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The Museum of the Flat Earth is a small museum dedicated to the history of the Canadian Flat Earth Society, located on Fogo Island, Newfoundland.It has a variety of historical collections covering the life of Bartholomew Seeker, as well as other individuals associated with the Canadian Flat Earth Society, and a series of more contemporary displays which deal with debates around the notion of a ...
Known for. Founding of the Flat Earth Society. Samuel Shenton (30 March 1903 – 2 March 1971) was an English conspiracy theorist and lecturer. In 1956, he founded the International Flat Earth Research Society, based in Dover. He lectured tirelessly on this to youth clubs, political and student groups, and during the Space Race in the 1960s he ...
Language. English. Behind the Curve is a 2018 documentary film about flat Earth believers in the United States. Directed by Daniel J. Clark, the film was released in the United States on November 15, 2018, and for wide release on Netflix in February 2019. [1] The documentary details ideas of the flat Earth from different perspectives, including ...
91 from chapter "Subcultural conflict" by Phil Cohen. 106, 110-111 from chapter "Girls and subcultures (1977)" by Angela McRobbie and Jenny Garber; 127 from chapter "The meaning of style" by Dick Hebdige. 136-137 from chapter "Second-hand dresses and the role of the ragmarket (1989)" by Angela McRobbie.
In 2002, the Flat Earth Society was the house band of the Brugge2002 festival, where they participated in the Benenwerk project, turning the centre of the city of Bruges into a large ballroom. Trap became the second regular studio recording, and in August the Flat Earth Society premiered their Louis Armstrong project The Armstrong Mutations at ...
The Bedford Level experiment was a series of observations carried out along a 6-mile (10 km) length of the Old Bedford River on the Bedford Level of the Cambridgeshire Fens in the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries to deny the curvature of the Earth through measurement. Samuel Birley Rowbotham, who conducted the first ...
The Hollow Earth is a concept proposing that the planet Earth is entirely hollow or contains a substantial interior space. Notably suggested by Edmond Halley in the late 17th century, the notion was disproven, first tentatively by Pierre Bouguer in 1740, then definitively by Charles Hutton in his Schiehallion experiment around 1775.
Leo Ferrari was a founding member and head of the Flat Earth Society of Canada, later renamed the Flat Earth Society (FES). [4] In Ferrari's writings in support of the FES and the Flat Earth, he attributed everything from gender to racial inequality on the globularist and the Spherical Earth model. [5] Ferrari even claimed to have nearly fallen ...