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Atlantis: We will never know Fantasy is a tough sell
in the twentieth century. The world has been fully discovered
and fully mapped. Popular media has effectively minimized
the legend and the fantastic rumor, though to make up for
this it has generated falsities not as lavish but just as
interesting. Satellites have mapped and studied the earth,
leaving only a space frontier that is as yet unreachable. But
standing out is a charming fantasy the modern world has yet
to verify or condemn: the lost continent of Atlantis. The
father of the modern worlds perception of Atlantis is Plato
(circa 428- circa 347 b.c.). (1) The Greek philosopher
spoke in his works Timaeus and Critias of a continent in the
Atlantic ocean larger than Africa and Asia Minor combined
which rivaled Athens as the most advanced in the world. (2)
According to the legend surrounding Platos dialogues, the
island of Atlantis was violently thrown into the sea by the
forces of nature, and its few survivors...

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Title: Atlantis
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