• A scientific expedition searching for fossils along the Amazon River discovered a prehistoric Gill-Man in the legendary Black Lagoon. Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954. Film directed by Jack Arnold.
    A scientific expedition searching for fossils along the Amazon River discovered a prehistoric Gill-Man in the legendary Black Lagoon. Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954. Film directed by Jack Arnold.
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  • Temple Discovered Beneath Prehistoric Lava?
    https://youtu.be/ZfGMPMma-tA?si=OGYNISbJhUe0DUb-
    Temple Discovered Beneath Prehistoric Lava? https://youtu.be/ZfGMPMma-tA?si=OGYNISbJhUe0DUb-
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  • I was looking around on Rumble just now and saw this.....
    I really don't care about #Hollywood UNLESS it's on fire..... BUT
    It made me think of my younger "Dungeons and Dragons" days.....

    The ONLY "Guild" I've ever heard of was the "Thieves Guild" of D&D

    So I decided to look up the etymology of the word

    guild (n.)
    also gild, early 13c., yilde (spelling later influenced by Old Norse gildi "guild, brotherhood"), a semantic fusion of Old English gegield "guild, brotherhood," and gield "service, offering; payment, tribute; compensation," from Proto-Germanic *geldja- "payment, contribution" (source also of Old Frisian geld "money," Old Saxon geld "payment, sacrifice, reward," Old High German gelt "payment, tribute;" see yield (v.)).

    The connecting sense is of a contribution or payment to join a protective or trade society. But some look to the alternative prehistoric sense of "sacrifice," as if in worship, and see the word as meaning a combination for religious purposes, either Christian or pagan. The Anglo-Saxon guilds had a strong religious component; they were burial societies that paid for Masses for the souls of deceased members as well as paying fines in cases of justified crime.

    The earliest reference was to sacred banquets (Tacit: Germania 21-2) for which a contribution had to be paid, and which furthermore accounts for the meaning 'fraternity' of the formation *geldja-. In medieval times the economically oriented fraternities, the guilds, adopted this word, but it could still be used in reference to religious fraternities .... The contribution to the banquets, *gelda-, acquired a legal meaning 'recompense', but also the meaning 'money, currency' in general. [Dirk Boutkan, "Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary"]
    Continental guilds of merchants, incorporated in each town or city and holding exclusive rights of doing business there, arrived after the Conquest. In many cases they became the governing body of a town (compare Guildhall, which came to be the London city hall). Trade guilds arose 14c., as craftsmen united to protect their common interest.

    also from early 13c.

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    yield (v.)
    Old English gieldan (West Saxon), geldan (Anglian) "to pay, pay for; reward, render; worship, serve, sacrifice to" (class III strong verb; past tense geald, past participle golden), from Proto-Germanic *geldan "pay" (source also of Old Saxon geldan "to be worth," Old Norse gjaldo "to repay, return," Middle Dutch ghelden, Dutch gelden "to cost, be worth, concern," Old High German geltan, German gelten "to be worth," Gothic fra-gildan "to repay, requite"). This is from PIE *gheldh- "to pay," a root found only in Balto-Slavic and Germanic (and Old Church Slavonic žledo, Lithuanian geliuoti might be Germanic loan-words).

    "[T]he only generally surviving senses on the Continent are 'to be worth; to be valid, to concern, apply to,' which are not represented at all in the English word" [OED]; sense development in English comes via use of this word to translate Latin reddere, French rendre. Sense of "give in return for labor or capital invested" is from early 14c. Intransitive sense of "give oneself up, submit, surrender (to a foe)" is from c. 1300. Related to Middle Low German and Middle Dutch gelt, Dutch geld, German Geld "money." Related: Yielded; yielding.

    I'm going to say these "guilds" require something more than money!
    That's just an opinion mind you, but an educated opinion!

    https://rumble.com/v30knqm-live-hollywood-completely-shut-down-worker-power-surges.html
    I was looking around on Rumble just now and saw this..... I really don't care about #Hollywood UNLESS it's on fire..... BUT It made me think of my younger "Dungeons and Dragons" days..... The ONLY "Guild" I've ever heard of was the "Thieves Guild" of D&D So I decided to look up the etymology of the word guild (n.) also gild, early 13c., yilde (spelling later influenced by Old Norse gildi "guild, brotherhood"), a semantic fusion of Old English gegield "guild, brotherhood," and gield "service, offering; payment, tribute; compensation," from Proto-Germanic *geldja- "payment, contribution" (source also of Old Frisian geld "money," Old Saxon geld "payment, sacrifice, reward," Old High German gelt "payment, tribute;" see yield (v.)). The connecting sense is of a contribution or payment to join a protective or trade society. But some look to the alternative prehistoric sense of "sacrifice," as if in worship, and see the word as meaning a combination for religious purposes, either Christian or pagan. The Anglo-Saxon guilds had a strong religious component; they were burial societies that paid for Masses for the souls of deceased members as well as paying fines in cases of justified crime. The earliest reference was to sacred banquets (Tacit: Germania 21-2) for which a contribution had to be paid, and which furthermore accounts for the meaning 'fraternity' of the formation *geldja-. In medieval times the economically oriented fraternities, the guilds, adopted this word, but it could still be used in reference to religious fraternities .... The contribution to the banquets, *gelda-, acquired a legal meaning 'recompense', but also the meaning 'money, currency' in general. [Dirk Boutkan, "Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary"] Continental guilds of merchants, incorporated in each town or city and holding exclusive rights of doing business there, arrived after the Conquest. In many cases they became the governing body of a town (compare Guildhall, which came to be the London city hall). Trade guilds arose 14c., as craftsmen united to protect their common interest. also from early 13c. Entries linking to guild yield (v.) Old English gieldan (West Saxon), geldan (Anglian) "to pay, pay for; reward, render; worship, serve, sacrifice to" (class III strong verb; past tense geald, past participle golden), from Proto-Germanic *geldan "pay" (source also of Old Saxon geldan "to be worth," Old Norse gjaldo "to repay, return," Middle Dutch ghelden, Dutch gelden "to cost, be worth, concern," Old High German geltan, German gelten "to be worth," Gothic fra-gildan "to repay, requite"). This is from PIE *gheldh- "to pay," a root found only in Balto-Slavic and Germanic (and Old Church Slavonic žledo, Lithuanian geliuoti might be Germanic loan-words). "[T]he only generally surviving senses on the Continent are 'to be worth; to be valid, to concern, apply to,' which are not represented at all in the English word" [OED]; sense development in English comes via use of this word to translate Latin reddere, French rendre. Sense of "give in return for labor or capital invested" is from early 14c. Intransitive sense of "give oneself up, submit, surrender (to a foe)" is from c. 1300. Related to Middle Low German and Middle Dutch gelt, Dutch geld, German Geld "money." Related: Yielded; yielding. I'm going to say these "guilds" require something more than money! That's just an opinion mind you, but an educated opinion! https://rumble.com/v30knqm-live-hollywood-completely-shut-down-worker-power-surges.html
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  • Shrivallabh Deshpande - Tracing Earth's past in prehistoric rock deposits:

    https://phys.org/news/2023-04-earth-prehistoric-deposits.html

    #Dolomite #DolomiticMud #Vempalle #CarbonDioxide #Prehistoric #LifeOnEarth #Palaeoproterozoic #ClumpedIsotopeThermometry #Thermometry #Seawater #LightWater #Photosynthesis #PhotosyntheticAlgae #Algae #Rocks #Geology
    Shrivallabh Deshpande - Tracing Earth's past in prehistoric rock deposits: https://phys.org/news/2023-04-earth-prehistoric-deposits.html #Dolomite #DolomiticMud #Vempalle #CarbonDioxide #Prehistoric #LifeOnEarth #Palaeoproterozoic #ClumpedIsotopeThermometry #Thermometry #Seawater #LightWater #Photosynthesis #PhotosyntheticAlgae #Algae #Rocks #Geology
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    Tracing Earth's past in prehistoric rock deposits
    What did the Earth look like about 2 billion years ago, when the planet's atmosphere was being oxygenated?
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  • What Could Go Wrong? CIA-Funded Company Will ‘De-Extinct’ Prehistoric Animals To Offset Carbon Emissions In ‘Real Life Jurassic Park’ Scheme

    https://www.infowars.com/posts/what-could-go-wrong-cia-funded-company-will-de-extinct-prehistoric-animals-to-offset-carbon-emissions-in-real-life-jurassic-park-scheme/
    What Could Go Wrong? CIA-Funded Company Will ‘De-Extinct’ Prehistoric Animals To Offset Carbon Emissions In ‘Real Life Jurassic Park’ Scheme https://www.infowars.com/posts/what-could-go-wrong-cia-funded-company-will-de-extinct-prehistoric-animals-to-offset-carbon-emissions-in-real-life-jurassic-park-scheme/
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  • 1000-Mile Long Prehistoric Ruins Found 🏛
    https://youtu.be/3N3i0b7EpuU
    1000-Mile Long Prehistoric Ruins Found❔ 🏛 🦕 https://youtu.be/3N3i0b7EpuU
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