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The Sun was c. 3000 miles away / 32 miles in diameter, Wilbur Voliva, founder of the community of Zion and flat-Earth promoter, declared in 1932.
Voliva’s flat-Earth belief system was highly unconventional and contradicted mainstream astronomical understandings of the time.
Voliva, who controlled the town of Zion, Illinois in the early 20th century, became a prominent flat Earth theorist starting in 1914. He offered a $5,000 challenge for anyone to disprove the flat Earth theory. Voliva taught the flat Earth doctrine in Zion's schools
