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pizzed_off with the luggage Joined: 06 Nov 2002 Total posts: 9664 |
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gibson via his publishers?
ken campbell. his theater address?
beadles last known address?
surely the mag would have some records on the above people? |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 15-11-2004 01:49 Post subject: |
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| Emperor wrote: |
Also are there any mentions of Marchmont Street in any of the books on Fort? |
As I like answering my own questions - it. obviously, comes up in his correspondance but (thanks to Mr.X's site) it comes up elsewhere:
http://www.google.com/search?as_epq=marchmont&as_sitesearch=+Resologist.net
From Wild Talents:
| Quote: | | I was living in London -- 39 Marchmont Street, W.C.1. I was gathering data, in the British Museum Library. In my searches, I had noted instances of pictures falling from walls, at times of poltergeist disturbances: but I note here that my data upon physical subjects, such as earthquakes and auroral beams and lights on dark parts of the moon were about five to one, as compared with numbers of [215/216] data upon matters of psychic research. Later, the preponderance shifted the other way. The subject of pictures falling from walls was in my mind, but it was much submerged by other subjects and aspects of subjects. It was so inactive in my mind that, when I was told of several pictures that had fallen in our house, I put that down to household insecurities, and paid no more attention. |
http://www.resologist.net/talent20.htm
And from an editorial in the Toronto Daily Star March 16th, 1926:
| Quote: | | The expert and author who has written us on the subject is Mr. Charles Fort, 39 (A) Marchmont St., W.C., London, Eng. He tells us that he has records of over two hundred instances where living things have fallen from the sky. |
http://www.resologist.net/art02.htm |
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| Anonymous |
| Posted: 19-11-2005 10:16 Post subject: |
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'Scuse my ignorance here but I've just used that wiki-wotsit link
thingy to find out who (don't all kill me at once will ya) Charles Fort was.
Anyboby like to suggest the best book to start with?  |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
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| Posted: 20-11-2005 01:06 Post subject: |
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Ta very much,mate.That info will keep me busy a while.  |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
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| Posted: 20-11-2005 03:00 Post subject: |
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| Moonling wrote: | | Ta very much,mate.That info will keep me busy a while. |
No worries - as I say best bet is to read the books. They can be tricky to get into (and I know some around here just can't get on with the style) but just reading around the subject and checking the various threads here is a good start - if there is anything of particular interest someone will always be able to suggest further resources.
I would also recommend the Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena:
www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24159
It has a good quick introduction about Fort and plenty of good sections on strangeness - its a good starter on Fort and Forteana. |
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| gordonrutter The Indescribable Horror that is a
Great Old One Joined: 03 Aug 2001 Total posts: 872 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 20-11-2005 10:02 Post subject: |
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It's an English translation a German biography - Witzenschaftlich Weltbetrachtungen
Gordon |
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| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
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| Posted: 20-11-2005 14:11 Post subject: |
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| gordonrutter wrote: |
It's an English translation a German biography - Witzenschaftlich Weltbetrachtungen |
Is it any good and do we have a review of it we can scoop up?
Which reminds me - we do have a review of:
Charles Fort: Politics of the Imagination by Colin Bennett
www.forteantimes.com/review/bennettfort.shtml |
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| escargot1 Joined: 24 Aug 2001 Total posts: 17895 Location: Farkham Hall Age: 4 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 04-10-2008 19:18 Post subject: |
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We're watching The Why Files on My Channel, no. 171, and to my surprise (as I thought I'd seen every episode) it featured the very shop mentioned here. 
Seems that there are frequent polty-type occurences there, which the owners accept quite sportingly.
They wonder if they are connected to the building's former occupant, who might have been expected to try to get in touch from the Other Side. |
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| lapper220 Grey Joined: 17 May 2009 Total posts: 3 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 31-10-2009 17:15 Post subject: |
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| This appears to be the BBC website? |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 01-11-2009 03:16 Post subject: |
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It must be about time that Charles got his own blue plaque, above the building suppliers, at 39 Marchmont Street, to replace the simple, but serviceable, one placed there by fellow Forteans?
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pgil/FT01/thmb01.JPG
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pgil/FT01/thmb02.jpg
Somehow, it would be nice to think that Charles Fort and that other talented former resident of Marchmont Street (N°57), Kenneth Williams, were blue plaque neighbours.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pgil/FT01/thmb04.jpg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pgil/FT01/thmb03.jpg
Thanks to original_fLeebLe, for the heads up about the Charles Fort plaque, when I was staying near there, during last year's UnCon. 
[Click on the thumbnails for larger versions] |
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| gordonrutter The Indescribable Horror that is a
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| tucker Grey Joined: 24 Apr 2010 Total posts: 7 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 03-08-2013 03:13 Post subject: |
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Well done! |
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| AsamiYamazaki I was Dora Suarez
Great Old One Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Total posts: 466 Location: In the aeroplane over the sea Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 05-09-2013 12:40 Post subject: |
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I only just found out I work right around the corner from here and went to see the (still not blue) plaque today  |
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