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Comment on Hurley’s Hidden History by Jeremy Wheeler

Jeremy Wheeler — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:46:26 +0000

Dear Jeff, I really enjoyed your article. So many fascinating details.
Thank you.
Jeremy

Comment on Baalbek – the Temple and the Stones by Igor

Igor — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:30:28 +0000

Never mind the egos, let us study the evidence regarding excavations. In Baalbek complex(inside Main yard, near with great altar) – was found anthropogenic objects with dates 7200 B.C.E. and maybe more. But in city Baalbek – never was founds with this kind of dating – maximum is 3000 B.C.E. This is official for now! It means complex Baalbek much more older (exactly on thousands years) than city! Please be objective! I understand that those facts, in turn, is too radical for scholars to swallow.

Comment on The Pink Champagne Lady by Mark Barrett

Mark Barrett — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:24:15 +0000

Steve
I hope you pick up on this reply.
I used to work at the old Docker Brothers paint factory (under different ownership by then) and it led me to do quite a bit of research on the firm and the Docker family. Sir Bernard was a director at Docker Brothers during the 1910′s and 20′s.
Like you I traced back to Sir Bernard’s ggrandfather, Thomas, but I couldn’t find where he married or where he came from. Can you help with that?
You will probably have noticed that the name Ludford crops up regularly as a Christian name in the family. Have you any idea where that originated?
Am I right that Ralph Docker married 2 Sankeys. i.e. after his first wife died he married her sister?
Sorry for all the questions.
There may be other information we can share.
MB

Comment on The Scottish Mummies of Cladh Hallan by Scottish prehistoric mummies made from jigsaw of body parts - Historum - History Forums

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Comment on The Pink Champagne Lady by jacinta

jacinta — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:31:18 +0000

lady docker bought the bungalow in jersey off my grandmother Mrs Ileene Hutton!!

Comment on The Pink Champagne Lady by Steve Sankey

Steve Sankey — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:04:13 +0000

Hello ! Sir Bernard Docker was my father Cousin, so I have just found-out would love to know more about how the Docker Family come to owned Hermosa Cove ? I have gone back to Thomas DOCKER in Birmingham in 1798 If you like to know more I can help you with the DOCKER STORY …….yours Steve Sankey

Comment on The Pink Champagne Lady by Christian Ghisays

Christian Ghisays — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:42:39 +0000

I am working for hermosa Cove In Jamaica which was owned by the Dockers back in the 1950s they also spent there honeymoon here and also threw wild party here with various celebs including M.Monroe Mr. Coward Ian Fleming the list goes on you can contact me on the above email I would like to find out more about the Dockers for the owners also myself as the more I look into them I find out very fasinating.
Thanks Christian Ghisays

Comment on Stonehenge by Gerry Palmer

Gerry Palmer — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:44:35 +0000

I think that the point is less that Geoffrey of Monmouth speculated on a relationship between Stonehenge and death, but that Prof. Mike Parker Pearson and the Riverside Project found evidence supporting the association. This lifts the idea above other, more speculative, theories. The fact that such a large-scale project found no evidence for the celebration of life at Stonehenge, agrees strongly with, (but doesn’t prove), the death-relationship.

If you combine this with the overwhelming evidence of “life,” i.e. celebration and feasting, at Durrington Walls, which they – surprisingly – found to be exactly contemporary with Stonehenge; then the story of life and death associations becomes even stronger. The two clearly had to be parts of a single overall landscape monument.

Comment on Stonehenge by AJ

AJ — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:21:34 +0000

The idea that Stonehenge is associated with death, or indeed a funerary monument is indeed speculative. In fact it’s the oldest explanation we have – an idea originally penned by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 12th Century! We should have moved on by now.

Is it really surprising that we find cremation burials casually scattered within the fill of the surrounding ditch and in the Aubrey Holes? Some 500 years lapsed between the cutting of the ditch and the arrival of the massive sarsens (it was during this period that the cremated remains were deposited). The fact that one of the cremations dates to around the time of the building of the iconic Stonehenge is hardly convincing evidence for the structure itself being a monument to the dead. By the time the massive stones were raised people were being buried under barrows in the surrounding landscape. The recent headlines declaring Stonehenge to be a monument to the dead or even worse ‘a cemetery’ are at best misleading.