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Marco Polo discovered America 200 years before Colombus, according to map
AFP via translation ^ | August 9, 2007

Posted on 08/09/2007 3:28:45 AM PDT by HAL9000

Possible discovered of America by Marco Polo before Colomb: account in VSD

'America - its West coast - would have been discovered by Marco Polo some 200 years before Christophe Colomb, according to a chart of the Library of the Congress in Washington examined since 1943 by the FBI and whose history is told in published review VSD Wednesday. This document, brought to the Library in 1933 by Marcian Rossi, an American naturalized citizen originating in Italy, “represents a boat beside a chart showing part of India, China, Japan, the Eastern Indies and North America”, indicates the report/ratio of the librarian of the time.

Called “Map-with-ship” (Chart with a boat), this document carries “a blazon drawn under the ship, an intersection of letters giving a name: Marco Polo. The strait which separates Siberia from Alaska is the principal subject of the chart”, notes the author of the article of VSD, the author and realizer Thierry Secretan.

This one tells that an examination carried out into 1943 with the ultraviolet rays by the FBI, American safety, “made it possible to establish the presence of three inkings on this chart, which was thus modernized in time”. The report/ratio evokes several assumptions, of which the possibility that “Marco Polo, who returned to Venice in 1295, reported in Europe the first information on the existence of North America, others that those acquired by the Scandinavian explorers”.

“If this chart is well of Marco Polo, it arrived to America two centuries before Colomb and drew the strait which separates Asia from America four centuries before this last does not appear on the European charts”, Thierry Secretan underlines.

The discovery of America is allotted to Christophe Colomb, in 1492.

Marco Polo, who forever spoken in the relation about his voyages of any discovered of ground in the zone of Alaska, said to his friends on his bed of dead: “I did not write half of what I saw”, Thierry Secretan recalls.



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1 posted on 08/09/2007 3:28:46 AM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

The United States of Polo?


2 posted on 08/09/2007 3:32:23 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty; The Pendleton 8: We are not going down without a fight)
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To: RaceBannon

United States of Polonia?


3 posted on 08/09/2007 3:33:25 AM PDT by SolidWood (UN delenda est.)
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To: HAL9000

4 posted on 08/09/2007 3:34:57 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto)
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To: HAL9000
said to his friends on his bed of dead: “I did not write half of what I saw”

Beware the bed of dead.

5 posted on 08/09/2007 3:41:42 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: HAL9000

How about the Vikings?


6 posted on 08/09/2007 3:45:05 AM PDT by driftdiver
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To: driftdiver

“How about the Vikings?”

They were much too white to get any credit in this new age of inclusive history. So was Marco Polo, for that matter, but Italian names sound vaguely Hispanic to multi-cultists, so he can have a pass until someone finds an African or an Arab to whom they can credit the discovery.


7 posted on 08/09/2007 3:56:51 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Rousing the blog-rabble since 9-11-01)
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To: atomic conspiracy

They are already crediting the Chinese.


8 posted on 08/09/2007 4:05:13 AM PDT by SolidWood (UN delenda est.)
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To: HAL9000
Thor Heyerdahl's expedition showed that intercontinental voyages and exploration predated the currently accepted thesis of "who discovered what!"

Egyptian Reed Boats, Polyenesian rafts, Viking long boats and the Space shuttle Endeavour all highlight mankinds urge to explore!

I visited the museum in Olso where a Viking long boat and Heyerdahl's Kon Tiki reside. Wow!

9 posted on 08/09/2007 4:28:17 AM PDT by Young Werther ( and Julius Caesar said, "quae cum ita sunt." (or since these things are so!))
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To: HAL9000

Lief landed first.


10 posted on 08/09/2007 4:46:14 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
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To: HAL9000
La découverte de l'Amérique est attribuée à Christophe Colomb, en 1492.

The discovery of America is allotted to Christophe Colomb, in 1492.

Babelfish?

11 posted on 08/09/2007 4:53:47 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (F' Akalla - D' Ethtislam)
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To: HAL9000

The fact is fairly well known. There are thousands of children who celebrate the event in swimming pools all across America.

One will solemnly call out “Marco” and the other children will respond “Polo”. Some believe this quasi religous ritual began in California and as it crossed the country took on the aspects of a game.


12 posted on 08/09/2007 4:59:37 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Happiness is a down sleeping bag)
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To: HAL9000

Native American Indians “discovered” America. Who “discovered” is really irrelevant.


13 posted on 08/09/2007 5:06:47 AM PDT by Paradox (I'm almost done with Politics.)
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To: HAL9000

There have been digs on the east coast where artifacts show man traveled here from Europe 20,000 yrs ago. Time has a way of hiding history.


14 posted on 08/09/2007 5:16:54 AM PDT by wolfcreek (2 bad Tyranny, Treachery and Treason never take a vacation...)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

It would not be surprising that a sophisticated ship-building civilization would notice the existence of an island chain and follow it to Alaska. But Alaska having the climate that it does, it’s also not surprising that they had little interest in the real estate


15 posted on 08/09/2007 5:22:31 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Open Season rocks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymLJz3N8ayI)
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To: driftdiver
How about the Vikings?

Marco Polo discovered them as well.

16 posted on 08/09/2007 5:43:13 AM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative (Global Warming Heretic -- http://agw-heretic.blogspot.com)
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To: HAL9000
How does one “discover” a continent that already had 20,000,000 people living on it? Just because Europeans didn't know the continent existed doesn't mean that they discovered anything. Morons and revisionist historians at work here (and probably spending your tax dollars to do it)
17 posted on 08/09/2007 6:01:22 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Made in China: Treat those three words like a warning label)
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

“How about the Vikings?

Marco Polo discovered them as well.”

Yeah but Al Gore invented Marco.


18 posted on 08/09/2007 6:30:30 AM PDT by driftdiver
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To: Thermalseeker
Don't be silly. There were far more than 20 million people in the Americas and not a single one of them knew where he or she might be.

Christopher Columbus discovered the Eastern and Western Hemispheres although he didn't realize it at the time.

19 posted on 08/09/2007 6:44:32 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Calpernia; DAVEY CROCKETT; FARS; milford421; Velveeta; Founding Father

Ping to the maps.


20 posted on 08/09/2007 7:22:54 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( Today is a good day for working on some heavy praying. The world needs God to hear them.)
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