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      10 Elvis Presley died at the age of 42.

      11 BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs was created in 1942. There are 42 guests per year.

      12 Toy Story character Buzz Lightyear's spaceship is named 42.

      13 Fox Mulder's apartment in the US TV series The X Files was number 42.

      14 The youngest president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, was 42 when he was elected.

      15 The office of Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt is called Building 42 of the firm's San Francisco complex.

      16 The Bell-X1 rocket plane Glamorous Glennis piloted by Chuck Yeager, first broke the sound barrier at 42,000 feet.

      17 The atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki, Japan, contained the destructive power of 42 million sticks of dynamite.

      18 A single Big Mac contains 42 per cent of the recommended daily intake of salt.

      19 Cricket has 42 laws.

      20 On page 42 of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Jonathan Harker discovers he is a prisoner of the vampire. And on the same page of Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein reveals he is able to create life.

      21 In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence gives Juliet a potion that allows for her to be in a death-like coma for "two and forty hours".

      22 The three best-selling music albums – Michael Jackson's Thriller, AC/DC's Back in Black and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon – last 42 minutes.

      23 The result of the most famous game in English football – the world cup final of 1966 – was 4-2.

      24 The type 42 vacuum tube was one of the most popular audio output amplifiers of the 1930s.

      25 A marathon course is 42km and 195m.

      26 Samuel Johnson compiled the Dictionary of the English Language, regarded as one of the greatest works of scholarship. In a nine-year period, he defined a total of 42,777 words.

      27 42,000 balls were used at Wimbledon last year.

      28 The wonder horse Nijinsky was 42 months old in 1970 when he became the last horse to win the English Triple Crown: The Derby; the 2000 Guineas and the St Leger.

      29 The element molybdenum has the atomic number 42 and is also the 42nd most common element in the universe.

      30 Dodi Fayed was 42 when he was killed alongside Princess Diana.

      31 Cell 42 on Alcatraz Island was once home to Robert Stroud who was transferred to The Rock in 1942. After murdering a guard, he spent 42 years in solitary confinement in different prisons.

      32 In the Book of Revelation, it is prophesied that the beast will hold dominion over the earth for 42 months.

      33 The Moorgate Tube disaster of 1975 killed 42 passengers.

      34 When the growing numbers of Large Hadron Collider scientists acquired more office space recently, they named their new complex Building 42.

      35 Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has 42 illustrations.

      36 42 is the favorite number of Dr House, the American television doctor played by Hugh Laurie.

      37 There are 42 US gallons in a barrel of oil.

      38 In an episode of The Simpsons, police chief Wiggum wakes up to a question aimed at him and replies "42".

      39 Best Western is the world's largest hotel chain with more than 4,200 hotels in 80 countries.

      40 There are 42 principles of Ma'at, the ancient Egyptian goddess – and concept – of physical and moral law, order and truth.

      41 Mungo Jerry's 1970 hit "In the Summertime", written by Ray Dorset, has a tempo of 42 beats per minute.

      42 The band Level 42 chose their name in recognition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and not – as is often repeated – after the world's tallest car park.

      Chapter 7

      Pseudo-science vs. The Real Deal!

      Pseudoarchaeology—also known as alternative archaeology, fringe archaeology, fantastic archaeology, cult archaeology, and spooky archaeology—refers to interpretations of the past from outside the archaeological science community, which reject the accepted data gathering and analytical methods of the discipline. These pseudoscientific interpretations involve the use of artifacts, sites or materials to construct scientifically insubstantial theories to supplement the pseudoarchaeologists' claims. Methods include exaggeration of evidence, dramatic or romanticized conclusions, use of unproven, and fabrication of evidence. According to archaeologist John Hoopes, writing in the magazine of the Society for American Archaeology, "Pseudo archaeology actively promotes myths which are routinely used in the service of white supremacy, racialized nationalism, colonialism, and the dispossession and oppression of indigenous peoples." (His opinion and not the authors)

      There is no unified Pseudo archaeology theory or approach, but rather many different interpretations of the past which are jointly at odds with those developed by the scientific community. These include religious approaches such as Creationism when identified as "creation science" which applies to the archaeology of historic periods such as those which would have included the Tower of Babel, Noah's Ark, and the supposed worldwide flood myth. Some Pseudoarchaeology theories revolve around the idea which prehistoric and ancient human societies were aided in their development by intelligent extraterrestrial life, an idea propagated by many brilliant thinkers and poising the flaming question, “suppose alien life is proven? does Creationism go away quietly?”

      Others instead hold there were human societies in the ancient period which were significantly technologically advanced, such as Atlantis, and this idea has been propagated by figures like Graham Hancock in his book Fingerprints of the Gods (1995). Pseudoarchaeology, has also been manifest in Mayanism.

      Many alternative archaeologies have been adopted by religious groups such as the Jews, the Catholic monks and alternative bible groups creating their own insight into creationism. Fringe archaeological ideas such as arch-cryptography have been embraced by religions ranging from the British Israelites to the Theosophists. Other alternative archaeologies include those which have been adopted by members of New Age and contemporary pagan belief systems.

      Academic archaeologists have heavily criticized Pseudoarchaeology, with one of the most vocal critics, John R. Cole, characterizing it as relying on "sensationalism, misuse of logic and evidence, misunderstanding of scientific method, and internal contradictions in their arguments". The relationship between alternative and academic archaeologies has been compared to the relationship between Intelligent Design theories and Evolutionary Biology by some archaeologists.

      Etymology

      Various terms have been employed to refer to these non-academic interpretations of archaeology. During the 1980s, the term "cult archaeology" was used by figures like John R. Cole (1980) and William H. Stiebing Jr. (1987). "Fantastic archeology" was used in the 1980s as the name of an undergraduate course at Harvard University СКАЧАТЬ