was just an interesting site because it contained at least one house of ancient Hebrew pattern dated a century or more before historians then thought that there were Israelite settlements in the area.

Now I'm going to have to track down what paper was published this year that led to the assertion I encountered.

 

[Kulindahr]

Now I'm going to have to track down what paper was published this year that led to the assertion I encountered.

Found one!

In 2018 an argument was made that the rectangular altar found in the early 1980s wasn't Joshua's altar; there was a round altar underneath the rectangular one that was identified as Joshua's altar. A major piece of evidence was a lead tablet inscribed exactly as the Bible describes in association with Joshua's altar. The info on that wasn't published for several years during which plaster found with the circular altar was scanned using UV and lasers and found to have been written on; fragments contained parts of the Ten Commandments, which also matches the Bible's description of the site. So the announcement was about the evidence that the round altar was Joshua's altar; the only argument in favor of the rectangular one is that its form matches that of later Israelite altars, such as the one in the Temple and one at Shiloh.

The evidence for the rectangular altar being Joshua's is incredibly weak compared to this find of the lead tablet with the curse inscription matching what was written down in the Bible, so the information from the 1980s is not the same as this -- this is new.

 

[gsdx]

^ Don't forget Mounties and Loonies.

And Toonies (or Twonies).

 

[johaninsc]

Found one!

In 2018 an argument was made that the rectangular altar found in the early 1980s wasn't Joshua's altar; there was a round altar underneath the rectangular one that was identified as Joshua's altar. A major piece of evidence was a lead tablet inscribed exactly as the Bible describes in association with Joshua's altar. The info on that wasn't published for several years during which plaster found with the circular altar was scanned using UV and lasers and found to have been written on; fragments contained parts of the Ten Commandments, which also matches the Bible's description of the site. So the announcement was about the evidence that the round altar was Joshua's altar; the only argument in favor of the rectangular one is that its form matches that of later Israelite altars, such as the one in the Temple and one at Shiloh.

The evidence for the rectangular altar being Joshua's is incredibly weak compared to this find of the lead tablet with the curse inscription matching what was written down in the Bible, so the information from the 1980s is not the same as this -- this is new.

evidence?..you've posted no evidence

is there any reason why you don't post links to your sources?

is it just beneath you or something?

laziness?


what?!

 

[belamyi]

May 2022 in BCN registered the highest temperature ever for that month in the city, 34.2ºC.

 

[Alistair]

May 2022 in BCN registered the highest temperature ever for that month in the city, 34.2ºC.

And it’s not even over yet. The month of May that is.

 

[belamyi]

And it’s not even over yet. The month of May that is.

But the heatwave (here called "heat peak", since it did not go over three consecutive days) is.

 

[belamyi]

A new billionaire has been minted nearly every day during the pandemic

 

[pornoboy]

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[Alistair]

 

[belamyi]

^ Damn, so their masters are more lazy than masochists

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[belamyi]

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

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Tit-ania is around Uranus! Puck Uranus!

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[belamyi]

^ Aka Pussywolves or Gay Wolves.

 

[belamyi]

May 2022 was the warmest... hottest month of May on record in BCN, with an average higher than the one for the month of June too.

 

[gsdx]

Cranberries, sometimes called 'bounceberries', bounce because of air sacks inside them.

 

[smokeshadow]

there are more than 240 miles of cabling; electrical, communications & computer, contained within the crawl spaces of Air Force One