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2005-08-16 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Viking ship built of ice-cream sticks to set sail

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-08-16 02:03|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 At least he didn't have to eat that many ise cream bars to get the sticks. I have no doubt that Norse sailors and settlers reached the Maritime Provinces and possibly the New England area but I question if they they were the first Europeans to do so. They are only the first that can be proven to do so. And I personally think that a significant number of other mariners were crossing the Atlantic pre Columbus. Fishermen from Bristol may of been fishing in the Western Atlantic and going ashore as early as the the 1450s. In addition it looks as if the Portugese may of had settlements on Puerto Rico in the early 15th century. But Columbus gets the credit or blame simply because he was the one to make it stick

Posted by Cheaderhead 2005-08-16 12:13|| 2005-08-16 12:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Columbus was the last to discover America. People all argue who was here in 1430 or 1180 or -8000. No one claims 1493. That's significant, in that the earlier landings, if they occurred, were not exploited and were forgotten. So they might as well not have happened.

It's the same as all the claims that thus-and-such was really "invented" by someone hundreds of years earlier, when it was some crude drawings that no one ever saw, much less turned into a working model. I count many of Davinci's "inventions" in this category.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-08-16 12:46|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-08-16 12:46|| Front Page Top

#3 hope that glue's not water soluable :-)

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-16 12:51|| 2005-08-16 12:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Lief Eric(glub)?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-08-16 17:48|| 2005-08-16 17:48|| Front Page Top

#5 No one claims 1493.

Colombus claimed 1492. :-)

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-08-16 17:54|| 2005-08-16 17:54|| Front Page Top

#6 The significance of Columbus was that he was an official representative of a European government staking a claim to territory.

Australia had a better documented history, and Europeans had been coming here for 200 years before the Brits officially staked a claim.

Posted by phil_b 2005-08-16 18:15|| 2005-08-16 18:15|| Front Page Top

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