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  Amazon.com: Phantom Islands of the Atlantic: The Legends of Seven Lands That Never Were: Books: Donald S. Johnson
Brendan, a sixth-century Irish monk, was said to have discovered the islands that came to bear his name on a seven-year voyage that may have been a religious fantasy.
Johnson also tells of the tantalizing searches for Frisland, Buss Island, the Isle of Seven Cities and Hy-Brazil, a foggy green isle off the west coast of Ireland that was eyed as a midway station for trade to the Orient.
From the Isle of Demons, born of a fable invented by pious Christians, to the elusive Buss Island, the creation of an ambitious explorer, these places of the imagination are a fascinating legacy of a bygone age.
www.amazon.com /Phantom-Islands-Atlantic-Legends-Seven/dp/product-description/0380730782   (1342 words)

  
  buss | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
Buss Island is a phantom island believed to have existed in the 16th century.
There are busses both within the CPU and connecting it to external memory and peripheral devices.
Some processors have internal busses which are wider than their external busses (usually twice the width) since the width of the internal bus affects the speed of all operations and has less effect on the overall system cost than the width of the external bus.
www.babylon.com /definition/buss   (408 words)

  
 Buss Island
This Atlantic island was first "discovered" in 1578 by Frobisher's third Arctic expedition.
For decades, this island appeared on maps somewhere between Ireland and Frisland.
In 1745, a Dutch map made the suggestion that the island had sunk leaving only a sandbar there, and for the next few decades the island was called the "Sunken Land of Buss." In 1776, soundings at the location indicated shallows, and 40 years later more soundings indicated a depth of 1080 feet.
www.eaudrey.com /myth/Places/buss_island.htm   (243 words)

  
 Buss survives crash, back on the mend 08/04/07 - Grand Island Independent: Sports
Ask Jim Buss of Blue Hill who is among the nation's leaders in the IMCA Hobby Stock division.
Besides being sore for a couple of days Buss was not injured.Another driver who rolled in the same incident, Alan Halte of Grand Island, was also not injured.
That means a rollover, like Buss had, doesn't have to mean an end to the chase for a championship.
www.theindependent.com /stories/08042007/spo_tracksidefossberg04.shtml   (576 words)

  
  Cabinet Magazine Online - Confections of Zeno
Frobisher fought his way through storms and across icy seas to present-day Canada and, believing he had found a clear route to Asia at the third attempt, decided to return to England in triumph—with a shipful of fl rock that was thought to contain gold, but turned out to be worthless.
Indeed in 1898, the British geographer Frederick Lucas wrote a meticulous, schoolmasterish demolition of Zeno’s account, in which he observed that the antedating of the map could be seen as an indirect claim for the discovery of America by a Venetian—scoring a point or two against rival Genoa, Columbus’s city of origin.
Even Frisland was not entirely his invention—Catalan maps and Italian portolanos of the fifteenth century contain islands variously called Fisland, Fixlanda, and Frislanda, widely thought to be versions of “Fishland,” and to refer to Iceland or the Faroes, both known for their plentiful supplies of fish.
www.cabinetmagazine.org /issues/18/wood.php   (1546 words)

  
  Polar Regions - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Zeno map was chiefly fabricated on the basis of a map by the Swede Olaus Magnus of 1537 and the map by the Dane Claudius Clavus of the 15th century.
The Aleutian Islands were also explored, but the ship was wrecked on an island named after the ill-fated discoverer, and scurvy broke out amongst his crew.
From this island at a height of 2600 ft. on a clear day an unbroken expanse of ice was seen stretching to the northward, the view extending far beyond the 84th parallel.
1911encyclopedia.org /Polar_Regions   (18633 words)

  
 Dictionary of Fantastic Places
Britain is an island to the west of the European mainland.
An island discovered during the third expedition of Martin Frobisher in September 1578 by sailors aboard the "Emmanuel" and put on maps as existing between Ireland and mythical Frisland at about 57° N. The island was named after the type of vessel that its discoverers used, a "busse".
The islands of Wolin and Usedom and the town of Barth claim to house the remains of Vineta.
www.geocities.com /pastorkeith/fantastic.html   (14431 words)

  
  Polar Regions - LoveToKnow 1911
The Zeno map was chiefly fabricated on the basis of a map by the Swede Olaus Magnus of 1537 and the map by the Dane Claudius Clavus of the 15th century.
The Aleutian Islands were also explored, but the ship was wrecked on an island named after the ill-fated discoverer, and scurvy broke out amongst his crew.
From this island at a height of 2600 ft. on a clear day an unbroken expanse of ice was seen stretching to the northward, the view extending far beyond the 84th parallel.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Polar_Regions   (18633 words)

  
  Science Fair Projects - Buss Island
It is believed that Frobisher took Greenland for Frisland and Baffin Island for Greenland and the Emmanuel, returning home, made a mistake in dead reckoning and mistook optical effects near Greenland at around 62° N for a new land.
A Thomas Shepard claimed to have explored and mapped the island in 1671.
In 1745 it was suggested that the island had 'sunk' as the supposed area was relatively shallow.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Buss_Island   (315 words)

  
 Buss Island: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
...Buss Island Buss Island Buss Island is a phantom island.
It is believed that Frobisher took Greenland for Frisland and Baffin...Greenland at around 62° N for a new land.
It was discovered during the third expedition of Martin Frobisher in September 1578 by sailors aboard the Emmanuel and was put on maps as existing between Ireland and mythical Frisland[?] at about 57° N. The island was named after the type of vessel that its discoverers used, a busse.
www.encyclopedian.com /bu/Buss-Island.html   (266 words)

  
 Buss
Buss is an alternate spelling of bus, used mainly in the case of an electrical bus, also rarely for a computer bus.
Buss means to kiss, probably originated from the Scottish Gaelic bus meaning lips.
Buss Island is a phantom island believed to have existed in the 16th century.
www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/b/bu/buss.html   (114 words)

  
 Frisland
In this way they discovered that the island was called Icaria (a fairly large island north-west of Frisland), and its kings were known as the Icari, after its first king, the son of Daedalus, king of Scotland (the story of Daedalus, king of Scotland was current in medieval Celtic legend).
Historians usually dismiss Frisland as a phantom island, derived from a confusion of the Faeroes and Friesland - the latter nowadays being a province of the Netherlands.
On an island of the sea stands an inviolate grove, in which, veiled with a cloth, is a chariot that none but the priests may touch.
www.angelfire.com /folk/frisland/frisland.htm   (5472 words)

  
 Long Island Press: Long Island Newspaper, News, Entertainment, Real Estate, Classifieds, Automotive, Weddings, Business ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Buss said he would talk to a couple of other candidates besides Jackson and hoped to finalize a decision in a few weeks before leaving for a European holiday.
Buss, who has met informally with Jackson recently, indicated he wanted to know more about the 59-year-old's health and whether Jackson believes the team can be a playoff contender.
But Buss also indicated he did not think Shaq was the player around whom he wanted to build future Laker teams.
www.longislandpress.com /reuters/12_ds_54683.php   (571 words)

  
 The Guild Companion: The Phantom Islands   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Donald Johnson’s Phantom Islands of the Atlantic describes seven islands (or island groups) that were put on early maps of the Atlantic Ocean but were subsequently removed because no solid evidence of their existence could be found.
Buss Island was very persistent in mariners’ minds, however, and was not taken off some maps until the twentieth century.
Buss Island is my favorite of the islands given in the book, solely because of the way it stuck in people’s consciousness for so long.
www.guildcompanion.com /scrolls/2000/sep/phantomislands.html   (1893 words)

  
 River Cities' Reader - Evolved Sexuality: David M. Buss, October 30 at Augustana College
Buss, a psychologist at the University of Texas who will be giving the lecture "Sexual Conflict in Human Mating" at Augustana College on October 30, has spent more than two decades studying sexual desire and behavior.
Buss' book is geared to the general reader, and his language, points, and analogies are clear.
Buss was first attracted to mating as a research topic in the early 1980s, he said.
www.rcreader.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11568&Itemid=2   (1555 words)

  
 EETimes.com - Technologist backs low-voltage CMOS for SoC devices
Buss' well-reasoned assertions, while appealing to the widest number of engineers and technologists, contrasted sharply with his earlier statements that low-voltage CMOS has run out of gas.
In his presentation Monday (Feb. 4), Buss affirmed that the economics of system-on-chip integration point to low-voltage CMOS processes, and it is therefore incumbent on those attempting to integrate outboard devices on-chip to find ways of using CMOS with a minimal amount of additional masking steps.
Buss concluded that there is both good news and bad news to the speculation that Moore's Law will yield diminishing returns toward the end of this decade: The bad news is that Moore's Law could run out of gas.
www.eetimes.com /story/OEG20020204S0054   (827 words)

  
 Owner defends trading Shaq, plans talk with Kobe | The San Diego Union-Tribune
In a rare session with reporters, Buss discussed his decision to trade Shaquille O'Neal to the Miami Heat, his optimism about re-signing Kobe Bryant and the direction of the team he has owned for 25 years.
Buss said he offered to make O'Neal the NBA's highest-paid player for the rest of his career but negotiations broke down on the center's end.
Buss said he last spoke with Bryant at the NBA Finals, but planned to place a call to Bryant this week.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040713/news_1s13lksqueez.html   (778 words)

  
 Fire Island School by Carla Hommel
Once you were on the island you had to be pretty self sufficient.
Fire Island being 32 miles long and in some areas as little as a block wide is made up of many towns.
Snow days were not a problem since you rode in 4 wheel drive buss all the time, no real gym class, eating lunch at your desk and playing a game of chess afterwards and getting to walk to the town doctor with a class mate if you were sick or had your physical.
www.fairharbor.com /pl_ob_fi_schoolreport.htm   (1410 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Phantom island
Phantom islands are islands that are believed to exist and appear on maps for a period of time (sometimes centuries), and they are removed after they are proven not to exist (or the general population stops believing that they exist).
Some phantom islands arose through the mislocation of actual islands: for instance, Pepys Island was actually a misidentification of the Falkland Islands.
California appears on some early maps as an island, but was later discovered to be attached to the mainland of North America.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Phantom_island   (306 words)

  
 Fakta om island - om isländska språket -Reykjavik - Island - Iceland - geysir - vikings - 101
Reykjavík är Islands största transportscentrum och i hamnen går cirka 66% av landets exporter och cirka 75% av landets importer.
Reykjavík är också utgångspunkten för buss-, båt- och flyglinjer till alla dom viktiga orterna på Island.
Island började befolkas under åren 874-930 och en bit in på 1000-talet.
reykjavik.nu /fakta.php   (772 words)

  
 Hollywood Walk of Fame Star to Dr. Jerry Buss - The Hollywood Liberal
Jerry Buss, the owner of The Los Angeles Lakers received a star on the Hollywood walk of fame this afternoon.
Buss bought the Lakers in 1979, and has made them into the one of the premier franchises in all of sports.
In 1985 Buss started the Prime Ticket Network, which was the first regional cable network to show all the games for a local sports franchise.
www.thehollywoodliberal.com /2006/10/30/hollywood-walk-of-fame-star-to-dr-jerry-buss   (1027 words)

  
 History of Fawn Island, Ontario
Fawn Island was granted by Queen Victoria to Captain Whitley who built a summer hotel with a dance pavilion on the north end of the Island.
The Island agreement was amended in 1958 by the Association and has been continually amended.
Although his family moved from the Island in 1975, he continued to serve on committees and gave unstintingly of his time for information and consultation until his death in 1985.
www.fawnisland.com /history.html   (1118 words)

  
 Oceanic tropical private island for sale   (Site not responding. Last check: )
An oceanic Island situated in the tropics, totally virgin and unexploited, to be developed as a project of a touristic centre of highest standards for the most priviliged clients in the world.
Planning permission for the island is for a world class casino, villas of the highest prestige, bungalows, appropriate restaurants, a shopping complex, boutiques, discotheque etc, price on application.
An island paradise with a sea-front setting below a nature reserve on the West (lee) shore of Carriacou in the Caribbean Grenadines.
www.antibes.co.uk /stratos/island.for.sale   (714 words)

  
 Hbc Heritage - Our History - Places - Other
On a small island located at the mouth of what would become known as Frobisher Bay but was, at the time, considered to be the Northwest Passage to China, he discovered an abundance of a fl stone that, once tested, revealed an incredibly high percentage of gold.
The island was named after the type of ship that discovered it: the Emmanuel was a buss, a small but sturdy two or three masted herring fishing vessel.
It was probably either a mirage, or else a few ships went astray and "discovered" an island that was already known, or a piece of Greenland, having mistaken their actual location for one hundreds of kilometers away.
www.hbc.com /hbcheritage/history/places/other/BussIsland.asp   (680 words)

  
 Rhode Island Hunts: Hunting: Archery Glossary
Buss Cable: A cable that attaches to limbs and to the cams on the bow.
On one cam bows there is only one buss cable and on two cam bows there are two buss cables.
Cable Guard: Attaches to the bow and is used to gain cable clearance for your arrow.
rihunts.com /hunting/glossary.archery.htm   (1160 words)

  
 small - Buss   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Buss may relate of any of these: * Buss is an alternate spelling of bus, used mainly in the case of an electrical bus, also rarely for a computer bus.
*Buss is an alternate spelling of bus, used mainly in the case of an electrical bus, also rarely for a computer bus.
*Buss means to kiss, most possibly coming from Persian: in Persian Buss or Busse means kiss and small kiss respectively.
www.alphasearch.org /Buss.html   (191 words)

  
 GuamPDN.com | Navigator Online
Petty Officer 3rd Class James Buss, with USS Frank Cable, said he is looking forward to marching in the parade.
Buss is one of the 200 or so Sailors volunteering their time for the celebration.
On island for about a year, Buss said the events during and leading up to Guam's Liberation Day celebration are not well known in the mainland U.S., which for him is more of a reason to participate.
www.guampdn.com /guampublishing/navigator/data/EEkEFuuukVIhzWrpwq.htm   (474 words)

  
 Bio: Robert Buss
The earliest member of the family we can trace, for our purposes here, is Robert Buss, a well-educated young man, who settled in the village of Bromley in Kent, about the year 1775, holding the appointment of warrant officer under the Excise Department of the Government.
The district allotted to him being large, he was required to keep a horse, and pay periodical visits to the neighbouring distilleries, breweries, tallow and glass melters, and numerous other trades and factories whose productions were assessed to pay excise duties for the exchequer.
But, where the excise officials were conscientious as well as vigilant in the exercise of their duties, as was the case with Robert Buss in Tunbridge, the exchequer obtained its due, not, certainly, without grumbling from John Bull, but because John possessed a large bump of patriotism.
www.mbuss.com /ancestry/buss/robert.htm   (1225 words)

  
 Phantom Islands of the Atlantic: The Legends of Seven Lands That Never Were - From Monitor-Data.com Store
Johnson traces the birth, lives, and deaths of seven of these elusive islands of the Atlantic--including their towns, villages, and exotic inhabitants such as St. Ursula and her 11,000 virgin companions (what a lure this must have been to lusty sailors!)--from maps and ship's logs.
The islands may exist, but they may be completely different than they were thought to be.
Johnson gives an all-too brief description of the "phantom island" at issue, then launches into an exhaustive recitation of the island's appearance on maps; how so and so in 1524 put the island here, while such and such twenty years later moved it ten miles further south.
www.monitor-data.com /books/0802713203.html   (1206 words)

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