[Theoria]

Daily Mail has some nice images.

The incredible map that shows Marco Polo may have discovered America in the the 13th century - 200 years before Christopher Columbus

[Theoria]

The map offers accurate geographical representations to a modern satellite image of Alaska, the west coast and the Pacific. The Bering Straight

[ansel12]

He has cult members everywhere, to this day.

No matter where you are, in any crowd in America, just yell out MARCO...., and his followers will respond.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

"the Alaskan coast—and the strait separating it from Asia"

Might that be the location where Gov. Palin claimed that Russia could be seen from Alaska?

Nah, she's so stupid. She thinks there are "Death Panels" in Obamacare.

And she thought that Russia would invade Ukraine.

[NTHockey]

>>Stanley Chojnacki, a University of North Carolina expert on gender relations in 14th-century Venice<<

Can you get any more obscure and meaningless?

[PIF]

Then again Polo, Columbus were late comers to the scene, as the Jomon of Japan likely sailed to the Americas using the Black Current in 14,500 BC ...

[X Fretensis]

I think Leif Ericson has a stronger claim on that honor than Marco Polo. His voyages along the East coast of Canada
were 500 years before Columbus.

[Cincinatus]

All these stories about the Chinese "discovering" America or the Vikings "discovering" America are all totally and completely irrelevant. Nobody DID anything with the Americas (including its then-inhabitants) until Columbus' voyages blazed that trail for Spain. Discoveries must be followed up or they are NOT "discoveries."

[stevem]

Wouldn’t it be markedly easier to make a list of people who didn’t discover America?