Comments by "oneoflokis" (@oneoflokis) on "Timeline - World History Documentaries" channel.

For me, the most amazing info was near the end, when it said that syphilis was most harmless when it was a "tribal" disease, contacted very commonly by children through skin-to-skin contact.And that that actually immunised them from the more severe venereal form of the disease. 😮
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Those desert peoples were all great astronomers. The neighbouring land of Egypt was filled with geometry masters. Where's the problem? 🙂
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@theguidancecounsellor2948 OK: what's the biggest lie therein then?
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@theguidancecounsellor2948 OK: what's the biggest lie therein then?
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@davebeecher6579 You've forgotten the vital FOURTH ancient element, says this Lokean: namely, FIRE!! 😁👍 (And the fifth one, known to most ancients: Spirit..🙂👍)
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Fascinating stuff!! Only I hope that Mr Dan Gibson does not travel too often to Saudi Arabia; as I am sure their government must hate this research, as they use Mecca as their justification to be like the "top" of the Islamic world. 😏 Mind you, with the "non-Western" idea of "newer being better" - WE do think that a lot of the time too, don't we? Especially in science and technology. We are always revising and upgrading things. Even in history and other disciplines the idea of "a new, revised, extended IMPROVED edition" is certainly no oddity!.😏😏🙂 What I want to know though - is where did Islam get the idea of a black (meteoric) stone as being sacred, then?? Since that wasn't from Petra - or was it??? Anyway: no-one can ask the modern-day Muslims to make Petra once again the centre of their religion: it's a ruin! It would be like asking the C of E to forsake St Paul's for Stonehenge! 😏
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Yes, Astounding - and terrible. 😏 Thank goodness for modern hygiene and for penicillin!!👍
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@TheCurlyclub In primitive societies where they caught it in childhood!!
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@FFM0594 Thought you could catch it from the sores/chancres??
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@zeebest1004 In primitive societies where you caught it that way in childhood.
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@zeebest1004 You really need to read what the popular Swedish philosopher Jostein Gaarder (Sophie's World was his bestseller) says about the difference between Indo-European cultures (visually based) and Semitic cultures (aurally based). 🙂
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@amethyst1826 Germs must be dead after all those centuries!! 😏 Some people on here are saying that those skeletons are tubercular. I know that tuberculosis, another bacterial disease, can affect bones...
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@FFM0594 Well then the expert in the video is daft. This video is bass-ackwards anyway bcos it gives the most important info at the end. It does say it can be transmitted via skin though...
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They still have electrically heated fabrics today - you see them in every catalogue, my dears!! 🙂 Electric blankets, throws,and even clothing. The difference is, that nowadays such things run off safe stepper-downers, batteries, and now, of course, USB connections! 🙂👍 So - now you've got me interested though - are there any statistics, for house fires caused by electricity, prior to WWI?
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Nevertheless, Edwardians used electricity quite happily - and afaik, largely safely - for home lighting - asI know very well from novels like The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, written by a man IN THE BUILDING TRADE!! 🙂 And you can't gas yourself to death with it like you can with town gas. As for safe electricity - that argument was thrashed out between Edison and Tesla (I think) in the United States, in the war between alternating and direct current.
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@HappyBeezerStudios Another possibility!
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