Posted on 08/04/2009 5:39:04 PM PDT by BGHater
If this article is true (which most likely it is not, but who knows as truth can be stranger than fiction) this would be very interesting, an unknown metal dating back to thousands of years of years ago.
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I have America B.C. and read it some time ago. I also recommend it. I found it in the same very useful Used Book Store where I found Gordon's book. In fact they also had a hardcover edition of America B.C. (different reviews at 2nd link) on the shelf when I picked up the Gordon book.
I think it is interesting that so far I have seen virtually no overlap in the two books. This either due to my faulty memory, or that there really isn't very much overlap in the evidence that each presents for early contact between east and west.
ML/NJ
They are but ordinary pueblos and not likely Great Houses.
The stories are hyped Anasazi findings and quite ordinary from the Grand Canyon east to the Rio Grande
Fools! Don’t you realize that this wasn’t the work of Egyptians, but rather THEM, the ones from the Universe who taught the Egyptians about pyramids and such.
As soon as I have finished the prototype of my Alien-O-Meter, I’ll be able to travel through time and find them.
I have read about Anasazis. Their relics look like Celtic relics. I have read that there were White Indian tribes here in America.
http://users.on.net/~mkfenn/page9.htm
BTW, Anasazi is the Navajo word for “stranger” or “not one of us”.
I have read that there were marooned Japanese sailors around 1100 and the Zuni tribe took them in. Those Zuni kids look Japanese.
http://www.amazon.com/Zuni-Enigma-American-Possible-Connection/dp/0393322300
There is a remarkable degree of lack of agreement on what the term “Anasazi” means in Navajo. I’ve seen various claims for old, ancient, enemy, stranger, and various combinations.
BTW, in the languages of a great many “indigenous peoples” the word for “stranger” or “not one of us” is also inherently the word for “enemy.”
Just as the term most peoples have for their own group translates into English as The People. Meaning of course that other groups aren’t.
:’) National Treasure II was so inutterably bad, I can’t imagine how they’d suck me into seeing any third movie.
Wholeheartedly agree. The first one was moderately plausible (as plausible as movies get, of course) and had Revolutionary War figures woven in. It also took advantage of the occult crap that has been bubbling up in books and movies these past thirty years. And there weren’t any odd inconsistencies in the story line. About the only nice things about the second movie was some of the humor (the “quarrel” on the stairs when they were in London, Ed’s character’s line about letting Gates figure out how to get one of the artifacts, the love story subplot involving the Gates parents). The whole thing was just an awful mess, a wreck’em derby for the screen.
I’d like to see them do something underwater, but perhaps the best idea on that would be to find that nice lost Indian treasure (found concealed under Mount Rushmore in #2) on a lost secret Spanish treasure fleet. And use that as a soapbox to lampoon the Spanish gov’ts continuous attempts to steal salvaged treasure just as the Spanish empire stole American treasure in the first place.
Another underwater idea would be Atlantis, but that has been done a zillion times; OTOH, the invariable ending for finding-Atlantis stories seems to be, oh, we just glimpsed it for second, then the cave-in started and it’s deeply buried again. ;’) That could easily have happened with NT#1, but they opted for the cool ending. Oh, BTW, sharing the treasure with the Louvre and the Cairo Museum? B.S. :’) Good thing it was only a movie.
Probably a change of direction would be nice — Gates and company could wind up getting pulled into something that they have no idea about, and every brilliant move they make goes wrong, a sort of gang that couldn’t shoot straight approach, because after all, he spent his lifetime looking for one particular treasure, became the only expert regarding it, and tracked it down. NT#2 wrecked that buzz by introducing yet another ancestor in the Gates line who had a rendezvous with history (the Lincoln assassination), but having done that, my little idea earlier in the paragraph would make sense as a starting point. Just gotta come up with “what is the mystery to solve”.
There was an obvious pointer to a sequel in the first one, which they never exploited. And there was an obvious pointer to a third movie with the “President’s Book” when the President asked Gates what he thought of the certain page number, and Gates said “Life-changing”.
Disney Planning Two More 'National Treasure' Sequels? by Erik Davis Feb 1st 2008 -- According to Jim Hill Media, Disney registered the following domain names just the other day: NationalTreasure3DVD.com and NationalTreasure4DVD.com.
American Indians of different tribes did not get along too well.
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