Author: N. Zhirov
Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 9780898755916
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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A Soviet scientist examines geology, climate, oceanography and attempts reconstruction of Atlantis. Illustrated with maps, charts, tables, illustrations, seismic data, sonar images, etc. The fascinating age-old riddle of the legendary continent of Atlantis is a challenge to any investigator for it would be hard to name a problem of longer standing or one that has given rise to sharper controversies and differences of views and opinions. Some investigators have rejected it as a key to an ancient riddle throwing light on many aspects of human history and civilization. Thousands of books and papers have been devoted to the thrilling problem of Atlantis, and a new scientific trend, atlantology, studying Atlantis has emerged. Atlantology cannot advance without the aid of geomorphology and marine geology, which are relatively new spheres of human knowledge. Indeed, the problems linked up with Atlantis can be approached successfully only by drawing upon the latest achievements of world science in the study of the geological structure and relief of the ocean bed, only in the light of the new ideas about the youth and active development of oceans. The author believes that Atlantis existed and uses a great number of facts to back up his arguments. His work sums up much on what we know about atlantology. This book will unquestionably serve as the basis for elaborating on many aspects of one of the world?s most dramatic problems. Zhirov was a chemist by trade and a leading Soviet Atlantologist. The book was written between 1959-63. New data was added for this English edition. Seismics, gravimetrics, climatology, paleobotanical data, geomorphology, plate tectonics, turbidity data, bottom current patterns, submarine erosion and geological data separate this book from most of the rest of the Atlantology field. Cites 825 separate sources in 34 pages of references - Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, German, English, Latin...
Author: Skender Hushi
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477125779
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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The translation of the scripts in the zmeraldi plates of Thoti of Atlantide, the last king of Atlantide, made me curious to know more about it, so I started consulting a voluminous material, which gave me more information about Atlantide. Every material read reinforced my view that people of Atlantide, with the Albanian people and those from other countries of Europe known as people of Illyrian origin, had links between them. The very great closeness of twelve-thousand-year-old words that were in Thoti’s writings with Albanian words, impressed and gave me the incitement to go deeper in these studies. At the end of the study, the opinion that Albanian people and all Albanian-speaking people around the world deserves more attention and respect from other nations for being the only people in Europe to have maintained pure the language of Atlantide was reinforced. In the writing below, I think I have achieved the goal, and I discovered Atlantide. The beginning of the existence of Atlantide is thought to have started around 50000 BC and to have finished around 10000 BC. Plato, the great scholar of Athens, who was thought to have lived in the years 428–348 BC, offers full details about Atlantide. Until the early twentieth century these books were seen as Plato’s fantasy, but the discovery of the zmeraldi plates of Thoti added more interest to his books. He, in his books “Timeo” and “Crisis,” makes a detailed description of Atlantide based on the data that the lawmaker and his predecessor, Soloni (638–554 BC) had received from priests in Sais, the capital of Egypt. They had told him about Atlantide. Works, greater than Athens’, wonder us. Very great was the development and military power there, which occupied all of Europe and Asia, coming from the Atlantic Ocean with their ships and passing through the strait where the columns of Hercules were. In an island that was bigger than Libya and Asia (referring to Asia Minor, I think) existed Atlantide. It was easy to pass from Atlantide to the great land that was on the other side. (It is thought to be referred to the continent of America). The Atlantide kingdom laid partly facing the continent of America, and in the part of columns of Hercules, including Libya, Egypt, and almost all of the Europe. Soloni was proud in front of priests, telling them about the development of Greece, but one of them, laughing at him, had said that Greek civilization is as a baby compared to the civilization of Atlantide, and for these they possessed many documents. According to them, in Atlantide existed, for centuries, very advanced civilization and development (believed to have existed for forty thousand years). In the dialogues of “Timeo” and “Crisis,” from the data taken from the priests, Plato describes the capital of Atlantide like this: The island had a field, which was the most beautiful and productive one. The territory had a nearly oval shape, measuring 530 km long and 355 km wide. The writing says that the length of the island is 530 km on two sides, surrounded on three sides by mountains protecting it from cold winds, while on the south side of the island was the capital, surrounded by three circular channels. A more detailed description will be read below. The field was worked and carefully arranged, divided with many channels perpendicular to each other that shared the field in 600 m, which is called Klerosu (a name decided by Plato), which contained the wholesale plants sown. (This description and this very dimension corresponds more to the description of Ireland, the former Albanian-speaking country that used to be called Erin. There it rains whenever the land wants it and it becomes juvenile). England’s old name was Za-Zana or Za-Zane (fairy). To me, in Albanian, it means the place where you find fairies, where you can catch them, or the place where fairies sing, which can be explained totally with the Albanian language. Fabulous places like the island of Erin (Ireland) and the
Author: Steven Ungar
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816626946
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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What does citizenship mean? What is the process of "naturalization" one goes through in becoming a citizen, and what is its connection to assimilation? How do the issues of identity raised by this process manifest themselves in culture? These questions, and the way they arise in contemporary France, are the focus of this diverse collection. The essays in this volume range in subject from fiction and essay to architecture and film. Among the topics discussed are the 1937 Exposition Universelle; films dealing with Vichy France; François Truffaut's Histoire d'Adèle H.; the war of Algerian independence; and nation building under François Mitterrand. -- Amazon.com.
Author: Pierre Beno‘t
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803269163
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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In 1903 Lieutenant Olivier Ferri_res of the French army welcomes Captain de Saint-Avit as the new commandant of his post in Algeria. Shunned by his fellow officers, the captain has been accused of the brutal murder of his friend Lieutenant Morhange, when the two were lost alone in the desert. To Ferri_res?s horror, Saint-Avit soon confesses to the crime, unveiling a shocking tale of lost worlds, lust, murder, and the enslavement of desire in a forgotten desert kingdom?Atlantis! Antinea, the queen of Atlantis, seeks to destroy and imprison the men in her net through her beauty and cruelty, enshrining their electroplated bodies in a fantastic hall, assigning each doomed lover a number and a plaque in his memory. Caught in this web, Saint-Avit and Morhange attempt to escape until love, passion, and jealousy threaten their friendship and their very lives. For only one man has ever captured the heart of Antinea, and no one escapes the queen of Atlantis.
Author: L. Sprague de Camp
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486147924
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
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DIVLeading authority examines facts and fancies behind the Atlantis theme in history, science, and literature. Sources include Plato, Thomas More, K. T. Frost, and many other citations, both famous and lesser-known. Related legends are also recounted and refuted, and reports document attempts to prove the continent's existence, including accounts of actual expeditions. /div
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Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 2959206002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Author: Edgar P. Jacobs
Publisher: 9th Cinebook
ISBN: 9781849181075
Category : Atlantis (Legendary place)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Deep under Sao Miguel island, rumoured to be the last emerging part of Atlantis, Professor Mortimer has discovered samples of a mysterious radioactive metal. Could it be the Atlanteans' legendary orichalcum? When he and his friend Blake set out on an expedition into the depths to find out, sabotage occurs in the form of their old opponent Olrik. And soon, all three will be embroiled in a power struggle far bigger in scope than they could have imagined.
Author: Thomas Greanias
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 1982134186
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Experience the first “outrageous adventure with a wild dose of the supernatural” (Clive Cussler, New York Times bestselling author) in the New York Times bestselling Atlantis trilogy, following archeologist Conrad Yeats, his father, and linguist Serena Serghetti as they search for the lost city of Atlantis. During a top secret dig in Antarctica, the United States government discovers a stunning and ancient secret: the legendary lost city of Atlantis. Dr. Conrad Yeats, the foremost authority on megalithic architecture, is brought in along with his estranged father, General Griffin Yeats, and his former lover, the linguist Serena Serghetti, to explore this astonishing civilization hidden beneath the ice. But their investigation uncovers something shocking that threatens the very existence of humanity and together, they are thrust into a deadly race against the apocalypse. “Raising Atlantis grabs hold of you from the first page and pulls you into an astonishing world of scientific fact and fiction, suspense, and good old-fashioned adventure” (Nelson DeMille, New York Times bestselling author). Visit the official Raising Atlantis website at RaisingAtlantis.com to unlock lost chapters and download free ebooks featuring Conrad Yeats and Serena Serghetti.
Author: Matthew Bernstein
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813522951
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Essays on orientalism in American and European cinema
Author: Justin Winsor
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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