posted 07-09-2001 03:59 PM            

According to my friend, it's all loosely based on a girl named Abigail Croft. Abby lived in England during the late 1800s in a place called Huddersfield (is there even such a place?) Anyway, she was the daughter of an eccentric archeologist named Henry Croft. Henry began an expedition to find Atlantis. His knowledge was primarily based on the findings of Lewis Spence, a Scottish mythologist and historian (keep in mind, this was before psychic Edgar Cayce really got everybody going on the whole thing.) Needless to say, not too many people were willing to go along with him on this venture, and so he allowed his daughter to come along for companionship. Their search took them to Azore islands, rumored to be the tips of Atlantean mountains. Henry fell ill with malaria about a month into the expedition, and eventually died. Abigail, only 18 at the time, decided to continue the expedition on her own. She never returned home.
Of course, Eidos took several liberties with the character. Abigail, according to the story, abhored violence (and never killed a t-rex!)

posted 07-09-2001 04:01 PM               

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posted 07-10-2001 01:13 PM               

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Of course, Eidos took several liberties with the character. Abigail, according to the story, abhored violence (and never killed a t-rex!)

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All phenomena possess two natures
That which is revealed by correct perception
And that which is induced by deceptive perception.
The object of correct perception is ultimate reality.
The object of deceptive perception is conventional reality.

posted 07-10-2001 05:19 PM            

in turn, the Indy Jones character was
inspired by a real person:
Dr. Roy Chapman,

explorer of the Gobi Desert &
other places(1920's)who was an
admirer of:

1840's adventurer John Lloyd Stevens (discovered the Mayan cities of
the Yucatan...)

it all comes around...

posted 07-10-2001 08:22 PM               

Considering I am FROM Huddersfeld (not "field"), I think I know a little bit about the topic and can speak with a degree of authority. There is an Abigail Croft, and her father (whose name was either Henry or Harry, no one is sure) was an archeologist (and aren't they all eccentric, by definition). Everyone likes to think there is an Atlantis, but of course that is only myth. They did travel to the Azore islands, and he did fall ill, although I have not found any documentation of the specific illness. He passed on shortly after, although she was in her early 20's, not her late teens. And for the record, it is was in Australia, when Abigail was in her early 30's that she did, indeed, fell the last remaining T-Rex. Doubt me? It's the TRUTH!

posted 07-11-2001 06:48 AM            

By the way, you're wrong about Huddersfield... my spelling was correct. I may be a "Yank," but I've been to Huddersfield several times to visit relatives (none of them named Abigail Croft, mind you.)