Martin Stower Wrote:
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> Thanos5150 Wrote:
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> > Audrey Wrote:
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> > > You don't know what you're talking about here.
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> > Uh, huh. Right....
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> > > Howdy Doody was way before Ori's time.
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> > Origyptian would have enjoyed several years of
> > Howdy Doody before it was cancelled in 1960.
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> > > When he was a child "Chariots of the Gods" was a
> > > best seller
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> > Actually, he was more like a sophomore or junior
> > in high school in 1968.
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> > Sound about right, Origyptian?
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> Born April 1, 1953.
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> M.

There is this:

http://grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?1,358167,358265#msg-358265

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Philip A. Femano
I, too, give Von Daniken a lot of credit as a pioneer who raised the archeological consciousness of millions and inspired many of us to challenge the "accepted views" regardless of whether we actually subscribed to his hypotheses. I bought his book when it was newly published, and we brought him to my college to present his material. He certainly was gruff, but very inspiring nevertheless. He was one reason I visited Peru in '81, where I actually tracked down Maria Reich at her home in Nazca (thanks to the taxi driver!) and had a wonderful chat with her about the lines.

Certainly sounds like a nontrivial level of commitment. One wonders if someone had connections at Putnam’s, which gives E. Rutherford, New Jersey, as place of publication for works published around this time, including at least one 1970 printing of Chariots of the Gods. If Femano read Chariots of the Gods, then he read what it says about Baalbek, which is not much, but enough to be going on with:

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Chariots of the Gods
To the north of Damascus lies the terrace of Baalbek—a platform built of stone blocks, some of which have sides more than 65 feet long and weigh nearly 2,000 tons. Until now archaeologists have not been able to give a convincing explanation why, how or by whom the terrace of Baalbek was built. Russian Professor Agrest considers it possible that the terrace is the remains of a gigantic airfield.

Some of us will remember that in the wake of Chariots, a great deal of similar material was reissued, giving Agrest’s proposal further exposure, as indeed did at least one of von Däniken’s later books. We see that Femano was a von Däniken casualty as late as 1981.

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Checking again, I find that the first US publication of Chariots of the Gods was in 1970. One seller gives publisher of the 10th printing (also 1970) as Putnam Publishing Group, E. Rutherford, New Jersey.

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http://grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?1,1035536,1035808#msg-1035808

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Philip A. Femano
Likewise, von Daniken and Maria Reiche did it for me. Von Daniken spoke at my college. I met Reiche where she lived in Nazca. I visited Nazca, Cuzco, Macchu, in '81 and it all came together.

M.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 21-Apr-17 00:45 by Martin Stower.