We do a brief deep-dive into Book of Mormon archaeology, but probably not a story you’ve heard before. Thomas Stuart Ferguson was hired by BYU and the Mormon church to study Mesoamerica for ties to ancient Book of Mormon cities and artifacts. His findings will SHOCK you! Then we dive into the next installment of The Naked Communist with more background on post WWII history and the rise of fear and loathing of Communism in America. Finally we wrap with a feel-good story about a remote village in Canada supplementing their reliance on fossil fuels with tons of solar power!
Links:
Thomas Stuart Ferguson
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/how-mormon-lawyer-transformed-archaeology-mexico-and-ended-losing-his-faith
https://www.fairmormon.org/answers/Book_of_Mormon/Archaeology/Thomas_Stuart_Ferguson
Hitler’s invasion of Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa
Harry Hopkins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hopkins
George Racey Jordan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Racey_Jordan
Lend-Lease — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease
1936 Communist Constitution of Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Constitution_of_the_Soviet_Union
United Nations Charter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_United_Nations
Yalta Conference AKA Crimea Conference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg
Happy News:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/indigenous-owned-solar-farm-fort-chip-1.5807721
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