Archive Month: March 2009

Going for the Face

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  March 27, 2009

by Teri Ong On my flight to London three weeks ago, I had occasion to watch a BBC documentary on the “Real Atlantis.” The premise of the archaeological detective story was that the quasi-historical accounts of the sunken city of Atlantis probably referred to the destruction of the Minoan culture by water. The current theory is that a giant tsunami inundated Minoan cities when the nearby volcano Thera blew up in the most gigantic eruption known to man. Educated guesses put the death toll at approximately 80% of the total Minoan population, which essentially ended their highly advanced civilization. As […]

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Flying into the Dawn

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  March 14, 2009

by Teri Ong I arrived in London yesterday at 8:30 a.m. I left Denver at supper time and arrived in London at breakfast time the next day. There is a sense that it feels like a time warp– like traveling into the future. It is a very strange sort of sensation if you take the time to analyze it. You get on a plane; in a short while you are served dinner; you entertain yourself after dinner for a few hours; you attempt to sleep for an hour or two; they turn on the lights, and serve you breakfast. When […]

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We will be back to normal shortly!

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  March 13, 2009

Due to yet another cyber attack western civ to go has had to under go dramatic hosting changes which did not go smoothly.  We have increased our security precautions  and will be re-adding the old posts shortly. Please bear with us as we recover as fast as we can.  Thanks.

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