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  What is the meaning of the word “enigma”?

  What is still not understood about the enigma?

  In what ways is the information incomplete or lacking explanation?

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The Marfa Lights

·      ·  How do the different scientists explain the Marfa Lights?

·      ·  How are the viewpoints the same? What are the differences?

·      ·  How can ideas from across the disciplines contribute to our understanding of the Marfa

Lights?

·      ·  What dilemmas or controversies are involved in understanding the phenomena of the

Marfa Lights?

·      ·  What viewpoints can be identified that reflect bias, prejudice, and discrimination?

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Accounts of strange and unexplained phenomena just outside of Marfa began during the 19th century and continue to this day. Ranchers, Apaches, high school sweethearts and famous meteorologists alike have reported seeing seemingly sourceless lights dance on the horizon southeast of town, an area that is nearly uninhabited and extremely difficult to traverse. The mystery lights are sometimes red, sometimes blue, sometimes white, and usually appear randomly throughout the night, no matter the season or the weather.

While the source of the mystery lights is still a point of contention, the show goes on. By most reports, they are whimsical and friendly; other witnesses maintain that they are ever distant and aloof; and some sources claim they zoom across the plains at terrifying speed, only to whip back around and dissolve before hitting the dumbstruck viewer.

The cynics will tell you that this so-called paranormal phenomenon is just the atmospheric reflections of cars and campfires at night. The mystics will tell you that's hooey.

"What roads?" "Which camp fires?"

The truth is, we just don't know.

Everyone agrees it's a mystery to be reckoned with.

There's only one way to find out for yourself.

The official Marfa Lights Viewing Area is located 9 miles east of town on Highway 90, towards Alpine. Bring an open mind.

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MARFA NEWS HOTEL PAISANO GIFT SHOP Shop Marfa!! MARFA GLIDERS Take a look! MARFA TX: A WORLD OF ART WAY OUT WEST Article in TravelMag.com MARFA LIGHTS Marfa Lights Website CHIHUAHUAN DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE www.cdri.org BALLROOM MARFA Check us out!! CROWLEY THEATER A great venue for music, plays, etc...

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giant images found carved into peru desert

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Ancient, Giant Images Found Carved Into Peru Desert

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Peruvian archaelogists used aerial photography to identify new giant "geoglyph" etchings south of Lima. These new geoglyphs predate previously discovered giant figure etchings made by the Nasca people, who flourished in the desert valleys of Palpa from 200 B.C. to the middle of the seventh century A.D.

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Nazca Lines, Nazca Desert, Nazca, Palpa,Pampas de Jumana, Peru

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Loch Ness Sea Monster Fossil a Hoax, Say Scientists

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World attention focused on Loch Ness and its legendary monster this month when the fossil of a giant sea creature was found in its murky waters. But scientists now say the discovery was almost certainly a hoax.

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NOVA Online presents The Beast of Loch Ness

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The internet's most comprehensive information resource for the times, places, events and people of British history.

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search for "lost" atlantis centers on strait of gibraltar

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Search for "Lost" Atlantis Centers on Strait of Gibraltar

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The search for the truth of the lost island Atlantis has intrigued scientists and historians for 2,000 years. French geologist Jacques Collina-Girard suggests that Atlantis existed, was located in what is now the Strait of Gibraltar, and succumbed to rising sea levels at the end of the last ice age 11,000 years ago.

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Finding the word CROATOAN carved into the palisade post.
Vicki Wallace

Perhaps because of the expiration of his patent of discovery in 1590, Ralegh seems to have lost interest in the colony. In 1591 he sent another expedition to America. Headed by John Watts and including Hopewell, Little John and perhaps John Evangelist, the expedition seems to have made no effort to find the colony. In 1595 Ralegh himself finally sailed for America, but he went to Guiana rather than to Virginia. In 1602, fifteen years after the abandonment of the colony, Ralegh renewed his search for it by sending Samuel Mace, who had been to America twice before. This voyage may have been an effort to keep Ralegh's claims alive by suggesting that the colony still existed. To prevent the crew from spending time cruising the shipping lanes rather than searching for the colony, Ralegh hired the ships for monthly wages. After making landfall near Cape Fear rather than Hatteras, Mace and his men spent a month gathering sassafras, which brought a high price in London, but never searched for the colony. Bad weather was the excuse he offered. In 1603 Ralegh engaged Mace and Bartholomew Gilbert for another expedition. Gilbert failed to find the Chesapeake Bay and landed instead near the entrance of the Delaware Bay, where he was killed by the Indians. Mace may have visited the Chesapeake Bay. Powhatan later complained that Englishmen had captured some of his people, and records show that Indians were in London in August 1603. But by now Ralegh himself was in no position to send other expeditions - he was soon to be imprisoned in the Tower of London by the new king, James I.

The Roanoke colony, however, was not forgotten. Twice in 1604 George Waymouth presented versions of a treatise called The Jewell of Artes to the king. It assumed that the lost colonists had been found and could be reinforced. Waymouth led an American expedition but it went far to the north of Roanoke. The play Eastward Hoe, by George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston, produced in London in 1604, refers to colonists left in America. Its production implies that a broadside about the colony had recently been printed. Christopher Newport returned from a Caribbean voyage in 1604, on which he may well have reconnoitered the route to the Chesapeake. (In 1607 he reached that area with no trouble.)

In 1604 prisoners captured by the Spanish in St. Helena Sound on the Castor and Pollux said that their expedition, while French, had an English captain, John Jerome of Plymouth. This commercial venture had been instructed to call at Croatoan, but Jerome was killed and the ship captured before the expedition reached the Outer Banks.

In 1607, when the English established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown, they were well aware that a colony had been left on Roanoke Island twenty years earlier. The Jamestown colonists made several attempts to find the lost colonists; and investigated Indian reports of Europeans living at various locations; but no survivors ever surfaced. The fate of the lost colonists remains one of the great mysteries of American history.

Credits:
Text by John D. Neville, Chairman, North Carolina 400th Anniversary Committee
Illustrations: Vicki Wallace

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Search for the Lost Colony - Fort Raleigh National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)

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Perhaps because of the expiration of his patent of discovery in 1590, Ralegh seems to have lost interest in the colony. In 1591 he sent another expedition to America. Headed by John Watts and including Hopewell, Little John and perhaps John Evangelist, the expedition seems to have made no effort to find the colony.

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search for america's "lost colony" gets new boost

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Search for America's "Lost Colony" Gets New Boost

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Recent research and a new agreement with the U.S. government have given archaeologists new hope for solving America's oldest mystery—the disappearance of an English colony 415 years ago.

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Writer Carl Hoffman traveled to Egypt in February 2011, a week after popular demonstrations led to the president's resignation. These are his observations.

Tourism is Egypt's second largest source of revenue, bringing in $13 billion in 2010. The Great Pyramid at Giza, after all, is one of the seven ancient wonders of the world.

To visit the Pyramids is to be struck dumb by their monumentality, their celebration of the fundamental human need to create. It's even more affecting in the midst of a revolution, when there are no tourists at all. A week after Hosni Mubarak's departure and a day after the biggest celebration in Tahrir Square, a handful of Egyptians scrambled up the blocks of Khufu's Great Pyramid, but there was not a foreigner to be seen.

I have visited them before, but this time they felt different. Each stone block is waist-high and worthy of awe. I noticed them, not the other people around me. They were mine for reflection and contemplation. All I could think of is how hard it must have been to make them, how much will it took when there were no cranes or earthmovers or power tools, and what that says about us as human beings-that we can no more not build or mark our place or strive for glory than we can not breathe or eat or love.

In the empty quiet I had a chance to talk to the horsemen and camel drivers who usually hustle rides to tourists.

"We have no work, nothing," said Ali Abd el Hamid, astride his camel.

He and his colleagues ply their trade seven days a week, year in and year out, a profession inherited from their fathers and grandfathers. They were barely hanging on now.

"I had three camels but sold two to feed my family," says Hussein, who wouldn't give his last name. "But before, the Egyptian citizen had no value, and hopefully that will change."

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Writer Carl Hoffman traveled to Egypt in February 2011, a week after popular demonstrations led to the president's resignation. These are his observations. Tourism is Egypt's second largest source of revenue, bringing in $13 billion in 2010. The Great Pyramid at Giza, after all, is one of the seven ancient wonders of the world.

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Follow a team as they reconstruct how the pyramids of Egypt were built on NOVA's "This Old Pyramid."

On this Web site, wander through the chambers and passageways of the Great Pyramid, and learn about the pharaohs for whom these monumental tombs were built. You can also follow the 1997 field season of a team of archaeologists as they excavated the bakery that fed the pyramid builders.

Photo: Aaron Strong

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Follow a team as they reconstruct how the pyramids of Egypt were built on NOVA's "This Old Pyramid." On this Web site, wander through the chambers and passageways of the Great Pyramid, and learn about the pharaohs for whom these monumental tombs were built.

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The Museum of Unnatural Mystery Homepage

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