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Did the Scandinavians beat Columbus to America twice?
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Posted on 10/22/2003 6:39:07 AM PDT by mhking
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posted on
10/22/2003 6:39:07 AM PDT
by
mhking
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
Are they sure the rune didn't look like this?
Just damn.
If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
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posted on
10/22/2003 6:40:11 AM PDT
by
mhking
To: mhking
Did the Scandinavians beat Columbus to America twice? I don't know, my grandfather didn't get here till 1902.
To: anguish; AzSteven; Bartholomew Roberts; bc2; Charles Henrickson; duke_h3; Eurotwit; Jamten; ...
Hej! to the Swedish Ping List.
To: mhking
Those who believe that the stone is authentic claim that the marshy surroundings of its origin were areas of water in 1362, and therefore the area in Minnesota where it was found was indeed an island at the time. You mean the earth can change without the existance of SUVs?
To: Charles Henrickson
is there a Norwegian ping list? Uff da!
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posted on
10/22/2003 6:50:27 AM PDT
by
Fierce Allegiance
(Proudly posting without reading the article since October 12, 2003)
To: mhking
When I was a kid in southeast Oklahoma, there was this big slab of sandstone near Heavener that was called the runestone. They've made a state park out of the area now, but if I remember correctly, they had dated those runes to around 800 AD.
If that's true, it's a pretty significant trashing to Columbus' claim of 'discovery.'
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posted on
10/22/2003 6:53:35 AM PDT
by
Treebeard
To: mhking
I always wondered how anybody could consider Columbus, or anybody else from Europe, "discovering" the Americas when roughly 20 million people already lived here and had for a dozen centuries...
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To: Fierce Allegiance
is there a Norwegian ping list? Uff da!Jag vet inte, "I don't know." Start one up. That's what I did with the Swedish Ping List. Start by asking the FReepers listed by location under Norway.
To: Charles Henrickson
Did the Scandinavians beat Columbus to America twice? Ja sure, you betcha!
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posted on
10/22/2003 6:56:16 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Be a glowworm, a glowworm's never glum, cuz how can you be grumpy when the sun shines out your bum.)
To: blam
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To: okchemyst
Scandinavians landed in the New World in 1362, 130 years before Columbus. Who made it first has never mattered. Who made it stick has always mattered.
To: mhking
Absolute bunk. Everyone knows you can't have an actual claim to discovery unless it lead to the total destruction of indigenous cultures. < /s>
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posted on
10/22/2003 6:57:51 AM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(There's two kinds of people in the world. Those with loaded guns and those that dig.)
To: mhking
Vikings! Vikings!
Husker Va!
Ve vant a touchdown!
JA! JA! JA!
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posted on
10/22/2003 6:58:16 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Be a glowworm, a glowworm's never glum, cuz how can you be grumpy when the sun shines out your bum.)
To: Charles Henrickson
My great grandfather, Gustavis Adolphis Svenson, arrived from Vastervik, Sweden in 1902. The immigration authorities changed his name to Gus Swanson and that's what is on his gravestone.
To: Thermalseeker
After they immigrated from Asia.
To: mhking
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posted on
10/22/2003 7:06:08 AM PDT
by
4mycountry
(Here's to Bush '04, Mr. Limbaugh, the outlawing of speedos and the banning of kiddie animes! *glug*)
To: Thermalseeker
This guy preceded the Asian immigrants by several centuries.
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posted on
10/22/2003 7:09:24 AM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(People have the governement they deserve.)
To: Always Right; ScaniaBoy; Jamten; Ringman
. . . the existence of SUVs?Skandinaviska Utforskande Vikingar.
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