The Mistake of Christopher Columbus 5n6e2o
by Jules Archer 54f6o
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The man who discovered that the world was flat, after all, was an Australian hermit named Herbert Fitzgrone. He was a thoughtful man with a glass eye and a metal plate in his head, both obtained during the Boer War. In the bush shanty where he had lived for forty years, he studied the riddle of the universe.
One day, shortly after he had turned sixty, he made his astonishing discovery. He went to Sydney, and found his way to the office of the editor of the Sydney Sun. He opened the door and went in. "The world, sir," he said simply, "is flat."