Non Sequitur - Sunday March 27, 2005 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Ordinary Basil In the great rotunda library of Helios, Basil learns about the Earth-bound history of the great city in the clouds, once known as Atlantis. Greek art and philosophy, engineering the pyramids of Egypt and the Incan empire, bringing about the end of the Dark Ages with the Renaissance, and so much more, were all gifts of knowledge from their advanced civilization. "But," the professor said with a sigh of despair, "it never lasted, as the primitive urge for warfare always came back to impede man's progress." "Is that why Atlantis was kept hidden from the rest of the world, Professor?" Basil asked, now feeling more ordinary than ever, as well as a little ashamed of his own ancestry. "I'm afraid so, dear boy," the professor replied. "As men took to sailing the open seas, occasionally some fishermen would get caught in a storm and get blown to our shores. When they returned home with reports of our existence, they'd be dismissed as just legend and mythology. But we knew it was

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