THE BANJO OF SYRACUSE

THE  BANJO OF SYRACUSE

It has recently been disclosed that a strange instrument, similar to a four stringed Plectrum banjo, has been languishing in the basement of a local museum in downtown Syracuse, New York state.

The city of Syracuse is situated in a part of North America that was inhabited by native Americans four to five thousand years before the arrival of the white man.

In the 1600's the area was inhabited by five nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, being the Mohawks, Senecas, Onondagas, Oneidas and Cayugas.

The first white men were the French who arrived in 1615 with Samuel Champlain, and the British began to take an interest in the area in the early 1700's.

The city of Syracuse was founded close to Lake Onondaga, on part of the Onondaga salt spring Reservation. The city has had several names, with the first being "Salt Point", a name derived from the numerous salt deposits in the area.

The current ethnic breakdown of the local population indicates that the original native inhabitants have almost totally abandoned the area, and in is interesting to note that over a quarter of the population (27.9%) can trace their recent ancestry to the continent of Africa. The Irish also constitute a large proportion at 15.9 % together with the Italians 14.1 % and Germans 12.2 %.
This is despite the area experiencing high snowfall throughout the winter months, being influenced by the nearby great lakes and the Atlantic seaboard.

Returning to the instrument that is very similar to a four string Banjo, it was was originally discovered in 1830, by Irish navvies whilst completing the excavation of the Erie Canal.

The Banjo was introduced to the United States by the enslaved Africans who fashioned Gourd- bodied instruments like those they knew from their original homeland in western Africa.
At the time , the four stringed Banjo was being popularised by the American performer "Joel Sweeney", and it was automatically believed by those who unearthed the instrument from the Erie canal that the "Banjo" was a recent model that had been discarded by a local slave.

However, the Banjo was accompanied by other artifacts that until the present day had confounded all who had viewed them. The artifacts appeared to be grave goods, and parts of a human skeleton were entwined with the Banjo. However they did not resemble any other native American discoveries and so were placed in the basement of the local Museum and forgotten !

A recent survey of the contents of the museum re discovered the Banjo and other artifacts, including the bones, and theses have subsequently been Carbon dated, and to the astonishment of the investigating archaeologists, the date revealed was fifteen thousand years BC.

Further more, fluoride dating of a number of teeth that were still situated in the partial jaw that was with the skeletal remains, has shown that the deceased ancestor had grown up in the west of the continent of Africa, and could not have experienced an early life on the Norther American continent.

The study is not complete,but the existing evidence suggests that the "Banjo" and the person to whom the instrument was offered as a grave good, was of west African extraction and that western Africans must have travelled to the Americas via the Bering land bridge during the last Ice Age at the same time as their Asian cousins.

I eagerly await more details !!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE CARTOGRAPHERS SECRET

THE CARTOGRAPHERS SECRET

Unknown to all but a small circle of academics, it has recently been established, that the original mapping of the world was not carried out by Magellan, Columbus, Cook or the other fabled discoverers and explorers of the then known world.
 Neither by Mercator, remembered for his famous projections, or even the earlier Phoenicians who had mastered the Mediterranean whilst the Pharaohs were still the Lords of Upper and Lower Egypt.

In ancient Sumeria, the recovery of documents discovered in a subterranean necropolis located on the banks of the river Euphrates prove that our neolithic predecessors had mastered the mapping of the worlds vast continents and seas, thousands of years earlier than academia had ever believed possible.

Dr Theodopolis Fassbender-Doyle, the General Secretary of the Supreme Council of Antiquities for the Mesopotamian region, has released details that have shaken the authoritarian worlds of both science and history.

The rich archaeological heritage of Mesopotamia, together with that of Israel, Egypt, the Indus valley and other ancient civilisations is being constantly eroded by illegal excavations carried out to meet an escalating demand for antiquities.

Dr Fassbender-Doyle had been investigating an unauthorised excavation when he and his colleagues allegedly discovered an abandoned Necropolis that contain a number of semi mummified bodies.

To the amazement of the Doctor and his companions, a mummified corpse had been discovered holding an undamaged papyrus parchment in his left hand. The document was a map of the world detailing coastlines that were inundated by the rising oceans and seas at the end of the last Ice age.

 In the mummies other hand was another parchment that was covered in Hieroglyphic figures and to the utter amazement of the Doctor and his colleagues, a crude drawing of a modern mobile Cell phone !

  After this discovery, the Doctor consulted fellow directors of Antiquity and ancian artifacts throughout the academic world, and it soon became apparent that similar discoveries had been found at other archaeological sites, but nothing had been divulged due to the fear of being ostracised by fellow colleagues.

It is now believed by the Doctor and his collegues that time travellers from our distant future managed to perfect time travel as predicted in Einsteins law of Relativity and being interested in antiques carried copies of mobile phones that were available in the early 21st century. They managed to easily map the world as it was before the descent of the last Ice Age and then left clues throughout time at different archaeological sites.

They also bestowed their knowledge on the local bands of Neolithic travellers who wandered the planet, and this assisted their colonisation of the world.

Centuries later, it is now believed that these clues were found by the Phoenicians and other seafaring groups, and were used as the basis for there early charts and maps. Some of which have survived to this day, and continue to confounded modern cartographers and geographers by their knowledge of coast lines that are now only available to view via ice penetrating radar and sonar.

The full facts have not yet been fully released, and probably never will be !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROYAL DOPPELGANGER MYSTERY EXPOSED

 ROYAL DOPPELGANGER MYSTERY EXPOSED



Documents allegedly recently released by the Russian state archive, indicate that prior to the Russian Revolution in 1918, and the subsequent mass murder of the entire Russian "Romanov" Imperial Royal family, George V of the house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and later Windsor from 17 July 1917, the reigning King and Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India and Nicholas Romanov II, Czar and Emperor of all the Russia's, switched identities.

  The switch was successful due to their uncanny resemblance to each other, which was due due the genetic fact that they were first cousins, together with the German Kaiser Wilhelm II.

The alleged switch of identities took place during a visit to the United Kingdom by the entire Romanov Royal family, when they stayed at the former Royal residence of the late Queen Victoria on the Isle of White.

As was the custom at the time, a large proportion of the British Home Fleet were stationed of shore so that the Czar could review the Navy whilst in the company of his cousin, King George V.

At the time of the Royal visit, Nicholas was aware that the Russian people were in a rebellious mood and he was unsure that he would be able to maintain his position as Czar of all the Russia's on his return to the vast and desolate lands that he ruled over. His German wife Alexandra, the former Princess Alix of Hess -Darmstadt, was also causing him trouble with her infatuation for the Siberian Lothario and Russian Orthodox priest "Rasputin", who controlled her every thought and move, through his supposed supernatural care for their hemophiliac son "Tsesarevich Alexei Nikolaevich".

George was allegedly dissatisfied with his life after his accession the the throne, and his sudden change of life style, brought on particularly by the continuous nagging of his wife Queen Mary.
The change of identity was suggested by George, and Nicholas jumped at the chance to remain in England.
He had long wished to become closer acquainted to Mary and was sick to the back teeth of Alex and her constant flirting with the maddening and totally insane Priest, Rasputin.

Allegedly, the switch took place without any one noticing except that Queen Mary was pleasantly surprised by her "husbands" renewed vigour between the Royal bed sheets.
Also, the Czarina was soon to notice that the "Czar" was no longer worried by Rasputin as long as she retired to the Royal bed chamber as and when required by the randy royal doppelganger.

Indeed the recently released documents allegedly also reveal that it was probably George who ordered the final assassination of Rasputin by the fay homosexual Royal prince Felix Yusupov at the Moika Palace.

All was well for both parties until the Russian Revolution at which time George tried to explain who he was but the now comfortable Nicholas, relishing his new existence as King and Emperor of the United Kingdom and India and Dominions refused to consent to the explanation offered by the now desperate George.

Of course, we all know what happened next, as the entire Royal family were transported to the Siberian town of Yekaterinburg and murdered by Bolshevik henchmen as the orders of the local soviet.

Thus, allegedly the former Czar of all the Russia continued on the Throne of the United Kingdom and to this day his direct offspring is the Monarch of the same !!!!!!!!!!!!.

TO WASSAIL OR NOT TO WASSAIL

WASSAIL - Meaning:

Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities

Its a little known fact that the original draft of Shakespeare's famous soliloquy from Hamlet omitted the words "To be or not to be" and included "To Wassail or not to Wassail" as detailed in the draft below.

"To Wassail or not to Wassail– that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of Lager
And, by opposing, end them. To die, to drink
No more – and by a drink to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to – ‘tis a consummation of Lager"

So that was what Will Shaksprear was writing about !, young Prince Hamlet was dying for a pint of lager and a cigar !.

Although not my own view, it has allegedly long been rumoured that Shakespeare was a recovering alcoholic who had been blinding drunk whilst writing Hamlet and his history plays.

Indeed, although never confirmed, it has allegedly been stated by more than one historian that Henry V was originally written by our balding hero whilst recovering from a bout of melancholia brought on by a quart bottle of Absinthe and a temporary ban from the local stews ! .



Well, to answer Wills original question... im off to Wassail.......!

IS THIS SHIT ?

Manura Manyah
Matt McGinn

I've heard men complain
O' the job that they're da'in',
While howkin' the coal
Or diggin'a drain;
But whoever they are
There is nane to compare
Wi' a man that is shovellin'
Manura Manyah.
CHORUS:
Wi manura manyah, wi' manura manyah,
Wi' manura, manura, manura manyah.

Oh, the streets o' the toon
Were all covered aroon
Wi' stuff that is lovely
An' golden and broon.
It was put there, of course
By a big Clydesdale horse
An' its name was manura, manura manyah.
CHORUS:

I followed its track
Wi' a shovel an' sack
And as often as not
Wi' a pain in my back.
It was all for the rent
An' the beautiful scent
O' manura, manura, manura manyah.
CHORUS:

But I'm feelin' so sore
For my job's been took o'er
An' everything now is mechanical po'er
An' there's nowt left for me
But the sweet memory
O' manura, manura, manura manyah.
CHORUS:

O' manura, manura, manura manyah.
CHORUS:

THE REAL COMMONWEALTH GAMES - CIRCA 1645

THE REAL COMMONWEALTH GAMES - CIRCA 1645

As we sit in front of our televisions, computers or hand held communication devices, viewing the Commonwealth games in New Delhi India, don't forget that the current normally accepted meaning of "The Commonwealth", being the fading remnant of the British Empire, has not always been prevalent.

During the mid seventeenth century the nations of England, Scotland, Ireland together with the principality of Wales, were subjected to the terrors of the Cromwellian "Commonwealth".

During the Civil War between the Cromwellian "Round heads" and those loyal to the Crown, the King was defeated and subsequently killed at the behest of "Parliament" and Oliver Cromwell. At this time the rule of the land was conducted with brutal force and with particular relish against so called "Witches".

Quote: -

"The largest witch-hunt in English history was held between 1645 and 1647, led by the self-appointed Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins. Hopkins was a failed lawyer with no real legal qualifications, who made it his mission to rid East Anglia of witches.

Witch-hunting really took off in England after Henry VIII passed a statute against witchcraft in 1542. Over the next 200 years, around 1000 people, mostly women, were hanged for practising witchcraft. Across the border in Scotland, they were even more witch-hunt crazy, finding 4000 witches guilty. Unlike their English cousins, these unfortunates were burnt at the stake.

It was usually women who were accused of witchcraft. They were seen as the morally weaker sex and so more likely to fall under the devil’s spell. It was often even said that witches had sex with the devil. They were also supposed to have ‘imps’ or ‘familiars’ that they would suckle from demonic teats. These teats were called ‘witch marks’ or ‘devil marks’ and were used as evidence to convict suspected witches. Other marks of the devil were allegedly hidden under moles, scars or birthmarks. 

Hopkins began his work in his own village of Manningtree in Essex in 1645, when he accused seven ‘witches’ of trying to kill him by conjuring up the devil in the shape of a wild bear. Hopkins said he had also overheard them talking to their imps. After finding 30 more witches in the area, the self-proclaimed Witchfinder General held trials all over East Anglia. At a time when the average wage was two pence a day, Hopkins was paid 20 shillings for each witch he found and convicted. He was allowed to run riot because of the Civil War, a turbulent time of political and religious chaos."

Quote: -"Torture was illegal, so Hopkins and his colleagues used other methods to encourage their suspects to confess. They were made to sit on a stool for 24 hours or more with no sleep, while ‘watchers’ observed in case their ‘imps’ appeared. With serious sleep deprivation is it any wonder that women confessed to consorting with the devil? Ducking was another favourite way of testing a witch. If she drowned she was innocent, if she lived she was guilty and then hanged."

Quote:-
"Over the next two years Hopkins was responsible for the execution of 200 women found guilty of witchcraft. A lot of these ‘witches’ were widows or spinsters, accused of devilish acts by their neighbours. By 1647, people were becoming tired of Hopkins' hunt and some villages refused him entry. Opinions are divided over Hopkins' own fate. Some believe he himself was found guilty of dealing with the devil and was hanged like his victims. Others think he returned to Manningtree in Essex and died of tuberculosis in 1647."

Don't forget, these activities all took place during the period in English History known as the "Interregnum" in some circles or more commonly as the"Commonwealth" when the King had been deposed and beheaded and the country was ruled by the despotic "Lord Protector" Oliver Cromwell, who had been a simple farmer before the Civil War.

So as we moan that we are not collecting enough gold and silver medals at the Delhi games, spare a thought for those unfortunate woman of circa 1665 who were sacrificed to enable the English "Commonwealth Games" Witchfinding competitor, Mathew Hopkins, stack up a huge collection of "Gold" (coins) for his fearless winning streak in East Anglia.

A Debilitating Affliction or a Priceless Gift?

A Debilitating Affliction or a Priceless Gift?

A debilitating affliction is currently sweeping London and effecting a large proportion of those who choose to travel by public transport.

It seems to attack those who are not of an Anglo Saxon or Celtic background, and consists of an overwhelming need to shout loudly and hurriedly in to a Mobile telephone using a language that is unfamiliar to those who are native to these Islands.

It usually manifests itself on the upper levels of London Transport buses and can continue for at least 20 minutes without interruption. It also seems to effect the bodily functions of those afflicted as arms and heads are often seen to wave around in an uncontrolled manor, whilst the mobile babble continues in in full flow.

So,if travelling on a London Transport Omnibus or indeed the London Underground Tube, please do not become annoyed or upset by the cacophony of speech spilling from the pathological lips of the afflicted, but feel sorry for them, turn away, count to ten, and and count yourself lucky that you have not fallen foul of this cruel and debilitating disease.