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    End of the World

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    our lives. First‚ the Mayan calendar is also sometimes called the Aztec Calendar. This calendar is recorded as a carving on the Aztec "sun stone‚" currently on exhibit in the National Museum of Anthropology and History located within Chapultepec Park‚ Mexico City. There’s a lot we could say about this carved stone but most of those details are irrelevant to the "end times." Our modern calendar‚ called the Gregorian Calendar‚ has days‚ weeks‚ months and years. In the Mayan Calendar it’s more complex

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    Tobacco In History

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    history was known to have aided people’s medical problems and was also a release for many people. That is also something that people believe it is used for today; as a release for its users. Tobacco was known to have been a plant that was used in the Mayan era‚ in 6000 BCE‚ for recreational purposes and for religious purposes. It wasn’t seen anywhere else‚ or has not been documented if it was‚ however historians have found artworks with

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    Extraterrestrial Evidence

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    like the Aztecs‚ Mayans‚ Incas‚ Egyptians‚ Celtics‚ and Greeks provide evidence which points toward extraterrestrial life. The very idea of intelligent life existing besides our own and that life being extremely intelligent‚ almost God-like‚ can be a very terrifying. The evidence that follows will clearly state that we are not alone in the universe. UFO sightings go back as far as history has been recorded. Russia and Eastern Europe has seen dramatic increases

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    Pre-Columbian America There is no certain answers as to how pre columbian natives got to America. There are many theories based on hard evidence. The Paleo-Indians‚ archaeologists refer to as the first americans. At this point there was no official scripture in their society. Paleo Indians seemed to have paved the way for many other cultures to settle. All though in many cases these native settlers were very different from one another‚ they also had a plethora of similarities. Most of the

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    Alien Invasion

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    2012 ALIEN INVASION? [pic] Researcher Ian O’Neill said that it’s ridiculous 2012 doomsday theories can get. He also said that according to the Examiner.com (a rather dubious‚ yet expansive news website)‚ 2012 could be filled with an alien invasion fleet after "3 very large‚ very fast moving objects" were spotted in some astronomical images. But there’s a problem. The "UFO Examiner" reporting this nonsense appears to have made the whole thing up‚ using a fictitious astrophysicist as a source

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    to believe that we are the only species in the universe. How can we advance in technology at such a ridiculous rate? How can monuments such as Stonehenge be explained without silly scientific reasoning? Buildings such as the pyramids created by the Mayans could not have had been built by human hands alone. Science tries to make sense of everything‚ even if it does not make sense at all. Aliens originated from somewhere and I doubt it was from someone’s head. My mother however‚ has told me her own

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    Laughter as Therapy

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    recognized in Proverbs 17:22 of the Bible‚ “A cheerful heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit makes one sick.” (The Nurse’s Handbook of Complementary Therapies‚ 2001) Some cultures‚ such as the Mayans‚ have practiced humor in medicine for thousands of years. Specifically‚ the Mayan healer‚ Don Elijio Panti‚ whom lived until he was 103‚ was described as much of a clown as a doctor. Panti believed that a happy patient was a healthy patient. Without a positive attitude‚ the patient was

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    Guatemala known as the “Ten Years of Springtime.” Juan José Arévalo‚ who was the president at this time‚ began the period of enlightenment by establishing the nation´s security system and health system. He also created a government bureau “to look at Mayan concerns” (TWT). He was followed by Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzman who won the elections of 1951. During this time‚ most of the land in Guatemala was controlled by the United Fruit Company which was an American-owned company that directed the other

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    the Aztecs and Mayans in northern Central America. Latin America consists of more than thirty countries. In pre-Columbian time‚ the countries of northern Central America were controlled by the Aztecs and the Mayans. While the Chibchan‚ Chocoan‚ and Cueva people lived in Panama. They mostly served as a trade bridge between the Aztecs and the Mayans‚ and the Incas in South America. Following Columbus’s discovery of the Americas‚ the Spanish began their conquest of Aztec and Mayan lands and ruled

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    Brian Lee 4/5/2013 Ms. Suri Period: 5 The Aztec In the ancient Americas‚ the Aztec‚ Incas‚ and Mayans were superior civilizations‚ but of those 3 the Aztec were exceptional. The Aztec represent multiple city states formed by an alliance into 1 civilization. The original “founders” of the Aztec civilization were tribal nomads known as the Mexica‚ who wandered to Mexico. There they were kicked out by settlers who

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