I'll get back to you..: January 2016

Sunday 24 January 2016

The Tuskegee Airmen - Theyz coloured Flyers

NO,SIREE,BOB, THEYZ ,AMERICANS!..GETR IT? REDNECK?

The Cimmerians

In sources beginning with the Royal Frankish Annals, the Merovingian kings of the Franks traditionally traced their lineage through a pre-Frankish tribe called the Sicambri (or Sugambri), mythologized as a group of "Cimmerians" from the mouth of the Danube river, but who instead came from Gelderland in modern Netherlands and are named for the Sieg river^[19] or which could derive from that of the Cimbri as their chieftain names have the same suffix
Another possible link between the Cimmerians from rivers Tyras and Tanais and the Nordic countries and possibly the Sicambri of the lower Rhine is the fact that the eastern amber road was a trade link between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea over which there was a diffusion of cultures. The main eastern amber road was fully operational already BCE 1800 and went over rivers Dnepr, Pripyat, Western Bug and Vistula. There are also archaeological evidence in southern Scandinavia that there was an invasive culture arriving on the shores of the Baltic Sea around BCE 1200, which is about the same time that heralded the younger Nordic Bronze Age. It seems that this invasive culture stretched from the Vistula estuary over Scania, Zealand, Fyn and Himmerland in Northern Jutland and Helgoland, which largely encompasses an arch of the richest deposits of amber in Europe. It is known from the Greek cartographer Pytheas from Massilia, BCE 330, that this arch corresponded to the location of a people Pytheas called Gotones. Pytheas also mentions that the Gotones were neighbors of the Teutones that lived in south Jutland and Holstein.
We also know from Pliny the Elder, AD 79, that the stretch of lands between the Vistula Estuary to the Black Sea was called 'Scythia'. Thus it is possible that there was a top-stratum of Cimmerians knights taking hold of the Baltic amber deposits as early as BCE 1200 – 1000 and that they later gave rise to the Gotones, Teutones and Cimbrii and in consequence to the Sicambri as well. Looking for other indications it seems that 'Cim' is cognate with an IEP 'khim' from which is derived 'home' in English and 'heim' in Old Norse. The second part 'mer' would either mean 'sea', probably pointing to a homeland near the Black Sea, or potentially meaning 'great' (cc: Gothic 'Waldamar').
Also, the Biblical name "Gomer" has been linked in some sources to the Cimmerians.

'Cimmerian', equates, to, 'Darkness,Gloominess', etc..

or,?....DEPRESSED...You, Bonehead..

NOT, ME, AMIGO!, I'M,OFF, TO VIETNAM, TO,BUY, A PAIR, OF, BLACK PAJAMAS..

AND VISIT, THE, 'WHALE TEMPLE'...

CATCH YA, DOWN, THE ROAD...DUDE..

Friday 22 January 2016

Memphis Belle (1990) - "Takeoff"

Love this Movie..not for glamourizing war,but,for, the attention, to detail..
Went to Cologne,once,and,Koblenz, noticed, small manhole,cover-type,plaques, on, the streets..
they recorded,the fact, that, they,suffered,over 40 air-raids..the devastation, must, have,been,terrible..
then again, we,in,Liverpool,suffered,terribly. also, when, Herr Goering,decided, to embark, on,
His,air campaign...the past, is,past..who,would, have,believed?..that, in, 2016, Liverpool, Football, Club,
would, have,American,owners, and, a German Manager? ..
Sport,is,better, than,War.