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	Charles Fort
		Charles Fort (1874-1932) fancied himself a true skeptic, one who opposes all forms of dogmatism, believes nothing, and does not take a position on anything.
		Fort was skeptical about scientific explanations because scientists sometimes argue "according to their own beliefs rather than the rules of evidence" and they suppress or ignore inconvenient data.
		Fort seems to have been opposed to science as it really is: fallible, human and tentative, after probabilities rather than absolute certainties.
	skepdic.com /fortean.html (964 words)

	Charles Fort - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Charles Hoy Fort was born in 1874 in Albany, New York, of Dutch ancestry.
		Fort's experience as a journalist coupled with a contrarian nature prepared him for his real-life work, mocking the pretensions of scientific positivism and the tendency of journalists and editors of newspapers and scientific journals to rationalise the scientifically incorrect.
		Among Fort's contributions to the thought of the 20th century was the invention of the word "teleportation" to denote the strange disappearances and appearances of anomalies, which, tongue-in-cheek, he suggested may be connected.
	www.blackvault.com /wiki/index.php/Charles_Fort (2666 words)

	Denis Dutton on Charles Fort
		Fort scoured old books, newspapers, diaries, and scientific publications for his material: frogs raining from a clear blue sky, nineteenth-century UFO accounts, anomalous effects of ball lightening or tornados, people found to speak unintelligible languages, the seeming teleportation of stones, weird effects of strong earthquakes, and on and on.
		Reading over Fort’s books today, one is impressed with the vitality and integrity of the man. By describing incidents that science seemed helpless to account for, he saw his task to show the world just how limited and ignorant academic science really was.
		Fort was downright cynical about professional scientists, most of whom he viewed as smug and narrow-minded at best, incompetent or dishonest at worst.
	denisdutton.com /fort_review.htm (641 words)

	The Frogweb: Charles Fort
		Fort may well have been one of the first to speculate that mysterious lights in the sky that have been reported for hundreds of years, might be craft from outer space.
		Fort was the first to systematically cross-reference, edit and catalogue the anomalous and present them in such a way that the cumulative effect is simply devastating to any dogmatism or narrowness of view one might have started out with.
		Charles Fort's work transcends the cheap vulgarity of the freak show, and mounts a profound and unassailable assault on the credulous and the dogmatic, the partisan and the reductionist; he ascends to the heights of mysticism and poetry.
	www.frogboy.freeuk.com /iwfsfort.html (1909 words)

	Charles Fort - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Charles Fort made a living making up supposed news stories which he then compiled in several books which not only sold well but remain in print today, giving Uncyclopedia's Unnews writers hope that they, too, can perhaps cash in on "lies, damned lies, and statistics," as Mark Twain defined fiction.
		Fort was born (some say, hatched) in New York (some say, Albany), and claimed to have had Dutch parents.
		Fort bought several books on poisons, becoming quite an expert on the subject, and, a year later, his brother Clarence, who had seemingly been in the best of health, died suddenly.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Charles_Fort (1306 words)

	Charles Hoy Fort
		Charles Fort (1874-1932) was one of the first true "skeptics" to come to the public with stories of unanswered happenings and unknown scientific theories.
		Fort never tried to make sense of his wierd collection of stories, but he did pose the question of why did this happen if indeed it did, and was one of the first to begin the type of studies, and bring them to the publics eye.
		Charles Fort, to me, was the first person ever to bring the questions I ask myself everyday to my attention.
	members.tripod.com /world_freedom/id17.html (607 words)

	Charles Fort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort and Anna lived in London from 1924 to 1926, having moved there so Charles could peruse the files of the British Museum.
		Fort's relationship with the study of anomalous phenomena is frequently misunderstood and misrepresented.
		Fort insisted that there is a strong sociological influence on what is considered 'acceptable' or 'damned' (see strong program in the sociology of scientific knowledge).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Fort (3558 words)

	Charles Forte, Baron Forte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Forte, Baron Forte (born November 26, 1908, Monforte Casalaticco, Italy) is a hotelier.
		Forte was the CEO from 1971 and Chairman from 1982 (when his son Sir Rocco Forte took over as CEO).
		Charles Forte was awarded a life peerage in 1982 as Baron Forte of Ripley in the County of Surrey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Forte,_Baron_Forte (360 words)

	Charles Fort - Wikinfo
		Among Fort's contributions to the thought of the Twentieth Century was the invention of the word "teleportation" to denote the strange disappearances and appearances of anomalies, which tongue-in-cheek, he suggested may be connected.
		Fort's work of compilation and commentary on anomalous phenomena reported in scientific journals and press has been carried on very creditably by William R. Corliss, whose self-published books and notes bring Fort's collections up-to-date with a Fortean combination of humour, seriousness and open-mindedness.
		Fort may be said to be a great original, a "genius" in the original sense of a place and spirit of origin, in tune with the Zeitgeist of the Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries, a humorist and researcher much ahead of his time.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Forteana (2767 words)

	Charles Fort Institute - Charles Fort - His Life and Times
		Charles Fort was born into a fairly prosperous family of Dutch immigrants who owned a wholesale grocery business in Albany, New York State.
		Charles Fort is buried in the family plot in a cemetary in Albany, New York.
		Fort's biographer, Damon Knight, says Fort was "an utterly peaceable and sedentary man [who] lived quietly with his wife." By all accounts, Fort and Anna were an odd couple, but they were devoted to each other.
	www.forteana.org /html/fortbiog.html (1411 words)

	NCW--What the Critics Say About Charles Fort
		Charles Fort rises above the regional and the racial to where true freedom resides — in the core of the imagination.
		Another strength of Fort's collection is the comparable ease with which he moves from poems of large historical and cultural importance to poems rooted in his private experience as a lover, father and son.
		Charles Fort is a poet of wide dimension and superb accomplishment.
	mockingbird.creighton.edu /Ncw/fortcrit.htm (348 words)

	FORT SAINT CHARLES
		Fort St. Charles was the point of departure for some of the most westerly explorations of its time and its use and maintenance helped lay the foundation for later development of the Northwest under the British.
		Fort St. Charles was the longest occupied French post in Minnesota and is the only French fort in the state where remains of a contemporary Indian habitation area have been located nearby.
		Fort St. Charles became the western capital of the French empire in the northwest.
	www.entreeltd.com /fortStCharles.htm (8152 words)

	Irish ghosts - The Tragic Bride of Charles Fort
		She walks the ancient ramparts of Charles Fort and may be seen sometimes in the half-light of dusk, a tragic figure in white, doomed forever to glide silently through the place where she found brief love terminated by shattering tragedy.
		Charles Fort stands about a mile and a half outside the town of Kinsale, in Co. Cork, at Summer Cove, and is an old garrison that was used as a barracks up to the time of the withdrawal of British troops from Ireland.
		The girl's father was Commander of the Fort, and the privileged life of his daughter in the pleasant town on the Bandon was uneventful, until the day she met a handsome young officer who had come on a visit to Kinsale.
	www.irelandseye.com /irish/ghost/stories/tbride.shtm (606 words)

	CHARLES FORT AND BLOOD SHOWERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Charles Fort, the father of the modern study of strange phenomena, had many views about blood falls which he discussed at length in his writings.
		Fort considers the notion that a fall of blood and flesh might be the effect of "teleportative seizures." That is, "It may be that a living thing, in California, was, upon the first of August, 1869, shot from point to point, and was torn to pieces, in the passage" (p.
		Fort says that the substance covered several acres, and that "The conventional explanation is that these substances had been disgorged by flying buzzards.
	www.strangemag.com /fort.bloodshowers.html (253 words)

	Robert Fulford's column about Charles Fort
		Charles Fort was one of those dedicated screwballs who go down in history as minor gurus, their reputations kept alive for generations by loyal followers.
		Fort was never famous in his lifetime (1874-1932) and even today he seldom pops into public view.
		Fort was born in Albany, N.Y., spent much of his time in England and died in New York.
	www.robertfulford.com /CharlesFort.html (1040 words)

	Charles Fort, County Cork
		Charles Fort is the most outstanding example of a seventeenth-century star-shaped fortification to survive in Ireland.
		The name was changed to Charles Fort in 1681, after a visit by the Lord Lieutenant, the Duke of Ormonde.
		The first two of these faced the harbour and were the main strength of the fort; but the others were overlooked by the high ground, which proved to be the fort's great weakness.
	www.irelandseye.com /aarticles/travel/attractions/castles/charles.shtm (377 words)

	Amazon.com: The Book of the Damned: Books: Charles Fort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fort (1874-1923) asserts that scientists often argue according to their own beliefs rather than the rules of evidence and ignore, discredit, or suppress facts that conflict with their preferred theories.
		What makes Fort such a classic and cult figure is his ability to use subtle (mostly) but lethal sarcasm to debunk the dogmatic and more than often funny explanations that scientists offer when cornered with occurences that dont fit or even shutter their sacred theories.
		Fort's intention is none other than to highlight our trait of mixing cluelessness with arrogance and at the same time to trigger openmindedness or more importantly thinking for oneself and not religiously depending on science to shape the answers so that they fit the question.
	www.amazon.com /Book-Damned-Charles-Fort/dp/1573926833 (2489 words)

	Intro to Charles Fort
		Charles Fort (1874-1932) was the 20th century's greatest chronicler of bizarre phenomena.
		Fort's books now languish in obscurity, but whenever the media report on uncanny events, from UFOs to mysterious cattle mutilations, you can be sure he was there first.
		Whenever Fort spotted something unusual and inexplicable by conventional means, he made a note of it and filed it away.
	www.stayfreemagazine.org /7/fort.htm (772 words)

	Fort Charles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The new name was in honour of the restoration of the British Monarchy in King Charles II to the English throne in 1660.
		The fort was built in the shape of a ship, almost surrounded by water.
		Within the Fort are the office and former living quarters of horatio nelson who came to Port Royal in 1777 at the age of 19.
	www.jnht.com /kingston/portroya/fortchls.html (214 words)

	Many Parts: Remnants of an Autobiography by Charles Hoy Fort (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fort wrote in the plural as "We," and his references to other members of his family were guised in vague terms.
		Fort's mother, Agnes Fort (nee Hoy), was the first wife of Charles N. Fort and died shortly after the birth of Clarence Fort; but, she makes no appearance nor is she mentioned in the surviving copy.
		Fort was not so much concerned with the elements of true biography as he was in recollecting his own youth in his own literary style.
	www.resologist.net /parte01.htm (631 words)

	Kinsale Tourism Guide -Charles Fort, Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland
		Charles Fort is a classic example of a star-shaped fort and has five bastions.
		The two seaward bastions, the Devil's and the Charles' were for defending the harbour and both are casemated - that is, they have gun embrasures inside as well as on top of the walls.
		Across the estuary is James Fort, an earlier structure, which was designed by Paul Ivy in 1602.
	www.cork-guide.ie /charles.htm (162 words)

	TFTF: The Charles Fort Files
		For many, the works of Charles Fort are as close as they will ever come to these original sources.
		When it comes to anomalies of all kinds, Charles Fort, the "father of phenomenalism", shows us time and again what I have long held to be true: if you think something hasn't been seen before, it just shows that you don't know your history as well as you might.
		Charles Fort's books are: The Book of the Damned, Lo!, Wild Talents and New Lands.
	www.dragonrest.net /fortfiles/forthome.html (314 words)

	Fort Charles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The first fort to be erected in Port Royal was Fort Charles.
		It was built in the late 1650-60 and was originally called Fort Cromwell but was renamed Fort Charles.
		In 1667, the fort had 36 guns and by 1765 it had 104 guns and a garrison with 500 men.
	www.jnht.com /forts/charles.html (68 words)

	Poor_Finds_Charles_Fort
		Charles Fort was constructed in 1678 by Bill Robinson.
		It was besieged in 1690 by the Duke of Marlborough, and was heavily damaged in the Irish Civil War of 1922.
		Admission to Charles Fort is via the reconstructed moat bridge.
	www.geocities.com /ldavison10/Poor_Finds_Charles_Fort.html (199 words)

	Charles Fort, Ireland
		In Summer Cove, 2mi/3km south of the town of Kinsale along the east side of the harbor inlet, can be found the well-preserved star-shaped Charles Fort (1677), the walls of which still stand 40ft/12m high.
		At the southwest corner is a lighthouse, and within the fort are the ruins of 19th C. barracks (caution required on the outer defenses).
		On the opposite side of the inlet is a similar fortification, James Fort.
	www.planetware.com /kinsale/charles-fort-irl-co-chfo.htm (110 words)

	Cryptomundo.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		(Fort died 74 years ago this coming May 3rd, but his legacy lives on.) His first book was entitled The Book of the Damned, and by the “damned,” Fort meant all that was excluded by Science.
		Charles Fort detailed the “blonde beast of Patagonia,” which was “supposed to be a huge ground sloth,” an unknown animal that seekers from Bernard Heuvelmans to Ivan T. Sanderson, from naturalist David Oren to artists Alexis Rockman, Mark Dion, and Bob Braine would chronicle in print and paintings.
		Fort was happy to understand that he did not realize the number of unknown animals out there.
	www.cryptomundo.com /cryptozoo-news/fortcz (813 words)

	Charles Fort in Kinsale, Cork - Ireland Travel Information Guide
		The Devil's and the Charles', the two bastions facing the sea, were built to defend the harbour and both have gun embrasures inside and on top of the walls.
		Across the estuary is James Fort, an earlier structure designed by Paul Ivy in 1602.
		In the last few centuries Charles Fort has undergone many changes and it continued to be garrisoned until 1922.
	www.12travel.ie /ie/Cork_Kerry/attractions/charles_fort.html (206 words)

	Caitlin R. Kiernan. To Charles Fort, With Lovee
		As the title so aptly implies, this collection is Kiernan's attempt to show, in her own inimitable way, the parade of freaks and the catalog of the fantastic that Charles Hoy Fort dedicated his life to chronicling.
		Fort explored the edges of reality, the places where the rules we use to define our shared world bend, stretch, and sometimes break.
		To Charles Fort, With Love is her own Fortean catalog, a collection of things that sit askew, stretching our acceptance and challenging our perceptions.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_kiernan_tocharlesfort.html (1274 words)

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