Can anybody tell about the expedition of rata and maui that reportedly took place over 2000 years ago?
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From 21st Century Science & Technology Magazine:\n\n"Around the year 232 B.C., Captain Rata and Navigator Maui set out with a flotilla of ships from Egypt in an attempt to circumnavigate the Earth.1 On the night of August 6-7, 2001, between the hours of 11 PM and 3 AM, this writer, and fellow amateur astronomer Bert Cooper, proved in principle that Captain Rata and Navigator Maui could have known."\n\nMore at the article link below.
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500 years ago would be 1506 AD\n\nconsider \n*who would be paying for the exploration, \n*how he would carry or get money\n*where he would be starting from\n*where he would be going\n*his mode of transport (on foot, by horse, sailing ship etc)\n*his instruments of exploration (compass, star charts etc)\n*food and drink \n*length of voyage (years?) \n*disease and hardships\n*what he would be interested in finding (gold, silver or valuable commodities for trade)\n*what sort of people he would meet\n\nuse your imagination and make it up. \n\nexample\ntuesday 1st may 1506 in the year of our lord\nThe ships are still becalmed off the coast of a wild godforsaken country, many of the crew are sick from a strange disease. I tried to buy fresh water but the natives laughed at my gold coins and we were forced to return to our boats at arrowpoint. I saw many natives wearing pearls as big as hens eggs, but we have nothing to give them in exchange. the king will be very cross if we return empty handed. fish and rum again for lunch, yuk.
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I've heard of it, it's in India.Not only the future, but also the significant things in the past. Forgot where though. You will have to ask your Indian contacts.  Apparently the que is so long you can't imagine it.  They even reveal when you will pass away.
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Go to wikipedia and read about it. If there are such events!
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Possibly at some time in its history. Read the linked article.
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Hope this helps "Makarrata The Legacy of Windradyne" can be found here:\nhttp://www.geocities.com/davidmarkatwell/makarrata.html\nHere's some more links that I found:\nhttp://www.curriculumsupport.nsw.edu.au/aboriginalstudies/index.cfm?u=4&i=96\n\nhttp://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/npws.nsf/Content/Rare+tour+recaptures+extraordinary+cultural+history+of+Central+West\n\nhttp://www.peterandren.com/admin/wiradjuri.html
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it has been there for thousands of years
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It is estimated to be between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago. No accurate analysis has been conducted. It is beleived they arrived accross from PNG. It is interesting to note that also the dingo did arrive the same way, having ancestors that originate in S.E. ASIA.
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You can try this:\n\nhttp://www.timelines.info/history/continents_and_countries/middle_east_and_asia/middle_east/israel/ancient_israel/
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Time magazine had an article or two in the past, don't remember the exact year, believe it was about '98-2000. SETI has a page where you can use your home pc to check radio data for signs of E.B.E.'s. Check major publications for such things: National Geographic, etc. Just google it.
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A short distance off the coast of the remote Micronesian island of Pohnpei lies one of the greatest archeological mysteries in the world, the Lost City of Nan Madol. Built on an ancient coral reef and covering more than 11 square miles, this ancient city is made up of hundreds of artificial islets, intersected by numerous manmade canals. Even more curious, many of the city’s larger islands are connected by submerged tunnels. First discovered in the early 1800’s by European sailors, this baffling and immense megalithic stone city may contain evidence for the fabled lost continent of Mu.\n\nThe mysterious Nan Madol is built entirely out of gigantic magnetized basalt crystals, some weighing as much as fifty tons. In fact, the entire city contains an estimated 250 million tons of the prismatic basalt rock.
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I've read books by both of these men.\nThor H re-enacted a voyage across the Pacific ocean to Easter Island on a balsa raft.\nTim Severin re-enacted a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean made by the Irish monk St Brendan in a leather boat.\nSo they have epic sea crossings in ancient boats in common.\n\nI recommend these books, they're excellent reading if you like adventure and history subjects
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You can find an abstract of an article written on this subject at the url below. The title and volume listed below. \n\nIn a nutshell, the dates on this huge mafic-ultramafic complex in Brazil (old ocean floor possibly) point to two big events in the earth's early tectonic history: First, a Mesoproterozoic extension event (like a spreading ridge) that forms the mafic-ultramafic complex (ocean crust and seafloor)(1583±25 Ma , 1565±22 Ma-million years ago).  Then, a continental collision event: younger dates of 770–795 Ma (million years ago) for  metamorphism of the complex (" high-grade amphibolite to granulite facies prograde metamorphism"), may represent the timing of a continental collision event.   \n\nZircon and rutile U---Pb geochronology of the Niquelândia layered mafic and ultramafic intrusion, Brazil: constraints for the timing of magmatism and high grade metamorphism\n\nby Ferreira-Filho and several others.\nPrecambrian Research \nVolume 68, Issues 3-4 , August 1994, Pages 241-255
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There is rumored evidence of finding what could be a road underwater by Cuban and Russian archaeologists, but they've not been verified.  There's "myths" about Atlantis, or, at least, some kind of technologically advanced civilizations out of many older cultures.  I think the most pressing evidence for an Atlantean-type culture comes from the discovery of purported ruins underwater off the coast of some Japanese island.  There's a good documentary on one of the science/history channels about it.  And you know how those work.  They'll show them again and again.  So you'll get a chance to see it if you keep an eye out for it.
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why don t you check the following link.\n  http://www.nrao.edu/whatisra/hist_prehist.shtml\n\nThough it is more about the history of radio astronomy, in particular, hope it might be of some use to you as well.
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NASA took a photo of the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka that shows a series of shoals lying in the water between two points of land.  It the shoals were above water, they would connect the two points of land and form a bridge between India and Sri Lanka.\n\nSome have claimed that this is the bridge that Rama commanded to be built in the Hindu epic Ramayana.  A few archaeologists claim to have found evidence suggesting that the bridge is man-made.\n\nNASA has distanced itself from such claims with the following quote:\n\n"The images [...] may be ours, but their interpretation is certainly not ours. [...] Remote sensing images or photographs from orbit cannot provide direct information about the origin or age of a chain of islands, and certainly cannot determine whether humans were involved in producing any of the patterns seen."
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um all i really know is that on august 20 i think some guy a long time ago dissected a mosquito that was feeding on a guy and found out thats where milaria was transmitted. thats why its celebrated