Re: Foreigner(s)

On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:51:19 -0400, "James Silverton"
<not.jim.silverton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

James wrote on Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:24:33 +0000:

"Skitt" <skitt99@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

In Latvia, a country only slightly larger than Denmark,

Ignoring Greenland, I presume.

You remind me of the map of Portugal from the Salazar era,
which proudly proclaimed: "Portugal is not a small country":

According to Samuel Taylor Morison, "The European Discovery of America",
Portoguese school children used to be taught that America was discovered
by two gentlemen called Pining and Pothorst under contract to the king
of Portugal. (I think they were supposed to be adventurers of
Scandinavian origin.)

Yes, Didrik and Hans. There's also a theory that the Portuguese
discovered Brazil shortly before Columbus set sail, but naturally
they tried to keep it secret.

There's hardly a country in Europe that didn't discover America
before Columbus. There was Sinclair from Scotland and Madoc from
Wales and Brendan from Ireland, for instance.

Anyway, we now know that Columbus was a Scot:
http://tinyurl.com/c7foyn
or
http://www.abc.es/20090308/cultura-cultura/colon-llamaba-pedro-scotto-20090308.html

James
.

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