At 02:19 PM 9/16/96 METDST, you wrote:
Dear sundial subscriber,
Someone suggested earlier on this list that a sundial on the
southpole would have some interesting features.
This made me think of a question that I have had for a
long time and up to now, I did not find anyone that had
a sufficient
This is a very lucid reply from Slawomir, but I think it contains one
error. Although Peary is credited with reaching the north pole, if memory
serves me correct (and I admit it frequently does not these days!),
recent research on Peary's diary shows that he did NOT reach the pole.
Worse
At 12:23 PM 9/17/96 GMT, you wrote:
This is a very lucid reply from Slawomir, but I think it contains one
error. Although Peary is credited with reaching the north pole, if memory
serves me correct (and I admit it frequently does not these days!),
recent research on Peary's diary shows that he
On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Slawomir K. Grzechnik wrote:
At 12:23 PM 9/17/96 GMT, you wrote:
This is a very lucid reply from Slawomir, but I think it contains one
error. Although Peary is credited with reaching the north pole, if memory
serves me correct (and I admit it frequently does not these
Although Peary is credited with reaching the north pole, if memory
serves me correct (and I admit it frequently does not these days!),
recent research on Peary's diary shows that he did NOT reach the pole.
Worse still, he KNEW he had not made it, but fudged the readings, and was
(and still is)
On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Michael Dworetsky wrote:
There is also an article about Peary in the London Times for 15 Nov
1988. I believe there was also something about the results of the
investigation of Peary's claims in the National Geographic shortly after
this--but I would have to check
