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Who Really Discovered America?
Columbus? 3%  3%  [ 2 ]
Columbus? 3%  3%  [ 2 ]
The Vikings? 10%  10%  [ 6 ]
The Vikings? 10%  10%  [ 6 ]
Or Leroy the drunk who lives two doors down from me? 11%  11%  [ 7 ]
Or Leroy the drunk who lives two doors down from me? 11%  11%  [ 7 ]
Or was it someone else? 26%  26%  [ 16 ]
Or was it someone else? 26%  26%  [ 16 ]
Total votes : 62

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12 Aug 2006, 12:54 pm

Ignoring problems brought up by religion:

The indigenous peoples of the Americas (url) arrived over 16,000 years ago either by sea or by crossing a land/ice bridge form Asia. Some Native American tribes have stories that support this view. There is no evidence of human evolution taking place on the American continents.

The vikings were the first to 'discover' america and attempted colonization (url). One view of why these settlements failed was that the settlers did not have the ruthlessness of their ancestors and ended up getting ran off by the local Native Americans.



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12 Aug 2006, 1:52 pm

Z wrote:
What about the people already living there when the "discoverers" arrived?
yep indians



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12 Aug 2006, 5:49 pm

I've discovered the Real America, durring my Hippie Phase, while reading about the Late 1960s'. :ninja: :heart: :D



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12 Aug 2006, 6:34 pm

Oh please! You're younger that I am CR. Hippie phase. . .

What am I doing! Sorry. Sorry. (Kissing your feet-must keep the boss happy or I'll loose my gig as a garden/lawn gnome) lol


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13 Aug 2006, 5:41 pm

A thing beyond sad is what happened to the Arawak indians when the first Europeans came.



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13 Aug 2006, 5:55 pm

eet_1024 wrote:
Ignoring problems brought up by religion:

The indigenous peoples of the Americas (url) arrived over 16,000 years ago either by sea or by crossing a land/ice bridge form Asia. Some Native American tribes have stories that support this view. There is no evidence of human evolution taking place on the American continents.

The vikings were the first to 'discover' america and attempted colonization (url). One view of why these settlements failed was that the settlers did not have the ruthlessness of their ancestors and ended up getting ran off by the local Native Americans.


This is'nt entirely accurate, A skull was discovered on the banks of the Mississippi River. It turned out to be 10,000 years old and EUROPEAN!!

At the same time the Asians weere comming across the landbridge frow the west, Europeans were crossing a simmilar landbridge to the east. More Asians crossed than Europeans and therefore they likely exterminated the few whites they encountered. Modern Native DNA is 100% Asian.


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14 Aug 2006, 1:04 am

I have some sad news. . .Leroy the drunk was taken from us this evening.


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14 Aug 2006, 11:24 am

Scrapheap wrote:
This is'nt entirely accurate, A skull was discovered on the banks of the Mississippi River. It turned out to be 10,000 years old and EUROPEAN!!


More likely it fell off of a boat. River banks can be very dynamic.

Do you have any sources for the european land bridge. That would have to be a very long bridge, compared to the one by alaska. Got to http://maps.google.com/, select satallite, and zoom out.



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14 Aug 2006, 5:56 pm

I saw a show about some spear heads. It turned out that some of the Natives were using a technique very similar to the Europeans.

But then, it could easily be that several people just came up with the same idea. That does happen a lot.

Hardly conclusive evidence.



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14 Aug 2006, 10:24 pm

I saw that show on the the Discovery Channel i think. They said the Europeans came over during the ice age when a lot of the ocean was ice and they were using canoes to hunt seals when they where blown off course and landed in No America.

And the scientist who found the scull said he wasn't allowed to continue his excavation because the Native Americans didn't want it to become know that Europeans might have been here before they where. They thought that then they would have to pay taxes on their casinos. They lobbied the government to bulldoze the site.


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14 Aug 2006, 11:12 pm

I'd like to re-discover America, but I need to get a Passport before I do so. It's such a beautiful Country. I hear that the South is like Heaven.



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15 Aug 2006, 8:20 am

I discovered it, while I was tidying up the house yesterday. I was starting to wonder where it had got to. :P


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15 Aug 2006, 3:11 pm

I wish I hadn't posted this stupid poll. Just another one of my idiotic brainless self writing. I really should be in an mental institution.

I'm not funny. I'm just a f--king idiot who thinks he's funny.


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15 Aug 2006, 3:17 pm

I agree with you, but why would you talk to yourself like that?


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15 Aug 2006, 3:20 pm

Why not? It's the truth. The world would be better off if I'd never been born. If only I had the money. . .I'd hire someone to kill me.


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15 Aug 2006, 3:50 pm

Ok, that's your opinion.

Just another reason why we all are different.


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