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    circumstances. Popular culture has attributed various disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beings.[2] Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the incidents were spurious‚ inaccurately reported‚ or embellished by later authors.[3][4][5] Contrary to popular belief‚ insurance companies do not charge higher premiums for shipping in this

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    i like to copy paste with that can say for certain what happened to the Mayan people‚ but theories abound and include varied possible alternatives to explain the abrupt and mysterious disappearance of the Mayan civilization. It is believed that Queen Hatshepsut dressed as a man to gain support of the Egyptians. After her death‚ her successor removed as many remnants of her rule as possible. Although a pharaoh‚ her mummified remains and tomb have never been conclusively found. Tutankhamen died

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    god at Teotihuacan and later with the Toltecs and Aztecs. This period was a glorious period of development of crafts and trades‚ a complex religion‚ intensive agriculture and many amazing cultural achievements. Many artifacts suggest that the Mayan society had a hierarchy. Many sculptures and murals left behind represented their rulers and leaders. These murals display their rulers on royal thrones and benches. These types of artifacts strongly suggest that the Mayas had a highly civilized

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    language which enabled scribes to record the important actions of rulers and military events. One of the scribes was called the Mayan Scribe. The Mayan Scribe used a complex writing system to record religious concepts and memorializes the actions of their kings. Lady WacChanil-Ahau‚ the Maya princess‚ mounted a litter decorated with rich textiles and animal skins. The Mayans had a urban center called Dos Pilas. Lady Wac-Chanil-Ahau’s destination was the Maya city of Naranjo‚ where she married a powerful

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    MAYAN Beliefs: The Mayan creation story is known as the ‘Popol Vuh’. The word ‘Popol Vuh’ itself means ‘Council Book’‚ and is the most important sacred book in the Maya religion. The creation belief itself is that at the beginning of the world there were only the two creator gods: Gucumatz and Tepeu. These gods decided to create earth out of the primordial sea. Once the earth was created‚ the gods populated it with animals‚ but they soon realized that animals were unable to speak and therefore

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    The world is full of different varieties of hammocks. There are beautiful and intricately woven Mayan hammocks with over 500 years of weaving tradition‚ cheap‚ yet colorful Brazilian hammocks and the ubiquitous white American rope hammock. But a top hammock store online may not carry them all. They may just specialize in one variety‚ so it helps to know what you’re looking for. Here are some hints to find the best hammock from the best hammock store. Type of Hammock: A hammock should be comfortable

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    Chesapeake Bay. However‚ the ship never sent out an SOS distress call.( “But the region didn’t get its name until August 1964‚ when Vincent Gaddis coined the term Bermuda Triangle in a cover story for Argosy magazine about the disappearance of Flight 19.”) The disappearance-- of the aircraft (Flight 19) was flown by Amelia Earhart from Fort Lauderdale to start her (Around the World journey) but was never completed because in 1965 her plain had circumnavigation and disappeared within the Bermuda

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    Who Killed the Maya This video series was very interesting to watch because I really had no real knowledge of this culture or what they were about. It is so hard to believe that one person who wanted so much power would have been the catalyst so many years later to have a people destroy themselves. One of the key points I felt this video shared would be that of hidden history. This group of people has so much history‚ a 2000 year old history chock full of so many details. Researchers have

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    lives of some of our ancestors. Childhood as an idea is something that has progressed and changed over time. Rather than childhood be biologically based like infancy‚ it is instead a socially constructed idea. Postman‚ in his 1994 publication‚ The Disappearance of Childhood addresses where the origin of childhood came from and how it has developed over time and changed to adapt depending on the country and what kind of society exists at that point‚ along with many more factors. The idea of childhood was

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    is crucial for everyday life and it has been since the very first calendars were created. The Mayan people based their calendar on astronomy. The Romans created their calendar keeping religious holidays in mind. Other cultures used their calendars to keep track of celestial events. Different groups of people created calendars to indicate the passing of time and events within their cultures. The Mayans are an ancient culture that used to reside in the South Americas. Recently there was an excavation

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