Was explorer Tony Benlk real or fictional?
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He is real--no follow up interviews is kinda weird. Could be because he was a diver and not the expedition leader.
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contrary to the belief that magellan was the discoverer of the philippines the real discoverers were actually negroids who came from china(and aho still living).
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Each one is great in his own show.\nKirk was a great swash-buckler, explorer, and adventurer.\nPicard was a great explorer and peace-maker.
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yes it's very interesting.\n\nthere was an interview with the lawyer of the Titor family on coasttocoastam.\na movie is in the works...\n\nfor those of you who don't know...\n\n"John Titor was the name used for a purported time traveller from the year 2036 that posted on several time travel-related Internet bulletin boards during 2000/2001, making many ambiguous, but seemingly falsifiable, predictions about events in the near future and giving an account of his supposed native time period. Whether or not John Titor was a hoax seems to have been a topic of controversy on web-based paranormal discussion boards.\n\nThe postings claimed Titor to be a serving soldier who was assigned to a government time travel project. He was supposedly sent from 2036 back to 1975 to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer which he claimed was needed to "debug" various legacy computer programs in 2036. The postings also described various future events between 2000 and 2037, including World War III (predicted for 2015) followed by two decades of recovery.\n\nAlong with the prediction of World War III, another notable prediction is that of a Civil war in America, which was predicted to begin in 2004, around the time of the presidential election, and would escalate until 2008, which, according to Titor, "[is] a general date by which time everyone will realize the world they thought they were living in was over."\n\nAnother prediction was that 2004 would be the last year in which the Olympics would occur. This seems at odds with real-world events as the 2006 Winter Olympics began February 10, 2006. However there has been some argument as to whether the Winter Olympics was included in the prediction. Some have also speculated as to whether the predictions made by Titor were predicting only one course of the future, suggesting humans may have created an alternate future by going about things differently. This is an example of the many possible interpretations of Titor's seemingly specific predictions.\n\nWhen asked about the mechanisms of the time traveling, he replied that he was no engineer. When asked to use the time machine to do something paradoxical (ie, kill his grandfather) he replied that that would only affect this universe, but not his. He appeared to imply that there were many timelines, and his ship could not control its outgoing destination, but could return home easily."
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On the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, 1700 feet under the surface, archaeologists found the wreck of the old side-wheel steamship, "Republic."  She sank in a great hurricane in October, 1865, off the coast of Georgia (US - the country of Georgia is landlocked).\n\nNewspaper reports after the ship's loss said that she went down with $400,000 of gold coin, destined for New Orleans.  And one newspaper story suggesed she also carried a separate cargo of $70,000 in coin for someone else in New Orleans.\n\nUsing robotic equipment, the archaeologists excavated the SS Republic.  They found the remnants of two wooden barrels holding gold and silver coins, 59,000 in all.  So far, they have not found the rest of the money said to have been aboard th ship.\n\nThe wreck of the SS Republic presents MANY historical mysteries.  One of the myseries is, who were the people who escaped from her that stormy day?  Some are known and their stories have been found, but most remain just names in newspaper lists of shipwreck survivors.  Another is who were the people who died after the ship sank?  Newspaper accounts suggest one or two people drowned while swimming away from the sinking ship to lifeboats, and either 14 or 16 people died while castaways on a raft that was not found until a week after the sinking.  All of these people today are forgotten, nameless victims; who were they?\n\nOf course, the archaeologists would VERY much like to know where the rest of the money can be found on the wreck.\n\nAnd finally there is THIS mystery:\n\nAt least one and maybe more of the canvas bags of coins in the barrels came from the Bank of New York.  The archaeologists found the lead seals used by the bank to close the bags.  Those bags of coins were silver half-dollars, ALL made in the New Orleans mint in 1861 - some before Louisiana seceded from the Union, some made while Louisiana was an independent state, and others made when the Confederacy ruled.  So the coins in these bags were under Confederate control after they were minted.  Most of the money in New Orleans was dispersed into the Deep South when the Union assaulted, and captured, the city in April of 1862. \n\nHOW DID THEY GET TO NEW YORK DURING THE CIVIL WAR?\n\nHow did these bags of 1861 "O" silver half-dollars end up in a New York bank vault, and then come to be put on the doomed vessel to be shipped back to New Orleans only months after the war had ended?
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Textbook or actual?\n\nActual, the discovery of North America and the invasion of Egypt.\n\nThese as well as the invasion of eastern Europe (did you know the name "Russia" comes from Russ, what the Norskeys were known as) discovery of Iceland, Greenland, depended on their navigational skills and ability as seamen.
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It is largely believed now that Zhang He, a Admiral from China, had landed on America ahead of Columbus. \n\nHistory as we were taught are being re-written.
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I heard a story once (no idea if true or not) that after the Kite / key experiment some derisively called him "sparky"\n\nAnother more reliable would be "Poor Richard" he wrote the book "Poor Richard's Almanac"
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Thule is both the German and the Panamian name for the lost continent of Atlantis.Hitler sought it fervently,or maybe he knew about its destination...you never can tell.
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Arthur Dent (Hitchikers guide to the galaxy)
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Von Daniken had some interesting theories.  While I do not believe specifically what he wrote, I do believe that we have been visited by extra-terrestials over the centuries.
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archeologist/ geologist
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I know that there is no definative proof that he ever existed at all but I found a web site that was the best by far on the subject, quite fun and a good read to:\n\nhttp://www.boldoutlaw.com/robbeg/\n\nI hope this helps you.\n\nBlessed Be
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The real experiment was to protect the ship from magnetic mines.\nThe time travel idea was fiction,and later a movie.Total fantasy.
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Um, yeah. He also hid easter eggs. No wait, that was a different imaginary character.
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ahh ... yes i know the guy used to go pass him alot in my time travel days... on dis one occassion we both stumbled ont o the same time wave and land in an area where there were quite a lot of eggs.... the eggs hatched and 2day they are know as americans.......... quite strange i must say as we never saw wat layed the eggs. hmmm o yeah john titor really clever chap.
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discovery,atlantis,endeavour.