"The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty." — Helena Blavatsky
3.2 Million years ago, Lucy died. Her remains were found on this day in 1974. Before Lucy, it was widely believed that hominins evolved big brains
first, and then became bipedal later. Lucy, however, was clearly built
for bipedal walking — an extremely rare adaptation for mammals — and yet
her skull only had space for a brain about the size of a chimpanzee's.
Her cranial capacity was less than 500 cubic centimeters, or roughly
one-third as big as that of a modern human.
What finding Lucy proved to the world was that there were more than one early human species living at the same time with the ever-so-crazy Neanderthals party tribes -- I have my sources -- and in a close geographical proximity too. Combined this finding with the more recent finding in 2011 of even another species, the Australopithecus Deyiremeda, and there can be no doubt that this area of the world was a lab of human test done by none other than... well, as Giorgio A. Tsoukalos would say: Ancient Aliens!
On this date (November 24th) the first copies of Charles Darwin's work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was released. The book was a huge success going through some six different editions between 1859 and 1872.
For those who have nothing better to do, you can listen to Darwin's wonderfully, boring-ass book for free, here!
On or around this day each year, the holiday of Thanksgiving is celebrated throughout the United States. The tradition of the Thanksgiving feast began in Plymouth Colony in 1621 with the Pilgrims' celebration of their first year's harvest. In modern times, the festivities generally include parades, footballs games, gluttony, and obsessive shopping... all the spiritual priorities of a nation not thankful for shit.
On 6 September in the year 1620 Julian calendar (16 September in our calendar), the Mayflower set off. Out of its 102 passengers, only about 40 were the pilgrims looking for a new place to worship God in their very special way that had them laughed out of London (like Malvolio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night).
The word "Pilgrim" comes from the Middle English pelegrim and Old French pelegrin, which both derive from the Latin pereginus, "stranger." And strangers they were. Their beliefs were that if a storm sank the Mayflower, God would save them just as He had provided a whale to save Jonah. Fortunately, before the assistance of a UFO spaceship was needed, they spotted land on 9 November (19 November our calendar).
They had arrived at Cape Cod and weren't safe yet from the dangerous shoals and roaring breakers, but on November 21, 1620 (our time used from now on), they entered the harbor at what is now Provincetown on the tip of the Cape.
Now, here's where the whole conquering Brits gets rather murky, for without any negotiating with the Americans -- who, we'll see were already in the new land -- the 102 visitors agreed to get off the ship before their destination of the mouth of Hudson river -- which had been discovered years earlier by Henry Hudson and was part of the New England claims England had shoved down the Native American's throats, and the land grant they all had in their little pink fingers. In true conquering European form, the 102 passengers (40 of which were considered Saints because they said so) didn't even live up to the land grant they had from the New England council and instead landed where they were and the 41 Saints signed what is now known as the Mayflower Contract, which was an agreement to establish a "Civil body Politic (temporary government)" and to be bound by its laws. "They would enact "just and equal laws for the good of the colony." The binding agreement was modeled on a Separatist Church Covenant and became the basis of government in the colony. Conveniently, it also allowed the minority 41 Saints to elect John Carver as their first Governor.
By December 16th, the squatters had spotted a dozen or so native Americans and posted lookouts on them from the woods. Eventually, the real Americans would fire arrows at the pink-fleshed beings who returned with musket fire which ran the Americans off. The Pilgrims then took their corn back to the ship. A year later, after the Pilgrims had negotiated a peace with Chief Massasoit, they would return the stolen corn in what is now considered the first Thanksgiving.
Not quite the story we were taught in school, but close enough. Actually, it would be 10 years later when the shit really hit the fan for the real Americans, for the Puritans were coming, and their form of Christianity -- which would eventually evolved into the KKK and the current Christian church which measures its faith on how much you hate gays -- would consider the Americans to be savages in the way of Jesus' country.
So, while you are eating your corn and turkey today and praying thanks to baby Jesus, consider the real Americans for once... and how you've took their land much as the UFO Aliens might do to us with universal justifications because we are such hypocrites.
With Prohibition now the law of the land, Congress closed a lingering loophole with the Willis-Campbell Act, which strictly limited the amount of liquor that physicians could prescribe for medical purposes. On November 23, 1921, President Warren G. Harding signed the bill--no doubt with a chuckle, as the man ultimately charged with enforcing Prohibition kept the White House cabinets filled with intoxicating "medicine," always at the ready for the enjoyment of the president and his corrupt, poker-playing pals.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the tart-tongued daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, described one evening as a guest in the Harding White House: "The study was filled with cronies...trays with bottles containing every imaginable brand of whiskey stood about, cards and poker chips ready at hand--a general atmosphere of waistcoats unbuttoned, feet on the desk, and spittoons alongside."
A year after signing the restrictive law, the liquor-swilling president stood before Congress and delivered this breathtakingly hypocritical message: "Let men who are rending the moral fiber of the republic through easy contempt for the prohibition law, because they think it restricts their personal liberty, remember that they set the example and breed a contempt for law which will ultimately destroy the republic."
In the hours after the Kennedy assassination, after Lee Harvey Oswald
shot and killed Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit and was identified as
the president’s assassin, a Secret Service officer named Mike Howard was
dispatched to Oswald’s apartment. Howard found a little green address
book, and on its 17th page under the heading “I WILL KILL” Oswald listed
four men: an FBI agent named James Hosty; a right-wing general, Edwin Walker; and Vice
President Richard Nixon. At the top of the list was the governor of
Texas, John Connally. Through Connally’s name, Oswald had drawn a
dagger, with blood drops dripping downward.
Special Agent Howard turned the address book over to the FBI and,
ultimately, to the Warren Commission. Only some time later did he learn
that the list with its hugely important insight into the killer’s motive
had been torn out of the book.
I
didn’t hear about Howard until after I published my book “The
Accidental Victim” three years ago on the 50th anniversary of the
assassination. In it I argue a circumstantial case that it was Connally,
not John F. Kennedy, who was Oswald’s target in Dallas. It is the story
of a smoldering grudge in which Oswald came to associate Connally with
all the setbacks in his disastrous, hopeless life.
By early 1962, Oswald was disenchanted with
Soviet life and wanted to return home. He was now saddled with a wife,
Marina, and a child, and he knew that someone with a ninth-grade
education, who had spent time in Russia and had an undesirable discharge
on his record, would have few prospects in America.
Oswald
wrote a heartfelt plea to Connally, a fellow Texan and the head of the
Navy Department, the civilian overseer of the Marines. In poignant terms
Oswald asked Connally to redress what was a transparent miscarriage of
justice. What he got back a month later, in February 1962, was a classic
bureaucratic brushoff. The dismissive letter arrived in an envelope
with Connally’s smiling face on the front, bursting from a Texas star
and announcing his bid for the Texas governorship.
In the
months after Oswald’s return to America, his worst fears were realized.
He did, indeed, have serious trouble finding and holding jobs in Texas.
According to the testimony of Russian emigres in Dallas who knew him
during this period, every time his discharge came up in a job interview,
Oswald froze, and his blame of Connally deepened.
Oswald's Green Book
In her
testimony to the Warren Commission, Oswald’s wife, Marina, definitively
named Connally and not Kennedy as her husband’s target. She repeated
this belief in testimony to the U.S. House Select Committee on
Assassinations in 1978. Dallas emigres also testified to Oswald’s
obsession with Connally. Moreover, there was ample testimony that Oswald
bore no animus toward Kennedy. Indeed, he admired JFK’s important
initiatives like the president’s efforts at detente with Russia.
Why was this evidence on motive
ignored and buried in the official investigations? More pointedly, why
is Oswald’s little green book – which I’ve examined in the National
Archives – missing that pivotal page? For many years, in a community
college class he teaches, retired Special Agent Howard has put forward
his view of the assassination: Connally, not Kennedy, was Oswald’s
target.
President Kennedy wasn't the only victim in the Dallas motorcade on
22 Nov 1963. Governor Connally, riding in the "jump seat" ahead of
Kennedy, was also shot. His wounds included an entry wound in the back
near the right shoulder, a broken rib, an exit wound in the chest, a
shattered wrist caused by a bullet entering from the dorsal (back) side,
and a fragment lodged in his thigh.
The Warren Commission, by necessity if there was to be a single
shooter, said that all of these wounds were caused by a single bullet.
Furthermore, this bullet was said to be the same one which had passed
first through JFK. The bullet said to cause all 7 wounds in two men is
Commission Exhibit 399, found on a stretcher in Parkland Hospital in
virtually pristine condition, with apparently no blood or tissue on it.
CE 399 is flattened somewhat, and rifling marks show it clearly had been
fired from the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle at some point. But was it fired
earlier and then planted?
Defenders of the single bullet theory note that a large entrance
wound in Connally's back is evidence of a "tumbling bullet," which could
occur if the bullet first passed through JFK. But critics point out
that the notion of a large entrance wound is incorrect, and is based on
the enlarged debrided wound after surgery. Connally's surgeon Dr. Robert
Shaw measured the long axis of the original elliptical entrance wound
at a much smaller 1.5 centimeters. As Milicent Cranor has pointed out,
this is virtually identical in size and shape to Kennedy's skull
entrance wound as measured at autopsy, and "No one has suggested Kennedy
was hit in the head with a tumbling bullet."
Among the many problems with the single bullet theory and Connally's
wounds in particular, there is also the issue of whether the metal
fragments taken from Connally's wrist and left in his leg could possibly
have come from the nearly intact bullet CE 399. JFK autopsy surgeon
Commander Humes told the Commission "I can't conceive of where they came
from this missile." There is also some doubt about whether the
fragments now in evidence (CE 842) comprise all that was removed from
Governor Connally's wrist.
In Norse tradition, today is the festival of Ydalir, the Valley of the Yews, and falls under the rule of Ullr, whose names means "Brilliant one." Ullr is the god of legal disputes, sacred oaths, hunting, skiing, and winter. Stepson of the god Thor and son of the Earth mother Sif and an unknown father, Ullr is thought to have giant blood.
Nov 17, 2017
On this date in 1968, US sports fans were tuned to the one of the most exciting games of the season -- an epic clash between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders, during which the two teams had traded the lead eight times. Wit little more than a minute left to play, the Jets kicked a 26-yard field goal that gave them a 32-29 lead. What happened next was one of the most astonishing climaxes in football history: Oakland managed to score twice in nine seconds to win the game 43-32. But no one saw it! Instead, at precisely 7 p.m. (EST) Heidi began her wholesome romp through the Alps in NBC's remake of Johanna Spyri's classic children's story.
In 1941, Joseph C. Grew, ambassador to Japan, cables the U.S. State Department that he heard that Japan had "planned to attack Pearl Harbor." -- to which the U.S. Government said: "Keep your mouth shut, we know -- (paraphrase)."
This is the feast day of Roman Catholic Saint Hilda, the daughter of a king of Northumbria. At the age of thirty-three, Hilda entered the Chelles Monastery in France. Later, she returned to Northumbria to become abbess of Hartlepool. In time, Hilda was named head of the double monastery of Streaneschalch, at Whitby. Saint Hilda is regarded as one of England's greatest women.
A woman who saved thousands of infants' lives in the city of New York was born on this day in 1873. Public health worker and doctor Sara Josephine Baker dared to go into the homes of tenement dwellers in the city's Lower East Side to bring health education to the people who needed it most. She taught immigrant and poor mothers proper hygiene and sanitation methods, provided prenatal care and nutrition, and even introduced the concept of baby clothes with front openings to reduce the potential for suffocation, which was a leading cause of infant mortality. With her work, New York City's infant mortality rate became the nation's lowest, dropping from 144 out of 1,000 cases per yer in 1908 to 66 out of 1,000 per year by 1923.
On this day in 2002, Myra Hindley died of a heart attach at the age of 60. Hindley is attributed with committing the most painful crimes of the 20th century. On 6 May, 1966, Hindley and her lover, Ian Brady, wee both jailed for life for the murders of Lesley Ann Downey, aged ten and seventeen-year-old Edward Evans. Brady was also found guilty of murdering John Kilbride, aged twelve - a crime in which Hindley was convicted of being an accessory. They became known as the infamous Moors Murders, after the bodies of the victims were discovered in shallow graves on Saddleworth Moor near Oldham.
The public was shocked, not only at the age of those killed, but also at the age of the murders themselves. Hindley was just 21 at the time of John Kilbride's death. The betrayal of innocence that these crimes represented caused the media to cast Hindley and Brady as incarnations of pure evil, and Hindley especially was entrenched as a hate-figure with British society when in 1995 a portrait of her, constructed from the imprints of children's hands was displayed at the 'Sensation' exhibition in London.
In Japan, Shichi-go-San, a centuries-old Shinto festival, is performed annually on this date. Also known as the Seven-Five-Three, it is a huge birthday celebration for children who have reched these ages. Parents take their youngsters to local shrines for the blessings of the gods and goddesses and candy decorated with symbols of good fortune.
It was the last thing Kaiser Wilhelm II needed after a gay sex scandal had already embroiled not only the highest echelons of imperial Germany but also the sovereign himself. On Novermber 14, 1908, Dietrich Graf von Julsen-Haeseler, chief of the German Imperial Military Cabinet, dropped dead at a private party for the kaiser while performing a balleric pas seul, or solo dance -- in a tutu.
Homosexuality had long been an unmentionable subject in Germany, one that the press avoided assiduously--until 1906, that is, when a journalist by the name of Maximilian Harden launched a campaign to expose the sexual proclivities of the kaiser's inner circle. And much of his scoop was provided by none other than Otto von Bismarck, the "Iron Chancellor," who, like Harden, had vigorously opposed Wilhelm II's policies and was dismissed by the kaiser as a result. In a letter to his son, Bismarck wrote of the relationship the kaiser enjoyed with his devoted friend Philip Frederick Alexander, Prince of Eulenburg and Hertefeld--the details of which could "not be confided to paper."
Harden was wise enough to know that any compromising insinuations about the monarch's personal life with Eulenburg would be foolhardy, so he oped to discredit Wilhelm by disclosing instead the homosexual relationship between Eulenburg and the kaiser's adjunct, Count Kuno von Moltke-- or "Sweetie," as Harden referred to him--the military commander of Berlin. In so doing, historian Alexandria Richie wrote, Harden "broke on of the most sacred taboos in imperial Germany."
Kaiser Wilhelm sought to insulate himself from the emerging scandal by distancing himself from his loyal friend Eulenburg and dismissing Moltke. But neigher man was prepared to slink away with his reputation so thoroughly shredded. What resulted was a flurry of libel suits, filled with salacious details, that sent the press into an unprecedented feeding frenzy.
"German newspapers were full of the story," wrote historian James Steakley, "and it dominated their headlines for months; an anti-homosexual witch-hunt of unparalleled proportions was unleashed. Nealy every high government official and military officer was suspected or accused of homosexuality." A number committed suicide in the face of such shame; Wilhelm II suffered a nervous breakdown.
"It has been a very difficult year which has caused me an infinite amount of worry," the kaiser wrote in December 1907. "A trusted group fo friends was suddenly broken up through ... insolence, slander and lying. To see the names of one's friends dragged through the gutters of Europe without being able or entitled to help is terrible."
The, just as the scandal seemed to be simmering down, Dietrich Graf von Hulsen-Haeseler performed his fatal piouette. Worse, rigor mortis set in before he could easily be extricated from his tutu.
On this day in 1940, 500 German bombers pound the English city of Coventry. The raids killed over 1,000 civilians and destroyed most of the medieval cathedral. This raid followed Adolf Hitler's public promise that an attack on the capital of the Nazi movement would not go unpunished. Historians surmise that Prime Minister Winston Churchill had advance knowledge of the raids and chose not to inform city officials. This seemingly barbaric decision was an act of tactical genius. Had Churchill informed officials, partial evacuation of the city would have been ordered. German pilots would have noticed and reported back to Hitler. This would surely have revealed Ultra, Great Britains' top-secret system for decoding German communications.
On this day in 1945, Tony Hulman buys the dilapidated, disused Indianapolis Motor Speedway from Edward Rickenbacher. Renovations allowed the post-war resumption of the famous 500-mile races.
In ancient times, the Feast of the Musicians, a Druidic festival dedicated to barbs and musicians, took place on this date. It's celebrated today by some neo-pagans with offerings to the Celtic gods of music. It is customary to gather around a bonfire for an evening of songs and storytelling, ending with everyone tossing a wish into the flames.
Brazilian physician Drauzio Varella calculated that the world invests
five times as much in male sex stimulants and female silicone implants
as in finding a cure for Alzheimer's.
"In a few
years," he prophesied, "we will have old women with huge tits and old
men with stiff cocks, but none of them will remember what they are for." Galeano, Eduardo "Children of the Days" pg 344
In olden times, the pagan festival of Nincnevin, or Old November Eve (later Martinmas Eve), was celebrated throughout the Scottish countryside on this date. It honored an aspect of the goddess Diana with feasts and prayers. It was thought that the goddess made herself visible to mortals and rode through the air during the night hours.
Nov 9, 2017
Scientific journals are not usually known for their general interest reporting ("Reproductive Sequences of the Sumatran Sand Flea"...Anyone?) But Deinsea, the journal of the Rotterdam Natural History Museum, took esoteric to a whole new (and, some migh say, disturbing) level on November 9, 2001, when it subjected readers to the published article "The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae))."
C. W. Meliker, a scientist at the museum, related in the piece how six years earlier he had witnessed a dead male mallard duck -- referred to clinically throughout as "NMR 9997-00232" -- being repeatedly raped by another male mallard, "with great force." The unfortunate NMR 9997-00232 had apparently crashed into one of the museum's reflective windows and dropped dead as a result. Within moments, his companion swooped on top of the corpse and did his business.
"Rather startled." Moeliker wrote, "I watched this scene from close quarters behind the windon until 19.10h during which time (75 minutes!) I made some photographs and the mallard almost continuously copulated his dead congener. He dismounted only twice, stayed near the ded duck and picked the neck and the side of the head before mounting again. The first break (at 18.29 h) lasted three minutes and the second break (at 18.45) lasted less than a minute."
November 9th is scared to Helena, deified wife of the Roman Emperor Julian II, know as "The Apostate" to Christians and "The Blessed" to pagans. Today's Feast of the Four Crowned Martyrs is held in great regard by Freemansons. In Thailand, this day is Loy Krathog, a wish-magic festival when people launch their little boats along with a wish.
In the year 1519 messengers reported to the Aztec king Moctezuma that several strange beings were on their way to Tenochtitlan. They split thunder and had metal breasts, hairy faces and six-legged bodies.
Four days later the monarch welcomed them.
Quetzalcoatl had departed in ancient times, and Moctezuma believed that Hernan Cortes was the god returning. He said to him, "You have come home."
Well, turns out Cortes wasn't one of the returning Space Aliens who had created Moctezuma's people, but was indeed just a greedy, conquering, Spaniard, who would take all of their gold and eventually burn all their books in the name of Christianity.
And for this, Moctezuma would be stoned to death by his people.
On this day in 1979, the 444-day Iran hostage crisis began when Shiite Muslim militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran. The Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of all women and Afican-Amercan captives as well as the release of thirteen other hostages within a few weeks. But for the fity-two remaining hostages, this was the beginning of the 444-day ordeal.
Just how powerful was this revolution? Well, the emergence of Hezbollah in Lebanon came from this, the moral boost provided to Shia forces in Iraq,
the regional cold war against Saudi Arabia and Israel, lending an
Islamic flavor to the anti-imperialist, anti-American sentiment in the Middle East,
and inadvertently widening the Sunni-Shia cleavage, are for me the most
important by-products of the Iranian revolution," said Mehrzad
Boroujerdi, professor of political science at Syracuse University, when
asked for the top five geopolitical events set off by the Iranian
revolution.
And to think, before this revolution Tehran was considered the Paris of the Middle East, now, just another radicalized Islamic state.
Every year in medieval England, a festival was held on this date (the Eve of Guy Fawkes Night) to propitiate the spirit of the Lord of Death. Remnants of this observance can still be seen in the mischievous pranks and bonfires associated with Mischief Night, which is still being celebrated in some parts of modern-day England.
New York City went bankrupt on this day in 1975. The city defaulted on $2 billion in bond obligations. Fortunately, the federal government loaned the city the funds to pay its commitments and reorganize its financial affairs. A $2 billion loan without collateral would never happen. What kind of deal with the devil did the city make to retain its dignity? Is it any wonder a inside job like 9-11 would eventually happen there? A wicked lie that would take years to devise.
Now here's an example of corporate greed that probably shortened the life to most of our city dwelling great-grandparents: Thomas Midgley was the engineer who on this day in 1924 mislead the world in believing his lead additive to gasoline to stop engines from knocking, was completely safe to breath. At the time it was a well known fact that lead refinery workers were dying from the neurotoxins they were working with. This fact simply didn't mean shit to Midgley, and instead of bypassing his fortunes in royalties from the sale of this additive to Standard Oil, Midgley divised a perfect scheme to sell his product to the public: Standing before a group of reporters at Standard Oil's headquarters in New York City, the scientist proceeded to pour a clear, thick liquid infused with lead over his arms. The, after drying himself, he inhaled deeply from a jar of the same liquid for a minute -- proof, he declared, that there was no danger associated with limited exposure to diluted lead, and that the dead and dying refinery workers had obviously not followed basic safety precautions.
What Midgley neglected to mention was that just a year earlier, he had become gravely ill himself from lead poisoning and had to take six weeks off work as a result. And a few months after the press conference, Midgley was sick again with lead poisoning. But the irrepressible scientist returned better than ever, with a brand-new chemical refrigerant he had discovered: chlorofluorcarbons, those pesky little ozone chewers better known as CFC's.
If you believe in Chemtrails, and why wouldn't you, then today is a very historic date in this covert New World Order activity because on October 29th, 1947, The General Electric Company successfully seeded clouds with dry ice, producing rain in Concord, New Hampshire. Do you really believe it ended there? COME ON PEOPLE WAKE UP!
Also on this date in 1998 Astronaut John Glenn joined the space shuttle Discovery crew, participating in a scientific study of the aging process... now that probably did stop there.
Other interest of October 29th, is that in 1929 it was considered Black Tuesday after the second day of massive losses in the USA stock markets which is only of interest because ten months earlier -- while the 1920's were still roaring -- The Washington Post polled a group of financial leaders and asked them for their predictions for the year ahead. Their opinions were so glowingly positive that the newspaper featured them on the front page, under the banner headline "GOOD TIMES ARE PREDICTED FOR 1929."
Finally, in his book "Children of the Days," Eduardo Galeano writes that in 1981 on this day, General Augusto Pinochet gave away the rivers, lakes and subterranean waters of Chile for a few coins. Several mining companies, like Xstrata of Swhtzerland, and power companies, like Endesa of Spain and AES Gener of the United States, became owners in perpetuity of the country's mightiest rivers. Endesa received a watershed the size of Belgium.
Farmers and indigenous communities lost their rights to water and were obliged to buy it. Ever since, the desert grows ever larger, devouring fertile lands and emptying the countryside of people.
October the 20th is the feast day of Roman Catholic Saint Paul of the Cross. In his youth, his family planned for him to become a merchant, but Paul was granted a vision. While still a young layperson, Paul founded the Barefoot Clerks of the Cross and the Passion. At one point, all the brothers deserted him, but his order eventually received Pope Benedict's approval.
On October 19, 1938, Charles Lindbergh, the world-renowned aviator accepted, "by order of the Führer," Hermann Göring's, the Service cross of the German Eagle at the 1938 Berlin Olympics. This medal was giving to him for his historic flight across the Atlantic ocean in 1927. Pure propaganda which Lindberg never apologized for, nor would he return the medal even after the Nazis atrocities were openly reported by the world.
Is there any doubt that in today's America, Lindbergh would be a Trump supporter(?)
On this day in Tokyo, Japan, an annual fair called Bettara-Ichi, or Sticky-Sticky Fair, is held near the sacred shrine of the god Ebisu. The children carry sticky pickled radishes tied to straw ropes through the streets in the hope of chasing away evil spirits and receiving the blessings of the seven Shinto gods of luck and good fortune.
3.2 Million years ago, Lucy died. Her remains were found on this day in 1974. Before Lucy, it was widely believed that hominins evolved big brains
first, and then became bipedal later. Lucy, however, was clearly built
for bipedal walking — an extremely rare adaptation for mammals — and yet
her skull only had space for a brain about the size of a chimpanzee's.
Her cranial capacity was less than 500 cubic centimeters, or roughly
one-third as big as that of a modern human.
