Brit-Am Research Sources
BARS-127
Brit-Am Research Sources
http://hebrewnations.com/features/bars/bars127.html
(5 March, 2019, 28 Adar-A, 5778)
Contents:
1. Did Ancient Semites Father the Germanic Languages?
2. The Real Most Wealthy Countries in Europe Listed by Steve DeVore
3. Carmeltazite: A New Unique Gemstone From Israel
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1. Did Ancient Semites Father the Germanic Languages?
https://pintsofhistory.com/2015/01/09/did-ancient-semites-father-the-germanic-languages/
Fully one-third of Proto-Germanic vocabulary has no relation to other Indo-European words. But it does often resemble Semitic vocabulary. The Proto-Germanic word for maiden, for instance, is something like magath. The early Semitic version was makhat. Just as interesting, the ancient Germans worshiped a god named Balder, while many ancient Semites worshiped Baal Addir, which they shortened to Baldir. Plus, Germanic languages have a lot of breathy consonants, as well as an unusual verb-shift for the past tense — in both cases unlike other Indo-European languages but like Semitic languages.
Proto-Germanic branched off from the Indo-European family tree around 500 B.C.E. What ancient Semites could have lived in northern Europe that far back? The Phoenicians came from cities in Lebanon and Syria, and they were the Mediterranean’s great sailors. We know they reached Portugal. They could have sailed on from there to northern Germany and southern Scandinavia, where Proto-Germanic formed. Plus, the Phoenicians worshiped Baal Addir (to the horror of their Hebrew cousins, who moaned about Baal in the Old Testament). And Proto-Germanic’s odd, Semitic-sounding vocabulary includes just about all its words for the sea, fish, and ships.
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2. The Real Most Wealthy Countries in Europe Listed by Steve DeVore
How did Germany become Europe's richest Country?
https://www.quora.com/How-did-Germany-become-Europe-s-richest-Country
Steve DeVore
Using median wealth per adult (as measured by the Swiss bank UBS), the wealthiest countries in Europe are, in order (with median wealth per capita shown, 2017 numbers):
Iceland ($445k)
Switserland ($229k)
Luxembourg ($168k)
Belgium ($162k)
Norway ($131k)
Italy ($125k)
France ($120k)
The UK ($103k)
The Netherlands ($94k)
Ireland ($85k)
Spain ($63k)
Finland and Austria (tied at $58k)
Greece ($55k)
followed, finally, by Germany, at $47,000 per capita median wealth.
(For reference, the United States adult median wealth is $56,000).
By this standard, which is probably the best standard for reflecting how people actually LIVE, grosso modo, Germans are not rich people. French and Italian families have, on average, a bit less than three times the wealth of Germans, and the Spanish live better than the Germans do also.
Americans and Germans are decidedly middle class by comparison.
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3. Carmeltazite: A New Unique Gemstone From Israel
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2019/01/14/carmeltazite-a-new-unique-gemstone-from-israel/#394b9f20570a
by David Bressan
see Picture.
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