Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel travels to southern Italy to investigate how Europe’s growing appetite for cocaine is funding the growth of West African crime syndicates and fueling a turf war with Italy’s largest mafia organization, the Camorra.

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THE TIME MACHINE AND THE BIRTH OF CINEMA

In October 1895, the twenty-nine year old H.G.Wells was in the first flush of his fame and success. The Time Machine, serialised the previous year, had appeared in book form over the summer, and was heading for the Christmas bestseller lists on the back of reviews that were already proclaiming its author a ‘man of genius’. Publishers and magazines were scrabbling over the rights to his future work, and outlines and sketches for The Island of Dr.Moreau and War of the Worlds were being briskly circulated on both sides of the Atlantic. Robert W PaulBut the most curious approach that Wells received that month was from a designer of electrical and optical instruments named Robert W. Paul, inviting him to his offices at 44 Hatton Gardens to discuss a patent that he was developing to bring the Time Machine to life before the eyes of the paying public.

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What Paul had in mind was not strictly a movie, as the projected motion picture was yet to be invented: the Lumière Brothers’ historic Cinématographe exhibition at the Café de Paris would not take place until December 28 of that year. Yet in other respects it was far more than a movie, a multimedia extravaganza involving magic lanterns, viewing carriages, wind machines, flicker-strips and futuristic stage sets that remains unrealised even today. Like the Lumières – and indeed many technicians across Europe and America – Paul had the projected moving image in his sights, but his route of approach towards it was unique, and Wells’ concept of the Time Machine uniquely suited as its subject matter. For Paul had realised that he was attempting to do precisely what Wells’ protagonist, the Time Traveller, had done: design a device for travel in the fourth dimension.

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THE TIME MACHINE AND THE BIRTH OF CINEMA

In October 1895, the twenty-nine year old H.G.Wells was in the first flush of his fame and success. The Time Machine, serialised the previous year, had appeared in book form over the summer, and was heading for the Christmas bestseller lists on the back of reviews that were already proclaiming its author a ‘man of genius’. Publishers and magazines were scrabbling over the rights to his future work, and outlines and sketches for The Island of Dr.Moreau and War of the Worlds were being briskly circulated on both sides of the Atlantic. Robert W PaulBut the most curious approach that Wells received that month was from a designer of electrical and optical instruments named Robert W. Paul, inviting him to his offices at 44 Hatton Gardens to discuss a patent that he was developing to bring the Time Machine to life before the eyes of the paying public.

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What Paul had in mind was not strictly a movie, as the projected motion picture was yet to be invented: the Lumière Brothers’ historic Cinématographe exhibition at the Café de Paris would not take place until December 28 of that year. Yet in other respects it was far more than a movie, a multimedia extravaganza involving magic lanterns, viewing carriages, wind machines, flicker-strips and futuristic stage sets that remains unrealised even today. Like the Lumières – and indeed many technicians across Europe and America – Paul had the projected moving image in his sights, but his route of approach towards it was unique, and Wells’ concept of the Time Machine uniquely suited as its subject matter. For Paul had realised that he was attempting to do precisely what Wells’ protagonist, the Time Traveller, had done: design a device for travel in the fourth dimension.

Both the original serialisation and the novel of the Time Machine open with a Socratic dialogue led by the Time Traveller, arguing that time is the fourth dimension and that it is theoretically possible to travel in it just as we now travel in the other three. This preamble seems rather superfluous today, but it was speculative four-dimensional geometry that gave Wells the framing device and plot mechanics for his series of future visions, and in turn sold his readers on the assertion that the strange scenes that followed were not fantasies but predictions plausibly informed by cutting-edge science. The authority cited in the novel by the Time Traveller, the American astronomy professor Simon Newcomb’s lecture on the fourth dimension to the New York Mathematical Society in December 1893, had in fact been Wells’ own inspiration for a time-travelling device moving in ‘another dimension at right angles to the other three’.

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Here's a gift idea for followers of Christopher Dunn's Giza Power Plant: the Khet Laser game lets you blast your opponents pyramids with real lasers. Unfortunately, nothing about aligning with Orion.

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The Vatican has offered Anglicans a chance to return to the Catholic church. Simon Constable speaks with three eminent scholars about the offer to bury the hatchet after a half-millennium.

The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology's biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers.

Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earringand hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. The 50,000 warriors were said to be buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C.

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A Vermont city once proposed a one-mile dome over its 7,000 residents. (They paid $4 million a year in heating bills, and could reduce their heat consumption by 90 percent!)

There'd be fly-fishing all year, and no more snow shoveling. ("Air would be brought inside by large fans and heated or cooled as
necessary... Entrances and exits would consist of double doors akin to an airlock.")

HUD funding was imminent, and within days the town was receiving
20 bags of mail a day from around the world. (Buckminster Fuller warned their biggest challenge would be keeping the dome from floating away...)

And to this day, the former city planner insists it was a great idea.

"Economically it's a slam dunk."

The build-up to the publication of Andrew Collins' new book Beneath the Pyramids (pre-order: US/UK) continues with the release of a teaser video of the cave system he discovered at Giza.

A comprehensive introduction to the book can be found here.

Well-known authors, researchers and experts convene to discuss latest Dan Brown book on November 8 when speakers from around the world gather in Los Angeles for a symposium focusing on Dan Brown’s latest book, The Lost Symbol which hits bookstores on September 15.

The event will be hosted by New York Times bestselling author Simon Cox (Cracking The DaVinci Code) and feature speakers from around the world for a day-long exploration of Dan Brown’s new book and other related topics including the meaning of signs and symbols, alternative history and unsolved mysteries through the ages. The conference will also include a special live music performance by John Payne and Eric Norlander of ASIA featuring John Payne.

The event will be held on Sunday, November 8 in Los Angeles, CA. You can get tickets to the event, and also a VIP reception and dinner with the speakers. More information on the conference and how to purchase tickets can be found at www.IntoTheDuat.com.

Conference speakers include:

Simon Cox: a New York Times bestselling author and internationally renowned expert on alternative history and ancient mysteries. His “Cracking The Da Vinci Code” sold more than 2 million copies and was translated into approximately two-dozen languages. Cox is acknowledged as the foremost authority on author Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon series of novels, having also authored “Illuminating Angels & Demons” and “The Dan Brown Companion.” Cox’s latest book, “Decoding The Lost Symbol,” a companion to Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol,” is due to be published in November 2009 by Simon & Schuster.

Michael Cremo: with a PhD in science and theology, he has presented papers at meetings of the World Archeological Congress, European Association of Archeologists, and the International Congress for History of Science. He has lectured at the Royal Institution in London, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and at other scientific institutions around the world. Cremo is the author of the book “Forbidden Archeology.”

William Henry: an internationally known investigative mythologist and specialist in the field of ancient, traditional science. He is host of the radio program “Revelations” and the author of more than 12 books.

John Major Jenkins: the world’s leading authority on the traditions of the Maya and how the Maya employed symbolism to encode both astronomy and spiritual teachings. His books “Maya Cosmogenesis 2012,” “Galactic Alignment” and “The 2012 Story” are considered bibles of the field.

Jon Rappoport: a Pulitzer Prize-nominated political journalist who has covered a variety of topics during his 25 years as a reporter and author including the covert influence of secret societies; medical research fraud; and the Oklahoma City bombing. His classic book, “The Secret Behind Secret Societies,” continues to inspire and stimulate readers all over the world.