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in 1886. There, he ran a grocery store for a few years, and later built a hotel. After the hotel was lost in a fire, he built a bath house around the Siloam
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on his ideas in 1891, followed up by a 60-page pamphlet full of related hypotheses. For instance, Ferguson also asserted that the Sun was 30 miles in diameter and 3,000 miles away from Earth. He also disputed the existence of
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Orlando Ferguson in 1893 and lithographed by Louis H. Everts & Co. The map contains several references to biblical passages as well as various attacks at the "Globe Theory".
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