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Old 01-27-2011, 09:16 PM
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Tzonot - Mayan word used in the Yucatan Peninsula that refers to various types of bodies of water contained in cavities in the limestone, which makes the flat plain that constitutes that peninsula.
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i thought it was because of the monopoly created by the east india co and the english govt, as well as a general protest against all the intolerable acts...

there's a name-intolerable acts
Yeah, that's what they generally teach us.

From a recent book I just read, however, we have....

"Another great event in the history of the United States is the infamous Boston Tea Party. You know the story. On December 16, 1773, a group of colonists, angry at paying higher taxes on their tea, dressed up like Indians and dumped crates of tea bricks belonging to the British East India Company into the Boston Harbor. Not sure why we're so proud of an act of vandalism, but that's beside the point.

The point is, the Tea Act, which the colonists were supposedly angry about, actually reduced the duty on British tea imported to America. So why did they really revolt? Because once British tea was affordable, it would ruin America's lucrative trade in black-market tea, because three-fourths of the tea sold in America was smuggled in by John Hancock. Now the whole idea of dressing up like Indians makes sense, doesn't it?"

This is readily verified.
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Old 01-27-2011, 09:21 PM
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yeah, there were huge smuggling operations going on-tea as well as other goods. and some people are bored by history....i love it.
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Old 01-27-2011, 09:25 PM
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yeah, there were huge smuggling operations going on-tea as well as other goods. and some people are bored by history....i love it.
Bored by history is a good name!

Most people are probably bored with history because it's mostly a work of fiction.
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Old 01-27-2011, 10:41 PM
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Old 01-27-2011, 10:49 PM
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Old 01-27-2011, 11:11 PM
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Xtoles ("The melody of Xtoles is thought to be one of the oldest known melodies still in existence. This is a Mayan Warrior Dance song to the Sun God...")

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Harboring Secrets

Achi (a Mayan language)

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Old 01-27-2011, 11:31 PM
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Poseidon's Gift (he was the God of horses - as well as the obvious - and gve them as gifts).

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Old 01-28-2011, 12:28 AM
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Old 01-28-2011, 01:18 AM
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..........................Mayan Rocket Man

A carving on a sarcophagus lid of the Mayan ruler Pakal (mentioned in Von Däniken's 1968 best
seller, "Chariots of the Gods?") Von Däniken compared
Pakal's pose to that of the 1960's Project Mercury astronauts.

http://wlodb.com/images/monsters/may..._man_earth.gif

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/07-0...yan_rocket.jpg

http://www.rollmodels.net/ninbox/air.../astronaut.jpg
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Old 01-28-2011, 03:27 AM
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by the way what name was chosen for the johannesburg??
Like "Rocky Ockypulco"
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Old 01-28-2011, 05:30 AM
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Old 01-28-2011, 07:17 AM
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Old 01-28-2011, 07:28 AM
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Old 01-28-2011, 07:32 AM
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KulKulKan (the name of the Mayan stone pyramid)
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Old 01-28-2011, 08:08 AM
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Execution Rocks (NY Landmark, the Mayans also known to have offed more than a few in sacrafice)

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Old 01-28-2011, 08:36 AM
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