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City of GOLD? The Mysterious LOST City of Z - Duration: 8:39.
In 1925, legendary explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett embarked on an ambitious
and indubitably perilous mission into the maze-like jungles of Brazil in search of a
mysterious lost city he referred to simply as "Z."
Tragically, this gargantuan endeavor ended with the disappearance of Colonel Fawcett
along with his son and a long-time friend.
Fawcett's efforts to search for the enigmatic City of Z and his subsequent unexplained vanishing
had been dubbed as "the greatest exploration mystery of the 20th century."
More than 90 years later, his story has continued to inspire and bewilder many, and it was compelling
enough to spawn an epic feature film titled "The Lost City of Z," which was released
in U.S. theaters earlier this year.
The curiosity and interest on the probable existence of the Lost City of Z have noticeably
grown recently after the film's release.
Aside from that, many have, over the years, wondered and speculated, what sort of fates
Colonel Fawcett and the rest of his team exactly met when they vanished without a trace.
And so, in this video, let's take the time to talk about the real story behind "The
Lost City of Z."
First of all, who is Colonel Fawcett?
Born on August 18th, 1867 in Torquay, Devon, Percy Harrison Fawcett was the son of an India-born
British aristocrat who was a member of the Royal Geographical Society.
By 1886, he became a commissioned officer of the Royal Artillery and was assigned to
serve in Ceylon, then a British colony which we now know as Sri Lanka.
There she met his wife Nine Agnes Paterson and their union in 1901 resulted to the birth
of their two sons.
While he was in Ceylon, Fawcett was fascinated with exploring archaeological ruins.
At some point, he also went to search for rumored hidden treasures.
This interest led to an opportunity of lifetime when he was offered by the Royal Geographical
Society the daunting task of mapping the uncharted areas in South America.
Accepting this offer was the beginning of a decorated but dangerous career for Fawcett.
From then on, he dedicated his life to mapping unexplored jungles, which earned him the reputation
of being among the most iconic archaeologists and one of the last great cartographers from
the 20th century.
He was even awarded the Gold Medal by the Royal Geographical Society, which was a highly-coveted
recognition among explorers.
Needless to say, Fawcett was a brave man, and more importantly, he was a survivor.
With very limited resources to work with, he courageously embarked on journeys to uncharted
territories and these missions often did not have a defined end date.
He would be gone for months and even years at a time, and during these missions, he rarely
made contact with the world outside.
He starved and faced hostile threats from animals and tribesmen who did not welcome
the presence of a foreign stranger.
But despite the odds, he emerged from these deadly expeditions with new maps of different
regions in the Amazon wilderness that used to be completely obscure to modern civilizations.
Because of these expeditions to vast, unexplored jungles, Fawcett began to entertain the possibility
that lost civilizations could still be discovered somewhere in the Amazon.
It ultimately became an obsession of his to uncover one, and he referred to the lost civilization
he was searching for as the city of "Z."
But what and where exactly is the city of "Z" that Fawcett was trying to find?
And why did he feel so confident that he would discover this hidden community within the
Amazon rainforest?
Well, the strongest reason is the fact the such an incredible feat had already been done
before.
Christopher Columbus, for one, is credited for bringing the existence of the Americas
and its native communities to the attention of European colonizers.
And even centuries following the discovery of the New World, many still believed that
there is so much of it left to be explored and understood, particularly the vast rainforest
of the Amazon.
There were even speculations that a magical kingdom of unimaginable wealth was safely
concealed in this region, waiting for someone daring and smart enough to find it and lucky
enough to live to tell about it.
For Fawcett, his drive to discover his own "New World" was strengthened by the rediscovery
of Peru's lost Inca City of Machu Picchu in 1911.
By 1912, he had already come up with the theory that supports the existence of his so-called
city of "Z."
This undiscovered place supposedly had streets and structures made of silver and gold, far
different from the communities and settlements that existed beyond where it hid.
In 1920, Fawcett would come across a document he felt proved the rumors he heard as well
as his own beliefs.
Referred to as "Manuscript 512," this document was the written work of a Portuguese
explorer from the 18th century and was under the safekeeping of the National Library of
Rio De Janeiro.
The author of the document claimed that he discovered a walled city somewhere in the
Amazon's Mato Grosso region.
Many things were peculiar about this city, but among the most notable ones are probably
the author's description that the multi-storied buildings of the city were carved with letters
that resembled the Greek alphabet and his claim that the city's residents were white-skinned
Indians.
While mainstream archaeologists shut down the likelihood that a large city of that scale
can be found within the jungles of the Amazon, Fawcett thought differently.
And so, the 57-year-old British explorer took it upon himself to prove its existence.
Fawcett's first attempt to find "Z" was in 1921.
However, before they could go far enough into the jungle, they faced physical and emotional
hardships that inevitably demoralized the team and derailed the expedition.
The next time around, Fawcett decided it would be best if he went to search for the fabled
city all on his own.
He disappeared for around three months but when he returned, he was still unable to provide
undisputable proof that the city of "Z" was real.
Around this time, Fawcett's achievements as an explorer were already known all over
the world, with the media regularly chronicling his adventures.
In 1925, people was made very much aware of his plans to return to the wilderness of the
Amazon to search for the mysterious and mystical city he failed to find in his previous attempts.
For what would become his final expedition, Fawcett was accompanied by his son Jack, who
was already 21-years-old at the time, his friend and colleague Raleigh Rimell, and two
Brazilian companions.
There was much hope for this mission as it was supported by the public, approved by the
Royal Geographical Society and funded by the prominent Rockefeller family.
Around the end of May 1925, Fawcett and his team found themselves at the border of an
unfamiliar and unexplored territory.
Before they crossed the southeastern stream of the Amazon's Upper Xingu River, their
Brazilian travel companions were made to turn back, and those who remained chose to finish
the rest of the journey on their own.
The last known location of Fawcett and his team was in a place called the Dead Horse
Camp, and for the next few months, he sent back dispatches to advise them of their location
and progress.
However, after the fifth month, Fawcett stopped sending back dispatches.
In the beginning, the loss of contact was not a cause for concern as people were informed
of the fact the mission was planned to last for a year or so.
At the time, people didn't think that Fawcett, who always seemed to survive against great
odds in the mighty jungle, was not going to make it out alive this time around.
Two years after the group's last message, the Royal Geographical Society declared Fawcett
and his team as officially lost.
Many explorers attempted to retrace their path but Fawcett's own conscious choice
to keep his planned route a secret, made it impossible for any expert adventurer to do
so.
Part of the reason why he was so secretive was to lessen the likelihood that someone
else would discover the city of Z before he could.
Another is his belief that rescue efforts would prove futile in the event of his disappearance
and would most likely lead to more unexplained disappearances and unwanted deaths.
And his fear for the latter, as it turned out, was not misguided.
After several decades, no one was able to find the remains of Fawcett and his team.
Even more tragic is the fact that around a hundred explorers also vanished in their effort
to follow Fawcett's trail.
Until now, the lost city of Z as Fawcett described it has yet to be found.
And aside from intelligent extrapolation and conjecture, no one really knows for certain
what fates Fawcett, his son and his colleague faced while inside the brutal wilderness of
the Amazon.
Nonetheless, there is still a lot of reasons left to hold out hope that we will eventually
be able to put these questions to rest.
Thanks to our exponential technological advancement, we have uncovered
numerous archaeological sites and artifacts in the mysterious territories of South America
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It's Confirmed Women are Higher Beings - Duration: 3:21.
It's Confirmed Women are Higher Beings
A new study shows how men's brains are geared towards selfishness, and women's brains towards
kindness..
You know how women are generous goddesses who would do anything for their friends, family
members, or strangers on the street?
And how men are simply� not like that?
New research from the University of Zurich appears to gives a reason for this: men's
brains reward selfish behaviour, whereas women's brains reward generosity.
In a series of behavioural experiments that often involved making decisions about whether
or not to share money, neuroscientists examined which areas of the brain activate when "prosocial"
(unselfish) decisions are made, as opposed to when selfish decisions are made.
Within a test group of 56 men and women, they found that the stratium (the brain's reward
centre, which administers a delicious dopamine hit for "correct" behaviour) responds much
more strongly in women when they make "prosocial" decisions than when men do so.
In contrast, selfish behaviour triggered the male stratium response much more than in females.
In other words, women get rewarded for kindness, men get rewarded for being dicks.
Just like in real life!
Intrigued, scientists then performed a second experiment in which they neutralised the stratium
using medication that inhibits dopamine release.
They found in this instance that women suddenly began to behave much more selfishly, and men
became more generous.
This was a surprising finding, with lead researcher Alexander Soutschek commenting in a press
release that the results "demonstrate that the brains of women and men also process generosity
differently at the pharmacological level".
He pointed to the need for further research, and for the need for neuroscientists to "take
into account gender differences more seriously".
Now, before all the dudes reading this think they're off the hook and can't help acting
in their own best interest, note that all this might have a cultural basis rather than
a biological one.
Soutschek said it was unlikely the differences between men's and women's brains existed inherently,
and were more likely the result of ingrained social attitudes.
"The reward and learning systems in our brains work in close cooperation," he said.
"Empirical studies show that girls are rewarded with praise for prosocial behavior, implying
that their reward systems learn to expect a reward for helping behavior instead of selfish
behavior.
"With this in mind, the gender differences that we observed in our studies could best
be attributed to the different cultural expectations placed on men
and women."
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BREAKING! Trump Just Paid For It ALL – Obama Is MAD AS HELL! | Top Stories Today - Duration: 4:22.
BREAKING! Trump Just Paid For It ALL – Obama Is MAD AS HELL!
For the past 8 years, Barack Hussein Obama made it no secret how much he despised our
country's police officers.
The clown was constantly inviting BLM terrorists to the White House to hang out, even rolling
out the red carpet for BLM leadership just days after one of their members slaughtered
5 Dallas cops.
But thankfully, the time for these lawless morons to run rampant has ended.
Ever since Trump got into office he made it clear that his administration would have the
backs of our nation's police.
And over Christmas, President Trump did something completely unprecedented for our police, that
it's sending Obama and his minions into an absolute rage.
If there's one thing we've learned about our new President, is that he always puts
his money where his mouth is, as he fully understands that actions speak louder than
words.
Trump decided to do something incredibly special for the police officers assigned to protect
him over Christmas that's immediately putting cop-hating Obama to enormous shame.
President Trump spent Christmas with his family at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, which
takes an incredible amount of security given the current Trump-hating atmosphere plaguing
our country.
While Trump always treats everyone assigned to his detail incredibly well, the police
and Secret Security were never prepared for the special thing that the President of the
United States did for them, as he treated them all to "a full Christmas spread,"
that "all came out of the president's pocket, without a dime apparently spent for
the dinner by taxpayers," Conservative Tribune reported.
Conservative Tribune went on:
That's a pretty big move to begin with, but it looks positively great when you consider
the previous White House's acrimonious relationship with the nation's police.
It was so bad that in summer of 2016, right after five Dallas police officers were shot
and killed during a Black Lives Matter march, the executive director of the National Association
of Police Organizations said that then-President Obama had engendered a "war on cops."
William Johnson said that the "continued appeasements at the federal level (by the
Obama administration) with the Department of Justice, their appeasement of violent criminals,
their refusal to condemn movements like Black Lives Matter, actively calling for the death
of police officers, that type of thing, all the while blaming police for the problems
in this country has led directly to the climate that has made Dallas possible."
This isn't the first time that President Trump has gone out of his way to do something
nice for our country's police officers.
Over the summer when one of the motorcycle cops who was escorting Trump's motorcade
in Indiana suddenly lost control of his bike and crashed, the President immediately dropped
everything on his schedule, even grounding his flight, to make sure that the officer
was okay.
Several photos showed the motionless officer with several bleeding cuts lying next to his
police motorcycle on the side of the highway.
As the critically wounded officer was being treated by emergency hospital staff, the unexpected
happened.
Officer Turner received a phone call from a frantic President Trump who was defiantly
refusing to board his plane until he got confirmation that the officer was okay.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department "posted to Facebook that Trump refused to
take off until he spoke with the wounded officer to thank him for his service," IJ Review
reported.
Our President continually proves that he always has the best interests of Americans at heart
with the genuinely nice way he treats anyone he comes into contact with.
Whether it's kneeling down to kiss a baby, chasing down a Marine's hat that's blown
off, taking time from his busy schedule to visit our wounded warriors, or going to a
fallen soldier's funeral, Trump's sincere care and compassion for Americans truly knows
no bounds.
It's so wonderful to finally have a president in office who supports law and justice and
isn't propping up violent cop-hating terror groups like BLM.
You know Obama is pissed to have Trump rip the spotlight away from him, after Obama made
a complete idiot out of himself over Christmas, after being spotted singing Christmas carols
with women wearing pink p*ussy hats.
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What If A Screenwriter Doesn't Make It By Age 30? by Mark Sanderson - Duration: 8:05.
Film Courage: Mark, advice to people who are caught in two worlds because the reality of
being here [Los Angeles area] is that may be the case for a decade, for some people
maybe even more and at some point they will cross over and they will be hosting their
own parties and for some it may not happen.
Talk about keeping your mind right and keeping your work ethic right.
Mark Sanderson: Well, that's difficult.
It's like training.
I used to run as a runner and that discipline of that constant was really important.
And I would run no matter what, even if I was tired.
It's that same work ethic that you need for writing because I see so many writers
who say "Huh?"
And it's difficult, I understand.
I tell some writers that "Oh, I just did a 10-hour day."
And they are like "10 hours?"
And I go "I have to because I have an assignment and it's due and I have the luxury.
That's my job, thank goodness.
Now when I had a day job only once in my life for 2 years, I worked at a law firm.
I had to come home from a full day of work (I was an assistant) and at 6 o'clock make
dinner and then write until midnight.
And then go to bed, 7 a.m. go to that job.
It was having 2 jobs at once and then on the weekends people would say "Oh, come on…do
this and that."
And I'd say "Well, I have to write."
"Write?
What are you talking about?"
And I'd say "Well…"
And it was terribly exhausting and I can see how it would chip away at you, especially
if you have a family and a lot of different concerns pulling at you.
That's why you have to really close the door and say "This is my time."
And it cannot be interrupted.
It is hard to do but you really have to stay disciplined and also I think you have to have
the fire and burning passion to really want it more than anything else.
Because I never put an expiration date on my dreams.
And I remember people saying…I was at dinner one time and a friend of my brother's said
"Well, what if you don't make it by 30?"
And I was like "30?"
And I said "Well, I don't know.
What's 30?"
And to him he was projecting his fear upon me and I go "This is open ended, you know?"
I'm sorry because it's good and bad because you don't want to fool yourself like you
are saying, where after 10 years and you have nothing.
I mean I think after a certain point if you've really exhausted all of your abilities and
nothing has happened, you might consider something…maybe writing is not for you?
Maybe this pursuit of a career is not for you?
And it's a choice and no one is forcing you to write screenplays.
It's a dream.
It was my dream since I was 11 years old.
So am I going to achieve it?
Am I going to achieve it at a level that I want?
Because when I worked in the restaurant while I was going to film school, I knew people
that were actors who said "Well, it's not worth it for me if I'm not like Brad
Pitt."
And I said "Oh, really?
So you think you're just going to fall into it and be A-list?"
Now most working actors or the co-star character actors work all their lives.
The leading person, the leading man, leading woman have to carry the film and how many…I
mean, I'm sorry you look at it and plus as you get older you look at it differently
and you say "Well, I'm blessed to get up in the morning and do what I love for a
living and get paid for it and see it end up somewhere and people respond to it negatively
or positively."
That's it.
Yes, continue to strive for more and other projects and different things but it's hard
and the important thing too is to have people around you that support your endeavor because
I've lost friendships and relationships with people who said "Well…"
And they drew a line in the sand.
And they said…And I was like that's not a good thing to do and what about the last
X number of years I've been doing this?
You're just going to have me throw that away?
You know, the lack of understanding about how much filmmaking and writing was such a
part of my being almost like that of other creative endeavors like drawing and things
like that.
But this is like who I am and to have someone with you not understand that it's really…and
that's the hardest part that so many elements (just like in making a film), so many elements
have to go together and click.
The same way with forging a career and as you've interviewed many different people,
everybody will tell you a different story about how they "made it."
I was doing a seminar recently and someone asked the question about making it and I said
"Well, I think I don't know if you ever make it?"
I think getting your next job is making it and continuing to stay in the game is making
it.
There's nothing guaranteed.
If you're on a TV show, the show is going to end.
And then you have to get up and we're like gypsies.
Find another job.
I have a movie shooting right now in Los Angeles.
When that ends, I mean luckily I have a few things already going (set up) job wise, you
have to find your next job.
It's just the case.
It's difficult but no one said it was going to be easy.
Film Courage: Before we wrap up on this topic, I just want to ask, going back to that day
that you're working this shift at wherever it was, the top of Mulholland Drive or wherever
it was…
Mark Sanderson: Beverly Hills…
Film Courage: Beverly Hills…okay.
And let's suppose you've broken down the event and you're driving down this mountain
or wherever or maybe not a mountain [in Beverly Hills], what's going through your mind?
Your name is in Variety on this day.
Mark Sanderson: Well, I stopped at the newsstand before the job and picked up a pile of Varieties,
you know because you have to.
And reread it and I wasn't on the cover, the company was on the cover, but I was on
like page 13 with a paragraph on how they discovered me.
It's so nice to be discovered and I'm here pouring coffee for these people.
It was freak…there was a fear that somehow it was a big fraud and it was never going
to happen even though…it was terrible.
It was hard to really lock in and then you get home and it's very depressing.
You're like there's no crowd cheering, there's no one like "Wow!"
But then being pragmatic and saying "Well, I have to pay bills."
And there's no embarrassment about doing a job that you have to do because that job
allowed me to continue to stay in the game.
Now yes, the movie was optioned and as movie options go there's not a lot of money sometimes
and then the movie developed 18 months, it was in development with me.
So you're talking about it was 7 years after I wrote it.
So it took 7 years from when I finished it to when I finally found the company and it
was made.
Not all scripts happen that way.
But I'm talking about a spec and so this is a long process with a lot of fear that
can be involved.
I always look back on these stories but not at that time maybe and say "This will be
a good story for the book someday."
Or to tell someone how these things happen.
There's a reason why I think we go through everything is to learn something.
And if we do, maybe pay it forward and that's kind of my reasoning for the book [A Screenwriter's
Journey to Success: Tips, tricks and tactics to survive as a working screenwriter in Hollywood]
is to try to pay it forward and saying I went through all these crazy knocks and these pitfalls
and you will, too.
Maybe more, maybe less.
But maybe if you zig and zag, it will help you a little easier.
But it's all difficult for all of us because we also have to sit in front of the blank
page.
That's where we are equals as screenwriters.
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James Woods SLAMMED Obama Like Nobody Before Him! – This Is POWERFUL! | Top Stories Today - Duration: 2:43.
James Woods SLAMMED Obama Like Nobody Before Him!
– This Is POWERFUL!
A few days ago actor James Woods appeared Twitter speaking his words for former President
Obama's religion.
He wasn't afraid to speak about it publicly as everyone else was so scared to.
His tweet came as a response to Jacob Wohl's tweet:
"Obama targeted Christian Churches and Conservative Charities with the IRS, but ordered investigations
into Hezbollah to be stopped.
Let that sink in" – Jacob tweeted.
"He is a Muslim.
He can deny it, his apologists in the media can refute it, and his enablers can promote
a narrative that he is a Christian.
It's a pack of lies.
Obama is a Muslim and that is where his allegiance lies.
Always has.
Always will."
– James's response on Twitter.
Via Fox News: "The Obama administration gave a free pass
to Hezbollah's drug-trafficking and money-laundering operations — some of which were unfolding
inside the U.S. — to help ensure the Iran nuclear deal would stay on track, according
to a bombshell exposé in Politico Sunday.
An elaborate campaign led by the Drug Enforcement Administration, known as Project Cassandra,
reportedly targeted the Lebanese militant group's criminal activities.
But by tossing a string of roadblocks holding back the project, Obama administration officials
helped allow the 35-year-old anti-Israel criminal enterprise to evolve into a major global security
threat bankrolling terrorist and military operations, the report added.
"This was a policy decision, it was a systematic decision," David Asher, who helped establish
Project Cassandra as a Defense Department illicit finance analyst in 2008, told Politico.
"They serially ripped apart this entire effort that was very well supported and resourced,
and it was done from the top down."
When Project Cassandra leaders, who were working out of a DEA's Counter facility in Chantilly,
Virginia, sought an OK for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and
financial sanctions, Justice and Treasury Department officials delayed, hindered or
rejected their requests, according to Politico."
While Barack Obama was President of the United States the world was under attack from the
Muslim group of terrorists ISIS, it's proper to question if this had something to do with
Obama himself.
This, of course, is a clear indicator that Obama has actually put his hands on something
very dangerous, something that will eventually be his downfall.
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