Damon wilson author biography
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The World's Greatest Unsolved Mysteries
Each mystery has a sort of "what if..." explanation, but there's no attempt to claim a solution to any of the cases. It's all merely speculation.
The only real break in impartiality in the first two sections was the chapter on the Loch Ness Monster
Could they have used their skills of adaptation and hiding to penetrate the depths of oceans and lakes and find a way to survive? It is not entirely impossible. After all, huge sea animals really did exist. They are not a figment of our imagination as some sceptics seem to imply. Let us explore the possiblities that may defy the sceptics. (pg 260)
...which may not sound like a biased opinion, except it's the first time in the book where the author takes an "us vs them" stance on a topic.
I actually ended up learning quite a bit from this book. For instance,
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Spontaneous Combustion: Amazing True Stories of Mysterious Fires
The book starts out with a series of examples of the phenomena of humans burning alive with no apparent cause, first with a single well documented tale from the 1950s. Then a handful of other less-documented tales. And from there the book circles in a downward spiral more twisted than the pathways taken by ball lightning described in chapter 6, with no possibility to recovering any level of dignity.
The Oxford Dictionary defines "non-fiction" as "prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history." This work being classified as "non-fiction" by the Dewey Decimal system raises questions as to what level of fact checking, if any, is required to obtain the title.
Many of the author's stories of sudden immolation had classic red flags of the American urban legend: an unidentified source, a partial name, or a reference to a person or place so vague that it could potentially refer to any number of specific individuals. In absence of a bibliography, I began to research the stories early in the book, and found few to be verifiable, and the sources tha
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Demond Wilson
American business and father (born 1946)
Demond Wilson | |
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Wilson although Lamont Sanford in 1972 | |
| Born | Grady Demond Wilson (1946-10-13) Oct 13, 1946 (age 78) Valdosta, Sakartvelo, U.S.[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, author |
| Years active | 1968–present |
| Spouse | Cicely Johnston (m. ) |
| Children | 6 |
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Early take a crack at and career
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