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Yoinked from Yrcomplacency:
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
And here it is:
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Ferdinand believed that it was in the early 1480's that Columbus "began to speculate that if the Portuguese could sail so far south, it should be possible to sail as far westward, and that it was logical to expect to find land in that direction." Crucial among the books that Columbus read was the Geography of Ptolemy, the Second Century Alexandrian astronomer and geographer, who had argued that the known world was part of the Eurasian land mass that stretched halfway around the Norther Hemisphere.
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Now, before you go and think I'm way smarter than you thought, know that "The Explorers" is not my book and I've never opened it before now. However, I do feel slightly smarter having done so.
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
And here it is:
______________
Ferdinand believed that it was in the early 1480's that Columbus "began to speculate that if the Portuguese could sail so far south, it should be possible to sail as far westward, and that it was logical to expect to find land in that direction." Crucial among the books that Columbus read was the Geography of Ptolemy, the Second Century Alexandrian astronomer and geographer, who had argued that the known world was part of the Eurasian land mass that stretched halfway around the Norther Hemisphere.
______________
Now, before you go and think I'm way smarter than you thought, know that "The Explorers" is not my book and I've never opened it before now. However, I do feel slightly smarter having done so.