Timeline for The World That He Gave

This is one of those secrets that authors don't explain and keep their readers guessing.

I have never understood the decision to reverse the dates before Christ. Why not simply use the Jewish Calendar or I use my method viz. count the dates from the invention of writing.

1st Millennium 1 == 3001 BC

Clay used for writing - Samaria

Papyrus -Egypt

2nd Millennium1001 == 2001 BC

3nd Millennium2001 == 1001 BC

4th Millennium3001 == 1 AD

3900 Paper replaces Papyrus (Isn't it amazing that papyrus was used for approx 4000 of the 5000 years of writing history? That deserves a monument or something.)

5th Millennium 4001 == 1001

4050 Crusaders

4350 Renaissance

4480 Discovery of the New World

4600 Modern Age

Kepler,

Newton,

Napoleon,

American Independence and French Revolution

Telegraph, Morse Code (4840)

Radio 4890

4900 World Civilisation = 1900

Fax photos

Media Explosion (4920)

ENIAC contract signed 4943

ENIAC 4946

Signals reach Olympus 4990 (Olympus 100 light years away from Earth - They receive the radio signals 100 years after invention of radio spark transmitters.)

6th Millennium 5001 == 2001

Signals from Olympus reach Earth 4990+100+11=5101

(100 light years + 11 years to invent a radio transmitter)

The reason for change in the calendar is one of the anomalies explained at the end of the Adam's Clay story.

Truth and how not to find it

It's well known fact that if we believe that we will do something, be something; there is a good possibility that it will happen. It has something to do with if you are looking to notice something you will notice it. Like noticing how many there of the same type of car as the new car you are driving.
Well the opposite is just as true. If you have made up your mind that something is NOT true, then you sure NOT to find it.
Like the riddle, What is black and white yet red all over?
Well if you read the riddle the spelling would give it away, so I wrote 'read' as 'red'.
A newspaper is black and white yet read all over. If you stick to the obvious that nothing can be black and white yet red all over, then you will not see the secret of the riddle.
African philosophy has the ability to hold two apparently contradictory concepts in mind without trying to resolve the apparent conflict, because it maintains that this is a common thing and may be easily resolved when additional information comes to hand or the concepts may be seen in a different light.
Keeping the possibility for resolution with an open mind means that the solution will be seen when it comes along. Being closed to it makes us blind to the solution when it appears.
Likewise truth may be hidden to the one who has decided it is not true. Don't make negative decisions on truth in a hurry. We may miss it.

My first publication

Today I had the thrill of holding in my hand a copy of my first published book. I shared the authorship with another and many other people had a big hand in making the book become a reality, but none of that detracted from the feel of it. It was transformed from the countless documents, edits even some rewrites that went into it into a real tangible book. What a thrill.
Read about it in my fellow author's blog.