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	Walter Pitman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pitman was a high school teacher when he was nominated by Peterborough's New Party Club to be their candidate in a 1960 by-election.
		Pitman not only won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons but his electoral performance dwarfed the 1,800 votes the CCF had received in the riding in the 1957 and 1958 elections.
		Despite Pitman's new found political celebrity he narrowly lost his seat in the 1962 election by 500 votes, and was again defeated in the 1963 election by less than 1000 votes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Pitman (488 words)

	Walter Pitman -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Despite Pitman's new found political celebrity he narrowly lost his seat in the (additional info and facts about 1962 Canadian election) 1962 Canadian election by 500 votes and was again defeated in the (additional info and facts about 1963 Canadian election) 1963 Canadian election by less than 1000 votes.
		Following his electoral defeat, Pitman returned to education as director of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and later president of (additional info and facts about Ryerson Polytechnical Institute) Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto.
		Pitman is also a former president of the (additional info and facts about Canadian Civil Liberties Association) Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/W/Wa/Walter_Pitman.htm (335 words)

	MBG: Research: Ecuador: Flora of the Pacific Coastal Range of Northwestern Ecuador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Philodendron brunneicaule Croat and Grayum — Pitman and Marsh 1085.
		Casearia prunifolia Kunth — Nigel Pitman and Lara Kueppers 747.
		Thelypteris poiteana (Bory) Proctor — Nigel Pitman 967.
	www.mobot.org /MOBOT/research/ecuador/pacific/checklist.shtml (15522 words)

	Flood 04:1999 Explorer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pitman and co-researcher William B.F. Ryan have written a book to document their theory, Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event That Changed History, published recently by Simon and Schuster.
		Pitman described himself as "one of many researchers" who used marine magnetics to prove and measure seafloor spreading.
		Pitman said U.S. archeologists plan to conduct a dive in search of cultures whose lands were submerged in the Black Sea inundation -- which may have been the greatest flood ever witnessed by human beings.
	www.aapg.org /explorer/1999/04apr/greatflood.cfm (1679 words)

	Home Page
		Pitman is governed by an elected Mayor and Council.
		Pitman has a paid police force; Chief of Police is Scott Campbell.
		Pitman is a walking district; it uses no buses to transport students.
	www.pitman.org (530 words)

	Columbia News ::: Morgan, Pitman and Sykes Win Vetlesen Prize for Earth Science Achievement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		William Jason Morgan of Princeton University, and Walter Pitman, III and Lynn R. Sykes of Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory will share in one of earth science's premier honors, each receiving a commemorative gold medal and a third of the $100,000 in prize money.
		Pitman was instrumental in interpreting the pattern of marine magnetic anomalies detected around mid-ocean ridges as indicative of active seafloor spreading, thus unlocking the "Rosetta Stone" of continental drift and plate-tectonic theory.
		Pitman currently co-teaches a course on environmental science for future policy makers at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/00/01/vetlesen.html (1053 words)

	Raymond Walter Charles Pitman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ray Pitman, who died on June 5, 1998, joined the Hampshire ground staff in 1948 at the tender age of 15, but he had to wait six years until making his first-class debut, although the period included two years away on National Service.
		Raymond Walter Charles Pitman was born at Bartley on February 21, 1933.
		Pitman had played in the infamous match just three weeks earlier when 39 wickets fell in one day at Burton-on-Trent and Hampshire were dismissed for 23 and 55.
	www.icc-cricket.com /db/PLAYERS/ENG/P/PITMAN_RWC_01006819 (438 words)

	UAF Newsroom: Guest lecturer to discuss scientific evidence of Noah's flood
		Walter C. Pitman III, a geophysicist from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, has found evidence of a gigantic flood that took place 7,600 years ago in the area where the Black Sea is located today.
		Pitman's research focuses on past sea-level changes, marine magnetic anomalies, and the history and tectonics of the oceanic crust.
		Walter C. Pitman III is the first scientist to participate in the Geophysical Institute Endowment Lecture Series.
	www.uaf.edu /news/a_news/20050422150731.html (326 words)

	Troubled Times: Black Sea
		The findings offer independent verification of a theory advanced by Columbia University geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman that the Black Sea was created when melting glaciers raised the sea level until the sea breached a natural dam at what is now the Bosporus, the strait that separates the Mediterranean Sea from the Black Sea.
		But while Ryan and Pitman do not prove that the Black Sea flood directly inspired Gilgamesh or Noah, their theory argues persuasively that the event was probably horrific enough for scribes and minstrels to remember it for thousands of years.
		Pitman noted that the new research took place on the Black Sea's southern shore near the Turkish port of Synope--far from the northern waters where he and Ryan had worked.
	www.zetatalk.com /info/tinfo27s.htm (1058 words)

	PBS - Scientific American Frontiers \| Beneath the Sea \| Noah's Flood
		But it was not until the 1990's that geologists William Ryan and Walter Pitman gathered clues pointing to an actual ancient flood in the Middle East about 7,500 years ago.
		Ryan and Pitman hypothesize that, when sea levels rose beyond a critical point, the Mediterranean Sea overflowed, deluging the Black Sea basin with salty water and destroying the fertile plains around the once-shallow freshwater lake.
		Pitman and Ryan proposed the Mediterranean Sea surged north through the Bosporus Straits to form the larger, salty Black Sea we know today.
	www.pbs.org /saf/1207/features/noah.htm (542 words)

	Columbia Earth Institute -- News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ryan and Pitman's findings in 1996 suggested that the terrifying and swift flood may have cast such a long shadow on succeeding cultures that it inspired the biblical story of Noah's ark.
		Ryan and Pitman theorized that the sealed Bosporus strait, which acted as a dam between the Mediterranean and Black seas, broke open when climatic warming at the close of the last glacial period caused icecaps to melt, raising the global sea level.
		Walter Pitman One of Three to Win Year-2000 Vetlesen Award
	www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu /news/story9_1.html (564 words)

	GEO World - Mar 2001 - The "G" in GIS: Six Heroes of Geography Sign Fliers' and Explorers' Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Walter Pitman, Bill Ryan, Brian Jones, Bertrand Piccard, Don Walsh and Neil Armstrong recently added their names to the AGS Fliers' and Explorers' Globe.
		Ryan and Pitman described a successful strategy of exploratory research that is, in many ways, the reverse of the incremental approach to science typically taught in school.
		Pitman proclaimed that "starting with myth" is a terrible way to do science, and he then proceeded to show how their cautious, evidence-based research methodically distinguished fact from fantasy.
	www.geoplace.com /gw/2001/0301/0301gng.asp (1768 words)

	Pasco: Charges fly over highway extension
		Pitman founded the company in Jacksonville 12 years ago and runs satellite offices in Tampa and Fort Myers.
		Pitman said he originally pitched the county a more expensive study of Ridge Road that would have featured alternative routes.
		Yet as Pitman's deficiencies from the Ridge Road study were coming to light last summer, Pasco hired the firm for the Zephyrhills Bypass project.
	www.sptimes.com /News/121000/Pasco/Charges_fly_over_high.shtml (1122 words)

	Sun Star \| Story
		Pitman, of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia, said that the legend exists because large, populated areas of ancient Mesopotamia around the Black Sea were flooded as a result of rising global sea levels.
		Pitman said sometime around 5600 B.C. the global sea level was high enough to flood the previously isolated Black Sea basin.
		Writing was developing around the same time, but Pitman said the stories were probably transferred away from the area orally and then written down later.
	www.uaf.edu /sunstar/archives/20050503/noah.htm (404 words)

	Louis Applebaum: A Passion for Culture
		Walter Pitman, formerly Director of the Ontario Arts Council, has taken on this challenge and produced a detailed account, somewhat in the Horatio Alger mould of how this son of East European Jewish immigrants managed to impact many areas of the Canadian cultural scene to this day.
		Pitman does state that the Canadian Music Centre does not have all of his compositions, but this book will not help the musician who wishes to locate works or even the interested reader to find relevant recordings.
		Pitman makes no reference to LeCaine although they were obviously acquaintances as Applebaum was responsible for bringing Le Caine into the Canadian League of Composers.
	sky.prohosting.com /acbm/en/review/31-1/applebaum.htm (1069 words)

	Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - Biography of Vetlesen Prize Winner - Walter C. Pitman III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Walter Pitman was born in Newark, N.J., on October 21, 1931.
		Now a senior scientist emeritus at Lamont-Doherty, Pitman’s research interests have expanded to include theoretical geomorphology and tectonics, with particular emphasis on unraveling the history, causes and consequences of changing sea levels.
		Pitman is a fellow of both the Geological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union, which awarded him its Maurice Ewing Medal in 1996.
	www.ldeo.columbia.edu /vetlesen/recipients/2000/pitman_bio.html (302 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Noah's Flood: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pitman and Ryan's idea is based on the possibility that something similar could have happened in the Black Sea 7600 years ago and was recorded as Noah's flood by the survivors.
		Ryan and Pitman relate how samples from the sea floor sediments indicate a bizarre and sudden shift in ancient sea life offered the first clues.
		Also annoying is the tendency of Ryan and Pitman to refer to themselves in the third person --as Ryan and Pitman, instead of acknowledging that they themselves are the authors.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0684859203 (1561 words)

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		Walter Pitman, special research scientist at the Lamont Doherty Observatory at Columbia University, also will pose questions about whether that flood may have been the one described in the Book of Genesis and the source of Noah’s Flood.
		Pitman and Ryan detail their findings in their book “Noah’s Flood,” published by Simon and Schuster in 1999.
		Ryan and Pitman speculate that the former inhabitants and their descendants, through oral traditions, preserved the memory of the traumatic flood, which they say may have been the source of Noah’s Flood.
	www.umaine.edu /news/Archives/2004/Oct04/101104/Hudson.htm (509 words)

	The Flood Of Noah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Walter is a uni-directional man: he will - he will go down a line of reasoning until he's absolutely certain he's got that line of reasoning.
		Walter made a number of trips to Istanbul on other plate tectonics projects, and began to lean on friends and colleagues, like Celal Sengor, to get a better picture of the Bosphorus which might hold the key.
		WALTER PITMAN: When the Bosphorus broke through, the level of the Black Sea began to rise anywhere from 15 to 30 centimetres a day.
	www.holysmoke.org /cretins/noahtran.htm (6449 words)

	Books: Neolithic Noah
		The first third of the book is devoted to a survey of archaeological and geological research on the biblical flood from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth.
		Their conclusion is predicated on a huge archaeological assumption, namely that after the beginnings of agriculture the ancient Near East suffered a drought forcing the first farmers to find refuge in a more friendly climate--on the pre-flood Black Sea coast.
		Ryan and Pitman claim that all farmers, from Egypt to Europe, and even early nomads of Central Asia, derive from this population, which the deluge displaced and sent scurrying to the earth's four corners, carrying with them not just agriculture but the memory of the flood as well.
	www.he.net /~archaeol/9901/abstracts/books.html (809 words)

	F0241 - Walter Pitman fonds
		Walter Pitman, teacher, journalist, administrator, author, and social activist, was born on 18 May 1929 in Toronto, Ontario and educated at the University of Toronto where he completed his B.A. and M.A. in 1952 and 1954, respectively.
		The fonds consists of material that documents Pitman's career as a politician, educator, writer and social activist.
		As such it includes personal and professional correspondence, notes and speech materials, newspaper clippings and other material related to his years spent as a Member of Provincial Parliament and as a Member of Parliament as well as his unsuccessful leadership campaign for the federal New Democratic Party in 1971.
	archivesfa.library.yorku.ca /fonds/ON00370-f0000241.htm (334 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries about the Event That Changed History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With great intellectual daring, Pitman and Ryan have moved outside of their academic niche to suggest that this event had enormous consequences for human history.
		Ryan and Pitman do a wonderful job of documenting the mass of evidence is a manner that is engaging and accessible to the lay reader.
		At the end of the book, which was written in 1997, Ryan and Pitman state that their more speculative migration and myth hypotheses would be strengthened if evidence could be found of Neolithic farming communities on the sea floor of the Black Sea.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0684859203 (1749 words)

	LRB \| Richard Fortey : Most Curious of Seas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wherever the survivors settled, the dreadful inundation became a staple story to warn and terrify the next generation, an event so profoundly traumatic that its retelling lasted for more than a thousand years, handed down in the oral tradition before it was ever inscribed in clay.
		He used a similar line of reasoning to Ryan and Pitman's to finger a different kind of geological catastrophe, and he made a similarly bold, indeed pioneering, intellectual manoeuvre.
		Ryan and Pitman use this as further evidence that the memory of the catastrophe had to date to an even remoter period.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v21/n13/print/fort01_.html (1900 words)

	EXN.ca \| Discovery
		Ryan and Pitman's book was written a couple of years ago, so it doesn't have anything on Ballard's discovery.
		Which means Ryan and Pitman have been around for, and involved in, much of the research that's been done.
		What Ryan and Pitman do is clearly establish that a flood occurred, at the right time and in the right place...
	www.exn.ca /Stories/2000/09/21/51.asp (555 words)

	Noah's Flood by William Ryan and Walter Pitman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Vanished deserts -- In 1971, John Dewey, Pitman, and Ryan explore implications of closing of Mediterranean Sea, in the plate-tectonic framework of the collision of the African plate with Eurasia.
		Simple engineering calculations gave Pitman ballpark value of maximum water flow through this conduit, using 300 ft of hydraulic head: It would have raised the Black Sea surface by a half foot per day.
		Using average Black Sea shelf slope for wide part of shelf west of the Crimea of 2 ft per mile, Pitman calculated that people would have had to move northward away from the previous shoreline, with all their flocks and other belongings a half mile to a mile per day.
	www.saintaidans.org /sci_theo/past_talks/NoahsFlood.htm (3259 words)

	Black Sea - Biocrawler definition:Black Sea - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While it is agreed that the Black Sea has been a sweetwater lake (at least in upper layers) with a considerably lower level during the last glaciation, its postglacial development into a marine sea is still a subject of intensive study and debate.
		There are catastrophic scenarios such as put forward by William Ryan and Walter Pitman as well as models emphasizing a more gradual transition to saline conditions and transgression in the Black Sea.
		In 1997, William Ryan and Walter Pitman from Columbia University published a theory that a massive flood through the Bosporus occurred about 5600 BC.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Black_Sea (935 words)

	Noah's Flood by Ryan and Pitman @ CenturyOne Bookstore
		Then, looking at the physical evidence, according to Ryan and Pitman (both geology professors at Columbia University), indicates that the cataclysm actually occurred 7,600 years ago; it consisted of the Mediterranean rising in Marmara and crashing through the natural dam of the Bosporus, raising the Black Sea 280 feet in 12 months.
		The archaeological evidence, according to the authors, is that the resulting dispersion of the populace led to the spread of farming skills, languages, and cultures to new settlements in southern Europe, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Asia.
		But Ryan and Pitman dont draw only on science, they study as well the flood stories of various cultures, from Sumer to India, contending that they remain remarkably similar despite local coloring and storytellers embellishments.
	www.centuryone.com /1052-2.html (923 words)

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