[Hieronymus]

Don’t believe everything you read in history books.

There is a really good book out there I’d recommend entitled “Inventing the Flat Earth.”

Short version: Washington Irving invented the flat earth myth in writing a history of Columbus because the truth was too complex and too pro-Catholic to work well in a popular history of his day. A.D. White, first president of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences at Cornell (my alma mater) gave the flat earth myth a boost to get it so entrenched in American intellectual lore that it isn’t going to be uprooted.

Some stories are really good stories and offer tidy explanations, but happen to be wrong.

[SkyDancer]

Could be. My gramps told me not to believe everything your read and half of what you see. Now as for the flat Earth, this space photo - but I don't believe it because you can't see the elephants riding on top of that big turtle.