[UA] The UAest Place On Earth (or, at least, Colorado)

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Machiavelli132 at aol.com wrote:
> That's not the only weird, hand-built castle in the
> US. Isn't there a castle 
> built out of big blocks of Coral somewhere in
> Florida? Built to Egyptian 
> numerological standards. I can't remember the name
> of the creator- he did 
> everything himself, put down the "Secrets" of the
> coral castle in the 
> notebook, and died one night of exposure.
> The notebook vanished.
> 
> Anyone else know what i'm talking about?

Yep. Someone's probably already answered this, but it
was built by a Latvian immigrant, Edward Leedskalnin. 
I think it had something to do with a "broken heart."

Here's a URL on it:

floridainfo.com/travel/southfla/mustsee/coral.htm 
and here

www.m-m.org/jz/sphinxr.html 

and this one by Christopher Dunn, which I haven't
read, but promises to be interesting

www.atlantisrising.com/issue12/ar12coralcastle.html  


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-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
The Electronic Nation of Yokeltania:
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