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Berlin · 2007  Uwe Topper The Almanac was born in Germany in the 15th Century, promoted by the printing industry. George Peurbach’s Yearbook (1460) in Vienna is considered the first German almanac. Handwritten almanacs were more prepared for personal use. Older than Peurbach’s Almanac are several Arabic manuscripts with similar information about stellar sunrises, weather, and…

Berlin · 2015  Uwe Topper Slightly shortened translation of my German article from 2001 Critics of chronology claim that the age of palaeolithic cave painting cannot stretch to tens of thousands of years but at the most to two or three thousand years. Some caves have only been painted in recent decades. This essay is not…

The construction history of the Chinese Wall and its mythologizing ( c ) Eugen Gabowitsch , published in EFODON – synesis No. 6/1999 First, we note that the great Chinese wall today , at the end of the second post-Christian millennium, really (though not as a continuously runny wall) exists in some form . It…

Zeitensprünge Interdisciplinary Bulletin Off-Print Christian Blöss • Hans-Ulrich Niemitz The Self-Deception of the C14 Method and Dendrochronology from Zeitensprünge 8 (1996) 3 361-389 Author’s note: This article reflects the discussion up to November 1996. A more detailed position is worked out since then. Nevertheless we publish this version and refer to the actual discussion in Zeitensprünge…