7/11/2012
July 11: "The Bear" predicts an end before 1683
Nicholas Raimarus, or Reimers, or Reymers - or, as people seemed to
prefer calling him, "the bear" - was a self-taught scholar and a rival
of Tycho Brahe who served as royal astronomer to the Holy Roman Emperor
Rudolph II. He died in October 1600, with a book he had written only
appearing six years later in Nuremberg: "Chronological, Certain,
and Irrefutable Proof, from the Holy Scripture and Fathers, that the
World Will Perish and the Last Day Will Come Within 77 Years".
7/09/2012
July 9: Geronimo Mendieta, and the concept of the "Last World Emperor"
Geronimo de Mendieta died on July 9, 1604. He was a Franciscan
missionary, working in Mexico and South America, who believed that
native Americans were the lost tribes of Israel and that King Philip II
of Spain was the "Last World Emperor".
The concept of a Last World Emperor may be unfamiliar today, but it was a popular notion dating to the early Middle Ages (its first use has been traced to the 7th-century "Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius"). Although a normal human, the Last World Emperor was expected to reunite the Roman Empire and oppose the rising forces of Satan on Earth. These events would prepare for the appearance of the Antichrist and his defeat by the returned Jesus.
The concept of a Last World Emperor may be unfamiliar today, but it was a popular notion dating to the early Middle Ages (its first use has been traced to the 7th-century "Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius"). Although a normal human, the Last World Emperor was expected to reunite the Roman Empire and oppose the rising forces of Satan on Earth. These events would prepare for the appearance of the Antichrist and his defeat by the returned Jesus.
7/08/2012
July 8: SciAm debunks
From Friday's Scientific American Online:
Scientific American: Neither the Maya nor world calnder ends December 21, 2012
I think the biggest takeaway - if we can already accept that the world was unlikely to end on 12/21 - is that the image usually bandied about as "the Mayan Calendar" is of an Aztec artifact made 400 years after the decline and disappearance of the Maya:
(From the article on the Aztec Stone of the Sun)
Scientific American: Neither the Maya nor world calnder ends December 21, 2012
I think the biggest takeaway - if we can already accept that the world was unlikely to end on 12/21 - is that the image usually bandied about as "the Mayan Calendar" is of an Aztec artifact made 400 years after the decline and disappearance of the Maya:
(From the article on the Aztec Stone of the Sun)
7/07/2012
July 7: An Elizabethan Archbishop predicts a 16th century end
Edwin Sandys, an Anglican Prelate and the Archbishop of York under Queen
Elizabeth, died this day in 1588. He had written: "The signs mentioned
by Christ in the Gospel which should be the foreshewers of this terrible
day, are almost all fulfilled."
7/06/2012
July 6: Jan Hus and the Hussites
The Czech priest and early church reformer Jan Hus was burned at the
stake on July 6, 1415. Influenced by the radical views of John Wycliffe,
Hus had openly suspected the papacy represented the power of
Antichrist.
After Hus' execution, his growing number of followers in Bohemia were strengthened in their views. The Hussite Nicholas of Dresden, to take one example, specifically linked the papacy with Antichrist in his popular book "The Old Color and the New".
Between 1420 and 1431 the Church would launch a series of largely failed crusades against the Hussites. (Actually, the Hussites were defeated in the field - but the counterrevolutionary reaction against them "failed" in the sense that most Czechs remained divorced from the Church up until the larger Protestant reform movement swept Europe a century later. For more on the Hussite Wars, and the Hussite splinter group known as the Taborites, see May 30).
After Hus' execution, his growing number of followers in Bohemia were strengthened in their views. The Hussite Nicholas of Dresden, to take one example, specifically linked the papacy with Antichrist in his popular book "The Old Color and the New".
Between 1420 and 1431 the Church would launch a series of largely failed crusades against the Hussites. (Actually, the Hussites were defeated in the field - but the counterrevolutionary reaction against them "failed" in the sense that most Czechs remained divorced from the Church up until the larger Protestant reform movement swept Europe a century later. For more on the Hussite Wars, and the Hussite splinter group known as the Taborites, see May 30).
7/05/2012
July 5: The Rupture of the Church of the SubGenius
The Church of the SubGenius claimed that on July 5, 1998, the rupture
would occur. Aliens from Planet X, after concluding a deal with Bob
Dobbs, would raise all ordained SubGenii into spaceships and then
destroy the Earth *very* slowly. Meaning, perhaps, billions of years.
However, the Church of the SubGenius allowed that it may have read the date upside-down, and that these things will happen in 8661 C.E.
However, the Church of the SubGenius allowed that it may have read the date upside-down, and that these things will happen in 8661 C.E.
7/04/2012
July 4: The Battle Hymn of the Republic
Julia Ward Howe's revised lyrics to the song "John Brown's Body",
published in early 1862 as "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", are a tissue of apocalyptic biblical references, drawing on multiple
books from both the Hebrew and Christian testaments.
(List of Biblical References in The Battle Hymn of the Republic)
And it's always good to hear what Orson Welles has to say on any subject:
(List of Biblical References in The Battle Hymn of the Republic)
And it's always good to hear what Orson Welles has to say on any subject:
7/03/2012
July 3: Muslim fundamentalists destroying Sufi sites in Mali
Just happened across this report from NPR. Muslim extremists in Mali, deliberately desecrating sites in Timbuktu sacred to the Sufi, have torn the door off of a sealed 15th century mosque. It was believed by the Sufi that this door would only be opened on the last day on Earth.
7/02/2012
July 2: Jesus must stop Ireland from joining Britain
On July 2, 1800, a resolution of union between England and Ireland was
passed in Parliament. M.P. Francis Dobbs, registering his extreme
opposition to the measure, declared that Jesus Christ would return to
Earth within the year to prevent it from being completed.
6/30/2012
June 30: Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Caturday
Harriet Beecher Stowe died on this date in 1896. The "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
author had been convinced she lived in the end times, with the
apocalypse possibly due in 1858.
This has been Kitten Week at Today's Date in Apocalypse History, and though I've already shared seven days of kitten pictures or videos, today is Caturday and it seems fitting to include one more. This is on a more personal note too - a favorite old picture of Ava and Ivan, the sibling cats of "TDAH" friend Lauryl.
This has been Kitten Week at Today's Date in Apocalypse History, and though I've already shared seven days of kitten pictures or videos, today is Caturday and it seems fitting to include one more. This is on a more personal note too - a favorite old picture of Ava and Ivan, the sibling cats of "TDAH" friend Lauryl.
6/29/2012
June 29: The Population Bomb
"The Population Bomb", by Stanford conservation biologist Paul R.
Ehrlich, was published on this date in 1968. In it he claimed that with
an exploding world population set to outpace any possible growth in
agricultural output, Malthusian famines would sweep the world in the 70s and beyond.
The book began on a sharply unequivocal note. "The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now."
And as Kitten Week draws toward a close here at Today's Date in Apocalypse History, here is a picture of a particularly excited-looking little kitten:
The book began on a sharply unequivocal note. "The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now."
And as Kitten Week draws toward a close here at Today's Date in Apocalypse History, here is a picture of a particularly excited-looking little kitten:
6/28/2012
June 28: Irenaeus, and the Jehovah's Witnesses
Today there are two dates worth noting:
--In 202, Irenaeus died. His enormous, five-volume "Against Heresies" was a milestone in consolidating the doctrines of early Christianity. In it, Irenaeus expanded on the concept of the Antichrist: a figure mentioned just five times in the New Testament. All five references occur in the first two of the so-called letters of John ("so-called" because it is generally believed today that these two epistles were falsely attributed to the Gospel writer, and composed by later Christians). Building on the undetailed concept of the Antichrist in the Johannine letters as a mere "false teacher", Iranaeus described a much more robust Antichrist who would reign over Earth for three and a half years (a duration echoing the book of Daniel) to close the sixth millennial "day" of creation. After the fall of the Antichrist would begin the seventh "day" of Christ's return to Earth for 1000 years of rule.
--The Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated today in Sarajevo in 1914, sparking the First World War. As the deadliest war of human history to that date, it was apocalyptic in its own right. But an independent fundamentalist prophet from Pittsburgh named Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916) had predicted that the apocalypse would unfold during 1914, and for at least the second half of 1914 his prophecy probably appeared to have some traction. Russell had formed a group called the Bible Students, and would form another named the the Watchtower Society (renamed, after Russell's death, as "The Jehovah's Witnesses"). By 1914, The Watchtower Society boasted around 30,000 members, despite the fact that Russell had already failed in predicting apocalypses for 1910 and 1874.
In addition to the three failed dates Russell predicted in his life, the Jehovah's Witnesses went on to add many others. Among these was 1994, which the group claimed would be the end of the world on the reasoning that Russell's final, failed prediction of 1914 had actually been correct - but only correct in marking the beginning of an 80-year generation whose culmination would produce the true end. When this date, too, fell on its face, the Jehovah's Witnesses declared publicly that they would no longer make specific announcements about the end of the world.
As Kitten Week continues here at Today's Date in Apocalypse History, here is a video of the kitten Maru (who appears not to be the Japanese viral-video star Maru, the kitten I was searching for).
--In 202, Irenaeus died. His enormous, five-volume "Against Heresies" was a milestone in consolidating the doctrines of early Christianity. In it, Irenaeus expanded on the concept of the Antichrist: a figure mentioned just five times in the New Testament. All five references occur in the first two of the so-called letters of John ("so-called" because it is generally believed today that these two epistles were falsely attributed to the Gospel writer, and composed by later Christians). Building on the undetailed concept of the Antichrist in the Johannine letters as a mere "false teacher", Iranaeus described a much more robust Antichrist who would reign over Earth for three and a half years (a duration echoing the book of Daniel) to close the sixth millennial "day" of creation. After the fall of the Antichrist would begin the seventh "day" of Christ's return to Earth for 1000 years of rule.
--The Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated today in Sarajevo in 1914, sparking the First World War. As the deadliest war of human history to that date, it was apocalyptic in its own right. But an independent fundamentalist prophet from Pittsburgh named Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916) had predicted that the apocalypse would unfold during 1914, and for at least the second half of 1914 his prophecy probably appeared to have some traction. Russell had formed a group called the Bible Students, and would form another named the the Watchtower Society (renamed, after Russell's death, as "The Jehovah's Witnesses"). By 1914, The Watchtower Society boasted around 30,000 members, despite the fact that Russell had already failed in predicting apocalypses for 1910 and 1874.
In addition to the three failed dates Russell predicted in his life, the Jehovah's Witnesses went on to add many others. Among these was 1994, which the group claimed would be the end of the world on the reasoning that Russell's final, failed prediction of 1914 had actually been correct - but only correct in marking the beginning of an 80-year generation whose culmination would produce the true end. When this date, too, fell on its face, the Jehovah's Witnesses declared publicly that they would no longer make specific announcements about the end of the world.
As Kitten Week continues here at Today's Date in Apocalypse History, here is a video of the kitten Maru (who appears not to be the Japanese viral-video star Maru, the kitten I was searching for).
6/27/2012
June 27: Joseph Smith, confabulator extraordinaire
Mormonism founder Joseph Smith was killed by a vigilante mob on June 27,
1844 while imprisoned in Carthage, Illinois. He was awaiting trial for
inciting a riot in the aftermath of having the newspaper offices of a
pair of his rivals burned down.
An illiterate con man from rural New York whose legal run-ins over time involved treasure-hunting, exorcism, being a "disorderly person", commission of banking fraud, polygamy, sexual indiscretion with a 15-year-old girl, and treason against the state of Illinois, Smith's career saw him driven from four states while he attempted to build up a religion based upon a set of golden tablets he would not show anyone, but claimed to have been given by an angel in upstate New York. (To be fair, Smith gathered eleven witnesses long after the translation and publication of the Book of Mormon who claimed to have seen the tablets, but their testimony appears to have been based on spiritual visions of the tablets, not to mention Smith's encouragement.)
On at least two occasions, Smith predicted Jesus' second coming before the end of 1890. On April 14, 1835, he was quoted in "The History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" saying, "[T]he coming of the Lord is nigh - even 56 years should wind up the scene." Later, he spoke of a vision in which he was told by God that Christ would return by Smith's 85th year, should he live that long (ie, 1890). Mormon apologists claim these statements, although Smith's, are not among his prophecies per se.
And, as Kitten Week continues at Today's Date in Apocalypse History, here is a picture of particularly grumpy-looking kitten:
An illiterate con man from rural New York whose legal run-ins over time involved treasure-hunting, exorcism, being a "disorderly person", commission of banking fraud, polygamy, sexual indiscretion with a 15-year-old girl, and treason against the state of Illinois, Smith's career saw him driven from four states while he attempted to build up a religion based upon a set of golden tablets he would not show anyone, but claimed to have been given by an angel in upstate New York. (To be fair, Smith gathered eleven witnesses long after the translation and publication of the Book of Mormon who claimed to have seen the tablets, but their testimony appears to have been based on spiritual visions of the tablets, not to mention Smith's encouragement.)
On at least two occasions, Smith predicted Jesus' second coming before the end of 1890. On April 14, 1835, he was quoted in "The History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" saying, "[T]he coming of the Lord is nigh - even 56 years should wind up the scene." Later, he spoke of a vision in which he was told by God that Christ would return by Smith's 85th year, should he live that long (ie, 1890). Mormon apologists claim these statements, although Smith's, are not among his prophecies per se.
And, as Kitten Week continues at Today's Date in Apocalypse History, here is a picture of particularly grumpy-looking kitten:
6/26/2012
June 26: The magic numbers 1260 and 1335 (or, a time, times, and half a time)
Benedictus Aretius was a sixteenth-century logician and theologian in
Bern, Switzerland. Reasoning that Jesus' Second Coming would fall 1260
years after Constantine the Great's establishment of Christianity as the
state religion of Rome, he speculated
that 1572 would be the final year of earthly history. (This may sound
arbitrary, and it is, but a duration of 1260 days - often interpreted
"spiritually" as years - is a number that was given prominence in the
Book of Daniel.)
Aretius himself lived to publish his principal work, "Problems of Theology", in 1573, and died the year following.
Kitten Week continues at Today's Date in Apocalypse History with this picture of a plump one with a strange gait:
Post-Script: A conversation in the facebook comments, about the apocalyptic meaning of the number 1260, led to this pedantic (but informative!) blurt --
Daniel 12 says that "A time, times, and half a time" - also 1290 days, it says - and 1335 days - indeed, it says that all three of these lengths of time - are the length of time that will elapse after the "Abomination of Desolation" is set up in the temple in Jerusalem. Thereupon a whole series of apocalyptic things happens, including the coming of the son of man (a phrase eagerly attached to Jesus by early Christians to connect him with Hebrew prophecies).
Great. But what in the world does any of that mean?
Back up. The Book of Daniel purports to have been written while Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian Empire had conquered Israel (beginning 582 BCE). Actually the book was written a couple hundred years later, after the Babylonians had been conquered by the Persians and the Persians had been conquered by Alexander the Great. Why the anachronistic misdirection? You might compare it to the way American slaves used the Exodus story to speak in code about their struggle for freedom. Similarly, while the Jews were oppressed by the Greek kings Alexander left behind, they projected their stories backward onto an earlier oppressor in order to be discreet and spare their skins. (We see the same thing in Revelation, where John keeps talking about Babylon whenever he means the Roman Empire. John borrows a lot more than that from Daniel, too, but it's another story.)
Anyway, the bad thing those Greek kings after Alexander were doing, was forcibly Hellenizing Jews in Jerusalem, requiring breaking of dietary laws, sabbath work, and so on. Worst of all, they put up a statue of Zeus in the Temple - and this is the thing referred to in veiled language in Daniel as "the Abomination of Desolation" (you know, like, an abomination that causes God to desolate or abandon us). So: the apocalyptic prediction in Daniel is that after this Hellenic defilement of the temple, the end was going to be coming in - "a time, times, and half a time", which most interpreters agree was a weird way of saying three and a half years. (It's from here that you get the commonplace that the reign of the Antichrist on Earth will last three and a half years.)
Now if you reckon three and a half years by the solar calendar, you can arrive at 1290 days; if by adding it up as 42 months, 1335 days. Why Daniel wants to pass on that 45-day discrepancy to us, by calling out these durations separately, is hard to know. Some early Christian commentators called the difference between the two "the refreshment of the saints", a kind of a mid-apocalypse respite where the resurrected faithful get to enjoy a nice time on the Earth again. But in any case, the numbers 1290 and 1335, whether counted as years or as days, have given date-setting apocalypse hounds plenty to work with in pointing to any square on the calendar that they like.
Aretius himself lived to publish his principal work, "Problems of Theology", in 1573, and died the year following.
Kitten Week continues at Today's Date in Apocalypse History with this picture of a plump one with a strange gait:
Post-Script: A conversation in the facebook comments, about the apocalyptic meaning of the number 1260, led to this pedantic (but informative!) blurt --
Daniel 12 says that "A time, times, and half a time" - also 1290 days, it says - and 1335 days - indeed, it says that all three of these lengths of time - are the length of time that will elapse after the "Abomination of Desolation" is set up in the temple in Jerusalem. Thereupon a whole series of apocalyptic things happens, including the coming of the son of man (a phrase eagerly attached to Jesus by early Christians to connect him with Hebrew prophecies).
Great. But what in the world does any of that mean?
Back up. The Book of Daniel purports to have been written while Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonian Empire had conquered Israel (beginning 582 BCE). Actually the book was written a couple hundred years later, after the Babylonians had been conquered by the Persians and the Persians had been conquered by Alexander the Great. Why the anachronistic misdirection? You might compare it to the way American slaves used the Exodus story to speak in code about their struggle for freedom. Similarly, while the Jews were oppressed by the Greek kings Alexander left behind, they projected their stories backward onto an earlier oppressor in order to be discreet and spare their skins. (We see the same thing in Revelation, where John keeps talking about Babylon whenever he means the Roman Empire. John borrows a lot more than that from Daniel, too, but it's another story.)
Anyway, the bad thing those Greek kings after Alexander were doing, was forcibly Hellenizing Jews in Jerusalem, requiring breaking of dietary laws, sabbath work, and so on. Worst of all, they put up a statue of Zeus in the Temple - and this is the thing referred to in veiled language in Daniel as "the Abomination of Desolation" (you know, like, an abomination that causes God to desolate or abandon us). So: the apocalyptic prediction in Daniel is that after this Hellenic defilement of the temple, the end was going to be coming in - "a time, times, and half a time", which most interpreters agree was a weird way of saying three and a half years. (It's from here that you get the commonplace that the reign of the Antichrist on Earth will last three and a half years.)
Now if you reckon three and a half years by the solar calendar, you can arrive at 1290 days; if by adding it up as 42 months, 1335 days. Why Daniel wants to pass on that 45-day discrepancy to us, by calling out these durations separately, is hard to know. Some early Christian commentators called the difference between the two "the refreshment of the saints", a kind of a mid-apocalypse respite where the resurrected faithful get to enjoy a nice time on the Earth again. But in any case, the numbers 1290 and 1335, whether counted as years or as days, have given date-setting apocalypse hounds plenty to work with in pointing to any square on the calendar that they like.
6/25/2012
June 25: The Omen
On this day in 1976, the original film version of "The Omen" was
released to theaters, which depicted the birth and childhood of the
Antichrist.
And it's now Kitten Week at Today's Date in Apocalypse History, so here is a picture of three kittens:
And it's now Kitten Week at Today's Date in Apocalypse History, so here is a picture of three kittens:
6/23/2012
June 23: A Socialite Keeps a Spare Horse for Jesus - And, No, We're Not *That* Japanese Apocalyptic Group
Lady Hester Stanhope died on this date in 1839. An English orientalist,
she moved to Lebanon in 1810 in order to be nearby as Christ returned,
whom she had been told by a fortune teller that she would marry. Throughout her life, Lady Stanhope
maintained an extra horse in her stable for the Messiah to use whenever he arrived.
The Comte Saint-Simon (see May 19) proposed to Stanhope so that they could jointly reign as a Messianic married couple. Apparently she didn't think he had what it took to be Messiah, and turned him down. In her earlier years before moving to the middle east, Stanhope was a prominent socialite, often entertaining for her uncle, the prime minister of England.
***
On June 23, 1978, Sukyo Mahikari was registered in Japan as a religion. Currently boasting one million members, the religion teaches the primacy of Japanese culture, and the achievement of peace through the use of light energy. While denying charges of anti-semitism and connections with the terroristic group Aum Shinrikyo, the group announced in 2000 that, "mankind might be annihilated by the baptism of fire."
***
And lastly, today is the start of Kitten Week here at Today's Date in Apocalypse History, so here is a picture of a kitten:
The Comte Saint-Simon (see May 19) proposed to Stanhope so that they could jointly reign as a Messianic married couple. Apparently she didn't think he had what it took to be Messiah, and turned him down. In her earlier years before moving to the middle east, Stanhope was a prominent socialite, often entertaining for her uncle, the prime minister of England.
***
On June 23, 1978, Sukyo Mahikari was registered in Japan as a religion. Currently boasting one million members, the religion teaches the primacy of Japanese culture, and the achievement of peace through the use of light energy. While denying charges of anti-semitism and connections with the terroristic group Aum Shinrikyo, the group announced in 2000 that, "mankind might be annihilated by the baptism of fire."
***
And lastly, today is the start of Kitten Week here at Today's Date in Apocalypse History, so here is a picture of a kitten:
6/22/2012
June 22: The Second-Longest Apocalypse
Queen Elizabeth I assumed the throne of England on June 22, 1558. This
was not apocalyptic. But as the inauguration of the Elizabethan era,
today's date is the best one available to note an anonymous pamphlet
widely circulated around that time: "On the Ende of This World and the
Second Coming of Christ: A Comfortable and Most Necessarie Discourse for
These Miserable and Dangerous Dayes".
A distinguishing feature of this publication is the fact that it has the second-longest title of any doomsday tract (at least known of by me - see June 12 for the other one).
A distinguishing feature of this publication is the fact that it has the second-longest title of any doomsday tract (at least known of by me - see June 12 for the other one).
6/21/2012
June 21: Why won't the Messiah leave London's Pakistani Community?
Share International is a new-age movement founded by the Glasgow-born
mystic Benjamin Creme. Creme's group announced that the the Maitreya, or World Teacher, or
Messiah - who had been living in London's Pakistani community since 1977 -
would reveal himself publicly on this date in 1982. The announcement was made a few weeks in advance by ads placed in 17
major world newspapers announcing, "The Christ is now here!"
Creme believes that Maitreya - an eternal teacher/savior drawn from Buddhist and Theosophical ideas - is the spiritual essence which entered Jesus 2000 years ago, and retreated afterward to an abode in the Himalayas. Maitreya, who is a normal but apparently immortal man, descended from the Himalayas in 1977 to take an airplane to England, where he has been living in the Brick Lane neighborhood of London ever since.
In the 1982 ad, Creme claimed Maitreya would reveal himself on international television on June 21. In the 30 years since that date, Creme has since proposed in the course of 14 books and through Share International's magazine that the Maitreya - still living with London's Pakistainis - would reveal himself in 1997, and then 2010. Creme actually claimed Maitreya had granted a U.S. television interview in January 2010, but declined to reveal just which interview or interviewee this had been.
Proof that Maitreya truly is in London includes the prevalence of crop circles near him in England - as well as the worldwide fall of Communism, for which Maitreya was responsible.
Share International has offices in London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Los Angeles.
Creme believes that Maitreya - an eternal teacher/savior drawn from Buddhist and Theosophical ideas - is the spiritual essence which entered Jesus 2000 years ago, and retreated afterward to an abode in the Himalayas. Maitreya, who is a normal but apparently immortal man, descended from the Himalayas in 1977 to take an airplane to England, where he has been living in the Brick Lane neighborhood of London ever since.
In the 1982 ad, Creme claimed Maitreya would reveal himself on international television on June 21. In the 30 years since that date, Creme has since proposed in the course of 14 books and through Share International's magazine that the Maitreya - still living with London's Pakistainis - would reveal himself in 1997, and then 2010. Creme actually claimed Maitreya had granted a U.S. television interview in January 2010, but declined to reveal just which interview or interviewee this had been.
Proof that Maitreya truly is in London includes the prevalence of crop circles near him in England - as well as the worldwide fall of Communism, for which Maitreya was responsible.
Share International has offices in London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Los Angeles.
6/19/2012
June 19: Heads up!
On June 19, 2004, the asteroid 99942 Apophis was discovered. At first it appeared that this body’s orbit through the solar system could bring it into collision with Earth in 2029. Happily, further observations have ruled this out. The asteroid’s January 9, 2013 flyby will allow even more precise calculations of its future “orbital resonance” with Earth.
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