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Toward Atlantis? The classic example of this pulsation is the periodic appearance of Scandinavian lemmings, which every three to four years rush by thousands to the coasts, then swim far out to sea, where they drown.
The popular belief is that the lemmings' persistent dash to death is an instinctive longing for their former home in the sunken continent of Atlantis. But, notes Elton, the lemmings also surge eastward into the Baltic, northward into the Arctic. Not the whither but the whence, says Elton, explains...
If the lost continent of Atlantis had risen streaming from the sea, it could scarcely have attracted more public interest in the U. S. than South America has in the past few years. FORTUNE led the journalistic rediscoverers with a series of articles in 1937-39. In 1938 the Fascist...
4. Traces of the lost city of Atlantis.
For the last two years, large, free-speaking Hilaire Hiler has been in San Francisco, working mostly on the Aquatic Park murals. Those in the central lounge he designed and mainly executed himself. Their subject is the submerged continents of Mu and Atlantis in the green depths of the sea...