{"id":29435,"date":"2016-01-21T07:53:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T07:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=29435"},"modified":"2023-02-23T08:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T08:00:34","slug":"lynch-george-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/lynch-george-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynch, George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/George-Lynch.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29437\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-29437\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/George-Lynch-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"George Lynch\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/George-Lynch-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/George-Lynch.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a>George<\/strong><strong> L<\/strong><strong>ynch (1868-1928) <\/strong>was listed by Sprague deCamp<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/d\/\"><sup>0194<\/sup><\/a><sup>.329]<\/sup> as a supporter of a <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/brazil\/\">Brazilian<\/a> Atlantis in 1925. Until recently, that was all that I could find about him. However, I discovered that <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/stelios-grant-pavlou\/\">Stelios Pavlou<\/a> had unearthed much more information.<\/p>\n<p>Lynch was an Irish war correspondent, reporting on conflicts such as the Spanish-American War, the Boer War and the Chinese Boxer Rebellion and recounted in his <em>Impressions of a War Correspondent<\/em> <sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/k-l\/\"><sup>1639<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of his life, Lynch was a fund-raiser for <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/colonel-percy-harrison-fawcett-amended\/\">Percy Fawcett&#8217;s<\/a> expedition to find the lost city of &#8216;Z&#8217; in Brazil, which, apparently, they both believed to have a possible connection with Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p>However, the <em>Atlantisforschung<\/em> website is adamant that there is no evidence that Lynch favoured Brazil as the location of Atlantis!<sup>(a)<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog\/index.php?title=George_Lynch&amp;_x_tr_sl=de&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\">George Lynch \u2013 Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Lynch (1868-1928) was listed by Sprague deCamp[0194.329] as a supporter of a Brazilian Atlantis in 1925. Until recently, that was all that I could find about him. However, I discovered that Stelios Pavlou had unearthed much more information. Lynch was an Irish war correspondent, reporting on conflicts such as the Spanish-American War, the Boer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2259,4433,4434,812,4431,4430,413,4432,3591,1121],"class_list":["post-29435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantis","tag-boer-war","tag-boxer-rebellion","tag-brazil","tag-city-of-z","tag-george-lynch","tag-percy-fawcett","tag-spanish-american-war","tag-sprague-decamp","tag-stelios-pavlou"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29435"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57799,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29435\/revisions\/57799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}