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With her 20-lb. (9 kg) camera braced in the window of a tiny airplane, Mary Meader captured images of the Nazca Lines of Peru, the white summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and the massive pyramids of Egypt. Her aerial photographs were some of the first taken of parts of Africa and South America...
Peru is located in a geologically unstable zone, noted for earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. This temblor was caused by the Nazca Plate, located under the Pacific Ocean, sliding under the continental South American Plate. A similar earthquake, with a 7.5-magnitude, struck the same area...
...ancient monuments. (No, Steven Spielberg is not the producer.) The project is Out on a Limb, a five-hour ABC mini-series for November based on her 1983 autobiography of the same title. Citing passages where MacLaine suggests that Machu Picchu and the giant desert drawings known as the Nazca Lines were made by visitors from outer space rather than by the Peruvians, the National Institute of Culture accused her of inadvertently aiding "neo-Nazism" to discredit the country's culture. MacLaine was dismayed. During filming, locals took to calling her La Grinka (a gringa who seeks to become...
...Pacific, temporarily stuck in its slow but inexorable plunge under the North American plate, suddenly jarred loose and lurched ahead. Last week's burst involved a similar movement of plates, but the result was entirely different. Extending along most of the coast of South America, the dense Nazca plate of the Pacific, moving eastward, subducts, or descends beneath, the lighter mass of the South American plate, which is moving westward. As the oceanic plate dives deeper into a region of high temperature and pressure some 60 miles to 125 miles below the earth's surface, rock in the area begins...
Hawkins’ studies also included analysis of the Nazca lines in Peru and the Amun Temple of Karnak in Egypt. In 1992, Hawkins gave an interview to Monte Leach of Share International in which he spoke of his research on crop circles and his discoveries that they contained ratios that related to musical major scales and contained undiscovered theorems of Euclidian geometry...