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From: arcady@***.net arcady@***.net
Subject: [Quite OT] the value of education (OT-rant, long)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 99 15:16:29 +700
>According to Wordman, at 14:52 on 12 Jul 99, the word on
>the street was...
>
>> "Columbus discovered American in 1492, which means that the 6 million people

>> who were there at the time didn't know where they were."
>> - Prof. Joyce (Mayan Archeology)

One wonders then about the other 294 million who were just a little further
inland...
Or somesuch.
Estimates of precolumbian 'First-Nations' populations for all of the Americas
are around 300 million. Today it's around 30 million, with only 1 million in
the USA.

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