May 19, 2012

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About Madeleine Noa

Madeleine Noa is a freelance writer from Honolulu, Hawaii who has
published articles on a wide range of topics including spas, real estate development in Hawaii, entertainment, luxury yachts, and history. She is also a copywriter and creates sales collateral for small businesses and corporations.

She has been an associate writer for "IN" Magazine and "Second City" Magazine, having been published 13 times between the two publications.

She currently is involved in the alternative energy industry and in helping to sustain a symphonic orchestra in Hawaii.

Reincarnation

Hindus believe the self or soul repeatedly takes on a physical body.

Considered to be the greatest mystery yet to be solved, reincarnation illuminates the darkest passages in the murky road of life and provides mankind with an explanation for things where there seems to be no logical explanation for.

The Deadly Double

Cover of The New Yorker Magazine, November 22, 1941 issue

Were the ads placed in the New Yorker a sophisticated means of communication for Axis espionage operatives that the Japanese were about to launch a sneak attack somewhere in the Pacific?

The Antikythera Mechanism

The box contained 32 gears, accurately assembled in a box that reproduced the motion of the sun and moon against the background of fixed stars with a differential giving the relative position and the phases of the moon.

Machu Picchu: The New Seventh Wonder of the World

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No one really knows why this ancient city was built, who built it, and for exactly what reason. Equally baffling is why it was abandoned 100 years later. In modern day, visitors to Machu Picchu resonate the feeling of a magical, higher, power being present when they entered the site.

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The Mysteries of the Piri Reis Map of 1513

Piri Reis Map

Considered to be one of the most beautiful, most interesting, most mysterious maps to have survived from the Great Age of Discoveries, it is also one of the least understood maps in the history of explorations. The Piri Reis Map was discovered in 1929 by Bay Halil Etham, director general of the Topkapki Serai in [...]

Area 51: Government Secrets

Warning signs posted at Area 51.  Photo courtesy: Armageddon Online

Despite repeated denials by the government that was a secret facility at Area 51, many observers saw people being shuttled in and out of Las Vegas’ McCarran Airport every day from a private terminal used solely by defense contractor EG&G.

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