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Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly

- October 24, 2017 in apocalypse, Atlantis, Books, catastrophe, disaster, disaster porn, Featured Articles, Ignatius Donnelly, Literature, pseudo-science, Religion, Myth & Legend, Science & Medicine, science fiction

The destruction of Atlantis, cataclysmic comets, and a Manhattan tower made entirely from concrete and corpse — Carl Abbott on the life and work of a Minnesotan writer, and failed politician, with a mind primed for catastrophe. The magnificent civilization of Atlantis shattered and plunged beneath the sea in February 1882. Or, to be more […]

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Ignatius Donnelly: Recipes for Disaster

- September 27, 2017 in apocalypse, Atlantis, Books, catastrophe, disaster, disaster porn, Featured Articles, Ignatius Donnelly, Literature, pseudo-science, Religion, Myth & Legend, Science & Medicine, science fiction

The destruction of Atlantis, cataclysmic comets, and a Manhattan tower made entirely from concrete and corpse — Carl Abbott on the life and work of a Minnesotan writer, and failed politician, with a mind primed for catastrophe.

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Paradise Found: the Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole (1885)

- June 14, 2012 in Atlantis, Avalon, eden, Garden of Eden, Hyperborea, Mount Meru, non-article, North Pole, texts, Texts: 19th, Texts: Non-fiction, Texts: Science

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Paradise Found, the Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole – a Study of the Primitive World, by William Fairfield Warren; 1885; Houghton Mifflin, Boston.

A book by William Fairfield, the first president of Boston University, placing Atlantis at the North Pole, as well as the Garden of Eden, Mount Meru, Avalon and Hyperborea. Warren believed all these mythical lands were folk memories of a former inhabited far northern seat where man was originally created.

From the preface:
This book is not the work of a dreamer. Neither has it proceeded from a love of learned paradox. Nor yet is it a cunningly devised fable aimed at particular tendencies in current science, philosophy, or religion. It is a thoroughly serious and sincere attempt to present what is to the author s mind the true and final solution of one of the greatest and most fascinating of all problems connected with the history of mankind.


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  • A History of Mourning (1890)

  • The First Six Books of The Elements of Euclid (1847)

  • Paradise Found: the Cradle of the Human Race at the North Pole (1885)

  • A Manual of Gesture (1875)

  • Shin-Bijutsukai - Japanese Design Magazine (1902)

  • The Whole Booke of Psalmes collected into Englishe Metre (1584)

  • The Faerie Queene (1596)

  • The Practical Magician and Ventriloquist's Guide (1876)

  • How to Become a Magician (1882)

  • A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden (1899)

  • The Memoirs of Count Boruwlaski (1820)

  • Choregraphie (1701)

  • A Burlesque Translation of Homer (1797)

  • Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation (1887)

  • Aino Folktales (1888)

  • Welsh Fairytales and Other Stories (1894)

  • Musaeum Clausum (1684)

  • An Account of a Fire-Ball, Seen at Hornsey, by William Hirst (1753)

  • Some Account of a Sheep Having a Monstrous Horn Growing from His Throat (1755)

  • A Theory of Pure Design: Harmony, Balance, Rhythm (1907)

  • An Alphabet of History (1905)

  • Natural History of Shakespeare; Being Selections of Flowers, Fruits, and Animals (1877)

  • The selection of Type is just as important as the selection of words (1939?)

  • Hand book of the carnival, containing Mardi-Gras, its ancient and modern observance (1874)

  • Original acrostics on all the states and presidents of the United States, and various other subjects (1861)

  • James Joyce's Chamber Music (1918 American Edition)

  • Madame Tussaud's Napoleon Relics, Pictures and Other Curiosities (1901)

  • Mythical Monsters (1886)

  • Yuletide Entertainments (1910)

  • Uriah Jewett and the Sea Serpent of Lake Memphemagog (1917)

  • The Eccentric Mirror: Reflecting a Faithful and Interesting Delineation of Male and Female Characters, Ancient and Modern (1807)

  • The attitudes of animals in motion, illustrated with the zoopraxiscope (1882)

  • The Diary of a Nobody (1919 edition)

  • Superstitions About Animals (1904)

  • Across the Zodiac: the Story of a Wrecked Record (1880)

  • Hydriotaphia/Urn-Burial and The Garden of Cyrus (1658)

  • Horse Laughs (1891)

  • Napoleon's Oraculum (1839)

  • Pirates (1922)

  • The Last American (1889)

  • The Danger of Premature Interment (1816)

  • English As She Is Spoke (1884)

  • The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (1899)

  • The Book of Topiary (1904)

  • Wonderful Balloon Ascents (1870)

  • Cat and bird stories from the "Spectator" (1896)

  • Infant's Cabinet of Birds and Beasts (1820)

  • Castaway on the Auckland Isles: A Narrative of the Wreck of the "Grafton" (1865)

  • Letters From A Cat (1879)

  • Quarles' Emblems (1886)

  • The Medical Aspects of Death, and the Medical Aspects of the Human Mind (1852)

  • An account of the late improvements in galvanism (1803)

  • Armata: a fragment (1817)

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