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
Frank B. Davison municipal government. On September 16, 1911, Davison and H. M. Coats became the town's first two commissioners, while W. P. Tarpey was elected as the first mayor. Davison subsequently served on its school board. Frank Davison, married to Florence Grace Davison, with whom he had five children, died at the age of 80 in Texas City, in 1935. Due to his prominence within the city he co-founded, Mayor Emmett Lowry declared a one-hour business moratorium in Davison's honor when he died. His great-grandson, Kenneth Davison McClintock, following in his political footsteps, served as the 22nd Secretary of State and lieutenant