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Vaknin, Sam, 1961-

"The First Book of Factoids"



http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc73.html

http://filine.centro.ru/Gorky/

Greek Philosophers

There were so many ancient Greek thinkers that virtually every bit of
modern knowledge, fact, pseudo-science and counterfact are
represented.

Greek mathematician Pythagoras (582-500 BC) postulated that earth is
round and that, together with the other planets, it is revolving
around a central fire.

Aristarchus, a Greek Astronomer (310-250 BC), was more precise. He
suggested that the earth revolves around the sun. He also suggested a
correct method to calculate the distance between the two.

Another Greek astronomer, Eratosthenes (276-196 BC), measured the
earth's circumference accurately. He used astronomical observations to
calculate the difference in latitude between the cities of Syene (now
Aswan) and Alexandria, Egypt.

Democritus (460-370 BC) invented the concept of a-toms - minute,
invisible, indivisible and indestructible particles, which populate
an infinite empty void (kenon).

http://www.tmth.edu.gr/en/aet.html
Guillotine
The guillotine was first put to lethal use on April 25, 1792, at 3:30
PM, in Paris at the Place de Greve on the Right Bank of the Seine.


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