{"id":29790,"date":"2016-03-09T07:38:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T07:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=29790"},"modified":"2023-11-19T07:34:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T07:34:13","slug":"sidis-william-j-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sidis-william-j-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidis, William J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William James<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sidis.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29791\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-29791\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sidis-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"sidis\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sidis-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/sidis.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><strong> S<\/strong><strong>idis<\/strong><strong> (1898-1944) <\/strong>was considered to be a prodigy during the early part of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, although many have questioned claims regarding his intellectual prowess<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;<\/span><\/strong>Nevertheless, he was enrolled at Harvard University when he was just 11 years old!<sup>(c)<\/sup><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&lt;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Around 1935 he wrote <em>The Tribes and the States<\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/s\/\"><sup>1181<\/sup><\/a><sup>] <\/sup><em>, <\/em>which dealt with the prehistory of the Native Americans. In chapter one he devoted\u00a0much space to a consideration of Atlantis, which he located in the Atlantic and believed it to be the original home of the &#8216;Red Race&#8217;<sup>(b)<\/sup>! The book was not completed or published at the time, but is available today as a Kindle ebook.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190403114653\/https:\/www.sidis.net\/BioWilliamJamesSidis.htm\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190403114653\/https:\/\/www.sidis.net\/BioWilliamJamesSidis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190722192123\/https:\/\/www.sidis.net\/TSChap1.htm\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190722192123\/https:\/\/www.sidis.net\/TSChap1.htm<\/a>\u00a0 (Chapter One)<\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/01\/23\/132737060\/meet-william-james-sidis-the-smartest-guy-ever\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/01\/23\/132737060\/meet-william-james-sidis-the-smartest-guy-ever<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William James Sidis (1898-1944) was considered to be a prodigy during the early part of the 20th century, although many have questioned claims regarding his intellectual prowess(a).&gt;Nevertheless, he was enrolled at Harvard University when he was just 11 years old!(c)&lt; Around 1935 he wrote The Tribes and the States[1181] , which dealt with the prehistory [&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":[40,7831,4534],"class_list":["post-29790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atlantic","tag-harvard","tag-w-j-sidis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29790","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=29790"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60102,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29790\/revisions\/60102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}