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To: TexasTaysor
LEIF ERIKSON discovered America

Just had to include that.

7 posted on 01/18/2005 5:50:31 AM PST by NordP (MAY YOUR DREAMS COME ALIVE IN 2005!)
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To: NordP

There were some Irish monks who may have beat Leif by hundreds of years. We just don't know. Personally, I think America was visited sporatically by many over the millennia.


9 posted on 01/18/2005 5:54:59 AM PST by twigs
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To: NordP
Add:,p.Betsy didn't make the first flag.

Washington killed his mother's favorite colt (the real story behind the cherry tree).

etc, etc

10 posted on 01/18/2005 5:57:28 AM PST by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: NordP
LEIF ERIKSON discovered America

and it's a good thing our continent isn't named Vepucciland.

11 posted on 01/18/2005 6:07:44 AM PST by NautiNurse (Osama bin Laden has more tapes than Steely Dan)
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To: NordP
According to the Saga of the Greenlanders, Bjarni Herjolfsson discovered the lands to the west of Greenland before Leif, but he did not land. Leif was aware of Bjarni's voyage and retraced his route.
18 posted on 01/18/2005 6:49:32 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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