Word: atlantean
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...that Plato gives indicate events that modern science shows to have occurred in and around Santorini at the height of the Age of Bronze. They fit everything that is known concerning the final bloom and tragic end of what Archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans arbitrarily labeled "Minoan" civilization. "Minoan" and "Atlantean" may well have been the same thing...
Among the many points cited in support of that contention are ones that Plato cannot have known, but that present-day archaeology confirms. For example, Plato puts sacred bulls at the center of the Atlantean religion; the so-called bull dances of the Minoans are familiar enough to all prehistory buffs. The golden "bull cups" of Minoan provenance at the Athens museum show bas-reliefs of young men capturing bulls with the help of only staves and nooses; Plato describes just such a ritual hunt as taking place on Atlantis. Again, he says that the Atlantean metropolis was built...
...oceans of the world may be shrinking. If they are, the Atlantic will be divided, in about a billion years, into two seas by an Atlantean continent running its entire length, according to Han Petterson, Director of the Oceanographic Institute at Gotesburg, Sweden...
...Senator Walter F. George's Reconversion Bill was finally passed by Congress last week and dropped on the President's desk. After more than a month of battling, there was little meat left on the bill; certainly it had few of the muscles needed to handle the Atlantean job of shifting the U.S. back to peace...
...World War I, U.S. indus try had on its hands $3,600,000,000 in un delivered war contracts. When World War II ends, U.S. industry may be buried under $75,000,000,000 worth. How this Atlantean burden may hamstring recon version to peacetime production, by tying up capital, is a nightmare to many a U.S. businessman...