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From: arcady@***.net arcady@***.net
Subject: [Quite OT] the value of education (OT-rant, long)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 99 15:22:42 +700
>>Did Columbus "discover" the New World before or after Shakespeare wrote
>>Hamlet?
>
>Actually, he wasn't the first to discover it! That was the vikings!! :)

Hmmm...

The half of me that's Native American feels a certain level of dispute with
that claim. The reason the first poster had those quotes around discover is
that neither group discovered the place. Rather both are Euros who came here.
One set is the first known. The other is the most significant.

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