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How the Father of Flat-Earthers Arose From a Nutty Commune
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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty
Manea Fen was a not very successful socialist commune in 19th-century Cambridgeshire, England, but it lives in history as the breeding ground of modern flat-earth belief.
Kelly Weill
Published
Feb. 20 2022
5:16AM EST
Kelly Weill
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