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- From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Oct 28, 1992 - A very special day?????
- Message-ID: <30243@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 20:30:24 GMT
- References: <1992Oct29.131812.24743@cbfsb.cb.att.com| <30070@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM| <NEWMAN.92Nov4092349@astro.schbbs>
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- In article <NEWMAN.92Nov4092349@astro.schbbs| alan@geg.mot.com (Alan Newman) writes:
- |In article <30070@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM> wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson) writes:
- |>
- |> James Randi has written a book about the (seemly endless)
- |> fascination with predicting the end-of-the-world. I guess to keep
- |> the book relatively brief his list of end-of-the-world dates
- |> go back to only about the year 1200 AD.
- |>
- |
- |Many years ago I read a book I beleive was titled "A History of the End
- |of the World". The book described hundreds of End-of-the-World Predictions,
- |some from a few thousand years BC. Only about a third of the book, as I
- |recall, dealt with xian EWP of the last two thousand years. I don't remember
- |the author, and I understand the book went out of print in the seventies.
- |The book was scattered with "comic strips" making fun of some of the more
- |outrageous EWPs.
- |
- |I would very much like to have a copy of the book. If anyone can help me
- |find one at a reasonable price, I would be most appreciative. I have
- |tried numerous book search businesses and old book stores, but have not
- |been able to find any copies.
- |
- |Thanks,
- |Alan Newman (alan@geg.mot.com)
-
- Such a list would make a great addition to the FAQ. I'll contribute
- the appendix from Randi's book.
-
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- Bruce Watson (wats@scicom) Tumbra, Zorkovick; Sparkula zoom krackadomando.
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