Les Fleentstones?
Posted on 06/12/2015 10:43:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
Limestone, most likely..............
Les Fleentstones?
Sounds like the basis for the next “National Treasure” sequel.
Don’t make fun of Bat Boy
They knew it for a couple of millennia before Columbus.
Yes, ships’ captains certainly knew it, but the average guy on the streets didn’t. The ships’ captains had to of known it in order for their computations for navigation to work properly.........................
“We’ve recovered more information than we dared to hope for,”....
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How wonderful! Marvels of modern technology.
Is anybody still funding Nicolas Cage movies?
He had consulted Icelanders, in Iceland, and knew of the relative proximity of landmasses to the west, which had previously been found, landed upon, and even somewhat colonized, by the Vikings. It was a reasonable conclusion to reach, as he did, that Ptolemy had calculated the size of the Earth incorrectly; it would have been even MORE reasonable to conclude that Ptolemy et al had been dead wrong about the number of landmasses.
Yeah, it’s kinda like crowdsourcing, people fund them by buying tickets. :’)
Wow, he’s done 80 movies (the ninth one was definitely a starring role, “Moonstruck”; earlier than that I dunno). John Wayne starred in something like 150, but some of those were pretty much early talkies, so they aren’t that likely to bowl one over. :’) Of course, I can think of at least a few Cage movies that stunk so bad the town dump called them.
It needs some empty spot saying: “Here be dragons”.
“Panotii” people, who purportedly had ears that were so large they could use them as sleeping bags.
Now that would be handy, so as to say. Fascinating post!!
Actually the roundness of the earth was well known long before Columbus. Eratosthenes (276 BC - 194 BC), a Greek mathematician, not only knew the earth was a sphere, but measured its diameter about 200 BC. His calculation was within a few percent of the correct value.
It is a myth that people once believed the Earth was flat. Well before the time of Eratosthenes, educated people knew it was round.
The objection to Columbus's proposed voyage was not that "he'd sail off the edge," but that he had seriously underestimated the length of the voyage. It appears that he had fudged the numbers to make the voyage appear more feasible, knowing that the voyage would really be longer than he claimed in his proposals. This is a practice not unheard of among today's scientists when writing grant proposals.
The Duke was in some serials and non-feature length movies that really drove up his numbers, although he was definitely a working actor.
He was hard-working, he did a great job of functioning despite a serious booze problem, kept working after losing a lung I think, and left a decent body of work that still is worth watching for the most part (probably not his portrayal of Genghis Khan, or that flyboy piece he did for Hughes). My favorites of his include the ones with half-hour fistfights. :’) And of course, the showdown scene in “True Grit” remains one of my favorites by anyone.
Well said.
He was outstanding in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. Actually, everything in the Cavalry Trilogy is good.
The Searchers was Ford's best movie and Wayne gave an inspired and somewhat dark performance.
Wayne was also great in Red River, which he did not do with Ford. Ford is reported to have said after he saw it, "I didn't know the son of a bitch could act!"
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