Just to add to the mayhem :) There's a research project under way to determine if the Chinese may have sailed to the west coast of the US prior to the Vikings sailing to the east coast.
I have no doubt that the technology was available even further back. Tor Hyerdal (sp?) proved that large expanses of ocean could be crossed with Even more primitive technology (KonTiki I) (sp?) -----Original Message----- From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:larrycly...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 11:23 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Apparently Arizona has its own Mullahs Don't forget St. Brendan in around 900AD or so who apparentloy sailed from Ireland to the east coast and back again in a leather boat. As for Ericsson, if you look in the Gutenburg Project site there's a translation of the the prose saga of the Eric the Red and Leif Eiriksson's trijps to Vinland. I've been to L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. I assume that it must have been much different back when the area was settled by the Greenlanders (Leif Eiriksson was born in the Greenland colongy). When I was there it was a cold, fairly desolate place. Yet the saga describes one of the vikings finding wild grapes there. Now the northern limit of wild grapes is New Brunswick. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > One thing that many people don't know is that Columbus was not the first > European to land in the western Hemisphere. Leif Ericson, son of Eric the > Red travelled to North America (and actually landed on it as opposed to a > tiny Island in the Caribbean thinking he was off the coast of China like the > other dumbass) 500 years before Columbus. They even settled in > Newfoundland. > > -----Original Message----- > From: denstar [mailto:valliants...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 1:11 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Apparently Arizona has its own Mullahs > > > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Kris Sisk wrote: >> >>> >Meanwhile how many people realize that we had concentration camps >>> here for Japanese Americans during WW2? >>> >>> I think that's standard ed in the US. You left out the Germans and >>> Italians. >> >> Really? I never heard squat about it in school. Then again my history > teacher in high school was hired for his ability to coach football, so that > might have something to do with it. > > I'd wasn't directly schooled on it either (no football coach history > teacher here). > > Only reason I knew about it from when I was in elementary school, is > because my gifted teacher's daughter did a cool presentation on the > camps. Knowing things like that totally twisted me for the rest of my > education, BTW. Generally we save stuff like that 'till college > (although it sounds like others got it earlier as part of a normal > curriculum, which is super cool). Uh Yup... having a really good > teacher really twisted me- there aren't as many as there ought to be, > you see. > > Columbus, Lincoln and Washington are interesting figures too, that we > generally save the nitty-gritty aspects of until kids aren't kids > anymore. > > Nice refs about some other interned folk, Sam! > > And isn't it super-cool that some people's stories are getting > recorded for posterity? > http://archives.nmsu.edu/rghc/index/pow/hanna.html ('Burque!) > > But you've never heard of Dresden? The war's been over for while now... ;-) > > It was also part of the Ken Burns deal, IIRC. Something about us > losing our soul, so to speak? Pretty sad stuff. But *so* useful, > life-wise. > > Like "the Crucible" or the Red Scare (the Red Scare! Holy moley! I > remember thinking, "we cannot have been that retarded, we went through > this in the 1600s" about McCarthyism), or the Milgram experiment or > the "Brown eyes, blue eyes" stuff... > > Failure is just as important to remember as success. It should be > rightly categorized as failure tho. > > I'm pretty sure Sam defends McCarthy, IIRC. Don't you, Sam? Wasn't > such a bad thing, because there /really were/ soviet spies among us? > > Some logic like that, unless I've got him confused with another. If > so, sorry Sam. > > :Den > > -- > It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. > Margaret Bonnano > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318562 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
