The following items were printed in the August, 2002 issue of The Prophetic Expositor:
Please write for further details of any items of particular interest.

The Globe & Mail June 29 2002:
1. A matter of faith - Nation Building - One such nation builder was Nellie McClung - by Lorna Dueck (Christian broadcaster).
Quoting I Cor. 13:13, a 4 column illustrated article points out that Nellie McClung, motivated by biblical commands of equality, argued that Canadian women deserved to be declared legal 'persons.' The article draws attention along the way to the part that the Bible has played in Canada's past. (Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley entered politics, helped write The British North America Act, chose "Dominion" from reading Psalm 72:8. The Bible was read into the minutes of our founding conference. Each Prime Minister lays hand on the Bible when being sworn in to Office. Such institutions as The Sick Children's Hospital and McMaster University sprang from the same source. The Salvation Army supported a related immigration programme. Other similar Christian influences are noted.)

2. Margaret Macmillan, (a great-grand daughter of David Lloyd George, the British Prime Minister who headed the British delegation), has authored Peacemakers, a book on the 1919 Paris Peace Conference - by Sandra Martin. (Weekly Telegraph carried a parallel account #571, July 3-9, 2002)

The Weekly Telegraph No. 570, June 26-July 2, 2002 - 4 items:
1. Crowned Heads of Europe gather for portrait - headed a coloured photograph of the assembled Royals who joined The Queen for a jubilee Order of Garter Ceremony.
2. Euro police set to patrol in Britain: A front-page heading tells the story.
3. 'Zero hour' calls were heard on eve of attacks: A US SPY agency intercepted messages sent by al-Qa'eda on September 10th.
4. Seal saves drowning dog in river: An injured alsatian, swept away by the tide was pushed to the safety of a river bank mud flat by a seal. Interesting, as animals are not usually thought to save members of other species.

Saudi Aramco World May/June 2002 carried an article on Islamic Hajj including the interesting note that the 40,000 Teflon-coated glass-fiber tents holding up to 40 people in each tent (1.8 million pilgrims) are cooled by the ancient method of a fan driving air through wet screens, and evaporating water.

The Globe & Mail, July 1, 2002
1. Historic notes on the first 'Union Day' (Dominion Day).
2. Egoyan film moves Moscow audience. Criticized by Turkey as propaganda, new movie brings Armenians to tears. Film depicts how the Armenian genocide of 1915 affects the lives of descendants in Canada today.
3. Former Afghan queen laid to rest in Kabul. Former Queen Homaira (84) who died in Rome, is laid to rest in a hilltop mausoleum in Kabul.
4. U.S. vetoes Bosnia mission to protest new world court. Heading tells it all.

The Globe & Mail, July 2, 2002:
1. U.S. accused of bombing Afghan wedding in error - front page headline. Six occasions of American blunders in Afghanistan killings reviewed.
2. Herbal Medicine Cabinet. (also Time Magazine July 15, 2002 - Cover article: Should you be a Vegetarian?) The topic examined.

The Weekly Telegraph No. 571, July 3-9, 2002:
1. Keep God in Pledge of Allegiance, says Bush - reflecting political reality.
2. Gibraltar talks run into the rocks. The story continues.
3. Albanian 'king' goes home, with grenades. LEKA I, pretender to the Albanian throne, was greeted by thousands of flower-throwing supporters in Tirana when he returned after 63 years.
4. Hippy peace and love reclaim Glastonbury - A colour-illustrated account of this year's festival.

5. How to feed a medieval king - first splatte your pyke and scle hym clene - By Sarah Womack Social Affairs Correspondent
- CHOPPED sparrow and roasted swan may not be today's idea of sophisticated or even acceptable cuisine, but there was a time when such dishes delighted the palates of English aristocracy. The recipes appear in what is thought to be the earliest printed cook book in English, newly discovered at Longleat House, Wiltshire, home to the Marquess of Bath.
Dating from 1500, the book features meals based on almost "any animal that could draw breath". It offers an invaluable insight into the life of England's wealthiest and most influential people, including kings and archbishops. A British Library spokesman described the book, entitled A Noble Book of Royal Feasts, as an extraordinary find. It is divided into three parts: a history of important feasts, including that served at Henry V's coronation in 1413, a calendar of seasonal food variations, and a list of ingredients. Historians said it was designed for the aspiring merchant and gentry classes, enabling them to discover what was being eaten at the king's court and replicate it. In the margin, scribbled Latin notes indicate that the recipes were used.
Kate Harris, librarian and archivist at Longleat, said: "One feast listed was that served for George Nevill, who became Archbishop of York in 1465. It is a huge list of birds, including curlews, gannets, gulls, dotterels, larks, red-shanks, peacocks, partridges, woodcocks, knots and sparrows.
"Henry V's coronation feast is also recorded and it included cygnets, trout, fried roach, perch, carp and lamprey. During the meal the King would have had swan, but everybody else would have eaten conger eel." The 80-page book was printed by Richard Pynson, a Norman based in London, whose first known book was produced in 1492. Later, he specialised in law and became the King's printer. Ms Harris said: "The book came to Longleat when Elizabeth, the daughter of Margaret Harley - later the first duchess of Portland - married the first Marquess of Bath in 1759. It was rebound in the early 19th century by Thomas Whitacker and has been here ever since but recent archiving has brought it to light." Its full title is A noble bok of festes ryalle and cokery, A bok for a Prynces householde. Unlike a modern recipe book, there are no details about cooking times or amounts to be used. "The cooks would have been highly skilled and moved the food to and from the fire's heat to ensure it cooked correctly," Ms Harris said. "Like good chefs today they would have judged when something was ready by eye and smell.
"Although most things listed are meats, there are one or two dairy dishes, including 'Led-lards', which were a coloured egg and milk mix. "Meats would have been flavoured with spices including ginger, cinnamon and cloves. The animals would have been presented whole." Copies of the book are being made for academics and visitors to Longleat House. While handwritten recipe books from the medieval period are in existence, this is the earliest known copy of a printed cook book in English, said a spokesman for the British Library.

6.Welsh were the 'true' Britons, finds study:
- SCIENTISTS say they have discovered big genetic differences between the English and Welsh, reinforcing the idea that the "true" Britons were pushed to the fringes by an Anglo-Saxon invasion. Researchers at University College London found the genes of a sample of English men were almost identical to those of people in an area of the Netherlands where the Anglo-Saxons are thought to have originated. But there were clear differences between the genetic make-up of English and Welsh subjects studied. The researchers said the most likely explanation for this was a large-scale Anglo-Saxon invasion, which wiped out most of the indigenous population in England but did not reach Wales. The team studied the Y-chromosome, which is usually inherited unchanged from father to son. It seems there was a "genetic barrier" along Offa's dyke, the 150-mile-long early medieval border between England and Wales. Dr. Mark Thomas, of UCL's Centre for Genetic Anthropology, said: "It appears that England is made up of an ethnic cleansing event from people coming across from the Continent after the Romans left."

The Weekly Telegraph No. 572, July 10-16, 2002:
1. Found: bloody purse Nelson took into battle (A long article, illustrated in colour, examines the subject, discovered during an insurance valuation.)
2.Somme centre to honour million who died - by David Graves in Thiepval -
EIGHTY-SIX years after the start of the battle of the Somme (July 1, 1916), the most calamitous day in British military history, preparations are well advanced for a visitor centre at the heart of the battlefield... Almost one million British, Commonwealth, French and German soldiers were killed or wounded in the five months of the first Battle of the Somme. On the first day 19,240 British and Commonwealth soldiers died with 38,230 wounded or missing.
3. US to invade Iraq with 250,000 troops - Britain to send 30,000 to help oust Saddam. [Summary: Plans underway..]
4. What's Hitler got to do with the euro? Everything - by Boris Johnson - [Summary: The article draws parallels between Hitler's Europe and the planned European organization.]

Jane's Intelligence Digest, 5 July, 2002:
Sharon trial bid fails - Human rights setback? - Brussels ends investigation:
- [Summary: The heading tells the central core of the account.]

The Globe & Mail, July 3, 2002: 3 items:
1. Heading: Parents in midst of spanking case seek stay of monitoring hearing, by Oliver Moore, St. Thomas, Ont.
- A lawyer for the parents of a family embroiled in a landmark corporal-punishment case called yesterday for a stay in the proceedings, saying that child-protection officials acted unlawfully and unconstitutionally when they seized the couple's seven children. The children, who resisted being seized, were dragged from their Southwestern Ontario home last summer. They were put in foster care for 22 days because of the family's controversial position on physical forms of punishment. They are back at home, but Family & Children's Services of St. Thomas and Elgin county is seeking authority to monitor them for 12 months. Before ruling on that, though, Ontario Court Judge Eleanor Schnall must decide on the admissibility of evidence gathered during and after the FCS raid. "This is not an academic discussion; the events at issue happened to a real family," the parents' lawyer, Valerie Wise, argued yesterday. There was no lawful authority, no free and voluntary consent," she added. "The evidence is all the more alarming because FCS continues to stand behind every decision taken that day." The case will resume July 18.

2. Archbishop of Canterbury blasts B.C. same-sex furor - Carey rebukes B.C. Bishop By Michael Valpy Religion and Ethics reporter
-The Archbishop of Canterbury, titular head of the world's 70 million Anglicans, has blamed Vancouver's bishop and the governing body of his diocese for the raucous global squabbling that has broken out in the church over the blessing of homosexual unions. [The article continues, amplifying details of the controversy.]

3.Glastonbury Festival comes to peaceful end - Pilton, England. [Summary: Some 100,000 people paid $150 (U.S.) to attend this year's three-day event.]

The Globe & Mail, July 8, 2002:
Obituary - Stanley Robert Rader. - Church treasurer was investigated.
Pasadena, Calif. Stanley Robert Rader, former general counsel and treasurer of the Worldwide Church of God and an advisor to the church's founder during an investigation of church finances, died of cancer on July 2. He was 71. Mr. Rader was an adviser to founder Herbert W. Armstrong ... during the time the leader ousted his son, television evangelist Garner Ted Armstrong, after they had a falling out in 1978.

The Globe & Mail, July 10, 2002:
Church of England to let divorced people remarry By Michael Valpy Religion and Ethics reporter - The governing body of the Church of England voted yesterday to let divorced persons remarry in the Anglican church, making it easier for Prince Charles to wed his lover, Camilla Parker Bowles... .

The Globe & Mail, July 11, 2002:
1. Egypt reclaims pharaoh of Niagara Falls - Mummy returning to Egypt by Dawn Walton
[Summary: A mummy which lay for years in a museum in Niagara Falls, Ontario, has now been identified as that of Ramses I, who ruled for two years, having taken the throne in 1293 BC. Tomb-robbers had taken it, and it later came to the museum in 1861.]

2.Let's give credit to the Scots - by Ian Hunter - [Summary: - Ian Hunter reports on a book, How the Scots Invented the Modern World by American historian Arthur Herman. That author renders a fascinating account of how, in the late 17th century, a real enlightenment (as opposed to the romantic French version) took root in an impoverished little country facing the harsh North Atlantic. John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our idea of democracy. Knox believed that political power was ordained by God but vested in the people. Scottish intellectuals debated those ideas that gave rise to the American Revolution; the ideals were put into words in the U.S. Constitution. Over the succeeding decades, thousands of Scots imbued with those ideals emigrated to settle the American frontier and the Australian outback, to establish Nova Scotia, and later to administer the far-flung outposts of the British Empire. ...
The crux of the Scottish enlightenment was the belief in the right of everyone to read the Bible for himself. To read required literacy. ... public education. (The whole article is well worth reading, and but for the lack of space, we would have presented it.)]

The Globe & Mail, July 15, 2002: Obituary - Yousuf Karsh 1908-2002 (also Weekly Telegraph #574, July 24-30, 2002)
An excellent and thoughtful portrait photographer whose photos of the famous sought with insight to draw out their character. Born in Turkey, he left to escape persecution for his Armenian heritage.

The Weekly Telegraph, No. 573, July 17-23, 2002 -
1. Expats fight French over 1488 'war grave' - A new battle is being fought to preserve a memorial to English bowmen who died fighting for Breton's freedom, reports Stewart Payne.
[Summary: The Battle of St. Aubin du Cormier in 1488 was the last and most bloody battle to retain Breton independence from France. On a July afternoon the 15,000-strong Breton army was overpowered and slaughtered by the French. The dead were buried where they fell, including the English archers - mercenaries recruited in the Isle of Wight. ... Now a collective of French councils wants to build a rubbish tip to bury thousands of tons of household and industrial waste on a 250-acre site on the former battleground.]

2. As recommended by Julius Caesar:
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered one of the earliest examples of the marketing man's craft ever unearthed in Britain, writes David Derbyshire. A hand-written clay label was attached to a jar of first-century "tunny fish" relish, shipped from Spain to a fort on the northernmost edge of the empire. The words "excellent" and "top quality" are still clearly visible, written in sooty ink. The label was revealed at the start of a new exhibition in Carlisle, along with thousands of other local discoveries.

3. Metric appeal:
- FIVE traders - the "metric martyrs" - took their battle to trade in pounds and ounces to the Lords this week. They are challenging a High Court ruling that European Union law "ranks supreme" in Britain.

4. Museum stumbles on lost ancient treasures - By Nigel Reynolds Arts Correspondent
- Two 4,500-year-old gold head-dresses from ancient Sumer have been found in a store room at the British museum where they had lain unexamined and wrongly labelled for 73 years. Recovered by British archaeologists from a giant burial site at Ur, now in southern Iraq, in the 1920s, they were wrongly described as "crushed skulls" when registered at the museum in 1929. It was only when experts from the Natural History Museum recently asked their British museum counterparts to X-ray the skulls to establish the age of the victims that the head-dresses, with flowers and leaves made of gold and lapis lazuli beads mounted on silver combs, were discovered. "They are stunning, very colourful and delicate, and it is wonderful to imagine how beautiful they must have looked while they were being worn," said Alexandra Irving, a curator in the British Museum's department of Ancient Near East. ... They will be left inside the wax cocoons.
[A parallel report appeared in Science, Vol 297, 19 July, 2002, No. 5580, p. 333.]

The Globe & Mail July 17, 2002 - Obituary - Alice Stewart - The woman who knew too much
- Pioneering scientist's research into the dangers of X-rays and nuclear radiation shook the establishment. Born in Sheffield, England, her studies attracted worldwide attention. She has died at 95.

The Globe & Mail July 18, 2002 - Obituary - Arnold Brown - He led the Salvation Army.
Canadian public-relations visionary's 'For God's Sake Care' campaign raised the group's profile. ... World leader of the Salvation Army from 1977 to 1981.

The Globe & Mail July 19, 2002 - Obituary - Lionel Bernstein
- A white fighter in a black struggle - He was a dedicated revolutionary who played a key role in drafting 1954 ANC freedom charter.

Science, Vol 297, No. 5580, 19 July, 2002:
1. p. 321: Report Urges U.K. to Vaccinate Herds:
A report on Foot-and-Mouth Disease by Britain's top scientific body has urged the British Government to abandon its long-standing practice of relying solely on slaughtering animals to combat future outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). Instead, in a report released 16 July, a Royal society panel has concluded that vaccination and improved data collection should result in better control and fewer dead animals.

2. p. 333: Wasps Like Us:
Birds do it, but no one knew if wasps did it - recognize each other on sight, that is. Now a new study reveals that wasps might not be faceless ciphers to one another after all. [Painting slight variances on some, and painting their own markings on others, the treatment each group received at the nest demonstrated that paper wasps do recognize their own. Distorted patterns alienated the altered group for about two hours until retained chemical cues allowed them to regain their place in the nest.]

The Weekly Telegraph, No. 574, July 24-30, 2002 - Bligh's mutiny survival kit is up for auction.
[A short, colour-illustrated article details the items concerned.]

The Globe & Mail July 26, 2002 - Obituary - William Pierce
- Author of The Turner diaries, and founder of the right wing National Alliance.