Sail On! Sail On! Sail On! Sail On! "Sail On! Sail On!" is an alternate history short story by Philip José Farmer, first published in "Startling Stories" 1952. In an alternative 1492, Christopher Columbus sets out to find a shortened route to China and South-East Asia across the Atlantic, financed by Ferdinand V and Isabella I of Spain. However, in this timeline, the Earth "is" flat, though scientists and philosophers have doubts about its geological provenance, and an Angelo Angelli is mentioned as proving Aristotle's axiom that objects of different weights drop with different velocities (which Galileo Galilei disproved in our world). Radio technology
Joseph Davison from 1941 until his death. Also in 1941, Davison was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Department of the Prime Minister, serving in this post until his death. Sir Joseph Davison became Grand Master of the Orange Institution of Ireland by 1941, serving until his death in 1948. Joseph Davison Sir Joseph Davison (1868 – 15 July 1948) was a prominent Northern Irish Unionist politician. He was knighted in the Honours for the Opening of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in 1921. In 1923, Davison stood as the Ulster Unionist Party candidate in a by-election in Belfast West to the Northern