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Word: husum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1952-1952
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...race of two-headed men. 87. Jiirgen Spanuth, Lutheran pastor, who set out from the port of Husum late this summer, claims he found: 1. The Lost Atlantis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

Late this summer a fishing boat set out from the German port of Husum. On board was scholarly Jürgen Spanuth, pastor of the Lutheran church in Ost Bordelum, a little village behind the North Sea dikes. Also on board were a diver, a public stenographer and assorted scientific equipment. The trip was costing Pastor Spanuth 150 marks a day and would use up most of his savings, but he thought the expense would be justified. He was after the biggest treasure of all, the glittering undersea remains of Atlantis, which he was convinced from his readings of Greek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sunken City | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

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