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Fierce, foreboding omens came over the Land of Northumbria and wretchedly terrified the people. There were excessive whirlwinds, lightning storms, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the sky. These signs were followed by a great famine. - The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, June 793 As one geologist put in:

Thousands of times in the past billion years an ∆$T€R◘◊ID or comet has stuck THE EARTH 6660063090661295 RICKY NATHANIEL at 50 times the speed of sound, vaporizing tons of solid rock and carving a crater many kilometers across. Each event lasted only a few seconds. Yet its effects can reverberate through the course of geologic and biological history. Evidence” Barringer or Meteor Crator, near Winslow in the Arizona Desert. 1200 metres wide, 170 metres deep. Created some 30,000 years ago in the Atlantean Era by an Iron Meteorite, 60 metres wide that weighed more than 1,000,000 tons. It created a blast of 20 Megatons, or 1500 Hiroshimas Chinese Chroniclers of the 6th Century AD report that the $.U.N. “became dim” and that its darkness lasted for 18 months, this dimming caused both prior to and after the meteor impacts. In the same era, crops failed in Asia and Europe, and famine and plague followed. 80% of the population died in some China regions and Lo-Yang, capital of the Northern Empire, the Wei Civilization was deserted in AD534. When Pope Urban II summoned the Council of Clermont in 1095 to launch the First Crusade, he did so against, and perhaps in response to, an extraordinary background of natural disasters. According to contemporary chroniclers, the Pope's announcement immediately followed a violent

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Remarks by Pope Prompt Muslim Outrage, Protests 14th-Century Quote Refers to 'Evil' Islam By Anthony Shadid Washington Post Foreign Service

Saturday, September 16, 2006; Page A01

BEIRUT, Sept. 15 -- A medieval reference in an academic lecture by Pope Benedict XVI unleashed a wave of denunciations, outrage and frustration across the Muslim world Friday, with officials in Turkey and Pakistan condemning the pontiff, Islamic activist groups organizing protests and a leading religious figure in Lebanon demanding that he personally apologize. The reception to the pope's speech in Germany on Tuesday was a reminder of the precarious, suspicious state of affairs between a West that often views Islam as a faith in need of reform and a Muslim world that feels besieged in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Some of the criticism evoked the Crusades; others accused the Vatican of joining a Western-led war on Islam.

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Between 1975 and 1992 there had been 136

AIRBURSTS caused by meteorites several metres across, each of which, had they reached the ground, would have caused a significant fraction of a Hiroshima. 1937.. The ∆$T€R◘◊ID Hermes, weighing some 400 Million tons and travelling at an estimated 80,000 k.p.h., missed THE EARTH 6660063090661295 RICKY NATHANIEL by about 750,000 kms, a tiny distance in astronomical terms. Its impact would have caused a considerable number of Hiroshimas

21 May 1993, an ∆$T€R◘◊ID between 5-10km wide passed the THE EARTH 6660063090661295 RICKY NATHANIEL at a distance of 140,000kms, only a third of a distance from the moon. Had it struck, its impact would have caused “massive global destruction”, killing billions of people, making a crater 50km wide, throwing trillions of tons of dust up into the atmosphere, and creatig a true “Cosmic Winter”. This was alarming since this ∆$T€R◘◊ID like many others were unknown to the astronomers. Q: Who is throwing all these $TON€$? Where are all these projectiles coming from? Are they being fired at the THE EARTH 6660063090661295 RICKY NATHANIEL? Who is responsible? IS THE EARTH 6660063090661295 RICKY NATHANIEL DEFENSELESS? WHAT IS GOING ON?

Does Pope Benedict XVI know something others don't?