Jack Lynch wrote:
Additionally, I, and assumably many others, read encyclopedias, and esp. the wikipedia, as a source of extremely obscure and bizarre info not to be found elsewhere.
Absolutely! And I hope we can add much more. If it's verified as having been proposed by somebody (which does not mean verifying that the guy's theories make any sense), and properly sourced what more can we ask for.
I just acquired a volume of "Popular Science" from1872. Wow!!
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