One thing that I did a little further research on since reading Icke's "book" was one Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Apparently, it is pretty well documented, at least in the 'weird' realm of the Internet, that this guy had some strange happ'nin's at the North and South poles. For those of you who don't know about his "secret diary", in 1947, the Admiral apparently managed to fly a plane INTO the middle of the Earth at the pole so that he discovered this friendly 'alien'? [who just happened to speak German?] race of people living in a green utopia. They were highly evolved etc. etc. and lived with the mammoths. Uh HUH!!! So... since I've never actually flown to the either the North or the South Pole, I'm wondering if the Earth actually IS hollow like mr. Byrd recounted? Was this guy a total flake? Has anyone taken this seriously? If so, what became of it? What about him marching 4000 troops in there and coming out with considerable casualties? Is any of this even based remotely on anything real? His expeditions seem to be somewhat legendary. Why wasn't _I_ told about them before? Is there some vast suppression conspiracy? seeking answers where none appear to be, planning my next vacation paul ########## Paul Stone pas@xxxxxxxx Kingsville, ON, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html