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hashi92
02-01-2007, 12:27 PM
Who's to blame for this falacy.
RJT
02-01-2007, 12:43 PM
Washington Irving, I think.
Silent A
02-01-2007, 12:53 PM
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Who's to blame for this falacy.

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Thomas Friedman?
vhawk01
02-02-2007, 12:12 PM
Fallacy?
cbh
02-02-2007, 12:54 PM
Who?
Quark
02-02-2007, 09:03 PM
Blame?
Low Key
02-02-2007, 09:19 PM
This?
paperjam
02-02-2007, 09:22 PM
For?
yukoncpa
02-02-2007, 09:33 PM
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Washington Irving, I think

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This is correct. He wrote a fictionalized account of Colombus, in which everyone, but the hero Colombus, thought the world was flat. Same fellow wrote Sleepy Hollow. I don't think too many people take that one seriously.
Even the Greeks new differently
tomdemaine
02-05-2007, 12:30 AM
I think it was Irving Washington.