Ian Wilson
1) Before the flood: the biblical flood as a real event and how it changed the course of civilization
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In the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And, the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
The great Biblical flood so described in Genesis has long been a subject of fascination and speculation. In the 19th century the English archbishop James Ussher established it as having happened...
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Crime Scene Golgotha approaches Jesus's crucifixion from the perspective of a crime scene investigator: What do we know is fact? What can be historically documented? What can we deduce may have happened?
Taking the popular CSI television dramas as inspiration, Crime Scene Golgotha is a direct reaction to Mel Gibson's much talked about movie The Passion of the Christ. Ian Wilson systematically outlines what is known for sure about Jesus's trial and...
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For the last 500-years the predictions of sixteenth-century physician and prophet Michel de Nostredame, better known as Nostradamus, have been endlessly interpreted. Scholars and skeptics have hotly debated whether the 946 "quatrains" he wrote foretold everything from the discovery of electricity to the birth of Adolph Hitler, the death of Princess Diana and the attack on the World Trade Center.
But, while much has been written about Nostradamus's...
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In an age of magic and myth, King Emrys reigns supreme in Camelot, alongside his noble brother, Uther, having defeated the Saxon invaders. But peace is a fragile thing.
The bard Taliesin mastered many of the secrets of magic while still only a youth, and knows the language as old as the earth. How he mastered this is a mystery, even to himself. But he will soon discover his mysterious past.
It is a tale of love and death, good and evil, sword and...