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Article: `FLAT EARTH' PROPONENT CHARLES JOHNSON DIES.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- March 25, 2001
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Byline: MYRNA OLIVER Los Angeles Times
Charles K. Johnson, irrepressible advocate and president of the International Flat Earth Society for nearly three decades, has died. He was 76.
``We have studied the Earth,'' he assured anybody who would listen, ``and found it flat.''
That plane Earth, he insisted, is infinite in size, a disk with the North Pole in the center and impenetrable Arctic ice 150 feet high all the way around.
He said the sun and moon, each 32 miles in diameter, circle the disk at a steady height of 3,000 miles, with so-called rising or setting only an optical illusion.
Johnson died Monday near Hi Vista, ...