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To: blam
Thanks, just saw it.

Don't buy it though seems too small. Plato also speaks of it sending great armies abroad so I would think the island would have been larger and what would have been the source of its great power?

At least it isn't trying to convince me that it is Santorini.

13 posted on 09/19/2001 9:53:32 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Don't buy it though seems too small. Plato also speaks of it sending great armies abroad so I would think the island would have been larger and what would have been the source of its great power?

Not to mention the 300 mile long, 100 mile wide plain that existed in the middle.

14 posted on 09/20/2001 12:43:05 AM PDT by #3Fan
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To: justshutupandtakeit
"Don't buy it though seems too small. Plato also speaks of it sending great armies abroad so I would think the island would have been larger and what would have been the source of its great power?"

Plutarch (Greek) writes of his tour of the ruins of Carthage decades after it was destroyed and mentions seeing descriptions of Atlantic Ocean travel by the Carthagenians.(sp) There are (man) altered waterways in the Amazon basin that some have said would have taken a human population of fifty million to have accomplished, they are ancient and little examined.
Also, I've read one anthropologist say that he thought that Solomon's gold mines may have been at the head waters of the Amazon River.

25 posted on 09/20/2001 9:11:07 AM PDT by blam
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