Quo Fuit places 9 dated presences for James Randi across 8 places, from 1928 to 2017.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928 – October 20, 2020) was a Canadian-American stage magician, author, and scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place James Randi is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where James Randi was documented, and when
7 August 1928exact date
Torontoattested“Randi was born on August 7, 1928, in Toronto, Canada.”source: Wikipedia: James Randi
January 1966month
WFAN (AM)attested“After Nebel moved to WNBC in 1964, Randi was given Nebel's time slot on WOR, where he hosted The Amazing Randi Show until January 1966, and often had guests who defended paranormal claims, among them Randi's then-friend James W.”source: Wikipedia: James Randi
1986year
Fort Lauderdaleattested“In 1986, Randi met Alvarez in a Fort Lauderdale public library after he had recently moved to Florida.”source: Wikipedia: James Randi
1986year
Floridaattested“In 1986, Randi met Alvarez in a Fort Lauderdale public library after he had recently moved to Florida.”source: Wikipedia: James Randi
1988year
Baltimoreattested“District Court in Baltimore found Randi liable for defaming Eldon Byrd for calling him a child molester in a magazine story and a "shopping market molester" in a 1988 speech; however, the jury found that Byrd was not entitled to any mone…”source: Wikipedia: James Randi
2007year
Las Vegas Valleyattested“Randi recovered after his surgery and was able to help organize and attend The Amaz!ng Meeting in 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada, his annual convention of scientists, magicians, skeptics, atheists, and freethinkers.”source: Wikipedia: James Randi
2007year
Las Vegasattested“Randi recovered after his surgery and was able to help organize and attend The Amaz!ng Meeting in 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada, his annual convention of scientists, magicians, skeptics, atheists, and freethinkers.”source: Wikipedia: James Randi
December 2014month
Australiaattested“In December 2014, Randi flew to Australia to take part in "An Evening with James Randi" tour, organized by Think Inc.”source: Wikipedia: James Randi
October 2017month
Las Vegasattested“In a video released in October 2017, Randi revealed that he had recently suffered a minor stroke, and that he was under medical advice not to travel during his recovery, so would be unable to attend CSICon 2017 in Las Vegas later that mo…”source: Wikipedia: James Randi
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In each of these, a source puts James Randi and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
that James Randi was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason:
a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1960year
Society for Psychical Researchmentioned“According to Randi, author William Lindsay Gresham told Randi "around 1960" that he had seen these mouth organs in the Home collection at the Society for Psychical Research (SPR).”source: Wikipedia: James Randi
1970year
Detroitmentioned“In 1970, he auditioned for a revival of the 1950s children's show The Magic Clown, which showed briefly in Detroit and in Kenya, but was never picked up.”source: Wikipedia: James Randi
1970year
Kenyamentioned“In 1970, he auditioned for a revival of the 1950s children's show The Magic Clown, which showed briefly in Detroit and in Kenya, but was never picked up.”source: Wikipedia: James Randi
26 May 2011exact date
Torontomentioned“TV documented one of Popoff's more recent performances before a large audience who gathered in Toronto on May 26, 2011, hoping to be saved from illness and poverty.”source: Wikipedia: James Randi
23 April 2013exact date
Old Baileymentioned“On April 23, 2013, McCormick was convicted of three counts of fraud at the Old Bailey in London; he was subsequently sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for his part in the ADE 651 scandal, which Randi was the first to expose.”source: Wikipedia: James Randi
23 April 2013exact date
Londonmentioned“On April 23, 2013, McCormick was convicted of three counts of fraud at the Old Bailey in London; he was subsequently sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for his part in the ADE 651 scandal, which Randi was the first to expose.”source: Wikipedia: James Randi
June 2014month
Torontomentioned“The film was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, at Toronto's Hot Docs film festival, and at the June 2014 AFI Docs Festival in Silver Spring, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., where it won the Audience Award for Best Feature.”source: Wikipedia: James Randi
June 2014month
Silver Spring, Marylandmentioned“The film was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, at Toronto's Hot Docs film festival, and at the June 2014 AFI Docs Festival in Silver Spring, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., where it won the Audience Award for Best Feature.”source: Wikipedia: James Randi
7 November 2014exact date
New Yorkmentioned“According to Adam Higginbotham's November 7, 2014, article in The New York Times: However, this appearance on The Tonight Show, which Carson and Randi had orchestrated to debunk Geller's claimed abilities, backfired.”source: Wikipedia: James Randi
Two people documented in the same place in the same year is a correlation, not a meeting.
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back to it. Nothing is inferred, and a gap in the record is not evidence that someone was elsewhere.
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explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
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