Today, the search for the "Lost City of Atlantis" continues based in part, on Zeus's account that the Grand Island existed. (The Learning Channel, episode: Atlantis - The Lost City) Fairy tales span the globe. ... People in Briton told the same stories as people in New Zealand" (Jeffies, 1998, p. 69). ... Some of these new tales still use the old tales for reference and are simply digitally re-mastered. Other stories are entirely new and could carry on the tradition of story telling for thousands of years. ...

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The Space Shuttle Program has built a total of five shuttles: Columbia, Discovery, Endeavor, Atlantis, and Challenger. ... A new Checkout and Launch Control System is under development at the Kennedy Space Center to facilitate this goal. ...

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Stories such as Atlantis, and Ovid's Daedalus and Icarus were spawned from these people. ... The Hyksos brought some positives to Egypt in the form of new agricultural tools and weapons made from bronze. The Hyksos invasion was short-lived as by the end of the sixteenth century they were eventually undone by their own hand, when the Egyptians used their new-found weaponry against them and drove the Hyksos from Egypt under the rule of pharaoh Ahmose I. 5. ... Before his death, Amenhotep would attempt to change the capital city from Thebes to Akhetaten (Horizon of Aten), a new city about 2...

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They set about clearing plains and during Partholon's reign, it is said that seven new lochs and nine new rivers 'burst forth' indicating his sovereignty and linking him to the land. ... The survivors of Nemeth's people fled to a far Northern island (some have said to Atlantis). ...

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