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  Lost City
New York City has such a wide array of local traditions, rituals and festivals that one can live in the town for 20 years and fail to attend some of the major annual events.
According to a flurry of recent articles, the contretemps over who owns the right to call the contents of their brine-filled barrels Guss's Pickles continues to rage, with no conclusion in sight.
In her corner on Orchard Street, Patricia Fairhurst, who took over Guss's LES location—the place where most New Yorkers are used to finding the City's most famous kosher sours and half-sours—says she is the rightful possessor of Guss's good name.
lostnewyorkcity.blogspot.com   (2916 words)

  
  Lost city - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cities have been destroyed by natural disasters and rebuilt, again and again, but the destruction has occasionally been so complete that they were not rebuilt: the classic examples are the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, buried with many of their inhabitants in a catastrophic flow of volcanic ash from an eruption of Vesuvius.
Cities which have sunk into the sea include the one-time centre of the English wool-trade, at Dunwich, England, and the city of Rungholt in Germany which sunk into the North Sea in a great stormtide in 1362.
The capital city of the Hyskos in the Nile Delta.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lost_cities   (1195 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Secrets of deep-sea 'Lost City' are surfacing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Scientists report that the Lost City, a bizarre cluster of limestone spires rising from the peak of an ocean-floor mountain, is at least 30,000 years old.
The "city," on top of a mountain about as high as nearly 3-mile-high Mount Rainier, was discovered in 2000 by an expedition using a research submersible designed for deep-ocean diving.
The Lost City is about 4,500 feet deep, at 30 degrees latitude in the mid-Atlantic, 9 miles from the mid-Atlantic ridge.
www.usatoday.com /news/science/2003-07-27-lost-city_x.htm   (486 words)

  
 Images of the Lost City
Lost City is located about 1,500 miles east of South Florida, at about 30 degrees 7 minutes north latitude and 42 degrees 7 minutes west longitude.
Collecting samples from a 6-foot-wide flange, or ledge, growing from the side of the 18-story carbonate chimney in the Lost City Field reveals an opening into the hollow white interior of the flange from which warm vent fluids escape in a shimmering curtain.
The Lost City Field is on a terrace on the side of the mountain, between 2,300 and 2,600 feet below the sea surface.
www.washington.edu /newsroom/news/images/lostcity   (341 words)

  
 uwnews.org | University of Washington News and Information
Microorganisms at Lost City are living in fluids with alkaline pH that ranges from 9 to 11, which is nearly as caustic as Liquid-Plumr, Kelley says.
She says Lost City could be compared to places on land with similar rock that is very old, such as that exposed in Barberton, South Africa, which is 3.5 billion years old.
The field was named Lost City in part because it sits on a seafloor mountain named the Atlantis Massif and because researchers were using the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's vessel the Atlantis when the field was discovered.
www.uwnews.org /article.asp?articleID=8583   (1194 words)

  
 ATLANTIS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The unique beauty of the city, on its circles of land linked by great bridges across the circles of water, was further enhanced by brilliant gardens, groves of flowering trees, and innumerable sparkling fountains.
Portions of the city were devoted to commerce and industry, because the Atlanteans used the discoveries of their scientists and technologists as the basis of a flourishing trade with other nations.
At the heart of the city were the great palace and the temple, which was in more sumptuous: 'All the outside, with the exception of the pinnacles, they covered with silver, and the pinnacles with gold.
www.angelfire.com /ri/allfantasy/atlantis.html   (2597 words)

  
 JASON - Lost City Hydrothermal Vents - Did You Know?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The source of heat at Lost City is the chemical reaction of sea water with underlying, mantle rocks called peridotites.
Lost City represents an ecosystem operating in environmental extremes similar to what conditions for life might have been like on Earth, billions of years ago, or what conditions might be like today on other planets or moons.
At Lost City, an entire ecosystem is living in the dark, in the cold depths of the ocean, using methane and hydrogen as a source of energy.
lostcity.jason.org /did_you_know.aspx   (2850 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: New Lost City Ramblers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The New Lost City Ramblers is a contemporary old-time string band that formed in New York City in 1958 during the Folk Revival.
The New Lost City Ramblers, made up of John Cohen, Tracy Schwarz (who replaced Tom Paley in 1962) and Mike Seeger, were among the most authentic of the folk singers of the day, most of whom were, let's face it, pretty dull.
The New Lost City Ramblers did folk music a great service by reviving these grand old songs and tunes and performing them so brilliantly, and this new release of these classics makes it possible to share in the joy all over again.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/New-Lost-City-Ramblers   (524 words)

  
 City Pages - Lost City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
House of Hollman Four months after she moved in, Carmen Brown found out the city would be razing her building to spruce up the neighborhood.
In 1920, John Crosby, the Pillsbury heir, and Albert Loring agreed to hire agents from a private-detective agency in Kansas City to infiltrate the unions.
Between 1960 and 1965, one-third of the city's downtown was razed, mostly in the Gateway district, which was home to about 3,000 laboring men and skid-row characters.
www.citypages.com /databank/18/862/article3558.asp   (4417 words)

  
 Ubar, The Lost City
The city is referred to as Iram, the "city of towers" in the Holy Quran, Surah Al-Fajr.
The researchers have to overcome sandstorms and deadly vipers to locate the city's octagon-shaped stone walls, 6- to 8-foot-tall remnants of seven of its eight 30-foot-tall mud-brick towers, various rooms, frankincense burners and thousands of pieces of pottery.
The city probably had fewer than 100 residents, but was surrounded by numerous campsites marked by pottery, firepits and charcoal.
www.islam101.com /archeology/ubar.html   (392 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Home - Mayor: Katrina may have killed thousands   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Many of the city's refugees - 15,000 to 20,000 people - were in the Superdome, which had become hot and stuffy, with broken toilets and nowhere for anyone to bathe.
The sweltering city of 480,000 people - an estimated 80 percent of whom obeyed orders to evacuate as Katrina closed in over the weekend - had no drinkable water, the electricity could be out for weeks, and looters were ransacking stores around town.
Patients in hospital smocks were evacuated from city hospitals, and the most desperately ill were flown by chopper to hospitals deeper into Louisiana and Texas.
www.nydailynews.com /front/story/342163p-292134c.html   (2176 words)

  
 ScienCentral Video News: Lost City
Now, scientists writing in the journal Science have investigated a different type of vent formation, discovered in the mid-Atlantic on December 4, 2000, called “Lost City.” Its name is partly based upon the myth of the lost city of Atlantis.
Lost City is different because, instead of volcanic activity, it relies upon a chemical reaction to create its heat.
University of Washington and one of the three people on the first manned dive to Lost City, says the two kinds of formations are very different.
www.sciencentral.com /articles/view.php3?language=english&type=article&article_id=218392015   (763 words)

  
 Antioch the Lost Ancient City
Roman rule continued until 636 when the city was taken by Muslim armies who conquered, in the name of the new religion, much of what is today the Middle East and northern Africa.
The city subsequently was held by Seljuk Turks, Crusaders, Mamluks, and Ottoman Turks.
The excavators hoped to unearth the famous colonnaded main boulevard and public buildings including the hippodrome, early Christian churches, and the palace that housed Roman emperors during their stays in the city, but most of the structures uncovered by the expedition were private dwellings.
www.neh.gov /news/humanities/2000-07/antioch.html   (1377 words)

  
 Eden - Lost City found off Cuba
A 'lost city', that could turn out to be the fabled city of Atlantis, has been located by a Canadian scientific research team.
However, the location of a lost city on a huge land plateau lying at a depth of around 600-700 metres poses new problems for the Atlantis debate.
Paulina's statement that the 'city' might belong to 'the pre-classic period' of Mesoamerican history, and was populated 'by an advanced civilisation similar to the early Teotihuacán culture of Yucatán', is very difficult to equate with the discovery.
www.andrewcollins.com /page/articles/lostcity.htm   (2423 words)

  
 CD Baby: LOST CITY: The Lost Have been Found - from evor
Lost City is a group that has achieved the true heights of hip-hop, through excellent lyrics & slamming production.
The Lost City sound is geared towards a large demographic of listeners.
Lost City is currently preparing for a national release of their debut album entitled" The Lost Have Been Found " which will be hitting the market nationwide February 24, 2004!
www.cdbaby.com /cd/lostcity/from/evor   (1538 words)

  
 Hydrothermal vent system unlike any seen before found in Atlantic
The chimney and flange are made of carbonate minerals and silica dissolved in 160 F fluids that flow out of the seafloor and then precipitate when the fluids hit the icy cold seawater.
A new hydrothermal vent field, which scientists have dubbed "The Lost City," was discovered Dec. 4 on an undersea mountain in the Atlantic Ocean.
The top of this 18-story-tall chimney in the Lost City hydrothermal vent field is nearly 30 feet in diameter and is actively venting fluids.
www.washington.edu /newsroom/news/2000archive/12-00archive/k121200.html   (837 words)

  
 Odd life forms found in undersea 'Lost City' - Science - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Lost City was discovered by accident in 2000 as Kelley and others studied undersea areas near the midocean ridge.
At Lost City, on the other hand, the temperature of the escaping fluids is 150 degrees to 170 degrees.
The total mass of life around the Lost City vents is less than at the fl smokers but there is just as much variety, she added.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7079981   (708 words)

  
 The City of Lost Children
Since then, the filmmakers have been conjuring up their next directorial effort, another elaborately detailed universe of fantasy, entitled "The City of Lost Children." While once again deeply rooted in the mechanics of cause and effect, the new film is also reminiscent of such groundbreaking visual tours de force as "Brazil" and "Time Bandits."
And, like the classic "The Wizard of Oz," "The City of Lost Children" delves deep into the subconscious realm of children's imaginations, and -- most importantly -- their dreams.
"The City of Lost Children" harks back to traditional fairy tales, staying true to those traditions by delving into wild, sometimes dark and scary, flights of fancy...some of which speak to adults as much as, if not more than, children.
www.sonypictures.com /classics/city   (247 words)

  
 Lost City
They revere the Lost City as Teyuna, the heart of a network of villages inhabited by their forebears, the Tairona Indians.
For the indigenous population and the small number of tourists that venture here, the ruins of the Lost City are the epicenter of the Sierra Nevada, a vast, fifteen-thousand-square-mile expanse of plains, thick jungles and mountains with few roads and little infrastructure that's been all but forgotten by the Colombian government.
The tribes that live there refer to the region as the "heart of the world." The Sierra Nevada is also one of the most contested zones of the country's vicious, four-decade-old civil war, with every major armed group fighting for control of the land.
www.archaeology.org /0409/abstracts/colombia.html   (460 words)

  
 The New York Review of Books: My Lost City
Images of the city on big or small screens, fictional or ostensibly journalistic, were a blur of violence, drugs, and squalor.
We thought of the place as a free city, like one of those pre-war nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and lamsters and refugees found shelter in a tangle of improbable juxtapositions.
I was already fascinated by the strange process whereby the glamorous city of the 1920s had become the entropic slum that was my home; now I was discovering that the slum had far deeper roots.
www.nybooks.com /articles/16737   (4066 words)

  
 City of the Lost Review -- December 12, 2003 :: d20 Magazine Rack :: Are You Game Enough?
City of the Lost is a Dragonlance novel by Mary H. Herbert that weighs in at 320-pages.
City of the Lost, Book 1 of the Linsha Trilogy, centers around Linsha Majere, daughter of Palin and Usha Majere and granddaughter of Caramon and Tika Majere.
The character is well-developed enough to stand on her own, but so much of City of the Lost hinges on Linsha and her background and while it is covered here in enough detail that you can keep up with the story, you get the feeling that you don’t really know the character.
www.d20zines.com /html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=813&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0   (1147 words)

  
 Lost City Expedition: Science
This high pH is very important because when the Lost City fluids are ejected from the chimneys and mix with seawater, this mixing causes a chemical reaction to occur that releases carbonate ions (CO32-) from the surrounding seawater.
As long as the Lost City fluids maintain a high pH, abundant limestone will continue to be deposited and the chimneys will continue to grow.
One of the important questions we are exploring at Lost City, is how these differences in fluid chemistries impact the kinds and abundances of animals and microbes that grow within these oasis.
www.lostcity.washington.edu /science/chemistry/chim_formation.html   (492 words)

  
 Another Reybee Production presents... LOST CITY ANGELS!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
However, having lost their governmental funding due to policy changes, the Hopeline is currently privately funded and is in need of financial support to keep the program running.
Lost City Angels have been building and growing in leaps in bounds with the release of their second album Broken World.
Lost City Angels have just wrapped up their national tour with Social Distortion and are headlining their way back East just in time to kick off The Hopeline Tour.
www.reybee.com /lca_tour/hopeline_0605/lca_0605.htm   (931 words)

  
 The Lost City by Robin Hanbury-Tenison | Travel Reviews from Travel Intelligence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Following an earlier visit in 1909 to the recently cleared lost city of Choqquequirau he had returned to his alma mater, Yale, and inspired his friends and classmates to finance an expedition.
For more than fifty years Choqquequirau had been thought to be the legendary last refuge of the Incas but this theory was now being questioned and the lure of a new lost city waiting to be found was irresistible.
Its location is fantastic, with the city clinging to the upper slope and crest of a narrow ridge.
www.travelintelligence.net /wsd/articles/art_1758.html   (1089 words)

  
 Civil Engineering Magazine - January 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The city of Machu Picchu, once the royal estate of a powerful Inca emperor, lay hidden in the mountains of Peru until 1911, when Hiram Bingham, a professor of history at Yale, discovered its ruins.
Within the city walls, the water would be made accessible through a series of 16 fountains, the first of which would be reserved for the emperor.
The canal descends the mountain slope, enters the city walls, passes through the agricultural sector, then crosses an inner wall into the urban sector, where it feeds a series of 16 fountains known as the stairway of fountains.
www.pubs.asce.org /ceonline/0101feat.html   (3813 words)

  
 Ancient Mysteries and Lost Cities, Explore the Past and Solve the Riddles
Built on an ancient coral reef and covering more than 11 square miles, this ancient city is made up of hundreds of artificial islets, intersected by numerous manmade canals.
There are no existing records that can answer questions about who built the city, when the city was built, how it was built, or even why it was built.
Adding to the mystery are the persistent rumors and physical evidence of another sunken city, Madolynym, in the water near Nan Madol.
www.zuko.com /Mysterious_Planet/Lost_Cities.htm   (2782 words)

  
 Ancient Underwater City Found Off India: Discovery in Bay of Cambay Will Force Western Archaeologists to Rewrite History
According to marine scientists in India, archaeological remains of this lost city have been discovered 36 metres (120 feet) underwater in the Gulf of Cambay off the western coast of India.
The vast city — which is five miles long and two miles wide — is believed to predate the oldest known remains in the subcontinent by more than 5,000 years.
Theorists are postulating that the area where this city exists was submerged when the ice caps melted at the end of the last Ice Age.
www.spiritofmaat.com /announce/oldcity.htm   (743 words)

  
 Internet Archive: Details: The Lost City - Chapter 1
However, Lost City far surpasses Undersea City as a klunker.
I don't think this is the case for Lost City.
I lost interest by the fifth chapter in favour of a gem called "The Hurricane Express" featuring a young John Wayne.
www.archive.org /details/lost_city1   (573 words)

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