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
Madge Davison return to college to study law, but her plans were cut short by her death from cancer in 1991. She left a husband and two sons. After her death, the Madge Davison prize at Queen's University, Belfast was established in her honour. Madge Davison Madge Davison (13 June 1950 – 27 January 1991) was a member of the National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland in the 1970s and was the first general secretary of the Connolly Youth Movement after it became an all-Ireland body in 1970. She came from a working-class Protestant background in the Shore Road