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    Augustus Henry Julian Le Plongeon (4 May 1825 – 13 December 1908) was a British-American antiquarian and photographer who studied the pre-Columbian ruins...
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    Alice Dixon Le Plongeon (1851–1910) was an English photographer, amateur archeologist, traveller, and author. She was one of the first people to excavate...
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    Mu is a lost continent introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), who identified the "Land of Mu" with Atlantis. The name was subsequently identified...
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  • Augustus Le Plongeon and subsequently by British occult writer James Churchward. The first recorded use of the term "Naacal" is contained in Augustus...
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  • mythical Mayan queen written about by Augustus Le Plongeon and his wife, Alice Dixon Le Plongeon. The Plongeons undertook the first excavation of Chichen...
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    continent's name from this mountain range. Marcou corresponded with Augustus Le Plongeon, who wrote: "The name AMERICA or AMERRIQUE in the Mayan language...
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    the condition of several buildings. In 1875, Augustus Le Plongeon and his wife Alice Dixon Le Plongeon visited Chichén, and excavated a statue of a figure...
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    pseudoarchaeologist Augustus Le Plongeon traveled to Mesoamerica and performed some of the first excavations of many famous Mayan ruins. Le Plongeon invented narratives...
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    archdeacon Augustus Austen Leigh (1840–1905), English provost Augustus Asplet Le Gros (1840–1877), American poet and writer Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908)...
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  • continent in the Pacific Ocean. Churchward appropriated this name from Augustus Le Plongeon, who had used the concept of the "Land of Mu" to refer to the legendary...
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    publications of Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg and the fieldwork of Augustus Le Plongeon in the Yucatan. It was avidly supported by publications of Helena...
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    and His Sunken Continent, he was said to have discussed "Mu" with Augustus Le Plongeon and his wife in the 1890s. in the United States, Churchward patented...
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    Monmouth first mention of Avalon in his Historia Regum Britanniae Plato Augustus Le Plongeon Zecharia Sitchin J. R. R. Tolkien (his Númenor legend is partly based...
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    chacmool excavated from the Maya site of Chichén Itzá in the Yucatán by Augustus Le Plongeon possesses imagery associated with Tláloc. This chacmool is similar...
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    sur le Mexique (1868), which presents a history of Atlantis based on his interpretation of Maya myths. His writings inspired Augustus Le Plongeon and...
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    such as Godfrey Higgins, Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg and Augustus Le Plongeon, alluding instead to possible contacts with extraterrestrial life...
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  • 19th- and early 20th-century authors such as Ignatius Donnelly, Augustus Le Plongeon, James Churchward, and Arthur Posnansky. The work of contemporary...
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    Remote viewing Automatic writing Precognitive dreaming Channeling Augustus Le Plongeon, an eccentric explorer who concentrated on Maya sites in the northern...
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  • Scottie Pippen, retired Chicago Bulls small forward #33 (1987–2004) Augustus Le Plongeon, French archaeologist, first to survey and excavate at Chichen Itza...
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    Fields." In 1850, Covillaud, Ramirez, Sampson, and Sicard hired Augustus Le Plongeon, a French surveyor[citation needed], to create a plan for a town...
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  • Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (b. 1800) 1908 – Augustus Le Plongeon, French photographer and historian (b. 1825) 1911 – Reggie Duff,...
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  • 3
    medicine in India. Three is the symbolic representation for Mu, Augustus Le Plongeon's and James Churchward's lost continent. Philosophers such as Aquinas...
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  • Their account was picked up by 19th century antiquarians such as Augustus Le Plongeon and Désiré Charnay, who attributed the ruins to Old World civilizations...
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    Yaxchilan. Lorillard also helped finance some of the explorations of Augustus Le Plongeon. In 1858, Lorillard married Emily Taylor (1840–1925), the daughter...
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    the name "Chaacmol," which Augustus Le Plongeon in 1875 gave to a sculpture that he and his wife Alice Dixon Le Plongeon excavated within the Temple...
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  • Huxley, English biologist, anatomist, and academic (d. 1895) 1825 – Augustus Le Plongeon, English-American historian, photographer, and academic (d. 1908)...
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    ancient Maya civilization by Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg and Augustus Le Plongeon, claiming that it had been the place of a common origin of ancient...
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  • (1798–1863) Greek; Greece Nikolaos Platon (1909–1992) Greek; Minoan Crete Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908) British-American; photographer and antiquarian specializing...
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  • Paul Taffanel, French flautist, composer (born 1844) December 13 – Augustus Le Plongeon, American archaeologist (born 1825) December 22 – Jacob Parrott,...
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    Desire Charnay, Augustus Le Plongeon, Teoberto Maler, Alfred Maudslay, Eduard Seler, and Edward H. Thompson, although only Le Plongeon and Thompson had...
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