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David Block

David Block

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Sep 25, 2026

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Abbey.
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The folk legends of Pommern Pomerania and the Iceland of Rügen form a rich tapestry of pre-Christian Slavic mythology, Viking history and Germanic folklore.
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For centuries, collectors like Jodikus Diodatus Hubertus Temme, Die Volkssagen von Pommern und Rügen, 1840, and Alfred Haas gathered these stories, preserving tales of pagan gods, mysterious Iceland, and sunken civilizations.
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Cheap among these tales is the legendary story of Veneta, famously known as the Atlantis of the Baltic Sea.
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The Wallen-Jongsborg connection, most contemporary researchers identify Veneta with the early medieval Slavic Viking trade port of Wallin, located on the modern Polish island of Wallin.
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Excavation have revealed a massive 10th century multi-ethnic trading hub, which matches the scale of the Veneta described by chronicles like Adam of Bremen.
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And Adam of Bremen was a real person who existed.

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Chapter 11, For Whom the Bell
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away.
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Thank you, Hugh.
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Well, of course, it is such a treasure to have a friendship with yourself and with beloved Kathy Gamebeck, as you say, to the 1980s.
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I am the Director of Reasons to Believe Africa, which is an exceedingly interesting offshoot of Reasons to Believe U.S., which you founded, because there is such a need for apologetics on the continent of Africa.
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And as it turns out, the eclipse of the century, which we'll jump into in due course, is happening on the continent of Africa too.
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I was trained, Hugh, as you know, in applied mathematics, general relativity and and galaxies.
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So essentially my background is applied mathematics and astronomy and then thrown in some relativistic astrophysics.

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Yeah, tell us about the eclipse in Egypt that's going to be taking place.
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Right
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... either in the year ahead or same year or year behind.
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It w- so it was kind of like, you know, I had close friends.
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Um, you know, I, I was married at the time to, uh, Rachel and Anna's mom, and, and, you know, we, we enjoyed Birmingham.
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Rachel was born in Birmingham.
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We liked Birmingham.
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Um, and probably would've stayed there.

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Right.
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And, uh, yeah, get us started, David.
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Yeah.
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So a new presentation for you, Beyond the 13th Floor: The Wizard and the Tower.
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So I will take you on a journey here, and I hope you will like it.
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This, uh, presentation comes in 13 parts, of course, and a prologue and an epilogue.
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So in chapter one, Kalinda and the Red Slippers.
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Chapter two, Become the Magus.

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Experience it in Dolby Cinema.

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