Weird, Wicked Weird: Maine's Mr. Flat Earth

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The proof was in the pail.

Time and again, Joe Holden demonstrated the Earth was flat by filling a bucket with water, balancing it on a post and triumphantly returning hours later to find the water still there. It hadn't flopped out when the so-called round Earth spun upside down overnight. He must be right.

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Weird, Wicked Weird: Maine's Mr. Flat Earth

Holden promised to buy cigars for any scientists that proved otherwise.

A showman and bona fide eccentric, maybe it was all a big joke or a poke at the astronomers he called fakes. Or maybe he got some thrill from being contrary, from mak...

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