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Park feels he's pretty solid on the mound with Brown, Stewart, McOsker, Clifford and Baloff as his starters and Alevisos as his main man out of the bullpen. Stewart is set to hurl today's Greater Boston League opener at Boston College...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Opponents On Vacation, Batsmen Romp | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

Died. Fannie Lou Hamer, 60, former Mississippi sharecropper who became a leader in the civil rights movement; of cancer; in Mound Bayou, Miss. At a Baptist rally in 1962, Mrs. Hamer heard civil rights workers urge blacks to use their ballots. "I never knew we could vote before," she later recalled. "Nobody ever told us." Two years later she electrified the Democratic National Convention with her graphic tales of being brutally beaten by police while trying to register black voters. She continued to organize voters, unions and farm cooperatives, eventually helping to integrate the Mississippi Democratic Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 28, 1977 | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

Fell writes that Libyans and Egyptians traveled up the great rivers to Iowa and the Dakotas; he says the ancient burial mounds found in many parts of the Midwest and the East are actually the work of the same ancient voyagers. A clay tablet found in a mound in Iowa carries identical messages in three languages: Egyptian, Punic, and Libyan, Fell claims. The publicists for America B.C. like to compare Fell's translation of this tablet to Champollion's 19th century translation of the Rosetta Stone, which enabled archeologists to read Egyptian hieroglyphics...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Barry Fell and His Big Idea: Wherein a Harvard Zoology Professor Tells the Tale Of All the Folks Who Got Here Before Columbus | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

Several of Fell's decipherments are based on inscriptions that professional archeologists say are frauds. The most interesting is a tablet found by one Reverend Jacob Gass in an Indian burial mound in Davenport, Iowa in 1877. (Among other errors in Fell's discussion of the tablet, he says it was found...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Barry Fell and His Big Idea: Wherein a Harvard Zoology Professor Tells the Tale Of All the Folks Who Got Here Before Columbus | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

...Davenport tablet, which is one of the tablets discovered in the mound, is none other than the breakthrough Readers' Digest compared to the Rosetta Stone...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Barry Fell and His Big Idea: Wherein a Harvard Zoology Professor Tells the Tale Of All the Folks Who Got Here Before Columbus | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

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