To: DoughtyOne
The common people of the ancient times thought the world was flat.
Seafarers, and especially sea captains and navigators knew better.
But they kept the knowledge to themselves.............
11 posted on
10/10/2014 12:39:47 PM PDT by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: Red Badger
That was a rather good decision based on the reactions to that "heresy" in some quarters.
12 posted on
10/10/2014 12:43:22 PM PDT by
DoughtyOne
(Obama and the Left are maggots feeding off the flesh of the United States.)
To: Red Badger
16 posted on
10/10/2014 12:55:29 PM PDT by
Argus
To: Red Badger
Most ancient Greek philosophers thought the earth was a sphere (a perfect shape), and several made fairly good estimates of the size of the earth.
28 posted on
10/10/2014 4:05:26 PM PDT by
VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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