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1 posted on
09/25/2009 12:32:10 PM PDT by
Nikas777
To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
09/25/2009 12:32:29 PM PDT by
Nikas777
(En touto nika, "In this, be victorious")
To: Nikas777
too many notes
3 posted on
09/25/2009 12:36:22 PM PDT by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Nikas777
I believe anyone sailing west, towards the setting sun, would have had to discover America eventually.
4 posted on
09/25/2009 12:42:37 PM PDT by
stuartcr
(If we are truly made in the image of God, why do we have faults?)
To: Nikas777
The Phoenicians talked of a “great island” far beyond the Pillars of Hercules. There’s a big fight still going on between those who say there were no foreign contacts in North America until Columbus.
One has only to look at figurines/artifacts out of the Yucatan and South America to wonder about that.
5 posted on
09/25/2009 12:44:12 PM PDT by
Oatka
("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
To: Nikas777
7 posted on
09/25/2009 12:48:42 PM PDT by
dangerdoc
To: Nikas777
Amerigo Vespuci was a pickle salesman at one point in his life.
9 posted on
09/25/2009 12:51:18 PM PDT by
TASMANIANRED
(TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
To: Nikas777
People interested in evidence of Europeans in America long before those given in traditional histories should read Barry Fell's
America B.C. and/or Gordon's
Before Columbus. Fell and Gordon are each academics. There is little if any overlap between these two books.
ML/NJ
11 posted on
09/25/2009 12:54:14 PM PDT by
ml/nj
To: Nikas777; Clemenza
Didn’t the Greeks first land in Tarpon Springs ?
17 posted on
09/25/2009 11:18:27 PM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: Nikas777
“Posidonius suspects that the length of the inhabited world, about 70000 stadia, is half the entire circle on which it had been taken, so that if you sail from the west in a straight course, you will reach India within 70000 stadia. “
From the west? In other words, if you sail toward the east? Well...you can’t do that in a straight course, and they knew that at the time.
18 posted on
09/26/2009 5:38:49 AM PDT by
668 - Neighbor of the Beast
( If you have kids, you have no right of privacy that the govt can't flick off your shoulder.)
To: Nikas777
The real issue back then was whether or not it was worth the bother to sail west. It would be like driving from Manhattan to Death Valley without being able to stop at a motel anywhere in between. A lot of trouble to get from a difficult place to one arguably worse.
They’d have advised in their Michelins, “It’s like Africa, only a lot farther away.”
19 posted on
09/26/2009 5:47:42 AM PDT by
668 - Neighbor of the Beast
( If you have kids, you have no right of privacy that the govt can't flick off your shoulder.)
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