Ben sent me a couple of links that I thought I’d pass on. This one:
You may at first be thinking, ‘So what?’ but I suggest you give these stories some deeper thought… As I told Ben, they vaguely remind me of my observation that the lack of real battle photographs from the U.S. Civil War is a strange issue, if you think about it. Watch Ken Burns’s epic history of the conflict and you’ll find no photos showing more than about a score of casualties; very odd, given that the war was so densely covered via the new art of photography (especially by the North), and given the horrendous casualties in so many battles: there were at least three photographers at Gettysburg, for instance, and descriptions of the aftermath like ‘…you could walk across a farm and not set foot on the ground, for the corpses.’
I know, I know, but there are a bunch like this one from 1666.
I mentioned this a while back in my post titled ‘My List So Far,’ which gives brief descriptions of some of the oddities I occasionally ponder. Some of these matters relate to the possibility that there has been some sort of historical ‘reset’ or the like. Nuts as this sounds, I’ve come to the conclusion that something is amiss with HTWRW, and on a level much more profound than the simple psy opery I tend to cover here.
Along these lines I recently came across the reproduction of some old maps that show our state of California as an island. And there’s not just one.
Reminds me of the old Piri Reis map from the 16th century, which shows Antarctica without its ice covering, which has supposedly been as is for tens of millions of years. The Reis map was based on even older source maps, which only heightens the mystery.
The Piri Reis map.
And then there’s the good old Mandela Effect, which I can’t seem to get off my mind. I mean, I know good and goddamn well Mister Rogers never sang ‘It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood‘ in his fucking life. Yet that’s ‘history’ now.
There probably is no connection between these matters, but who knows? For the moment, I can only put this stuff out there for your consideration.
Allan
As always, comments are welcome. You guys might take another look at my old list of weird stuff, see if it shakes something loose. (I should really update the thing.) And feel free to send links, either via the comments or email.
This is about as gory as it gets in Civil War imagery. What’s wrong with this picture?
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