[FOTZeiss] Fw: 100 YEARS AGO MARTIANS WERE REAL

[Glenn A. Walsh]

FYI

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--- On Thu, 8/25/11, Graney, Christopher M (Jefferson) <christopher.graney at KCTCS.EDU> wrote:

From: Graney, Christopher M (Jefferson) <christopher.graney at KCTCS.EDU>
Subject: 100 YEARS AGO MARTIANS WERE REAL
To: HASTRO-L at listserv.wvu.edu
Date: Thursday, August 25, 2011, 9:14 PM

A century ago, on August 27, 1911, headlines of the New York Times announced that Martians had completed stunning feats of engineering and construction: two 1000-mile-long canals built on Mars in a two-year period.  These canals had not only been seen and sketched by astronomers, but also had been captured photographically, appearing in the photos as "the most marked features on that part of the planet".  

At the time, it was widely believed that aliens existed - four years earlier the Wall Street Journal had reported that the biggest news of 1907 had been the discovery of intelligent life on Mars.

See, and read, the original article directly from the New York Times at

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20E13FF3D5813738DDDAE0A94D0405B818DF1D3 
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