Exposing US propaganda: "The American people were told by the US media that the Iraqi people wanted war. So they went to the streets of Baghdad and asked them. Filmed in 2003, two weeks before the latest US invasion of Iraq. Nothing of these images or interviews were ever shown on U.S. media outlets to the American people."
Life in Iraq filmed 2 weeks before shock and awe campaign:
Jean-Pierre Houdin, a French architect may have finally answered how the Great Pyramid was built 4,500 years ago. He has introduced a radical new theory - an internal ramp - hidden inside the pyramid in an ancient mile long ramp, still waiting to be discovered in the pyramid. Along with Bob Brier, the legendary Egyptologist from LIU, they both helped to illustrate the idea to the mainstream, most notably in a Discovery Channel Documentary that chronicled the work of the French architect in creating his theory and Bob Brier`s expertise in Egyptology and pyramid building.
Houdin spent 10 hours a day constructing the pyramid block by block, getting a virtual view of the pyramid construction as it was happening year by year using a unique sophisticated 3D computer program from Dassault Systemes, a leading French computer software company.
Every Egyptologist may have missed this, Houdin says, where many have sad it was a single external ramp that went nearly 500 feet off the ground to explain how the nearly two million blocks were raised. But this is just not feasible in the sense of practicality - it would be enormous.
Some evidence shown by Houdin of internal ramps being used and employed in Ancient Egyptian construction are seen in the ruined temples of Abu Ghurab and Abusir, along with the art of corbeling, the Egyptians possessed the know how of erecting colossal monuments.
Houdin in his research has potentially unlocked not one but three secrets of the Great Pyramid. The first one was the internal ramp theory answering how the pyramid blocks were raised. The second is the function of the Grand Gallery - used to haul up the huge massive granite beams seen in the King`s chamber. At the top of the Grand Gallery, there is a large pink granite block (now repaired) that had a groove in it in the middle of the block(seen in a 1960`s photo) that was used as a part of the counter-weight system the Grand Gallery was used for which would have had the roof open when operational. And lastly, the third secret unlocked dealt with the cracks found in the granite beams seen in the King`s chamber. Using sophisticated computational analysis, Houdin concluded the cracks happened while the pyramid was under construction.
Now, Jean-Pierre Houdin, was presented conclusive evidence for the second and third unlocked secret of the pyramid, but there is a notch visibly seen now on the Khufu Pyramid that may give more weight to his internal ramp theory. To add, a French team in the 1980`s did a micro-gravametrics analysis on the Khufu Pyramid - which detects low gravity areas, meaning low density areas, meaning empty spaces - rooms. Their analysis showed a low-density spial shape mirroring an internal ramp that very closely resembled Houdin`s computer models. The French team found it but never realized what they were looking at so it never got published or garnered any attention. This is Houdin`s most strongest evidence to his internal ramp theory.
Houdin has applied for SCA (Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities) approval to do an infared survey of the pyramid but has been shunned by Secretary-General Zahi Hawass, who is like a modern-day pharaoh to say the least. Basically, the academic world concerning Egyptology considers him an outsider which may explain why his proposal keeps getting shunned. Hawass may have his own agenda or something but it shouldn`t get in the way of helping to unlock one of mankind`s greatest feats of engineering.
View these related links that contain more in depth analysis and info about Jean-Pierre`s theory and even an interview with him discussing the theory and challenges his theory faces with mainstream egyptologists, academics and even Zahi Hawass, Secretary-General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities:
Below is the article Bob Brier wrote published in ARCHAEOLOGY, where he explains the internal-ramp theory of Jean-Pierre Houdin in much greater detail and helping to spread the theory to the mainstream:
Hidden ramps may solve the mystery of the Great Pyramid's construction.
Bob Brier writes about the new internal ramp theory to the construction of the Khufu Pyramid as presented by Jean-Pierre Houdin, a French architect who devoted the last seven years of his life to making detailed computer models of the Great Pyramid. Using start-of-the-art 3-D software developed by Dassault Systemes, combined with an initial suggestion of Henri Houdin, his engineer father, the architect has concluded that a ramp was indeed used to raise the blocks to the top, and that the ramp still exists--inside the pyramid!
View the National Geographic special documentary illustrating Jean-Pierre Houdin`s internal ramp theory along with legendary egyptologist Bob Brier:
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How was the Pyramid built? It takes an architect to understand an architect. A French architect dedicates his life and time to understand the making of this Ancient mystery. Are there hidden passage ways inside the Great Pyramid? Did the Egyptians use these hidden tunnels to move thousands of pounds of granite blocks? Watch and see how this French Architect uses computer software, and investigating the Pyramid itself to come to an agreeable conclusion. You'll learn more about this Pyramid through his findings!
Nearly 20 years after first finding the sunken remains of the R.M.S. Titanic, marine explorer Robert Ballard returned in June 2004 helped by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Office of Ocean Exploration to study the ship's rapid deterioration.
Video image is courtesy of the UK History Channel special: "Titanic: A Tale of Two Journeys" by Rob Goldsmith
In its day, the Titanic was a technological wonder. People were so enthralled with the largest moving man-made object in the world that they truly believed it unsinkable. Until she slipped out of sight on April 15, 1912. This enthralling documentary, filled with spectacular footage of both recent and archival expeditions, explores the history of the ship and the technology that finally found it and enabled exploration and salvaging dives.
The History Channel special hinges on as to why Titanic broke apart as it did and essentially why….an engineering failure? The missing pieces that were discovered in 2005 essentially indicated that the Titanic broke apart in the water before sinking. The unsinkable ship that was built to serve as its own lifeboat until help arrived broke apart in a manner never imagined by its engineers. TITANIC'S ACHILLES HEEL aims to find out why the ship broke apart as it did, and why the "official" details of the sinking seemed to make the truth so elusive.
Was Titanic a doomed ship before it ever left port, plagued with structural problems? Would she have survived the unforgiving Atlantic Ocean even if she hadn't hit that iceberg? And even more disturbingly, were the ship's builders fully aware of these issues as thousands of civilians boarded the doomed ship? This story has never before been told. Now, through technical and historical research, inquiry transcripts, survivor testimony, and the help of a modern-day whistleblower, the real truth about Titanic may finally be known. Essentially the story comes down to Titanic`s expansion joints-which allowed it to bend and flex in the waves for a ship of its immense size. The expansion joints may have been a serious flaw in Titanic`s design-possibly explains as to why the hull broke into two pieces and sunk much faster than it should have for a ship of her size. After the sinking, Titanic`s builder- Harland and Wolff, already may have known in advance about a flaw in Titanic`s design with the expansion joints. Titanic`s sister ship the Britannic, now sunk off the Greek coast in the Aegean Sea, was constructed right after Titanic, showed a newly designed expansion joint as confirmed by the dives of veteran wreck divers in this History Channel special. This gives evidence to the fact that Titanic had a flaw in its expansion joint and was revamped in Britannic. Newly conducted research also shows, that Titanic for its size was actually built quite strong, not as weak as thought before to cause its demise. It is seen now that engineering flaws along with weak hull plates exacerbated the situation in the sinking of Titanic. As an addendum to this, from the book Olympic & Titanic: The Truth Behind the Conspiracy, ...The Titanic did not break into two pieces while sinking, as was theorized for some years. She was broken into three sections. The middle section was found a distance from the two larger segments of the wreck, and had been overlooked for a long time. When the middle section was found, it was found upside down. The keel was exposed and found to be twisted at the breaking point. This indicates that the keel was one of the last things to break apart as the ship was foundering; in fact it was probably the last thing connecting the pieces together as the ship was falling to the bottom. The Titanic certainly did not break in two because of any inherent weakness in her keel...
New sinking theory:
Image above courtesy of The Telegraph
...A collaboration between the History Channel and Lone Wolf Documentary Group, an American film company, suggest that the Titanic broke in half when its stern had reached an angle of just 10 degrees - a scenario that could have occurred in heavy seas during any severe storm, never mind in the aftermath of hitting an iceberg. Rushmore DeNooyer, who led the project, said: "Titanic broke at a very shallow angle, yet ships experience shallow angles like this in storms, when they are tilted up by large waves. So perhaps Titanic wasn't designed strongly enough. If the force that broke it was no greater than the force it would have faced in a hurricane, ergo, it could have been broken in a hurricane." Clues to the fundamental weakness in the Titanic's design emerged after a submersible, sent to dive the wreck two years ago, discovered and filmed previously unlocated parts of the ship. Analysis of the footage allowed researchers to calculate the angle at which the Titanic was tilting when it broke up. The team also found parts of the rearmost of the vessel's two "expansion joints" - fitted near the bow and the stern - which were supposed to allow the hull to flex in heavy seas. Analysis, however, suggests that they were poorly designed and may have contributed to the ship breaking up at the shallow 10 degree angle. Roger Long, a naval architect who worked on the project, said: "The design of the expansion joints in the ship was so unimaginably crude." To test their theory, the team also dived on the Britannic, the Titanic's sister ship, which was also built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast and sank in 1916 in the Mediterranean after hitting a mine. They found that the builders had altered the design and fitted an extra expansion joint, prompting suspicions that the yard was aware of the faults with the Titanic. The shallow angle at which the Titanic buckled is also believed to have contributed towards the 1,500 death toll.
The researchers believe that many, assuming the vessel would stay afloat for hours, remained on board in the warmth. However, the ship sank just two hours and 40 minutes after the collision. Less than two hours later, the Carpathia arrived on the scene and pulled 705 people in lifeboats to safety. Mr Long said: "The Titanic would have continued to float for a finite period of time if it had not experienced this structural failure. So if the ship's sinking was hastened by the early breaking, then there are almost certainly people who died because it broke. "It only needed to float for a few more hours before the Carpathia arrived and one more hour could have given the lifeboats time to go back and get more people, as they were half full." (Jasper Copping, The Telegraph)
Last Mysteries of the Titanic...as uncovered by the legendary James Cameron on his latest and last dive to the wreck, yield`s one more of Titanic`s ever yet secrets.
Titanic holds such a fascination that no wonder its the world`s most famous shipwreck. The event and the story behind the doomed ocean liner makes it so compelling to the human mind and imagination. James Cameron, who holds the same fascination helps to uncover more the Titanic`s story, beauty and secrets on his last exploration of the Titanic.
