A Fresh Science­History Journal: Cost­Free to Major Libraries Vol.18 Marlowe 450 2014 Tel 410­889­1414 [email protected] DIO — The InternationalDIOJournal of Scientific History. Deeply funded. Mail costs fully covered. No page charges. Offprints free. • Since 1991 inception, has gone without fee to leading scholars & libraries. • Contributors include world authorities in their respective fields, experts at, e.g., Johns Hopkins University, Cal Tech, Cambridge University, University of London. • Publisher & journal cited (1996 May 9) in New York Times p.1 analysis of his discov­ ery of data exploding Richard Byrd's 1926 North Pole fraud. [DIO vol.4.] Full report co­published by University of Cambridge (2000) and DIO [vol.10], triggering History DIO Channel 2000&2001 recognition of Amundsen's double pole­priority. New photographic proof ending Mt.McKinley fake [DIO vol.7]: cited basis of 1998/11/26 New York Times Science Applied to the Arts p.1 announcement. 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Why Do DIO's Scientists Care-1 More Than Strat Literati Re Editor: Keith Pickering (KP), [email protected] Whether or Not the Most Immortal of Poets Was Persecuted Publisher: Dennis Rawlins (DR), address above. for Religious Heresy and Forced to Hide in Exile 'Til Death? DIO is primarily a journal of scientific history & principle. However, high scholarship and­or original analytical writing (not necessarily scientific or historical), from any quarter Table of Contents DIO 18 2014 Page: or faction, will be gladly received and considered for publication. Each author has final xA Raw & Undisputed Marlowe­Case FACTS Speak for Themselves 3 editorial say over his own article. If non­KP/DR refereeing occurs, the usual handsome­ xB Solution by Detective Induction or Religious Heritage? 4 journal anonymity will not, unless in reverse. 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