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From: Darren New
Date: 8 Aug 2008 11:16:47
Message: <489c635f$1@news.povray.org>
Chambers wrote:
> Even 500 years ago, people knew the Earth was round.

"""
In fact, people have known since at least the 4th century BC that the 
earth is round, and the pseudo-scientific conviction that we actually 
live on a disc didn't emerge until Victorian times.
"""

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7540427.stm

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
  Ever notice how people in a zombie movie never already know how to
  kill zombies? Ask 100 random people in America how to kill someone
  who has reanimated from the dead in a secret viral weapons lab,
  and how many do you think already know you need a head-shot?


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