Charles Hutchins Hapgood was an American college professor and author who became one of the best known advocates of the pseudo-scientific claim of a rapid and recent pole shift with catastrophic results.
10 Facts About Charles Hapgood
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Charles Hapgood received a master's degree from Harvard University in 1929 in medieval and modern History.
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Charles Hapgood taught for a year in Vermont and directed a community center in Provincetown, serving as the executive secretary of Franklin Roosevelt's Crafts Commission.
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Charles Hapgood married Tamsin Hughes in 1941 and divorced in 1955.
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Charles Hapgood was struck by a motorist in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and died on December 21,1982.
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In Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings and The Path of the Pole, Charles Hapgood proposed the hypothesis that the Earth's axis has shifted numerous times during geological history.
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Charles Hapgood concludes that "Antarctica was mapped when these parts were free of ice" and took the view that an Antarctic warm period coincided with the last ice age in the Northern hemisphere and that the Piri Reis and other maps were based on "ancient" maps derived from ice-age originals.
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Charles Hapgood examined a 1531 map by French mathematician and cartographer Oronce Fine.
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Charles Hapgood concluded that advanced cartographic knowledge appears on the Piri Reis map and the Oronteus Finaeus map, and must be the result of some unknown ancient civilization that developed advanced scientific knowledge before other civilizations such as Greece.
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Charles Hapgood spent ten years working with New England medium Elwood Babbitt, attempting to make contact with notable figures from the past.