Who really discovered Americay?
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Susie Boffin
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11-22-2005 20:46
Was it Chris Columbus, Leaf Erickson, some guy from China, an Irishman or who? Bzzt! It wasn't any of them guys. America wasn't really "discovered" by nobody. Back in the olden days it was connected to Asia and some people just went a'walking until they found themselves in a new place. Nowadays we know them as Native Americans, Indians and Eskimos. Why am I even posting this bit of obvious knowledge? Mainly because I feel that a few million people out there don't know this and since I am such a helpful person I am sharing my knowledge. Like everything else in any forum I expect some knucklehead to dispute me. 
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Teeny Leviathan
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From the Knucklehead Union.
11-22-2005 20:49
Its "Knucklehead".  |
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Nolan Nash
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11-22-2005 21:05
Watching history channel too tonight Susie? 
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Lo Jacobs
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11-22-2005 21:09
It was Ozo Matli.
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Susie Boffin
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11-22-2005 21:11
From: Teeny Leviathan Its "Knucklehead". huh?
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Teeny Leviathan
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11-22-2005 21:17
Your Super-Post Editing Powers are impressive. You win this time, Boffin!
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Susie Boffin
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11-22-2005 21:25
From: Teeny Leviathan Your Super-Post Editing Powers are impressive. You win this time, Boffin! You know something Teeny? My father claims he got an honorable mention medal at the annnual alt.flame awards celebration back in the 90s or 80s and he says its because he was such a good post editor. He taught me everything he knows.
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Ulrika Zugzwang
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11-22-2005 22:08
Americay
As an aside I support your activist post.
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Nemar Byrne
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11-22-2005 22:13
Can you say . . . Spellcheck?
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Joy Honey
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11-22-2005 22:27
Americay? Did the Canadians take over? (no offense intended  )
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Mulch Ennui
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11-22-2005 22:41
From: Nemar Byrne Can you say . . . Spellcheck? I can, and I can speel it but intil my spelling skills reach my vocabulary (and since vBulletin won't add a spell check), you're gonna have to deal with my creative spelling, and otherses as well
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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11-22-2005 23:15
It was discovered in Beta, Eggy did it.
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11-22-2005 23:21
From: Mulch Ennui I can, and I can speel it
but intil my spelling skills reach my vocabulary (and since vBulletin won't add a spell check), you're gonna have to deal with my creative spelling, and otherses as well If you use internet explorer there is a free spellcheck utility called iespell, i believe. For firefox, there is a free spellchecker called spellbound that seemed to work fine. There is a program for fifty bucks called As-U-Type by a company called Fanix that works in many windows programs on the fly, somewhat like the spellchecking in MS Word. This would do spellchecking not only in forms like we use in the forums but in notepad and elsewhere in windows.
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Mulch Ennui
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11-22-2005 23:34
From: SuezanneC Baskerville If you use internet explorer there is a free spellcheck utility called iespell, i believe.
For firefox, there is a free spellchecker called spellbound that seemed to work fine.
There is a program for fifty bucks called As-U-Type by a company called Fanix that works in many windows programs on the fly, somewhat like the spellchecking in MS Word. This would do spellchecking not only in forms like we use in the forums but in notepad and elsewhere in windows. i use both firefox and IE, and i did look into iespell actually(read about in vbulletin forums), i just hesitate to add another program to windows. winxp pro is so stable, i guess i am scared to tempt fate to the blue screen of death and IE crashes seem to piss me off more than windows crashes (why I don't know) and I am a major multitasker with ADD (like 20 browser windows open at all times). I have a 3.0 P4 HT processor and 3 gigs of dual channel ram with a 800mhz FSB but firefox acts pretty wierd , stops responding, when i open tons of windows and tabs so as much as i want to use firefox, i tend to default to IE anyway, now you can finish that book you were writing about me =)
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Einsman Schlegel
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11-23-2005 08:09
From: SuezanneC Baskerville It was discovered in Beta, Eggy did it. I thought it was in Alpha? |
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Edav Roark
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11-23-2005 08:15
I thought it was discovered by Chuck Norris when he roundhouse kicked himself back in time.
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Vivianne Draper
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11-23-2005 08:28
Actually, Susie, I must disagree with you. It was discovered. It was mapped. There may have been people here already -- but all major Western and Eastern civilizations did not know the two continents existed. So, yeah, as far as like, all of Europe and Asia are concerned, it was discovered. Had the Native Americans had international oceanic travel capabilities, then they would have "discovered" Europe and Asisa.
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Hiro Queso
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11-23-2005 09:23
From: Vivianne Draper Actually, Susie, I must disagree with you. It was discovered. It was mapped. There may have been people here already -- but all major Western and Eastern civilizations did not know the two continents existed. So, yeah, as far as like, all of Europe and Asia are concerned, it was discovered. Had the Native Americans had international oceanic travel capabilities, then they would have "discovered" Europe and Asisa. erm no. There were Europeans, Africans and Asians before there was a human on American soil. From the study of genetics, as well archeological evidence, it's clear that most of the native American Indians are of Asian descent. From some more recent genetics studies, there is also evidence that suggests around 25% may have european descent. The theory states that pre-historic europeans may have crossed the Atlantic to the north during an ice age. edit to add: PS the nature of the genetic analysis used eliminates the possibility that the presence of European DNA is a result of more recent mixing. |
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Taco Rubio
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Who Discovered Americay?
11-23-2005 09:30
evidently, for this forum at least, I did.
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Lora Morgan
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11-23-2005 09:31
Makes me think of the Far Side comic where native Americans are standing on the shores watching the European ships come in, saying jubilantly, "We've been discovered!"
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Einsman Schlegel
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11-23-2005 09:36
From: Lora Morgan Makes me think of the Far Side comic where native Americans are standing on the shores watching the European ships come in, saying jubilantly, "We've been discovered!" lmao |
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Zuzu Fassbinder
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11-23-2005 10:05
From: Taco Rubio evidently, for this forum at least, I did.Awww, Like all artists, they are trying their best and hoping one day to be discovered.
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JackBurton Faulkland
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11-23-2005 10:19
Chuck Norris discovered Ameirca.
Whoops i see someone already pointed that out
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11-23-2005 10:19
From: Susie Boffin Was it Chris Columbus, Leaf Erickson, some guy from China, an Irishman or who? Bzzt! It wasn't any of them guys. America wasn't really "discovered" by nobody. Back in the olden days it was connected to Asia and some people just went a'walking until they found themselves in a new place. Nowadays we know them as Native Americans, Indians and Eskimos. Why am I even posting this bit of obvious knowledge? Mainly because I feel that a few million people out there don't know this and since I am such a helpful person I am sharing my knowledge. Like everything else in any forum I expect some knucklehead to dispute me. As far as Europeans go it was probably a Welsh price named Madoc in 1170 AD http://www.madoc1170.com/home.htm |
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Mickey Valentino
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11-23-2005 10:39
I think you all missed the point.. look at a map or globe from any time period.. Americay has yet to be discovered.
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