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	Toynbee tiles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Toynbee tiles are messages of mysterious origin found embedded in asphalt in several major cities in the United States, with at least two known examples in South America as well.
		The best theory to date on the tile's creator is that they are the work of one James Morasco, a Philadelphia social worker, who was trying to interest the Philadelphia area newspapers on an idea similar to what is found on the tiles in the early 1980s; however, it should be noted that Mr.
		Tiles that are located in the middle of busy streets and highway on- and off-ramps tend to wear away quickly and also can become victims of resurfacing; smaller tiles and those located close to pedestrian crosswalks tend to be in better condition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toynbee_tiles (1309 words)

	Encyclopedia: Toynbee tiles
		Arnold Joseph Toynbee (April 14, 1889 - October 22, 1975) was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, A Study of History, 1934-1961, was a synthesis of global history, a metahistory based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and decline.
		Toynbee tile photographed a block or so from the White House by User:Erifnam in 2002.
		Toynbee tiles are epoxy -based tiles found embedded in asphalt in several major cities in the United States with at least two known examples in South America as well.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Toynbee-tiles (2580 words)

	Toynbee Tiles - Asylum Forums
		The author appears to be urging pedestrians who encounter his tiles to consider the possibility that dead people might be, or should be, resurrected somehow on the planet Jupiter.
		Toynbee, who lived from 1889 to 1975, was best known for his theory that humanity's perception of its history shapes its future.
		Fundamental to Toynbee's view of history was his belief in the central role of religion.
	www.asylumnation.com /asylum/_r/showthread/threadid_31144 (470 words)

	tile information site
		A tile is a small, manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as clay or stone used for covering roofs, floors, and walls, or other objects such as tabletops.
		The tiles are usually hung in parallel rows, with each row overlapping the row below it to exclude rainwater and to cover the nails that hold the row below.
		Tiles were developed as a product of earthenware pottery, either as an alternative use for fragments of broken pottery (called potsherds) or as an independent invention.
	www.spellcorrect.info /tile.htm (785 words)

	Station Information - Toynbee tiles
		Toynbee tiles are epoxy-based tiles found embedded in asphalt in several major cities in the United States with at least two known examples in South America as well.
		Thus the message might be that humanity ought to strive to colonize Jupiter - as in Kubrick's work - or something greater, to survive.
		Morasco would have been in his 70s when most of the tiles were laid however.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/t/to/toynbee_tiles.html (332 words)

	FarShores News: Extraterrestrial Link To Mysterious Toynbee Tiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Though Toynbee and Kubrick were both brilliant British visionaries whose lifetimes overlapped, my superficial research on the Internet reveals no obvious overlap in their bodies of work.
		The tile is located in the crosswalk used by pedestrians crossing 13th Street on the east side of Grand Boulevard.
		The detective concludes that because the tile maker has never threatened violence in any of his street plaques and has never stepped forward to claim responsibility for them he may not actually be paranoid in the clinical sense.
	www.100megsfree4.com /farshores/n03tiles.htm (2664 words)

	RE: [Sndbox] The Toynbee Tiles
		No matter where you live in the Philadelphia region, chances are there is a Toynbee tile on a road near you.
		First was a layer of street tar, then two or three layers of tar paper "intricately folded," then the tile with the message, and on top another layer of tar paper, which would be quickly worn away by traffic.
		Arnold Toynbee was a historian and philosopher who thought that belief in one God should give way to pantheism.
	www.mail-archive.com /sndbox@sandboxmail.net/msg03471.html (1304 words)

	Toynbee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Toynbee Hall, a settlement in London inspired by and named in honour of Arnold Toynbee
		The Toynbee Convector, a time-travel story by Ray Bradbury, vaguely based on the philosophy of Arnold Joseph Toynbee
		Toynbee tiles, mysterious tiles embedded in the sidewalk in several cities
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toynbee (163 words)

	Toynbee tiles - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Toynbee tiles - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Toynbee tiles contains research on
		Toynbee tiles, Interpretation, People and things referenced, Interpretations, The creator, Deployment, Destruction and Conservation, See also, External links, Graffiti and unauthorised signage and Space Odyssey series.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Toynbee_tiles (1345 words)

	Talk:Toynbee tiles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		I imagine the ones about "hellion Jews" could be construed to be potentially offensive, certainly enough to have tiles deliberately removed.
		The vast majority of them are of the "TOyNBEE IDEAS IN KUbricK's 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPiTER" variety, which causes little concern.
		Indeed, Philadelphians who work downtown, (including myself), are so used to seeing these things, (vaguely, since they are now so worn away), that one often has to point out to them that they are a "mystery" before they give them a second thought.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Toynbee_tiles (199 words)

	Toynbee Tiles - Cyburbia Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The tiles are tiles that appear in roads and link Stanley Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey" with British historian Arnold Toynbee.
		What I can gather is that there are these tiles (made of a reportedly unknown material) located in urban areas in various regions of the world that have been in place for at least a couple decades that nobody knows who placed.
		Toynbee was one of the first to express the sentiment that those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it.
	www.cyburbia.org /forums/showthread.php?t=22874 (633 words)

	Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country
		In some cities, there's another tile nearby that says, "Murder all journalists, I beg you!" In Philadelphia, next to one of the regular tiles, there was one blaming "hellion Jews" for a long list of the tile maker's personal problems.
		While the original tiles are mysteriously charming, these other tiles are creepy, as if some dangerous tile-making fanatic is on the loose.
		The identity of the maker of the Toynbee tiles may have been uncovered in 1983, when Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Clark DeLeon wrote a story about a Philadelphia social worker named James Morasco, who was trying to get newspapers to publish his theories about colonizing Jupiter with dead people from Earth.
	www.unknowncountry.com /news?id=3165 (796 words)

	Weirdwriter: Toynbee tiles rise again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Indy Star has a new article on the Toynbee Tiles.
		I keep trying to get to www.toynbee.net, probably the best site about the tiles, but the site seems to be down.
		To be honest, this is the first I have ever heard of these tiles, and I'm a Philly native.
	browriter.blogspot.com /2006/01/toynbee-tiles-rise-again.html (394 words)

	Mystery tiles found around Cleveland, the world \| wkyc.com
		The Cleveland tiles are located in the street at West 3rd and Prospect and at East 12th and Euclid.
		The tiles bear the message, "Toynbee Idea in Movie 2001 Resurrect Dead on Planet Jupiter." Others vary slightly and say "Kubrick's 2001" instead of "Movie 2001".
		The Cleveland tiles seem to be a heavy-duty tile that, over time, molded to the street.
	wkyc.com /news/news_fullstory.asp?id=10456 (327 words)

	Toynbee - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Toynbee Idea In Movie '2001' Resurrect Dead On Planet Jupiter" is written on tiles that have been applied directly to the concrete, much like white or yellow traffic lines.
		Someone at some point placed what are known as "Toynbee tiles" in at least two crosswalks Downtown; one remains.
		The Toynbee message is at the intersection of Smithfield St. and Forbes Ave.
	www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/thread18908/pg (851 words)

	Toynbee tiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The "toynbee" referred to in the text is almost certainly
		However the text as a whole does not appear to reference any particular idea, the concept of raising the dead is not a part of any of Toynbee's writings nor Kubrick's (although it could be weakly argued it did in the sequel to 2001, ', although that was not written nor directed by Kubrick).
		Toynbee">Arnold J. Toynbee reference comes from the science fiction writer Ray Bradbury's short story "The Toynbee Convector", which alludes to Toynbee's idea that in order to survive, humankind must always rush to meet the future, i.e.
	www.aseannewsnetwork.com /articles/content/t/to/toynbee_tiles.html (564 words)

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		For the past 10 years reports of tiles, embedded in the streets bearing the message, “Toynbee Idea in Kubrick’s 2001 Resurrect Dead On Planet Jupiter,” have been capturing the attention of citizens in almost two dozen cities from New York to Santiago, Chile.
		Clarke, like Toynbee, was a Brit and it is not at all unlikely that Clarke may have been exposed to Toynbee’s tomes as part of his formal education.
		This tile, along with the South American example that clearly lists a Philadelphia address, is one of the most informative.
	www.abinka.org /art/tiles-nov_03.html (1264 words)

	Damn Interesting » The Mysterious Toynbee Tiles
		Some of the tiles mention Kubrick, the filmmaker responsible for 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was a movie that made implications that a man was reborn on a mission to Jupiter, not exactly resurrected.
		Due to strong similarity in craftsmanship and writing style, these tiles are most likely the work of a single individual (in the interest of conserving slashes and pronouns, we'll assume this individual is a male).
		The most tantalizing clue as to the source of these tiles was a 1983 newspaper interview with a social worker from Philadelphia, a man named James Morasco, who claimed that Jupiter could be colonized by bringing Earth's dead people there to have them resurrected.
	www.damninteresting.com /?p=29 (1162 words)

	Toynbee tiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		U.S.S.R., which had been gone for years by the time this photo was taken.]] Toynbee tiles are messages of mysterious origin found embedded in asphalt in several major cities in the United States, with at least two known examples in South America as well.
		in Philadelphia A possible Interpretation is that the Toynbee reference comes from the science fiction writer Ray Bradburys short story "The Toynbee Convector", which alludes to Toynbees idea that in order to survive, humankind must always rush to meet the future, i.e.
		John Knight sent the Mafia to murder me in May 1991 [illegible] journalists [illegible] then gloated to my face about death and Knight Ridder great power to destroy.
	toynbee-tiles.borgfind.com (971 words)

	UNKNOWN NEWS
		Turns out there have been more than 130 documented sightings of these "Toynbee tiles" — as they're nicknamed on the Net — in at least 20 cities around the United States (and two in South America!).
		Though Toynbee and Kubrick were both brilliant visionaries whose lifetimes overlapped, my superficial research on the Internet reveals no obvious overlap in their bodies of work.
		"Maybe the tile is emitting some kind of cosmic ray that affects people's thinking when they get close to it," Butler deadpans.
	www.unknownnews.net /030909toynbee.html (2757 words)

	Dovate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Two of my Toynbee tile articles are set for publication in a low distribution, yet internationally read UK sci-fi fanzine.
		The tile says that A. Toynbee can be reached by writing to this address.
		Tile researcher Justin Duerr recently made a discovery that has opened up a whole new road in tile research.
	www.dovate.com (4830 words)

	TOYNBEE TILES PHILADELPHIA: Welcome to the Philadelphia Toynbee club! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I started this blog to document the mystery behind the Toynbee tiles in Philadelphia.
		The first process is to get a complete list of any tiles found in the city of brothers love.
		we're making a documentary film on the toynbee tile subject, and would like to talk if you're interested.
	www.falsestart.org /2005/05/welcome-to-philadelphia-toynbee-club.html (163 words)

	Untitled Document
		Their most recent book, Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook, gives a highly detailed account of the physical makeup of the Tiles and encourages readers to make their own tiles and, ultimately, create a whole new art movement.
		GEOCACHING (An internet-based "entertaining adventure game" that resembles a scavenger hunt, the Geocachers set up a search for Toynbee Tiles that requires the player to attune their computer to the coordinates of a given Tile to receive points.
		FOUR A.M. Short play by David Mamet published in 1983 in which a caller to a late night radio talkshow describes his fledgling organization dedicated to repopulating Jupiter with the dead of Earth.
	www.resurrectdead.com /mystery_links.htm (426 words)

	Toynbee tiles - Topic Powered by Groupee Community
		September 08, 2003 07:48 AM Most of you probablly read slashdot, but for the few that don't and so that any sensible discusion has a chance...
		Whats the overall meaning of the tiles, who is creating them and so on.
		who knows what the original starter had really in mind (what I've gleaned from all those Toynbee sites is too weird, too complex); now maybe it's become one more of all those "art attacks".
	williamgibsonboard.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/2866012481/m/5116043124 (113 words)

	CityBeat: Out of This World (2001-08-02)
		The red, white and blue Toynbee Tiles have appeared in Philadelphia, New York City, Baltimore and Washington D.C., each city having at least 25 embedded in intersections within their municipal boundaries.
		Inevitably, the Internet is abuzz with speculation about the Toynbee Tiles -- their clandestine installation, their material substance, their global proliferation, the connection between Toynbee and Kubrick.
		A year later, I was researching Toynbee's writings when I came across a Web site devoted entirely to collecting and cataloging the whereabouts and condition of Toynbee Tiles around the world.
	www.citybeat.com /2001-08-02/news.shtml (1760 words)

	What Is It?
		Toynbee to see what his connection to the plaques may be.
		Then there are variations such as colored borders- sometimes with text within it- and some that don't involve any of these themes and look like public displays of paranoia (see the intersection of E. 47th Street and 5th Avenue, for example).
		I believe one of them even had a tiled effect within the letters themselves (couldn't investigate too much due to traffic!).
	www.toynbee.net (1044 words)

	Probably of interest only to me: What Is It?
		Around the U.S. - indeed, around the world - people have found "tiles" embedded in the streets bearing cryptic messages referring to Arnold Toynbee, Stanley Kubrick, the film "2001: A Space Odessey" and the dead being ressurected on planet Jupiter.
		I first saw one of Cincinnati's two Toynbee tiles probably around 1999, and didn't think twice about it until a local free paper did a small write-up on them a few months ago.
		If anyone knows of other sites, has seen the tiles, or has any thoughts to share on this subject, I'd love to hear from you.
	www.curiouserandcuriouser.com /onlytome/000008.html (200 words)

	Latest News: Toynbee Tiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		If you have not yet heard of this intriguing global mystery, take some time to explore it.
		This is a picture a friend and I took of one of the two such tiles in downtown St. Louis.
		The text in the red border at the bottom reads, "You must make + glue tiles.
	snewpy.com /news/archive/2003/09/toynbee_tiles.html (67 words)

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