In the past five years, historians, archaeologists, and theologians were quite busy. They found archaeological evidence of many settings and events that are depicted in the Bible. Listed below are the top five recent biblical archaeological discoveries made in the last five years. 1. The Palace of King David The City of David has been [...]
Archive for February, 2011
Five Recent Biblical Archaeological Discoveries
How Racism and Bigotry Almost Shut Down the Highlander Folk School
In 1932, Myles Horton and Don West founded the Highlander Folk School. The school was initially created as a response to the Great Depression. Due to the high unemployment rates and lack of workers’ rights during the Great Depression, the Highlander Folk School provided training and education for the labor movement throughout the South. It [...]
Is MonaVie Just Another Multi-Level Marketing Pyramid Scheme?
Back in 2005, MonaVie, a nutritional beverage company, began to offer what they described as “an avenue for better health and financial well-being.” However, many customers, websites, and former “distributors” of the acai-based nutritional product do not agree with that simple statement. Most of these individuals agree that MonaVie products do not promote better health [...]
How the 1950s Soviet Espionage of Burgess and MacLean Sparked the Korean War
In 1951, two British diplomats, Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean, disappeared. Their whereabouts were unknown for nearly five years, but it is speculated that they received inside information concerning their impending arrest for espionage. The two men resurfaced nearly five years later in Moscow, proving British Intelligence was correct about Burgess’ and MacLean’s espionage activities. [...]
Allegations That Egypt Paid Protestors to Incite Violence
As though things couldn’t get any worse in Egypt, reports are coming in from all major news agencies that pro-government demonstrators were either paid, or forced by the Egyptian government to attend the protests in Cairo and in many cases to violently oppose the anti-government protesters that number over 2,000. It’s a one of the [...]
Google Traps Bing Using An Algorithm Sting Operation
In an interesting display of ingenuity, Google engineers were able to trap and uncover tactics used by the Microsoft Bing search engine to develop the Bing search results. Google claims that the Bing search engine actually utilizes Google search results. The tactic was not unlike how the United States government identifies counterfeit money. Every authentic [...]
The Breaking Dawn Scam
If you’ve never heard of the Breaking Dawn scam, it was a con based upon the hit movie franchise, Twilight. Twilight will debut its fourth installment this November. Twilight: Breaking Dawn is based on the final book written by author Stephenie Meyer. The movie franchise and the book series has gained almost a cult-like status [...]
OpenLeaks Whistleblower Site Enters Alpha Testing Phase
On January 3rd, Top Secret Writers was one of the first to report on former WikiLeaks members creating a new organization called OpenLeaks, which they promised would offer a better organized and more transparent system for whistleblowers across the world to leak important, sensitive information to media outlets. Up until now, the website was a [...]










