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Physical Evidence That

Some Historians Think
Proves Atlantis Was Real

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Temple Remains In Cadiz Trace Back
To Plato's Atlantis

German physicist, Rainer Kühne, thinks a salt
marsh close to Cadiz, Spain, could be the actual
location of Atlantis. This region was severely
flooded between 800 and 500 B.C. Through
satellite imagery, Kühne found two rectangular
structures and parts of concentric rings,
consistent with those Plato described in his
writings. “These rectangular structures could be
the remains of the temples described by Plato,"
Kühne said.

Were The Black Sea Floods Inspiration
For Noah's Ark And Atlantis? China has been accused by the United States of gone viral on social media because of its
suppressing early information on the virus, supposed prediction of the coronavirus.
Some believe that Atlantis was inspired by the which was first detected in the central city of "In around 2020, a severe pneumonia-like
Black Sea floods that occurred around 5,000 Wuhan, and downplaying its risks. illness will spread throughout the globe,
B.C. This is the same flood that some people attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and
claim inspired Noah’s Old Testament story. Beijing has repeatedly denied that it covered up resisting all known treatments," reads the first
Tales about this flood could have spread through the extent or severity of the virus outbreak. part of the passage, posted to Twitter by
the Mediterranean region, and thousands of celebrities including Kim Kardashian.
years later, may have been the inspiration behind China has managed to contain domestic spread
Plato’s Atlantis story. [] of the virus and has been trying to assert a Now, it seems many people are giving credence
leading role in the global battle against COVID- to the existence of "psychics," or at least one
Chinese government 19. That has included a propaganda push around psychic — Browne — whose 2008 book, "End
its donations and sale of medical supplies to the of Days," has shot up toward the top of the best-
report warns of armed United States and other countries and sharing of sellers in the "Christian books and Bibles"
expertise. category on Amazon, likely because of recent
confrontation with U.S. attention.

over coronavirus outbreak But China faces a growing backlash from critics
who have called to hold Beijing accountable for In a 2004 episode of The Montel Williams
its role in the pandemic. Show, where she appeared as a regular
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Trump has said he will cut off funding for the members (who were often dealing with
It added: “any words or actions that engage in World Health Organization (WHO), which he emotional trauma), she told the mother of
political manipulation or stigmatization under called “very China-centric,” something WHO Amanda Berry that her daughter had died; Berry
the pretext of the pandemic, including taking the officials have denied. was kidnapped by Ariel Castro and later found
opportunity to sow discord between countries, alive. Browne remained quiet in the aftermath,
are not conducive to international cooperation Australia’s government has called for an though Williams eventually apologized.
against the pandemic.” international investigation into the origins and
spread of the virus. Among predictions in dozens of her other books
Cold War echoes and on her website, she also predicted that a cure
Last month, France summoned China’s for the common cold would exist and aliens

One of those with knowledge of the report said ambassador to protest a publication on the would have revealed themselves by now, in
it was regarded by some in the Chinese website of China’s embassy that criticized addition to providing false information on
intelligence community as China’s version of Western handling of coronavirus. several missing individuals.
the “Novikov Telegram,” a 1946 dispatch by the
Soviet ambassador to Washington, Nikolai The virus has so far infected more than 3 million Browne was not a psychic; she was a cold-
Novikov, that stressed the dangers of U.S. people globally and caused more than 200,000 reader, which means she guessed a lot. She'd use
economic and military ambition in the wake of deaths, according to a Reuters tally. [] a person's physical appearance to make guesses.
World War Two. Instead of providing psychic insight, however,
she often made mistakes.
Novikov’s missive was a response to U.S. No, a self-proclaimed
diplomat George Kennan’s “Long Telegram” Her passage, which reads that a possible
from Moscow that said the Soviet Union did not psychic did not predict "pneumonia-like" disease would vanish quickly
see the possibility for peaceful coexistence with coronavirus is also quite flawed, if this was, in fact, intended
the West, and that containment was the best to describe the coronavirus.
long-term strategy.
HTV The point of this? If you make enough guesses,
The two documents helped set the stage for the even those who are so often wrong might
strategic thinking that defined both sides of the Over the last week, a passage from a book by eventually get something a little right — but not
Cold War. self-proclaimed psychic Sylvia Browne has because they're psychic. []