Ephraimite Forum-53
Date: 15/April/08 10th Nissan 5768
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 10.51
2. Wayne Laurence:  Elvis was a Protestant
3. Cam Rea:  Related to Elvis

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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 10.51
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>

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explorator 10.51 April 13, 2008
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AFRICA
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Remains of a medieval Moroccan city near Fez:
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A 3000 b.p. anchor from somewhere around Kyrenia (?):

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/
article.php?enewsid=101452

Israeli and Palestinian archaeologists have drafted an accord
with a view to preserving historical sites:

http://tinyurl.com/57g9l6 (JPost)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/
2008/04/080411123057.htm

The arched gate at Ashkelon has been restored:

http://tinyurl.com/6xksph (JPost)

Recreating an Egyptian boat:

http://tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/
20080407/NEWS01/804070311

More coverage of Assyria's corporate attitudes:

http://tinyurl.com/5fu9ar

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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An Allianoi update:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7340499.stm

A mass grave of victims of 'Justinian's plague':

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia
/?id=1.0.2059849995

Pytheas visited the Isle of Man (maybe):

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/
Pytheas-visited-the-Isle-of.3958675.jp

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A mini-Stonehenge at Rochdale?:

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/
s/1044424_rochdales_stonehenge

Those skeletons found in Oxford may be executed criminals from
Saxon times:

http://www.oxfordmail.net/display.var.2175214.
0.experts_bone_up_on_grisly_relics.php

A Viking coin hoard from Sweden:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/
080408-viking-hoard.html

More coverage of the new dig at Stonehenge:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?
storyId=89421332&ft=1&f=1004
http://www.newsweek.com/id/131413

... with some potentially interesting results already:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7337292.stm
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?
id=50948&sectionid=3510212
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080409/sc_afp/
britainarchaeologyhistoryheritagestonehenge_080409204216
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.
aspx?aid=24049973&afid=1

More coverage of that Russian whaling scene in ivory:

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/229543.php/
3000-year-old-ivory-carving-depicts-whaling-scene
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/
2008/04/080404160335.htm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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On the disappearance of the Anasazi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/science/
08anasazi.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Searching for Montezuma's treasure:

http://tinyurl.com/6zomh9 (El Pais)

More coverage of Aztec math/taxation:

http://tinyurl.com/69unyr (ToI)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The fascist origins of the Olympic Torch run:

http://tinyurl.com/5skceh (Independent)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/
photogalleries/torch-pictures/

... and on W.G. Hardings' 'roots' (maybe):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/
magazine/06wwln-essay-t.html

The National Trust has saved William Caxton's prayer book:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/
news/2008/04/07/ncaxton107.xml

More on DaVinci's Arab origins:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/
story/0,,2273051,00.html

On 'heart burials' at Westminster Abbey:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?
xml=/opinion/2008/04/12/do1207.xml

A gynecologist rethinks Mary Queen of Scots:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/
news/uk/article3695007.ece

On hoodies and medieval juvenile delinquents:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?
xml=/news/2008/04/08/nhoodie108.xml

Reading a rought draft of the US Declaration of Independence:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/arts/
design/12libr.html


Review of George Johnson, *The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/books/review/Dizikes-t.html

Review of Clive James, *Cultural Amnesia*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/
roundupstory/0,,2272992,00.html


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TOURISTY THINGS
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Oxford pub crawl:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/04/
13/travel/13Journeys.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

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2. Wayne Laurence:  Elvis was a Protestant
From: Wayne Laurence <wayne@bydand.co.nz>
RE: Brit-Am Now no. 1130
http://britam.org/now/1130Now.html#Was

#6. Was Elvis Jewish?

Elvis held to some form of Protestantism and never to Judaism - on the other
hand, Sammy Davis Jnr was Jewish.

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Brit-Am Reply:
The correspondence concerning Elvis until now has concerned his ancestry not his religion.
Sammy Davis Jnr  converted to Reform Judaism.
To what degree he was observant if at all is not known.

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3. Cam Rea:  Related to Elvis RE: Brit-Am Now no. 1130
http://britam.org/now/1130Now.html#Was
#6. Was Elvis Jewish?

I'm related to Elvis through Abner Tackett. Abners father is Lancaster Tackett and he was my 6 great uncle I think? Lancaster's father was Phillip Moses Tackett/Tackitt and Phillip is my 7th GG father. I guess me and Elvis are far distant cousins. Also, the Tackett family name came from France or at lest my line of Tackett's did. They were French Huguenots as I've been told.

Thought I'd share that
Cam Rea

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