To: Old Professer; PilotDave; SunkenCiv
Hundreds of years ago, Greenland was habitable and parts of it arable. There's the old tale that Eric the Red discovered Iceland, which was volcanic and a good place to inhabit and Greenland which was less so but still accomodating. Old Eric manipulated the names for the Vikings' benefit by discouraging settlement in Iceland and tricking others to seek marginal Greenland.
It worked for the longest time until in 1941, the USAF settled there at Thule.
19 posted on
09/23/2009 8:49:09 PM PDT by
BIGLOOK
(Government needs a Keelhauling now and then.)
To: BIGLOOK; 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...
It's strange how this piece of propaganda keeps popping up a few times a year. There's nothing to it, it isn't true, it's actually a blatant lie. Oh, wait, that's right, it's from the left, of course it's a blatant lie. Thanks BIGLOOK.
22 posted on
09/23/2009 8:59:36 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: BIGLOOK
One apochryphal tale substituted for another is a technique of debate, not a conclusion of science.
23 posted on
09/24/2009 7:59:45 AM PDT by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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