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new-old world: aboard the star raft
Who got to America first? Lots of theories have been batted around ranging from the Chinese to refugees from Atlantis, to Phoenicians and the Lost Tribes of Israel to those paddlers on the Nile, the Egyptians. Maybe the real answer … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Charlton ogburn Jr., Chinese Admiral Zheng He, Cyrus Gordon, Cyrus Herzl Gordon, Dr. Cyrus Gordon Brandeis, Gavin Menzies, Gunnar Thompson, Kublai Khan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michael Auslin, Plato Critias, Plato Timaeus, Robert Heine-Geldern
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new world disorder
Atlantis solved everything. With its vast bulk filling in most of the ocean, ancient voyagers no longer had to traverse thousands of miles of open water to go from the Old World to the New; all they had to do … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Cyrus Gordon Semitic languages, Dr. Cyrus Herzl Gordon, Easter Island, Grant Wood paintings, John Everett Millais, Kublai Khan, Lemuria, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Montaigne on Atlantis, Plato Critias, Plato Timaeus, Voltaire on Atlantis
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great leaps forward and back
Its hard to get around two thousand plus years of imperial tradition in sixty odd years of the People’s Republic of China. Even Mao Zedong was somewhat indebted to the weight of the past… For Mao Zedong the major public … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Brian Brake China, Brian Brake photography, dais at T'ien An Men, Emperor Yung Lo fifteenth century, Forbidden City China, Gate of Heavenly Palace China, Guanting Reservoir Project China, Hung Wu first Ming emperor, Kublai Khan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong May Day Parade, Sun Yat-sen, Wang Sen Guanting Reservoir
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