[Diana Rose]

claims that America was discovered by Chinese explorers 70 years before Columbus

Well they will just have to stand in line. Pre-Columbia America appears to have been a damn Stop-N-Shop.

[crystalk]

I wrote in a paper in college, generations ago, that "there was probably scarcely a decade from 2500 BC to 1500 AD, in which some ship or other, carrying some unfortunates more or less, did NOT fetch up somewhere on the American continents, ...mostly carrying dying survivors on their last legs, desperately in need of assistance, which the empty continents in their howling savagery could never have provided."