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Charles Hutchins Hapgood (May 17, 1904 – December 21, 1982) [ 1 ] was an American college professor and author who became one of the best known advocates of the pseudo-scientific claim of a rapid and recent pole shift with catastrophic results.
ISBN. 978-0-517-88729-5. Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization is a 1995 pseudoarcheology [ 1 ][ 2 ] book by British writer Graham Hancock, which contends that an advanced civilization existed in prehistory, one which served as the common progenitor civilization to all subsequent known ancient historical ones.
In his books The Earth's Shifting Crust (1958) (which includes a foreword by Albert Einstein) [15] [16] and Path of the Pole (1970), Hapgood speculated that accumulated polar ice mass destabilizes Earth's rotation, causing crustal displacement but not disturbing Earth's axial orientation. Hapgood argued that shifts (of no more than 40 degrees ...
Hapgood mistakenly believed that Antarctica had been free of ice in 17,000 BC and partially ice-free as late as 4,000 BC. [105] This erroneous date range could have put the mapping of Antarctica contemporary with many known prehistoric societies. More recent ice core data shows that Antarctica was last free of ice over ten million years ago. [106]
McClure's expedition returned after finding an ice-bound route that connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. [6] The Northwest Passage was not navigated by boat until 1906, when Roald Amundsen traversed the passage on the Gjøa. In 2014, a search team led by Parks Canada [7] located the wreck of Erebus in the eastern portion of Queen ...
The United States has dominated the Presidents Cup, with a 12-1-1 record. The 15th playing of the event will take place at Royal Montreal Golf Club.
Hapgood was born to Charles Hutchins Hapgood (1836–1917) and Fanny Louise (Powers) Hapgood (1846–1922) and grew up in Alton, Illinois, where his father was a wealthy manufacturer of farming equipment. He is the younger brother of the journalist and diplomat Norman Hapgood. After a year at the University of Michigan, he transferred to ...
October 6, 2024 at 6:34 AM. (Reuters) -Chinese hackers accessed the networks of U.S. broadband providers and obtained information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized ...