The colonel met Jabotinsky for the first time in 1920, when the
latter prepared to defend Jerusalem against Arab riots, but was arrested and
sentenced to 15 years of hard labor.
Meinertzhagen turned to the army's chief commander in the Land of Israel, who
said he could not intervene in the "work of justice". Meinertzhagen replied,
"But you can intervene in the work of injustice." Jabotinsky's punishment was
reduced to one year in prison.
They met once again on September 14, 1939, two weeks after the war broke out,
and had lunch at the Carlton Hotel in London. The colonel characterized
Jabotinsky as a passionate Zionist, a fighter, "undeterred but talented." This
time, Jabotinsky presented two additional revolutionary idea, which he also
suggested in letters to ministers in Winston Churchill's cabinet.
In December 1939, Jabotinsky suggested a plan to sabotage German oil rigs in the
Danube River. According to the Meinertzhagen diaries, the plan was examined in
the presence of a several British experts, was deemed successful and led to the
destruction of many oil rigs. The diary did not say anything else about the
matter.
Jabotinsky, Meinertzhagen wrote, was a wild and enthusiastic Zionist, a great
revolutionist, and was always ready for action. He favored power and action over
arguments and discussions.
Although Meinertzhagen supported the moderate line led by Chaim Weizmann,
Jabotinsky's rival in the Zionist Movement, he did rule that Israel gained
victory in 1948 thanks to Jabotinsky's group of Zionist fighters (the Irgun).
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am version of
Explorator
13.15
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 13.15 August 1, 2010
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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More from the Ottawa Citizen's Tal Tayimat coverage, focusing on the
tech side of things:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/High+tech+methods+reveal+secrets+antiquity/3337692/story.html
... this one's a bit more conventional:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/Layer+layer+exposes+deeper+truths/3347936/story.html
... while the DSS underwent some high tech scanning at UMinn:
http://www.minnpost.com/scientificagenda/2010/07/28/20059/high-tech_test_of_dead_sea_scrolls_under_way_at_science_museum_of_minnesota
... and the DSS authorship question was in the news again (hype for a
documentary):
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/100727-who-wrote-dead-sea-scrolls-bible-science-tv/
cf:
http://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/live-blogging-writing-the-dead-sea-scrolls/
http://robertcargill.com/2010/07/09/writing-the-dead-sea-scrolls/
http://robertcargill.com/2010/07/22/more-on-writing-the-dead-sea-scrolls/
http://robertcargill.com/2010/07/27/writing-the-dead-sea-scrolls-airs-on-national-geographic-channel-some-reflections/
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/writing-the-dead-sea-scrolls-5179
... while analysis gives more evidence for local production of the
parchment:
https://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&shva=1#label/4explorator/12a10fd7ce06f123
... and there's a feature on the WSRP's work on the DSS:
http://college.usc.edu/news/stories/724/let-there-be-light/
A Philistine temple from Gath:
http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=182962
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138843
http://www.newkerala.com/news2/fullnews-10735.html
A cistern/reservoir from Ramat Rahel:
http://www.tau.ac.il/~rmtrachl/cave.htm
A 'hammurabi-like' fragment found at Hazor:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/hammurabi-like-cuneiform-discovered-at-tel-hazor-1.304266
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138788
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-26/archaeologists-discover-ancient-hammurabi-like-law-code-in-northern-israel.html
Herod has lost credit for a couple of items:
http://www.haaretz.com/magazine/week-s-end/revelations-of-an-ever-changing-past-1.304993
They're digging up Shiloh:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/138836
Concerns about Waqf bulldozers again:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138823
Interview with Rami Arav about Bethsaida and related matters:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2410
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Assorted 2400 y.b.p. warrior implements (etc.) from an Iberian site:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=39557
http://www.barcelonareporter.com/index.php?/news/comments/archaeology_2400-year-old_weapons_and_tools_in_valencia_spain_4th_century_b/2907100422am
In the wake of the Frome Hoard discovery, a feature on Carausius:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ahead-of-his-time-carausius-was-a-pirate-a-rebel-and-the-first-ruler-of-a-unified-britain-2039008.html
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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In case you're not tired of the submerged champagne story yet:
http://www.sunherald.com/2010/07/27/2362252/deep-sea-preserves-champagne.html
That stone-age-axe-in-an-iron-age-grave-in-Norway story is making the rounds
again:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-07/uos-ttm072910.php
More on Marden Henge:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jul/28/marden-henge-builders-yard-stonehenge
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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On the origins of Australia's marsupials:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10774536
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A ca 500 years b.p. burial from Ocala National Forest:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/07/28/florida.centuries.old.bones/index.html?section=cnn_latest
http://www.wftv.com/news/24411862/detail.html
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100727/articles/100729523&tc=yahoo
Excavation of an apparently-major Mississippian site in Illinois:
http://www.pjstar.com/features/x1070618681/900-year-old-figurine-uncovered-in-Illinois
A timber circle near Fort Ancient was aligned to the Solstice etc.:
http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20100731/NEWS01/8010321/
Proving that politics and archaeology don't just mix in Israel, the
discovery of the wreck of the Investigator is being used to boost Canada's
claims of
sovereignty to the Northwest Passage:
http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/280710_Shipwreck_discovery_boosts_sovereignty_Prentice_says/
http://news.discovery.com/history/abandoned-ship-arctic.html
http://www.canada.com/technology/Canadians+discover+long+lost+ship+fundamental+Arctic+sovereignty/3329673/story.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-28/canadians-find-wreck-of-ship-that-helped-trace-northwest-passage-in-arctic.html
http://www.theage.com.au/world/1850s-shipwreck-found-20100729-10xxt.html
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2693552
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/29/british-north-west-passage-ship
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38459028/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10793639
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100729/ap_on_re_ca/cn_canada_franklin_ship_found
A pair of followups to that ship-at-the-world-trade-center-site story:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-new-york-ship-20100729,0,4278324.story?track=rss
http://www.dnainfo.com/20100729/financial-district-battery-park-city/workmen-may-have-accidentally-cut-world-trade-center-boat-half
The Cherokee DNA project looks interesting (not sure about this one):
http://dnaconsultants.com/Cherokee/index.htm
Review of Julie Flavell, *When London Was Capital of America*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/books/review/Wulf-t.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Latest animal dna domestication thing involves donkeys:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-07/uof-adi072810.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100728131717.htm
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/196318.php
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0730/Genetic-study-uncovers-wild-ass-ancestor-of-donkey?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fscience+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+%7C+Science%29
... and they're still mentioning the antiquity of the human-dog
relationship:
http://news.discovery.com/animals/oldest-dog-fossil.html
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/07/oldest_dog/
Also on the DNA front, there are apparently no 'true blood' Venetians:
http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2010/07/27/visualizza_new.html_1876051798.html
Not sure how to classify this one ... some artifacts associated with
Lawrence of Arabia:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/jordan/7917096/Tobacco-tins-from-Lawrence-of-Arabias-army-discovered.html
We usually only deal with humans in Explorator, but this giant rat fossil
from East Timor is impressive:
http://news.discovery.com/animals/giant-rat-fossil-discovered.html
They're building a medieval castle in Arkansas:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/travel/01headsup.html
Feature on ancient climates:
http://discovermagazine.com/photos/08-keys-to-deciphering-ancient-climates
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Masada:
http://www.stripes.com/military-life/israel-s-masada-where-jewish-rebels-took-a-stand-against-the-romans-1.112736
UK Dorms as Bed and Breakfasts:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/travel/01journeys.html
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CRIME BEAT
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A mounted Roman 'bangle' has turned up in New Zealand (this is a 'different'
crime story):
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/3974217/Ancient-Roman-bangle-handed-into-police
On using Google Earth to control looting:
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/084/ant0840544.htm
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_earth_used_to_police_looting.php
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2010/06/use_google_earth_to_prevent_looting.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Mummies of the World:
http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?Id=Gq070SI65T8=
http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/arts/99397139.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gj0Zg7H7PdQZC9PFP8rZZ4Uv7wNQ
Cleopatra:
http://www.denverpost.com/travel/ci_15579793
http://culturemob.com/blog/review-of-cleopatra-the-search-for-the-last-queen-of-egypt-at-the-franklin-institute
Tut:
http://journalstar.com/entertainment/arts-and-culture/visual/article_55ae9adc-96b7-11df-987f-001cc4c002e0.html
Tut's Chariot:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=39498
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/35310/king-tuts-death-chariot-wings-to-new-york/
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=11249245
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/07/26/king.tut.chariot/
http://www.drhawass.com/blog/press-release-king-tuts-chariot-travels-new-york?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Drhawasscom-New+%28DrHawass.com+-+What%27s+new%3F+Feed%29
Spying on the Past:
http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2010/07/24/spying_on_the_past_finds_art_from_high_in_the_sky/
Latest on the Lewis Chessmen (and other items of this variety ... opeddish):
http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/guest-commentary/time-to-put-treasures-on-display-where-they-belong-1.1044734
http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/07/31/international-treasures-115875-22453304/
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Merchant of Venice:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/07/26/arts/AP-US-Theater-Pacino.html
Problems for Mel Gibson's Viking flick:
http://www.examiner.com/x-21058-Cleveland-Celebrity-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m7d28-Leonardo-DiCaprio-quits-Mel-Gibson-directed-movie
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