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Was Christopher Columbus Polish?
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| 29th November 2010
| Andrew Shale
Posted on 11/30/2010 3:45:13 PM PST by Coleus
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To: Coleus; a fool in paradise; dfwgator; Slings and Arrows
And he invented disco polo! Hity, dude!
To: Coleus
Not only that! A well informed Polish friend once told me that Elvis Presley's manager (one of the two shown below), who, it's been alleged, was really a Dutch sailor named Andreas Cornelis ("Dries") van Kuijk, claiming to be Colonel Tom Parker, was really a Polish Jew named Bernie Schwartz, claiming to be a Dutch sailor named Andreas Cornelis ("Dries") van Kuijk, who claimed to be Colonel Tom Parker.
To: Coleus
the search continues!
"By the Sea.. By the Sea by the Booty filled Sea!"
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posted on
11/30/2010 5:56:43 PM PST
by
Young Werther
("Quae cum ita sunt" Since these things are so!)
To: Coleus
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posted on
11/30/2010 6:05:18 PM PST
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
To: CivilWarguy
Columbus married a Braganza Princess ~ and there weren't all that many of 'em around.
Earlier his brother had worked for Rene d'Anjou, and he, Columbus, sailed on Rene's boats involved in a variety of business ventures, and even war.
Rene had some interesting relatives ~ besides an ancestry filled with French Kings, he was a blood relative (through many sides) of the Kings of England, the Kings of Spain, the Kings of Poland, the Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, etc.
Rene was a good guy to have as your boss. Columbus no doubt found his recommendation the way to open the doors to the French and Spanish courts.
Columbus was born in an age where it was common for nobility to send their children "to the countryside" to reach adulthood ~ they would then return to the Chateaux and fortresses where the ruling class lived well able to survive some really serious communicable diseases.
Of note no one in the then world's most powerful city, Venice, had any children in town.
I suspect Columbus' immediate forbears, his mother and father, had perished and he was fostered by a grandparent or, most likely by a surviving uncle.
Casual adoption was exceedingly common in the ages immediately following the Black Death of the 1300s and folks didn't think twice about it.
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posted on
11/30/2010 6:06:23 PM PST
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muawiyah
(GIT OUT THE WAY ~ REPUBLICANS COMIN' THROUGH)
To: Revolting cat!
What? no pictures of Shazza?
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posted on
11/30/2010 6:09:49 PM PST
by
stefanbatory
(Insert witty tagline here)
To: ReneeLynn
The old royal family (and by golly I knew one of those guys) had more than its fair share of redheads.
The problem arose when the noble classes were reconstituted and numerous French and British nobles took jobs there. Plus, thanks to several well-known British monarchs that red hair has been spread into "The Family".
The original Slavic population probably has a lower incidence of redheads.
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posted on
11/30/2010 6:12:20 PM PST
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muawiyah
(GIT OUT THE WAY ~ REPUBLICANS COMIN' THROUGH)
To: stefanbatory
Would you settle for Doda?
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posted on
11/30/2010 6:16:55 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Congratulations to Josh Hamilton - AL MVP)
To: dfwgator
she’ll do in a pinch...*sigh*
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posted on
11/30/2010 6:20:15 PM PST
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stefanbatory
(Insert witty tagline here)
To: muawiyah
Earlier his brother had worked for Rene d'Anjou...What a pear they were.
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posted on
11/30/2010 6:30:23 PM PST
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decimon
To: SunkenCiv
out-of-work fugitive Polish hermits. If I wind up at the funny farm when people see me sitting by myself laughing, it'll be your fault.
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posted on
11/30/2010 6:31:31 PM PST
by
FourPeas
(From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Ja 3:10)
To: Revolting cat!; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ..
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posted on
11/30/2010 7:02:08 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Cicero
To: stefanbatory
How about Violetta?
To: Coleus
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posted on
11/30/2010 7:13:43 PM PST
by
InvisibleChurch
(Stimulus ~ Response / "...and that's why the color yellow makes me sad, I think.")
To: Coleus
Marty was Polish!
To: Coleus
Both Skrzeks are Polish!
To: Coleus
Lonstar (sic) is Polish! (speaks fluent Eye-talian.)
To: Revolting cat!
Big, tough Paladin “Have Gun Will Travel” will be pissed at that picture ;^)
To: muawiyah; VermiciousKnid
I guess ya’ll got some of that foreign blood. ;)No red hair anywhere in my family, but a lot of Polish decent. My grandmother came from Poland.
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posted on
11/30/2010 8:37:36 PM PST
by
ReneeLynn
(Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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