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To: Maple MAGA who wrote (1555818)	8/29/2025 9:33:36 PM
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One set of my grandparents came from Birmingham. It was the industrialized centre of Britain, popularly known to make everything from hat pins to battleships. My grandmother told me that, and she spent her working life in factories of one sort or another. Although not formally trained in any way she could dissemble any problem piece of machinery, including electrical items, put them together again and they usually worked. That book you were given is worth keeping of course. Washington Irving was quite the social influencer in his time. With friends he helped propagate the myth of the Flat Earth to stem the religious opposition to the Theory of Evolution published by Charles Darwin. The thing is, people always knew the Earth was a Globe going back thousands of years. The Flat Earth folks are very much a modern product, and I believe the CIA & pals are the current main thrust of propagating that view. "Historian Jeffrey Burton Russell says the flat-Earth error flourished most between 1870 and 1920, and had to do with the ideological setting created by struggles over biological evolution. Russell claims "with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat", and ascribes popularization of the flat-Earth myth to histories by John William Draper, Andrew Dickson White, and Washington Irving. [2] [7] [8]" Andrew Dickson White having also wrote one of my favourite books (actually more of a political pamphlet) Fiat Money Inflation in France, by Andrew Dickson White It's a great book from the days when the good guys wore white hats and the baddies wore black hats. It made the story and the argument easy to digest and a fun read. The guys with black hats won the day though, and today who has heard of precious metals used as money? A ridiculous idea seemingly :-)

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