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Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 07/15/06 20:13
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:07:39 GMT, "scooter"
<radio4houston@houston.rr.com> Gave us:
>Yeah the Superman saga has a questionable history, anyway.
>
>The guys who did the great art-deco style cartoons in the thirties used a
>mad scientist character for their villain. They called him, coincidentally,
>'Tesla"
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>At this point, Tesla was a destitue old guy living in a tenament, having
>been ripped off by everyone from Marconi to Westinghouse.
>
>Pretty fucked up thing to do. He was probabloy the greatest inventive
>thinker in applied technology of all time. We live in a world that sprung
>from his imagination. Not somebody who should have been villified and
>ridiculed by some dumbass with a jar of tempra paint.
>
Interesting observation.
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