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		<title>Solar Max And the End of the World 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, my favorite NPR station&#8217;s network broadcast was interrupted. The local technicians had to improvise for a couple hours, because the satellite carrying their news feed was temporarily shut down by an electronic storm from the sun. This is the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://markvanstone.com/solar-max-and-the-end-of-the-world-2012/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Did Spacemen Visit the Ancient Maya?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A university student in Memphis poses the question: Did the Ancient Maya have extraterrestrial help to achieve their civilization? Ever since I was a child wondering at the night sky, I have hoped and wished to see a UFO. I &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://markvanstone.com/did-spacemen-visit-the-ancient-maya/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Yaxchilan, Jewel of the Usumacinta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A four- to five-hour trek by road and a one-hour speedboat ride down the broad Usumacinta (which forms here the border between Mexico and Guatemala) brings the intrepid traveler to the riverbank-city-ruin of Yaxchilan, strategically located on a forested oxbow-peninsula, &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://markvanstone.com/yaxchilan-jewel-of-the-usumacinta/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Palenque</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Visitors to Palenque can spend days bedazzled by the many ancient  buildings in various states of picturesque decay and reconstruction.  Set on a jungled hillside overlooking the plains of Chiapas and Tabasco to the north, the ruined city is sometimes &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://markvanstone.com/palenque/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Teotihuacan, &#8220;The Place Where Men Became Gods&#8221;!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Teotihuacan is pretty convenient to Mexico City. A short bus-ride from the Bus terminal Norte, for 36 Pesos, and the ticket seller gave me my first lesson (on this trip) in caveat emptor: &#8220;The bus leaves in three minutes,&#8221; he &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://markvanstone.com/teotihuacan-the-place-where-men-became-gods/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://markvanstone.com/teotihuacan-the-place-where-men-became-gods/</link>
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		<title>A week among the wonders of (mostly) ancient Mexico and the jungle!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dazzling churches! Frida &#38; Diego! Great cuisine! Pyramids! Sublime sculpture! Hieroglyphs! Mysteries! Howler Monkeys! Dawn chorus of a million birds! Dark, vaulted chambers, stone walls sweating, ceilings hung with bats! Leafcutter ants! Army ants! Biting ants! Stinging ants! Malarial mosquitoes! &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://markvanstone.com/a-week-among-the-wonders-of-mostly-ancient-mexico-and-the-jungle/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://markvanstone.com/a-week-among-the-wonders-of-mostly-ancient-mexico-and-the-jungle/</link>
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		<title>Revisioning the Maya Tour Log</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1 June 2011 Tomorrow I set off with two friends for Mexico City.  For twelve days, we journey slowly across southern Mexico, eastward, toward what the Aztecs called &#8220;The Land of the Red and the Black&#8221;&#8230;  For the Aztecs, these &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://markvanstone.com/revisioning-the-maya-tour-log/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Glyphs &#8211; The Ancient Maya and the Film Industry, Part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Precious Few Films Attempt to Portray the Ancient Maya in a Sympathetic and Realistic Way. The documentary-film industry has found the &#8220;Mysterious Maya&#8221;, &#8220;Mayan Calendar Prophecy&#8221; and the &#8220;2012 End of the World&#8221; to be fertile soil. There are so &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://markvanstone.com/the-ancient-maya-and-the-film-industry-part-i/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://markvanstone.com/the-ancient-maya-and-the-film-industry-part-i/</link>
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		<title>Glyphs &#8211; The Ancient Maya and the Film Industry, Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another Good Documentary and a Couple Feature Films National Geographic, once reknowned for the quality of its features about the Maya (and the ancient Americas in general), has lost a little of its Mesoamerican creds since George Stuart retired. One &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://markvanstone.com/glyphs-the-ancient-maya-and-the-film-industry-part-ii/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://markvanstone.com/glyphs-the-ancient-maya-and-the-film-industry-part-ii/</link>
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		<title>Glyphs &#8211; The Ancient Maya and the Film Industry, Part III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blood, Gore and Gibson Mel Gibson&#8217;s Apocalypto has the unique distinction of being the only feature film whose dialogue is entirely in the lovely Mayan language. This remarkable feature is offset, of course: Gibson portrays the Maya as either Noble &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://markvanstone.com/glyphs-the-ancient-maya-and-the-film-industry-part-iii/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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