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Hello fellow worldbuilders,

Today I stumbled upon an article in Swiss newspaper Le Temps, about the wrong idea that, in the Middle Ages, people thought the Earth was flat. The fact itself is not very relevant, but the process behind it - how a wrong idea could become rooted so deep into the collective mindset that it still distorts our today's picture of a past era - is extremely interesting. And I thought I'd share this with you, as the process could be used in, or inspire, our worldbuilding works.

The original article is in French, I translated it as well as I could with deepl.com (+ a few manual corrections). I apologize if there are still some weird formulations in it. Also, the article talks about a book that has been published on the matter.

It's a bit a long read, but here it is.

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In the Middle Ages, people thought the Earth was flat: a "fake news" invented by Voltaire

The roundness of the Earth has never been forgotten since Greek antiquity, contrary to what has been propagated since the 18th century, notably by Voltaire. A fascinating book revisits a myth that was well-established, since it has done so much good.

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Try it out around you. What did people know in the Middle Ages about the shape of the Earth? And who discovered that the Earth was round? Chances are that you will be told first of all that - of course - the Earth was flat in the Middle Ages, and then that - let's see, it was Galileo, who fought against the Church to make his point of view known, there was a famous trial...

Perhaps you will also hear the name of Copernicus, or even that of Columbus - the navigator who fought against the great people of Spain to discover America, who did not believe his journey was possible... Of course, you will have excluded from this experience the "flat-earthers", those people who are currently convinced that the Earth is really flat - a curiosity of a contemporary world that never fails to surprise us.

However, the truth is that the rotundity of the Earth has never been forgotten. What created very strong tensions with the Church was the question of its movement, the fact that it was not at the center of the world, and even the famous question of whether or not the antipodes were populated; but the roundness of our planet was not questioned. It was because they were tired of the untruths and nonsense uttered by their students and encountered in films or in the writings of a former minister that two resea

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

The doctor says it terminal.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Mathematical puns makes me number

We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

He lost May

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

And boy are my arms legs.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

Hey everybody I will be working for CERN for the upcomming 2-3 years (if extended).

I wish to save money, and thus think of living on the french side.

However my partner, who will finish her studies in international marketing, also wishes to contribute financially, get some experience in the job-market, and get some savings.

Her CV in short: -master international marketing -bachelor in languages (English) -A2 in french/dutch -C1 in english -native vietnamese

I'm now teaching her web-development: html/css/Javascript and she should be able to get some experience in from local small business owners in Belgium (before we go to CERN)

I'm more than happy to make the move to meyrin, knowing the living cost will be about 50% more than the french side (ferney-voltaire).

Things that make me think she isn't ready yet for the geneve job market -the lack of marketing jobs i see in geneve -the often demanded "2 years of experience" -no native french speaker

What are her chances getting a job as marketeer or web front-end developer?

Any advice is much appreciated! 😍

Put it on my bill

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

They’re on standbi

BamBOO!

A play on words.

At 8pm on March 26th 2001, 25 year old Geoffrey Part arrives at the Ornex police station to declare his 19 year old wife, Magalie, missing.

Ornex is a small French town hugging the border between eastern France and Switzerland, with a population of a little over 4000 people.

Geoffrey had became worried when he got home from work at 4:30 pm and noticed that neither Magalie nor their dog, a rottweiler puppy named Redza, were home. Their other dog was tied up outside. On top of that, breakfast items were still on the table and hadn’t been put away, which was out of character for Magalie.

Geoffrey phones Magalie’s dad and asks if Magalie is with him. He then phones Magalie’s mom and asks the same question. The answer is no in both cases.

Around 5pm, Geoffrey gets on his scooter and drives over to the home improvement store (Bricorama) in the neighboring town of Cessy where Magalie works as a cashier. Her coworker, Virginie, tells Gregory that Magalie hadn’t shown up for work and hadn’t let anyone know that she would be absent, which was also out of character for Magalie.

Geoffrey informs LE that Magalie had told him at breakfast that morning that she had planned to walk to the neighboring town of Ferney-Voltaire with the dog to purchase cigarettes. It was about a 4km/2.5 mile walk round trip.

After declaring his wife missing, Geoffrey returns home and enlists the help of Romeo, a friend with an ATV, to search for Magalie. They keep up the search throughout the night, giving up around 5am.

Magalie and Geoffrey

Magalie is the oldest of 5 children, born to Eric Bertrand (a long haul truck driver) and Evelyne Bertrand (a stay at home mom). The Bertrand children grew up in the town of Lancrans, about 45 minutes away from Ornex. When Magalie is 12 year old, her parents divorce and her father goes to live in Fribourg, a town in Switzerland. The divorce is understandably upsetting to Magalie, and Magalie chooses to live with her mother who has stayed in Lancrans.

She is described as being a happy, jovial and sociable young lady.

On July 12th 1998, 4 years after her parents’ divorce, Magalie meets Geoffrey Part at a party celebrating France’s world cup soccer victory the same day.

Geoffrey Part, originally from the North of France, moves to the town of Collonges Fort l’Ecluse with his parents when he is young, after his father, Patrick, finds work as a maintenance technician with CERN (Conseil européen pour la recherché nucléaire / the European Cou

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Pilot on me!!

Calcium, nickel, neon