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Originally Posted by brown77
This quote sparked some some interesting weekend reading:
"Piri Reis 16th century Turkish Admiral's Map - 1531 A.D. accurately shows the topography of northern Antarctica (now covered by mile-high ice)...we didn't have ground penetrating radar until 1958... Check to see the last time Antarctica was not covered by ice and now you have found a mystery."
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I got invited to a "Mensa" social event in '74 (don't ask!), and many of the braniacs were discussing "Cayce" (pronounced "Casey") and Piri Reis (pronouned "PeeRee Reese"). I came in during the middle of their discussion of aliens, UFO's, etc. and thought they were talking about Casey (as in Stengel) and PeeWEE Reese, as in shortstop, and began talking baseball.
I didn't get invited back, and our "company clerk" who had invited me based on my glorious GT score, did not talk to me for a month or more.
Of course, that was similar to the time I fell asleep in my college English class and awoke to their discussion of "youth in Asia." I launched into a diatribe about Mao, his little "Red Book," and the Red Guard only to be met with weird looks. It seems they were discussing "euthanasia" instead. Ooops.