The grave of Columbus
The Ship of Columbus rebuilded - "Santa Maria"
A box with the remains of Columbus
A zinc-box with the bones of Christophers brother Diego
The probable birthplace of Columbus in Genua.
Posted on 05/20/2006 7:43:29 AM PDT by Borges
Well, Leif "the Lucky" Erikson has the prior discovery claim.
What's to "defend".
The man was a hero of western civilization.
but this would put left-wing extremist, cultural anthropologists out of a job... lmao
The grave of Columbus
The Ship of Columbus rebuilded - "Santa Maria"
A box with the remains of Columbus
A zinc-box with the bones of Christophers brother Diego
The probable birthplace of Columbus in Genua.
"For nine days I was as one lost, without any hope of life. eyes never
beheld the sea so high, angery,and covered with foam. The wind not
only prevented our progress, but offered no opportunity to run
behind any headland for shelter; hence we were forced to keep out in
this bloody ocean, seething like a pot on a hot fire. Never did the sky
look moe terrible;for one whole day and night it blazed like a furnance,
and the lightening broke forth with such violence that each time
I wondered if it had carried off my spars and sails; the flashes came
with such fury and frightfulness that we all thought that the ships
would be blasted. All this time the water never ceased to fall from the sky;
I do not say it rained, for it was like another deluge. The men
were so worn out they longed for death to end their dreadful
suffering."
--- Christopher Columbus' journal, December 5, 1502.
Columbus is from a time when Spain had B@LLS!
Didn't kill enough Skraelings* to make it into the history books for a long time.
* The Vikings of olde called the natives that the found in Newfoundland "Skraelings."
And of course, the recent archaeological evidence shows that white europeans where in north america over 20,000 years ago. Even longer than the illegal aliens ancestors..therefore we white folk are the real native americans.
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Best bet is to admit that Columbus gets credit for discovering America for the Europeans, Asians and Africans, and for discovering Europe, Asia and Africa for the Americans.
Makes him the discoverer of 4 continents and I don't think you can beat that.
If Leif forgot to tell anybody about it, then how come we know his name in this connection? The records of his doings were left, and even disseminated, but not too widely. His literary agent was none too good, that's all.
Same with Gregoire Mendel ~ he didn't publish!
Another guy came up with what amounts to the Quark Theory back in the 1700s. However, it didn't explain chemistry, and it took another 200 years for someone else to come up with the same theory. By that time we knew what it meant (if not all the details).
We don't count Leif any more than we count those ancient North Africans.
What he did have was a highly developed society behind him.
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