----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The classic response to this is from the monograph, Or I'll Dress You In Mourning (maybe by Dominique Lapierre???), which is a biography of the bullfighter El Cordobes. He was visiting a priest, saw the globe in the priest's study, asked what it was - until the priest explained, El Cordobes had no idea that the Earth is round; he came from a impoverished background (maybe never attended school at all? it's been a good many years since I read this). Mary