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Explores the legacy of a Civil War-era secret society, the Knights of the Golden Circle, and describes efforts to crack the society's system of codes and symbols to identify hidden treasure sites across the American south and west.
As a boy growing up in rural Arkansas, Bob Brewer often heard from his uncle and his great-uncle about a particular tree in the woods, the "Bible Tree," filled with strange carvings. Years later he would learn that this tree was carved with symbols associated with the Knights of the Golden Circle, a Civil Warera secret society that had buried gold coins and other treasure in various remote locations across the South and Southwest in hopes of someday funding a second War Between the States. These secret caches were guarded by sentinels, men whose responsibility it was to watch and protect these sites. To his astonishment, Bob discovered that both his uncle and his great-uncle had been twent...
If you want to fix your rebellious and disrespectful child, you need to start by fixing yourself. Are your kids pummeling you with demands and bossing you around with impunity? Have your once-precious preschoolers become rebellious, entitled, and disrespectful to authority? While there are plenty of so-called experts who might try to validate your convictions that you have done all you can to “fix” your “difficult” children, the hard truth is, they’re not doing you any favors by placing the responsibility solely on your children. Parenting struggles rarely originate from just one side. Instead, they erupt at the volatile intersection of a child's personality with a parent's own ins...
“The greatest threat to the U.S.’s homeland security is not a terrorist attack with a dirty bomb; it is an unexpected nuclear Pearl Harbor.” —author “Taiwan’s democratic achievement and vision of the future . . . are consistent with the American experience. Will Beijing eventually follow such a course? Decisions are still to be made, and there are limits to how effectively the U.S. can influence these decisions. But we can and we must continue to support Taiwan. Its security is ultimately our security. Of that we can be sure.” —the late Congressman Gerald B. H. Solomon Lí explains how America’s security hinges on Taiwan’s survival as an independent democracy.
In this edition: Letters Alternative News Jeane Manning - Tiny Tornadoes of Magnetism Michael Cremo - The ‘Tooth’ Is Out There Hominid Hokum - Do We Know What We Think We Know About Our Ancestors? Subterranean Cappadocia - Mysterious Ancient Underground Cities—Ice Age Shelters? Soul Stuff - Are Deathbed Mists the Soul Departing? Jesse James: Secret Agent- Preserving the Confederacy with Bank Robbery and Murder Plato and the Near Death Experience Rudolph Steiner and Visible Speech Norsemen in Minnesota The Atlantis Connection? - Strange Genetic Links Between North America and the Ancient Middle East The Great Pyramid’s Missing Capstone - It Was There Once, but What Happened to It? Lucid Dreams - When the Stuff of Dreams Becomes More than Real
Western efforts to control trade and technological relations with communist countries affect many interests and political groups in both Eastern and Western blocs. Although there is general agreement within the Western alliance that government-imposed controls are necessary to prevent material having military importance from falling in the hands of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies, there is considerable controversy over the specifics: the exact definition of "militarily significant" material, how the Western nations should administer controls, the implications of glasnost, and other matters.
From Richard Lawrence to John Wilkes Booth to John Hinckley, Jr., Americans have preferred their presidential assassins, whether failed or successful, to be more or less crazy. Seemingly, this absolves us of having to wonder where the American experiment might have gone wrong. John Wilkes Booth has been no exception to this rule. But was he? In a new, provocative study comprising three essays, historian William L. Richter delves into the psyche of Booth and finds him far from insane. Beginning with a modern, less adulating interpretation of President Abraham Lincoln, Richter is the first scholar to examine Booth's few known, often unfinished speeches and essays to draw a realistic mind-picture of the man who intensely believed in common American political theories of his day, and acted violently to carry them out during the time of America's greatest war.