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The Flat Earth Society of Canada was set up by Leo Ferrari ( 1927 – 2010 ), a philosophy professor at the St Thomas University in 1970, together with Raymond Fraser and Alden Nowlan and was active till about 1984.
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The Flat Earth model is an archaic belief that the Earth's shape is a plane or disk.
The misconception that educated Europeans at the time of Columbus believed in a flat Earth, and that his voyages refuted that belief, has been referred to as the " Myth of the Flat Earth ".
Holocaust deniers have as much influence in the US as the Flat Earth Society ( p. 69 ).
It is possible this is the source of the ( untrue ) legend that Jackson believed in a Flat Earth, and was consequently the only United States president to do so.
* Flat Earth
The Flat Earth Society was one of the first organizations to accuse NASA of faking the landings, arguing that they were staged by Hollywood with Walt Disney sponsorship, based on a script by Arthur C. Clarke and directed by Stanley Kubrick.
A Flat Earth model depicting Antarctica as an ice wall surrounding a disk-shaped Earth.
The Flat Earth Society ( also known as the International Flat Earth Society or the International Flat Earth Research Society ) is an organization that seeks to further the belief that the Earth is flat instead of an oblate spheroid.
In 1956, Samuel Shenton, a signwriter by trade, created the International Flat Earth Society as a successor to the Universal Zetetic Society and ran it as " organizing secretary " from his home in Dover, in Britain.
The society also took the position that the Apollo Moon landings were a hoax, staged by Hollywood and based on a script by Arthur C. Clarke, a position also held by others not connected to the Flat Earth Society.
In 1969, Shenton persuaded Ellis Hillman, a Polytechnic lecturer, to become president of the Flat Earth Society, but there is little evidence of any activity on his part until after Shenton's death, when he added most of Shenton's library to the archives of the Science Fiction Foundation which he helped to establish.
Shenton died in 1971 and Charles K. Johnson, inheriting part of Shenton's library from Shenton's wife, established and became the president of the International Flat Earth Research Society of America and Covenant People's Church in California.
Flat and Society
Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Under his leadership, over the next three decades, the Flat Earth Society grew in size from a few members to about 3, 000.
The most recent world model propagated by the Flat Earth Society holds that humanity lives on a disc, with the North Pole at its center and a 150-foot ( 45 m ) high wall of ice at the outer edge.
: The International Flat Earth Society is the oldest continuous Society existing in the world today.
The Flat Earth Society recruited members by attacking the United States government and all of its agencies, particularly NASA.
" The society was further affected by a fire at the house of Charles K. Johnson which destroyed all of the records and contacts of members of the Flat Earth Society.
The logo of the modern Flat Earth Society
Flat and Canada
The settlement saw some growth, but when the Chicago, Saginaw and Canada Railroad ( which became part of the Pere Marquette Railway and then the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ) was built and a station was established nearer to the Flat River, Sumner subsequently sold his holdings and moved to Edmore.
The Flat Stanley Project was started in 1995 by Dale Hubert, a third grade schoolteacher in London, Ontario, Canada.
Cantung Mine is a tungsten producer in the Nahanni area of the Northwest Territories, Canada, located northeast of Watson Lake in the Flat River Valley of the Selwyn Range close to the Yukon border.
Flat and was
As predicted, Carson City was selected as the territorial capital, besting Virginia City and American Flat.
The Probe was built in a new Mazda assembly plant in Flat Rock, Michigan along with the mainstream 626 sedan ( the North American version of the Capella ) and a companion Mazda MX-6 sports coupe.
An exponent of this style of bowling was " Flat " Jack Simmons who played for Lancashire in the 1970s and 1980s.
Woman of the Year was followed by an adaptation of John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat ( 1942 ) which met with a tepid response.
On 23 January 1887, under the heading " Their First Flat Failure ; The First Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Not a Success ", The New York Times reported, " When the curtain finally fell there was hissing – the first ever heard in the Savoy Theatre.
The legendary Paiste 601 Flat Ride was reissued in 2010, but is only available in 20 " medium.
Schatz believes " this scarcely holds up to scrutiny " and argues that a more likely inspiration was Bret Harte's 1892 short story " The Outcasts of Poker Flat.
Although there was some racism directed at them, there was not the level of anti-Chinese violence that was seen at the Lambing Flat riots in New South Wales.
At the time DisplayPort was announced, VESA was criticized for developing the specification in secret and having a track record of developing unsuccessful digital interface standards, including Plug & Display and Digital Flat Panel.
*" Blues in Hoss ' Flat ," composed by Basie band member Frank Foster, was used by the radio DJ Al " Jazzbeaux " Collins as his theme song in San Francisco and New York.
It was built near where Pine Flat Methodist Church now stands, and was made of logs.
Flat thunks allowed 32 bit code to call into 16 bit libraries, and the scheme was used extensively inside Windows 95's libraries to avoid porting the whole OS to Win32 itself in one chunk.
The cliffs of the main plateau are split by Platteklip Gorge (" Flat Stone Gorge "), which provides an easy and direct ascent to the summit and was the route taken by António de Saldanha on the first recorded ascent of the mountain in 1503.
Radiocarbon assays indicate the county ’ s Tortuga Flat Site was used in the 15th and 16th centuries by Pacuache.
A school was built at Hay Flat in 1910 and operated until it was consolidated with the Kermit school in 1913 ; that year the Hay Flat post office closed.
About the time this section was opened up, others came in and settled along Lynches Creek, Little Lynches creek, Flat Creek, Beaver Creek, and lower Camp Creek.
Flat and set
Flat weighting: In a noise-measuring set, a noise weighting based on an amplitude-frequency characteristic that is flat over a frequency range that must be stated.
* Flat rail – A rail set level with ground.
In 1897, following wireless transmissions from Lavernock Point in Wales and Flat Holm, Guglielmo Marconi moved his equipment to Brean Down and set a new distance record for wireless transmission.
* Mari Strachan's 2009 novel The Earth Hums in B Flat ( 2009 ) is set in Harlech in the 1950s.
The summary below is based on a comprehensive rule set developed by the Women's Flat Track Derby Association ( WFTDA ), which is used by the vast majority of leagues.
Those scenes set in " Flat Rock, Colorado " were filmed at and around the Ephrata airport in eastern Washington.
* Tortilla Flat ( 1935 ) by John Steinbeck: A retelling of the Arthurian legends, set in Monterey, CA during the interwar period.
" Flat planes were set in motion simultaneously to evoke space by shifting across one another, as if rotating and tilting on oblique axes.
* The Lambing Flat-a historical fiction novel by Nerida Newton set in and around Young at the time of the Lambing Flat riots
Tortilla Flat ( 1935 ) is an early John Steinbeck novel set in Monterey, California.
In 1897, following wireless transmissions from Lavernock Point in Wales and Flat Holm, Guglielmo Marconi moved his equipment to Brean Down and set a new distance record for wireless transmission over open sea.
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