CURRENT PLUTO PERIHELION:

Renaissance or Perish

by Bill Hansen

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Two hundred and twenty-one years earlier marked the beginning of the Habsburg reign when Redolf IV was elected king of Germany. Pluto was perihelion again in 1246, and in 1232 the earliest known use of rockets in warfare is believed to have occurred between the Chinese and Mongols. The Seventh Crusade also took place.
One Pluto perihelion passage earlier takes us to the year 999 and the beginning of the Japanese literary and artistic golden age. In the year 1000, the Viking Biarni Heriulfsson was blown off course and subsequently sighted the coast of North America. Two years later, Leif Ericsson led an expedition down the coast of North America possibly as far as Maryland. The Chinese also perfected gunpowder during this monumental period.

Even ancient Pluto perihelion’s compare with renaissance events. During the 5th Century the Battle of Marathon (490 B.C.) gave Athens her first great military triumph over Persia, resulting in a long period of conflict between these two nations. News of the victory at Marathon, carried more than 26 miles to Athens by a runner who fell dead after delivering the message, has been commemorated in Olympic games ever since. Persian forces under the command of Xerxes won the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C.; the Persian army of nearly 200,000 surrounded a force of only 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians. A month after the massacre at Thermopylae, the Battle of Salamis was fought, effectively turning the tide in favor of the Greeks. In 479 B.C., the Persian invasion of Greece ended with the Battle of Plataea.

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