Atlantis

Atlantis
Author: N. Zhirov
Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2001-09
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780898755916

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...

Identity Papers

Identity Papers
Author: Steven Ungar
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780816626946

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.

I Have Discovered Atlantide!

I Have Discovered Atlantide!
Author: Skender Hushi
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2013-02-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1477125779

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

Queen of Atlantis

Queen of Atlantis
Author: Pierre Beno‘t
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780803269163

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.

Lost Continents

Lost Continents
Author: L. Sprague de Camp
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2012-07-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0486147924

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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Total Pages: 552
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American Freemasonry

American Freemasonry
Author: Alain de Keghel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2017-10-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1620556065

Explores the American Masonic system and its strengths and failings • Examines the history of Freemasonry in the United States from the colonial era and the Revolutionary War to the rise of the Scottish branch onward • Investigates the racial split in American Freemasonry between black lodges and white and how, unlike French lodges, women are ineligible to become Masons in the U.S. • Reveals the factors that have resulted in shrinking Masonic enrollment in America and explores the revitalization work done by the Grand Lodge of California Freemasonry bears the imprint of the society in which it exists, and Freemasonry in North America is no exception. While keeping close ties to French lodges until 1913, American Freemasonry was also deeply influenced by the experiences of many early American political leaders, leading to distinctive differences from European lodges. Offering an unobstructed view of the American system and its strengths and failings, Alain de Keghel, an elder of the Grand Orient de France and, since 1999, a lifetime member of the Scottish Rite Research Society (Southern U.S. jurisdiction), examines the history of Freemasonry in the United States from the colonial era to the Revolutionary War to the rise of the Scottish branch onward. He reveals the special relationship between the French Masonic hero, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Founding Fathers, especially George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, including French Freemasonry’s role in the American Revolution. He also explores Franklin’s Masonic membership, including how he was Elder of the lodge of the Nine Sisters in Paris. The author investigates the racial split in American Freemasonry between black lodges and white and how, unlike French lodges, women are ineligible to become Masons in the U.S. He examines how American Freemasonry has remained deeply religious across the centuries and forbids discussion of religious or social issues in its lodges, unlike some branches of French Freemasonry, which removed belief in God as a prerequisite for membership in 1877 and whose lodges operate in some respects as philosophical debating societies. Revealing the factors that have resulted in shrinking Masonic enrollment in America, the author explores the revitalization work done by the Grand Lodge of California and sounds the call to make Freemasonry and its principles relevant to America once again.

A Global Enlightenment

A Global Enlightenment
Author: Alexander Statman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2023-04-26
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0226825744

A revisionist history of the idea of progress reveals an unknown story about European engagement with Chinese science. The Enlightenment gave rise not only to new ideas of progress but consequential debates about them. Did distant times and places have anything to teach the here and now? Voltaire could believe that they did; Hegel was convinced that they did not. Early philosophes praised Chinese philosophy as an enduring model of reason. Later philosophes rejected it as stuck in the past. Seeking to vindicate ancient knowledge, a group of French statesmen and savants began a conversation with the last great scholar of the Jesuit mission to China. Together, they drew from Chinese learning to challenge the emerging concept of Western advancement. A Global Enlightenment traces this overlooked exchange between China and the West to make compelling claims about the history of progress, notions of European exceptionalism, and European engagement with Chinese science. To tell this story, Alexander Statman focuses on a group of thinkers he terms “orphans of the Enlightenment,” intellectuals who embraced many of their contemporaries’ ideals but valued ancient wisdom. They studied astronomical records, gas balloons, electrical machines, yin-yang cosmology, animal magnetism, and Daoist medicine. And their inquiries helped establish a new approach to the global history of science. Rich with new archival research and fascinating anecdotes, A Global Enlightenment deconstructs two common assumptions about the early to late modern period. Though historians have held that the idea of a mysterious and inscrutable East was inherent in Enlightenment progress theory, Statman argues that it was the orphans of the Enlightenment who put it there: by identifying China as a source of ancient wisdom, they turned it into a foil for scientific development. But while historical consensus supposes that non-Western ideas were banished from European thought over the course of the Enlightenment, Statman finds that Europeans became more interested in Chinese science—as a precursor, then as an antithesis, and finally as an alternative to modernity.

Raising Atlantis

Raising Atlantis
Author: Thomas Greanias
Publisher: Pocket Books
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2020-01-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982134186

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.

Atlantis Mystery

Atlantis Mystery
Author: Edgar P. Jacobs
Publisher: 9th Cinebook
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Atlantis (Legendary place)
ISBN: 9781849181075

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.