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Massive Earthquake Reveals Entire

Island Civilization Called 'Haiti'
(2010) PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITILess than two weeks after converging upon the site of a
devastating magnitude 7.0 earthquake, American anthropologists have confirmed the
discovery of a small, poverty-stricken island nation, known to its inhabitants as "Haiti."
Located just 700 miles off the southeastern coast of Florida, the previously unaccounted-for
country is believed to be home to an estimated 10 million people.
Even more astounding, reports now indicate that these people have likely inhabited the
impoverished, destitute regionunnoticed by the rest of the worldfor more than 300 years.
"That an entire civilization has been somehow existing right under our noses for all this time
comes as a complete shock," said University of Florida anthropology professor Dr. Ben
Oliver, adding that it appeared as if Haiti's citizens had been living under dangerous
conditions even before the devastating earthquake struck. "Of course, there have been rumors
in the past about a long-forgotten Caribbean nation whose people struggle every day to
survive, live in constant fear of a corrupt government, and endure such squalor and hunger
that they have resorted to eating dirt. But never did we give them much thought."

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