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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 1 Nov 2001.
Re: The Return of Mike Throll 3 (2/2)

Re: The Return of Mike Throll 3 (2/2)

Andrew Carpenter said into the tin can on that end of the string:
>"CeeJay" <new...@ceejay.cjb.nOt> wrote in message
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>
>> The Viking Leif Erikson and his crew discovered America about
>> 500 before Christopher Colombus .. and before them the Indians
>> discovered it.
>The Native Americans didn't discover it, they lived there already.

Well, it's not like the human species exactly evolved there; they had to
move in from somewhere. So, yeah, they discovered it. A damn long time
ago, but they did.

>They are only called Indians because Columbus (or someone else)
>was expecting to find India.

*groan* Yeeees, we _know_ that. (And I think it was indeed Columbus. IIRC
he was working off outdated mathematics that most geometry geeks of the
day _knew_ were wrong.)

YG: As far as the whole Leif Erikson thing, weren't there Irishmen a
century or two before even him? I've heard stories of Phoenician settlements
in modern-day Brazil, but the evidence seems to me to be a tad weak; same
deal with the similar stories of Minoan settlements in what's now
Massachusetts.

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