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.

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* Flat model: This may not strictly qualify as a data model.

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.

Generated revenue is also used to fund high-quality publishing activities, making the Flat World financial model sustainable.

Flat memory model or linear memory model refers to a memory addressing paradigm in low-level software design such that the CPU can directly ( and sequentially / linearly ) address all of the available memory locations without having to resort to any sort of memory segmentation or paging schemes.

Many of these songs were re-released by their record labels as a tie-in with the ad campaigns, resulting in increased popularity and sales of the recordings and the creation of iconic visual associations with the music, such as the use of a topless male model wearing jeans underwater in the 1986 adverts featuring " Wonderful World " and " Mad about the Boy " and the puppet, Flat Eric, in the ads featuring music by Mr. Oizo.

It was built alongside the Ford Probe and Mazda 626 from 1992 as a 1993 model by AutoAlliance International in Flat Rock, Michigan.

Flat cohomology, crystalline cohomology and successors are also applications of the basic model.

This model is based on the Dodge Charger SRT-8 and its exterior consists of special " Detonator Yellow " paint, a " Flat Black " hood and fender " decals ".

* Flat memory model

* Flat top guitar, a type of guitar body model

* Flat Five X-A Flat Five model equipped with L. R.

Flat or gently sloping land is rare and largely confined to the deltas of the Kızıl River, the coastal plains of Çukurova and the valley floors of the Gediz River and the Büyük Menderes River as well as some interior high plains in Anatolia, mainly around Tuz Gölü ( Salt Lake ) and the Konya Basin ( Konya Ovasi ).

Flat glass for windows and similar applications is formed by the float glass process, developed between 1953 and 1957 by Sir Alastair Pilkington and Kenneth Bickerstaff of the UK's Pilkington Brothers, who created a continuous ribbon of glass using a molten tin bath on which the molten glass flows unhindered under the influence of gravity.

Flat knitting, on the other hand, is used, in its most basic form, to make flat, rectangular pieces of cloth.

Flat knitting is usually used to knit flat pieces like scarves, blankets, afghans, and the backs and fronts of sweaters.

KL1 is an implementation of Flat GHC ( a subset of the Guarded Horn Clauses language by Kazunori Ueda ), making it a parallelised Prolog variant.

Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia.

* Flat Finish-This finish is generally used on ceilings or walls that are in bad shape.

: Flat: The board is entirely flat from nose to tail.

* May 13 – Guglielmo Marconi sends the first ever wireless communication over open sea when the message " Are you ready " is transmitted across the Bristol Channel from Lavernock Point in South Wales to Flat Holm Island, a distance of.

Most modern sousaphones are made in the key of BB ♭ ( Low B Flat ) and like tubas ( which are commonly made in pitches of BB ♭, CC, EE ♭, and F ) the instrument's part is written in " concert pitch ", not transposed by key for a specific instrument.

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.

Note 1: Flat noise power is expressed in dBrn ( f < sub > 1 </ sub >-f < sub > 2 </ sub >) or in dBm ( f < sub > 1 </ sub >-f < sub > 2 </ sub >).

Flat tax proposals differ in how they define what is subject to tax.

* The Flat Tax: How it Works and Why it is Good for America

The second-highest mountain range is the Oquirrhs, reaching a maximum height of 10, 620 feet ( 3, 237 m ) at Flat Top.

For applications where a flatter ( less shiny ) sheen is desired, products containing amorphous silica, such as " Shellac Flat ," may be added to the dissolved shellac.

The legendary Paiste 601 Flat Ride was reissued in 2010, but is only available in 20 " medium.

The spaghetti western Four of the Apocalypse is based on " The Outcasts of Poker Flat " and " The Luck of Roaring Camp ".

There is also a semitone bell ( Flat 6th ) also cast by Taylor of Loughborough in 1991.

Flat racing is the most common form of Thoroughbred racing.

Flat racing is a form of Thoroughbred horse racing which is run over a level track at a predetermined distance.