[blam]

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[blam]

Ping.

[WyldKard]

Interesting.

It's pretty well known that a lot of folks were hanging aroudn that part of the world on the q-t, and that Columbus was certainly not the first to make it to America.

For instance, there is a document written by a Buddhist monk around 500ad..I forget the name, but apparently not only does the monk write about flora and fauna that only appears in Mexico, but he pegged the distance from China to Mexico very closely...

[Ronaldus Magnus]

It would be nice if the Washington-BLEEP would show the map.

[Physicist]

I don't know. I'm not entirely whelmed by its depiction of South America.

[Rebelbase]

Interesting read. I like the author's speculations.

[aShepard]

Very interesting!

I suspect that the long ago discoverer, Pablo de Gore, travelled up the west coast, took some gold from the indians, at what is now Hollywood, and returned to Spain.

Thus, Al Gore's distant relatives discovered America.

[dead]

Bump! Very interesting article.

BTW, the WP made me give them demographic information before they'd let me read it.

I can understand them not taking 1368 as my birth year, but they wouldn't take 1899 either. If I really was 103, I'd be pissed.

[martin gibson]

Dickson, an amateur geographer and scholar of the Age of Discovery, this week is giving a Columbus Day lecture at the Library of Congress ...

Doen't he mean 'giving a White European Male Oppressor Pig, Despoiler of the Planet Day lecture'.....?