I just checked up what "America" means, and then discovered for the first time that it was named after a cartographer, Amerigo Vespucci:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci
Interesting, very interesting.
I just checked up what "America" means, and then discovered for the first time that it was named after a cartographer, Amerigo Vespucci:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci
Interesting, very interesting.![]()
People seem to forget anyway. We may remember as far back as World War II but World War I is beginning to get foggy around the edges. We seem to have time against us, given that our life expectancy is generally less than a century.![]()
Come off it Dirk. The smiley face was about our memories being short, not the content of our history. Quite a large percentage of school children will tell you that they really don't like history anyway. I actually do. I however don't only see it as being miserable. I see it as fitness to survive, sometimes up and sometimes down.This is why we learn history.
And to be fair, it doesn't really warrant a smiley face.
You have to be Irish :help: I don't believe we really know for sure. There are a number of theories, but in absence of real media reporting at that time, they are just theories to me.The first Europeans in America were Irish monks.http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-89388009.html
The first Europeans in America were Irish monks.http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-89388009.html
Come off it Dirk. The smiley face was about our memories being short, not the content of our history.
Quite a large percentage of school children will tell you that they really don't like history anyway.
I actually do. I however don't only see it as being miserable. I see it as fitness to survive, sometimes up and sometimes down.![]()
Agreed.That is very sad.
There is a large list of things to be ashamed off, but there are also major accomplishments. The computer being one of them and allowing you and I to participate in a forum.No. History is made up mostly of things to be ashamed of. That's not referring only to me as a German, but it can refer to the imperialist wars in Africa for Britain, or for the acts of genocide by the US against the Native populace.
Agreed.
There is a large list of things to be ashamed off, but there are also major accomplishments. The computer being one of them and allowing you and I to participate in a forum.![]()
No one is here today to tell us who was the very first. But I will always think it was Columbus.
And You will always be wrong. If he was 1st then why were there already people? :giggle:
I definitely agree with you on this one. There were already people on the continent. They probably should rephrase the question: Who were the first Europeans to reach the coast of America?And You will always be wrong. If he was 1st then why were there already people? :giggle:
I definitely agree with you on this one. There were already people on the continent. They probably should rephrase the question: Who were the first Europeans to reach the coast of America?
Right. Or perhaps the guys from Atlantis. The Greeks could also have made it. It is an enormous guess.And depending on what evidence you think to be most convincing, it'd be the Romans, Irish or Vikings.
And their is evidence indicating the Africans, most likely Egypt, beat all of them.
Right. Or perhaps the guys from Atlantis. The Greeks could also have made it. It is an enormous guess.
And You will always be wrong. If he was 1st then why were there already people? :giggle:
Well to them it was land, when Columbes went there it became America![]()
Well put. Have not thought of this one before. For millions of people that must be true too. It is everywhere in history books.Well to them it was land, when Columbes went there it became America![]()