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Lost Worlds is a documentary television series by the History Channel that explores a variety of "lost" locations from ancient to modern times. These "great feats of engineering, technology, and culture" [1] are revealed through the use of archaeological evidence, interviews with relevant experts while examining the sites, and CGI reproductions. [2]
Three-part series Lost Worlds and Hidden Treasures, which was commissioned by the BBC, focuses on the summer of 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, when three archaeological treasures were ...
King Solomon's Mines (1885) by H. Rider Haggard is sometimes considered the first lost world narrative. [1] Haggard's novel shaped the form and influenced later lost world narratives, including Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King (1888), Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1912), Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot (1918), A. Merritt's The Moon Pool (1918), and H. P ...
Various unproven conspiracy theories allege that U.S. government officials had advance knowledge of Japan's December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor.Ever since the Japanese attack, there has been debate as to why and how the United States was caught off guard, and how much and when American officials knew of Japanese plans for an attack.
Burrows cave was one of the subjects in the show America Unearthed, [6] [7] in season 2, episode 5 and on the show Holy Grail in America on the History Channel. Thomas Emerson, the Illinois state archaeologist and former head of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency , warned that the claims being made by Burrows cave proponents were ...
On the eighth and final case, Jules and Shadow track down the lost city itself. Once inside the city, however, they find Carmen sitting inside a chamber filled with priceless treasures. Carmen suggests that she may be planning to lock Jules and Shadow away in the city, but Jules insists that Carmen would not do such a thing.
It is suggested that many points within this debate center around the legal issues involved such as theft and the legality of acquisitions and exports, etc. [65] Two main theories seem to underpin the repatriation debate and cultural property law: cultural nationalism and cultural internationalism. [40]
This is a list of military conflicts, that United States has been involved in. There are currently 123 military conflicts on this list, 5 of which are ongoing. [citation needed] These include major conflicts like the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the Gulf War.