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Captain James Cook makes an accidental discovery?
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Posted on 06/11/2021 10:55:58 AM PDT by MAGA2017
I use the Bing engine to avoid using Google. It's far less offensive than Google but it still is stricken with Wokeness too.
The=y have history tidbits and this is what they have for today:
"Captain James Cook makes an accidental discovery English explorer Captain James Cook's ship runs aground off the coast of Australia, in the world's largest coral reef system. The Great Barrier Reef was already well-known to the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples."
Really? did the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples explored and map the the reef? Did they produce charts or any kind of map? Did they investigate and catalogue what lives there?
Maybe the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples knew the reef was there but that doesn't mean they understood it or its significance.
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bing; cook; reef
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posted on
06/11/2021 10:55:58 AM PDT
by
MAGA2017
To: MAGA2017
Not only that, but Kamala Harris promised to visit the reef in 1770, but she still hasn’t been there.
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posted on
06/11/2021 10:59:29 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
("Pour les vaincre il faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace")
To: MAGA2017
I used xfinity and didn’t see any woke BS!!!!
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posted on
06/11/2021 11:00:08 AM PDT
by
tallyhoe
To: tallyhoe
I mean I used /firefox no Woke BS!!!
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posted on
06/11/2021 11:00:52 AM PDT
by
tallyhoe
To: MAGA2017
DuckDuckGo!
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posted on
06/11/2021 11:05:51 AM PDT
by
immadashell
(New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!)
To: immadashell
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posted on
06/11/2021 11:06:56 AM PDT
by
Son-Joshua
(son-joshua)
To: MAGA2017
I am surprised they didn’t wonder how much he damaged the reef.
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posted on
06/11/2021 11:07:32 AM PDT
by
alternatives?
(If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
To: MAGA2017
"Really? did the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples explored and map the the reef? Did they produce charts or any kind of map? Did they investigate and catalogue what lives there?
Maybe the Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander peoples knew the reef was there but that doesn't mean they understood it or its significance."
Thats racist white talk you are spewing there.
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posted on
06/11/2021 11:09:08 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor." )
To: Kartographer
The point missed on these A holes is that cook sailed like 10000 miles from his home port while the locals took their canoes or whatever out on the receding tide. I will concede it was an accident of discovery but nonetheless it was quite a voyage.
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posted on
06/11/2021 11:14:56 AM PDT
by
Mouton
(The enemy of the people is the media.)
To: Mouton
Yea, but Cook only sailed those 10000 miles because of his white privilege
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posted on
06/11/2021 11:18:55 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor." )
To: MAGA2017
Not only did the aborigines know about the Great Barrier Reef, they made underwater videos of it just like the colonizer Steve Irwin did later. Unfortunately the British destroyed the videos.
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To: MAGA2017
I use Bing because of the reward points, and because they honor all the national holidays on their home page.
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posted on
06/11/2021 11:22:00 AM PDT
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
To: MAGA2017
Something tells me the boats the native folks used were pretty shallow drafted hulls and they never worried about hanging up on the reef
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posted on
06/11/2021 11:24:14 AM PDT
by
shotgun
To: Kartographer
Imperialist hegemony
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posted on
06/11/2021 11:40:51 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
To: MAGA2017
Not to mention, did they contribute to a knowledge base the
rest of the world could use, as the explorer did?
“Yes everyone in their community knew of the local watering
hole, but people ten miles away didn’t.”
It’s when it becomes common knowledge for everyone, that a
thing is really “discovered”.
You know, the wiser these children get, the more they expose
themselves to being discovered for the fools they are.
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posted on
06/11/2021 11:56:57 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Folks, if you haven't yet, please start an automatic monthly for Jim and his crew.)
To: MAGA2017
Give duckduckgo a shot. I feel you’ll be pleased.
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posted on
06/11/2021 11:58:00 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(Corporations don’t pay taxes. They collect them. From us. ~ h/t Little Ray)
To: upchuck
They fund leftist organizations. Try Qwant instead.
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posted on
06/11/2021 12:49:33 PM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
To: MAGA2017
Cook gets a lot of credit....
Here’s a question
Who was Cooks navigator?
Hint: his navigation skills were put to the ultimate test, when he sailed from memory to Timor.
Answer: Captain Bligh
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posted on
06/11/2021 12:53:37 PM PDT
by
Clutch Martin
(The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
To: Clutch Martin
Are you sure it wasn’t Captain Sensible?
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posted on
06/11/2021 1:37:06 PM PDT
by
Two Kids' Dad
(((( this is not the America that true Americans deserve ))))
To: MAGA2017
Does this mean someone who lives a half-mile from a reef is more likely to know its location than someone from 10,000 miles away?
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