Dighton Rock

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The most controversial inscribed rock in New England is Dighton Rock at Berkeley, Massachusetts, on the Taunton River. As early as 1677, scholars such as Cotton Mather. Dean Barkeley, and Ezra Stiles have tried to decipher the messages chiseled into its ten foot by four foot sandstone face. Stiles was convinced that the rock was covered with ancient Phoenician petroglyphs. Mather sent drawings of the markings to the Royal Society of London to see what they thought, but the English scientists were non-committal. In 1837, Danish scholar Carl Rafn read Roman numerals and the name “Thorfinn Karlsefni” in the stone. Thorfinn supposedly sailed to America from Greenland in the year 1010. In this century, Brown University professor Edmund Burke Delabarre deciphered part of the inscription on the rock to read: “Miguel Cortereal by will of God, here Chief of the Indians,” along with the date 1511 and a Portuguese coat-of-arms. Miguel Cortereal, a Portuguese navigator, did disappear in 1501 with his crew, sailing the Atlantic in search of his explorer brother Gaspar Cortereal, who had also disappeared with his three ship and crews the year before. Their father, Joao Vas …

Henry Makow

Henry Makow, Ph.D., (born November 12, 1949 in Zรผrich, Switzerland) is a Jewish-Canadian non-fiction writer, the inventor of the board game Scruples, and the author of A Long Way to go for a Date, the story of his courtship and marriage to a young Filipina. He believes that it is a good thing to maintain racial identity but would not let that prevent intermarriage.

As a baby,he moved with his family to Canada, settling in Ottawa. At the age of 11 he began to write the syndicated advice-to-parents column โ€œAsk Henry.โ€ The column ran in 50 newspapers in the early 1960s. In 1984, he invented the game of moral dilemmas “Scruples” which was translated into five languages and sold seven million copies worldwide.

He received his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Toronto in 1982, and lives in Winnipeg. Much of his earlier writing was devoted to a critique of feminism as an attempt to destabilize society. His recent articles (online at his web site) address issues of elite conspiracy in modern history and current affairs, especially the New World Order, Zionism and Communism.

He is Jewish, …