Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?
by abakker on Monday November 06, 2023 @08:43AM
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Evidence supports that it is, in fact, located just outside of Orlando, FL.
Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?
by some_random on Monday November 06, 2023 @09:21AM
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Unfortunately it was mostly demolished by the explosives used to dig it up
Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?
by arethuza on Monday November 06, 2023 @09:46AM
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Or on the banks of Loch Shiel in Scotland?
Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?
by ggm on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:20AM
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i.e. George Heriots
Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?
by dboreham on Monday November 06, 2023 @12:39PM
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Definitely is true. She also sent her own kids there.
Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?
by arethuza on Monday November 06, 2023 @12:48PM
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Apparently Rowling thought of Hogwarts before moving to Edinburgh - but it seems a bit of a coincidence that Heriots school is right next to the graveyard with Tom Riddle's grave:
https://www.pottertour.co.uk/blog/george-heriots-school-harr...
Mind you - I'm not really that big a Harry Potter fan but I did live in that part of Edinburgh for many years and my son went to Heriots after adventures at other schools...
Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?
by FFP999 on Monday November 06, 2023 @09:58AM
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"We know that they generally had good diplomatic relationships and there was a great deal of cross-border trade, but the historical record is still unclear about the exact relationship between the United States of America and the Magic Kingdom."
Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?
by lapphi on Monday November 06, 2023 @10:28AM
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The way things are going, history may see you as the Nostradamus of this century.
Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?
by FFP999 on Monday November 06, 2023 @10:51AM
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I'll take it.
Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?
by adolph on Monday November 06, 2023 @10:10AM
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Over drinks one night, Cardozo shared with Brosnan a short, somewhat cheeky passage in DeMille's 1959 autobiography in which the director cryptically confirmed the burial. The book's section reads: "If, 1,000 years from now, archaeologists happen to dig beneath the sands of Guadalupe, I hope they will not rush into print with the amazing news that Egyptian civilisation... extended all the way to the Pacific Coast of North America… The sphinxes they will find were buried there when we had finished with them."
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230212-a-city-under-the...
Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?
by FFP999 on Monday November 06, 2023 @09:53AM
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FUTURE ARCHAEOLOGIST: "We've found what we believe to be the ruins of Platform 9 3/4." [gestures at ruins of Slough railway station]
Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?
by hprotagonist on Monday November 06, 2023 @10:42AM
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The one i like is imagining some poor schnook of a grad student in 500 years writing a dissertation on “american pie” and the complex interrelationship of food culture and religion, and if the Jester in the song is the same as the joker that batman killed (or didn’t), and if so was he talking to the thief in the watchtower — and what really does that have to do with band camp?!
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2017/10/12/bye-bye...
Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?
by moomin on Monday November 06, 2023 @10:46AM
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The funny thing is this has already happened. They erected a platform 9 3/4 at Kings Cross. The only problem being that a) it doesn’t even vaguely correspond to the description in the book and b) in fact, from the description it’s likely they were actually talking about old St Pancras station.
Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?
by whoopdedo on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:35AM
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Well they couldn't put it in St. Pancras because that was already in use by former Norse gods waiting to get into Valhalla.
https://www.scld.org/st-pancras-station-sparks-imaginations/
Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?
by gpderetta on Monday November 06, 2023 @12:16PM
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Life imitates art.
Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?
by toyg on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:18AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/221B_Baker_Street
Humans model their world on stories.
Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?
by contingencies on Monday November 06, 2023 @12:03PM
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The scene opens on a world that appears totally primitive. People are naked, people are orgiastic, people are nomadic. But when they close their eyes there are menus hanging in space. Culture has been internalized. Culture is supposed to be internalized. All this talk about virtual reality - people don't seem to notice - this is a virtual reality. These are all ideas - ideas that have been forced into matter so that we could live in a reconstruction of our imagination. And de-constructing these virtual realities in which we live is the only way to get back to some sort of baseline of what it is to be human. - Terence McKenna
Re:Was Atlantis a Minoan Civilization on Santorini Island?
by YeGoblynQueenne on Monday November 06, 2023 @01:09PM
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There's no reason to believe that what Evans found was the mythological Troy (note the "mythological"). Maybe it was the city called Wilusa by the Hittites, or maybe it wasn't, and maybe Wilusa was Troy ("Ilion") or maybe it wasn't. There's no way to know for sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_the_Iliad#Hitti...
Homer certainly didn't give a super detailed description of Troy's location. The Iliad is an epic poem not a historical account. The Homeric Question is a debate almost as ancient as the Iliad, after all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeric_Question
As to Schleimann, he was certainly all too ready to "discover" elements of the Homeric epics. For example, "the mask of Agamemnon":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask_of_Agamemnon
Or "The Jewels of Helen":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priam%27s_Treasure#/media/File...
To be fair, Troy was also mostly thought to be mystical before Heinrich Schliemann went on a quest to find it (and subsequently destroyed most of it as he used explosives to perform archeological digs).