To: SunkenCiv
I did not know they claimed this but it’s cool to know this.
4 posted on
08/17/2020 8:56:28 PM PDT by
Beowulf9
To: Beowulf9
Erratum: I accidentally left in the Playboy topic, I guess the antiquity of the late Hugh Hefner threw me off my game.
6 posted on
08/17/2020 9:01:57 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Beowulf9
I did not know they claimed this but its cool to know this. It was a cultural exchange. Columbus gave the Indians smallpox, and they returned the favor with syphilis.
18 posted on
08/18/2020 5:33:10 AM PDT by
PGR88
To: Beowulf9
It’s been a while back but I remember reading that the disease was already here in the native population
21 posted on
08/18/2020 6:28:22 AM PDT by
SMARTY
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