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::Charles Fort, b. 1874, published ''The Book of the Damned'' in 1919, age about 45

::Charles Fort, b. 1874, published ''The Book of the Damned'' in 1919, age about 45

::John Cleves Symmes, Jr., b. 1779, developed hollow earth theory in 1818, age about 39

::John Cleves Symmes, Jr., b. 1779, developed hollow earth theory in 1818, age about 39

::Ah, some years ago I turned up a book in a big research library entitled "Behold! The Grand Problem No Longer Unsolved. The Circle Squared Beyond All Refutation." My recollection is that it amounted to saying the ratio between the area of a square and the inscribed circle was exactly 9:8, i.e. π = 3.556 or something like that. It trailed off into theories on how to solve the world currency problem. Let's see what I can find online... It seems to have been published in 1931 by one [http://books.google.com/books?id=FgYPAAAAIAAJ&q=%22the+grand+problem+no+longer+unsolved%22&dq=%22the+grand+problem+no+longer+unsolved%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&pgis=1 C. T. Heisel]. I.e. the publisher and author are both C. T. Heisel, of Cleveland.  

::Ah, some years ago I turned up a book in a big research library entitled "Behold! The Grand Problem No Longer Unsolved. The Circle Squared Beyond All Refutation." My recollection is that it amounted to saying the ratio between the area of a square and the inscribed circle was exactly 9:8, i.e. π = 3.556 or something like that. It trailed off into theories on how to solve the world currency problem. Let's see what I can find online... It seems to have been published in 1931 by one [http://books.google.com/books?id=FgYPAAAAIAAJ&q=%22the+grand+problem+no+longer+unsolved%22&dq=%22the+grand+problem+no+longer+unsolved%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&pgis=1 C. T. Heisel]. I.e. the publisher and author are both C. T. Heisel, of Cleveland. No luck on finding C. T. Heisel's dates, though.  

[[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 20:01, 28 May 2007 (EDT)

[[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 20:01, 28 May 2007 (EDT)