Inspirational Quote from Robert Louis Stevenson

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Atlantis find touted as greatest discovery in world history

“This is probably the greatest discovery in World history”, was stated by Maxine Asher, the co-director of a scientific expedition that found Atlantis at the bottom of the ocean, reported United Press International and major newspapers in the United States during the summer of 1973. UPI continued that “Maxine Asher said that scuba divers found data to prove the existence of the super-civilization which legend says sank beneath the sea thousands of years ago”.

So starts a long and comprehensive online article, Atlantis – Lost City of Atlantis real or just a fable? by a blogger who identifies himself as a male Gemini from Hyperabad, India.

I love articles such as this one because they show the many discoveries hailed as “Atlantis” over the years, this one in 1973. So far, unfortunately, none of the claims of “Atlantis found” has panned out to be the lost continent.

Still, a very interesting and comprehensive article including many references to Sitchin’s work about extra terrestrials creating and using humans.

Inspirational quote about children from Theodore Roosevelt

“For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.”

~ Theodore Roosevelt,
26th President of the United States of America,
Father of 6 children

Mayan village in Mexico impacted by climate change

Whenever I’ve been in Yucatan, the last three times, while filming the Yucatan Travel Movie, I assumed I could barely stand the mid-day heat because, well … because Yucatan is in the tropics and I’m not used to that kind of heat being from a temperate climate.

However, to my surprise, I recently found an online article at Yahoo News saying that the indigenous people of the area, the Maya, are also finding the climate hotter than normal. In the article, MAYAN VILLAGE IN MEXICO IMPACTED BY CLIMATE CHANGE, a woman says that farmers are no longer able to work in their fields in the heat of the noonday sun. Their main staple crop, corn, is stunted because of the continuing drought. Strangely, not only are the summers hotter, but also the winters are also colder.

Camelot next?

Since Google Maps did such a good job of finding the oh-so-elusive lost continent Atlantis, maybe next, they could find Camelot for us!

The Weekly World News online article ATLANTIS FOUND ON GOOGLE MAPS! did such a marvelous job of tongue-in-cheek reporting on the great Atlantis discovery, I can hardly wait to see what they can do with Camelot.

Atlantis not really a ruin after all!

What intrigues me the most is that not only has Google Maps found Atlantis, but also, Atlantis appears to be a thriving community. I always thought that when Atlantis was finally found, it would be a ruin and be found by underwater archaeologists. But the Atlantis in the Weekly World News online article ATLANTIS FOUND ON GOOGLE MAPS! does not look like a ruin at all. And, it is above the water on an island–the great Island Nation. Take a look at this amazing image:

Atlantis found off the coast of Ireland, image from World Wide News

I’m looking forward to the time when Weekly World News reporters and photographers can visit the antideluvian lost continent and interview some of the inhabitants. I want to know: What have they been doing all these years!

Atlantis is off the coast of Ireland after all!

How do you like that? After all these years with claims that the ruins of Atlantis were actually in all these diverse places, such as the Azores, Santorini, Cyprus, Bimini, under the Sargasso Sea, off the coast of Cuba, and even Antarctica and the East Indies, it turns out, the people who thought Atlantis was off the coast of Ireland (some even thought Ireland had been Atlantis!) were right!

A January 11, 2011 article posted on Weekly World News called Atlantis Found on Google Maps! pin-points the lost continent of Atlantis is off the coast of a tiny town in Ireland called Dingle, population 300.

Well, that’s a relief. At last, an end to all the conjecture, an end to all the exploration, an end to all the headlines saying, “Atlantis Found.” Now, it’s really found.

And wasn’t that a purrty picture from Google Maps of it in yesterday’s post?

Google Maps has found Atlantis off the coast of Ireland!

Weekly World News reports that Google Maps has found Atlantis. In an article entitled, Atlantis found on Google Maps!, J.B. Smitts writes that:

“The photo taken by Google Maps is most definitely the Lost City of Atlantis,” said Yale Mythologist Anthony Braxwell. “It displays all the trademark characteristics of the legendary metropolis. A shimmering castle, glistening drawbridges made of gold, crystal spires – yep, it’s all there.”

“I’m just surprised it took so long to find,” added Braxwell.

According to sources, the Google Maps satellite was performing a routine scan of the Atlantic Ocean when it came across the strange, previously uncharted Kingdom of Atlantis.

The satellite images, which have been proven accurate to within 1/100th of a millimeter, show the island of Atlantis sitting just 10 miles southwest of Dingle, Ireland, a small township with a population of 300.

“I’ve lived here for 75 years,” said Brian MacElhose, a farmer and lifelong resident of Dingle, “and never noticed that gigantic city floating out there in the ocean. How could I have missed it? Oh well, I guess that’s what Google Maps is for.”

Weekly World News says Atlantis found by Google Maps

All that I can say is that it’s about time someone found something definite that is truly the lost city of Atlantis. There have been so many hopeful and fanciful claims, I am happy to see that not only have Google Maps found Atlantis, but they have provided actual photographs to corroborate their wonderful discovery.

I especially love how the photograph has a misty quality almost as if it is a piece of art. But what else do you expect of such a mystical, magical kingdom as Atlantis. Check out the link for the whole “photo,” which shows Atlantis off the coast of Dingle, Ireland.

Inspirational quote from oboe player

“You can’t save people from themselves.”
~ Melinda McKenzie

Melinda is a marvelous musician and music teacher who provided oboe playing for one of “Prayer, Duet, and Dance,” one of the musical numbers used as background music in the Yucatan Travel Movie.

Atlantis and the Flood in the History of Geology

Here’s a neat online article on the History of Geology website. The following quote is extracted from David Bressan‘s From Contractional theory to modern geology. It is a theory explaining the location of the lost continent of Atlantis.

Already after the first maps of the American continent were published (1507 and after) and become public, the similarity between the coast of Africa and America intrigued geographers and naturalists, and this fascination continued in the following centuries. In 1620 the English philosopher Francis Bacon noted the jigsaw form in his “Novum Organum” and claimed that “it’s more then a curiosity”, and 38 years later the munch Francois Placet published a small booklet entitled “The break up of large and small world’s, as being demonstrated that America was connected before the flood with the other parts of the world.” He argued that the two continents were once connected by the lost continent of “Atlantis”, and the sin flood beaked them apart.
The idea of the biblical flood explaining the shape of earth remained popular for the next 250 years.

This is a great site with great information and lovely illustrations. Check it out.