http://www.flem-ath.com expect the unexpected Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:17:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In 1886, the American historian Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918) related the Okanagan myth of their lost island paradise of "Samah-tumi-whoo-lah": “Long, long ago, when the sun was young and no bigger than a star, there was an island far off in the middle of the ocean. It was called Samah-tumi-whoo-lah, meaning ... http://www.flem-ath.com/2009/07/pacific-northwest-lost-island-paradise/ Polar Paradise In 1922, Mahatma Gandhi, about to be sentenced to six years in prison, said to the judge: "Since you have done me the honor of recalling the trial of the late Lokamaya Gangadhar Tilak, I just want to say that I consider it the proudest privilege and honor to be ... http://www.flem-ath.com/2009/07/indias-lost-island-paradise/ We are proud to have an article in Haida Laas! (click on cover) Using contemporary historical sources, we show how the 1862 British government in Victoria, British Columbia was responsible for spreading smallpox to Haida Gwaii. This was an early attempt at genocide using bioterrorism. http://www.flem-ath.com/2009/07/a-knife-that-shut-up/ Yahoo MovieTalk interview with 2012 Director. So how does Roland Emmerich end the world in his upcoming epic "2012"? "Pole reversal," he said in an interview this week. "All kinds of stuff going on. But it's basically major earthquakes and volcano eruptions which kind of cause this global flood." "We found this ... http://www.flem-ath.com/2009/07/2012-and-earth-crust-displacement/ Excerpt from The Atlantis Blueprint One of Rand's major aims, in trying to understand the hidden geometry of the Giza site, was to try to locate this 'secret chamber'. The notion seems to have originated in a document called the Westcar Papyrus, now in the Berlin Museum, which seems to ... http://www.flem-ath.com/2009/07/thoths-holy-chamber/ Charles Hapgood first came to public attention in the mid-1950s with his theory of earth crust displacement, a radical geological idea which attracted the curiosity and support of Albert Einstein. The Einstein-Hapgood correspondence is a forgotten page in the history of science. Rose and I obtained these letters (ten from Einstein ... http://www.flem-ath.com/2009/07/hapgoodeinstein-correspondence/ Fossil fuel binge: day of reckoning lies ahead by Rand Flem-Ath published 6 February 1987 in The Times-Colonist (Victoria, B.C., Canada) --------------------------------------- Since the Industrial Revolution, roughly 200 billion tons of carbon dioxide have been vented into the Earth's atmosphere. One of the least known effects of these waste products is the fact that in the ... http://www.flem-ath.com/2009/07/fossil-fuel-binge/ In the movie, Contact, Jodie Foster plays an astronomer who establishes communication with a civilisation beyond our solar system. In a recent television program, The Curse of the Cocaine Mummies, a different, but equally fascinating, contact is established between ancient Egypt and ancient Peru. A German forensic scientist busted the ... http://www.flem-ath.com/2009/07/cocaine-mummies/   Chapter 1 Tower of London Christmas Eve   In the moments before she was decapitated Anne Fawcett was content.  Flakes of snow slipped through the turret window of the cell where she worked.  Shivering, she pulled the collar of her faded UCLA sweatshirt up around her neck and ran her fingers over the initials ... http://www.flem-ath.com/2009/07/forbidden-manuscript/ Charles Hutchins Hapgood (1904 – 1982) a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, was born in New York City. After graduating, Hapgood travelled to Germany where his studies at the University of Freiburg coincided with Adolf Hitler's rise to power. When the Second ... http://www.flem-ath.com/2009/07/earth-crust-displacement/