ARCHBISHOP BENSON ON THE APOCALYPSE

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Apocalypse soon?

When the Lord smote the Philistines with emerods in their secret parts he left it to historians to debate the nature of this lethal affliction. Literally translated, emerods are haemorrhoids, but it is surely unlikely that so hardy a race would have succumbed to an epidemic of piles. Scholarly opinion seems to concur that the emerods were buboes in the groin, one of the agonising manifestations...

APOCALYPSE SOON † by

Based upon a simple vacuum Lagrangian, comprising cosmological and quadratic scalar field terms, a cosmological model is presented whose history is indistinguishable from that of an innocuous low-density cold dark matter (CDM) universe, but whose future is very much shorter. For sensible values of the deceleration parameter (0 < q 0 < 1), its age is greater than 85% of the Hubble time, thus res...

The Apocalypse of Napoleon Bonaparte

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Generalized Benson-carlson Duality

1.1. Background. This paper deals with the landmark results of Benson and Carlson's Projective resolutions and Poincar e duality complexes [6]. Our goal is to provide some necessary background for that work, and to prove some of the results of [6] in a more general setting. In particular, we analyze what happens when we replace Benson and Carlson's complex C (in the notation of [6]) with an arb...