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Date: May 25, 2012 at 10:08:33
From: Ivanova, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Chernobyl |
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The ancients thought comets were bad omens.
Halley's Comet in 1066 was thought to foretell the Norman invasion.
Bayeux Tapestry
http://www.bayeuxtapestry.org.uk/Bayeux14.htm
While Halley's Comet was not near as spectacular as in previous centuries when the comet was
so ominous people thought it was the end of the world, it was the brightest in March, April 1986.
Vega 1 & 2 - USSR fly by of Halley's Comet March 1986
Vega is a star in the constellation, Lyra [which ancients saw as a falling eagle.]
The word, Vega, is from an Arabic word which means falling.
Chernobyl = April 26, 1986
The word, Chernobyl, means wormwood.
Gorbachev has said Chernobyl was the beginning of the fall of the USSR.
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Gorbachev: Chernobyl, not Peristroika, Caused Soviet Union Collapse
Mikhail Gorbachev talks about about the relationship between Chernobyl and changes in the Soviet Union under his leadership:
Turning Point at Chernobyl, by Mikhail Gorbachev, Project Syndicate:
" The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl 20 years ago this month, even more than
my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of
the Soviet Union five years later. Indeed, the Chernobyl catastrophe was
an historic turning point: there was the era before the disaster,
and there is the very different era that has followed. "
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/04/gorbachev_chern.html
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Date: May 25, 2012 at 10:17:23
From: Ivanova, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Chernobyl = Wormwood |
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_(city) |
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" The city name is the same as a local Ukrainian name for Artemisia vulgaris (mugwort or common wormwood), which is also чорнобиль 'chornobyl' "
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Date: June 02, 2012 at 14:31:17
From: Polydactyl in N. Bay, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Chernobyl = Wormwood |
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Isn't mugwort used for 'better dreams'? How ironic- ;)
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