av8rdave
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Wed Jan-16-08 09:41 AM
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We had a geography textbook that showed buildings on an incredibly curved earth (at that scale, the world would have been about 3/4 of a mile in circumference). It was on a chapter intro page, and very cartoonish.
The teacher remarked, in all seriousness, "That drawing looks a little off. I would think the earth is larger than that."
I knew.
It was confirmed in the 7th grade, when I had a Geography teacher dedicate an entire class hour to why the colored man is inferior. This was northeast Ohio in the early 70s, but I still can't believe that happened!
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