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Viking Map May Rewrite US History
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| 11-26-2004
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Posted on 11/26/2004 12:01:26 PM PST by blam
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To: w1andsodidwe
Well we will rename "America" to "Columbus", since this makes Americo Vaspuchi's claim less likely. Or rename it LeifLand? The United States of Leifland? Leiflanders? Leifland the Beautiful?
This is really going to play havoc with our national songs.
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posted on
11/26/2004 12:32:26 PM PST
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation.)
To: Oblongata
Someone showed that titanium occurs naturally, thus debunking the debunkers.
To: blam
I keep telling people that I was here first - and there's the land plat to prove it. Now, go on, get outta my yard.....LOL :-)
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posted on
11/26/2004 12:33:51 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(Taglines? Vikings don't need no steenkin' taglines..............)
To: Zavien Doombringer
If the Viking visitors to America had had the luck of Cortez, and landed among friendly tribes....
Horses and iron making in AD 1100. Just imagine.
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posted on
11/26/2004 12:35:09 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: Boundless
America was discovered by humans long before Columbus. Whether the vikings discovered it again before Columbus, there's little doubt that the Columbus discovery was the most significant because it led to colonization.
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posted on
11/26/2004 12:35:23 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: EGPWS
Alexandria is a wonderful place. My grandparents bought a summer cottage on one of the smaller lakes there several years ago and our family has been enjoying the summers there ever since. I have seen the runestone on several occasions and personally believe in its authenticity.
But don't ask me. Ask Big Ole!
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posted on
11/26/2004 12:36:14 PM PST
by
SaveTheChief
("It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech." - Senator Zell Miller)
To: blam
At risk of sounding politically correct...I'm not sure of the significance of Vikings landing here "first" since Native Americans were already here. The significance of Columbus was not that he was here first -- he wasn't -- but rather that he brought news of the area back to Europe, sparking an historical period of settlement and colonization. And that's pretty darn significant. So if the Vikings didn't do that, AND they weren't here before the Natives, then who cares?
To: GoforBroke
Lots of history needs to be corrected because it has been corrupted.
Today we are still deliberately having history corrupted as we go along.
The days are coming when testing will prove lots of what other self intereseted groups declared as bogus to be the real thing.
In the interest of truth I wish these reasearchers well.
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posted on
11/26/2004 12:38:47 PM PST
by
Spirited
To: SaveTheChief
Cool pic my friend!
Yes, Alexandria IS a great place, however I haven't been there in more than 15 years and I am a mere 130 miles away!
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posted on
11/26/2004 12:39:10 PM PST
by
EGPWS
To: EGPWS
I miss it terribly. Back during my last visit in 1999 I repeatedly told myself that if I weren't married, I would move there in an instant. Nearly five years after a divorce, and I haven't so much have visited since. People there are very nice, and it is a great place "to get away from it all".
Perhaps I could get a job renting ice fishing cabins...
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posted on
11/26/2004 12:43:56 PM PST
by
SaveTheChief
("It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech." - Senator Zell Miller)
To: blam
believed the document was a fake
Let's get buckhead on this...
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posted on
11/26/2004 12:45:17 PM PST
by
BJClinton
(Honk if you love peace and quiet.)
To: EGPWS
I've seen it several times. I don't know if it has any link to authenticity. As a good Norsky Lutheran, I'd be more inclined to believe it was if they found coffee cups, a lefse iron and a bag of stale fish in lye in the same spot.
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posted on
11/26/2004 12:45:58 PM PST
by
SoDak
(Home of Senator John Thune)
To: blam
Columbus was not the first to discover America, but he was the last.
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posted on
11/26/2004 12:48:18 PM PST
by
lancer
(If you are not with us, you are against us!)
To: SoDak
To: BackInBlack
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posted on
11/26/2004 12:58:53 PM PST
by
Let's Roll
(For a guy who shirked his own job, Kerry sure was eager to tell others how to do theirs ...)
To: SaveTheChief
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posted on
11/26/2004 12:59:41 PM PST
by
Rakkasan1
(Justice of the Piece: Hope IS on the way...)
To: blam
Did they get this map from Bill Burkett, Mary Mapes, or Dan Rather? /sarc
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posted on
11/26/2004 1:01:50 PM PST
by
GaltMeister
(The only time a Democrat should be allowed in the White House is to visit the President.)
To: Right Wing Puppy
Since 1964. A village with a Viking long house, iron smithy and other stuff Native Americans would not have had.
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posted on
11/26/2004 1:03:13 PM PST
by
BJClinton
(Honk if you love peace and quiet.)
To: SoDak
Norsky Lutheran, lefse...
If you start with the "They used ta call it yam, and now they call it yelly" I'd swear we are related.
(Any kin in North Dakota?)
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posted on
11/26/2004 1:05:08 PM PST
by
TexasTransplant
(When you are over the hill, you pick up speed)
To: lancer
Vitus Bering in the employ of the Tsar discovered Alaska which nobody suspected existed except Hudsons Bay fur traders, who didn't know where in H they were, and the Alaska Natives, who also didn't know where the H they were.
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posted on
11/26/2004 1:07:27 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Destroy the dark; restore the light)
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