A brief history of flat earthers
Aristotle had long proved that the Earth was spherical, and even the illiterate masses of early medieval Europe were aware of the fact
Steven Poole
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David Sedaris, the current king of humourists, is often not funny at all
Since the 17th century, a ‘humourist’ has been a witty person, and especially someone skilled in literary comedy. In 1871, the Athenaeum said that Swift had been ‘an inimitable humourist’. But in modern usage the term seems to describe a specifically American job title: someone who specialises in writing short prose pieces whose only purpose
