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Black Athena - The Fabrication of Ancient Greece

This documentary examines the claims of Professor Martin Bernal who questions the assumption of the “Europeaness” of our civilization, placing instead the “black” Egyptians and Phoenicians at the center of the West’s origin.

Black Athena examines Cornell Professor Martin Bernal’s iconoclastic study of the African origins of Greek civilization and the explosive academic debate it provoked. This film offers a balanced, scholarly introduction to the disputes surrounding multiculturalism, “political correctness” and Afrocentrist curricula sweeping college campuses today.

In his book Black Athena, Prof. Bernal convincingly indicts 19th-century scholars for constructing a racist “cult of Greece” based upon a purely Aryan origin for Western culture. He accuses these classicists of suppressing the numerous connections between African and Near Eastern cultures and early Greek myth and art.

Leading classical scholars, on the other hand, contend that Bernal, like the 19th-century classicists he attacks, uses evidence selectively, uncritically and ahistorically to support his own Afrocentric agenda. They argue that cultural diffusion alone can’t account for the distinctive achievements of the Greeks during the Classical Period. Black Athena can help students begin to distinguish between sound scholarship and cultural bias - whether inherited from the past or imposed by the present.

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Senia rice - Black rice topped with black truffle, braised woodcock, and black truffle caviar.  This was an incredible dish similar in appearance to the previous “ashes” dish except topped with gorgeous black truffle.  The aroma of truffle was incredibly fragrant, and this paired very nicely with the more mild senia rice.  The crispy “truffle caviar” added textural contrast making this one balanced dish.

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Massive Spiderwebs In Pakistan Trees. Apparently, last year`s floods in Pakistan forced millions of spiders into these trees, creating these creepy webs.

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There are tiny Avatar-like gliding dragons in Asia

There is an amazing species of gliding lizard which looks like a miniature dragon. They breed in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia and look like mini versions of flying Toruks from Avatar – if you have seen the film.

They spread out the skin attached to their ribs (“wings”) to glide from one tree to another. Although they can not sustain powered flights like all modern reptiles, they can glide over 8 meters.

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