Re: Piri Reis

Chuck Gould wrote:
On Jul 31, 6:39?pm, "William Bruce" <whbr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:13:23 -0700, Chuck Gould
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What a hot topic for rec.boats, 2007.
A 15th Century Turkish navigator produced a map that accurately
depicted
not only the not-yet officially "discovered" Atlantic coastlines of
North and South America, but also the Antarctic continent in an ice-
free state that last existed about 6000 years ago. Piri Reis claimed
that some of the source material for his map came from the libraries
of Alexander the Great, dating those documents to a time about 1800
years before Columbus sailed to the West Indies.
http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_1.htm
Careful now, you are messing about with cherished beliefs,
Italian-American pride, a holiday, and a three day weekend.
There is a local legend here on the Gulf Coast of a Welch Prince Madoc who
landed on the shore of Mobile Bay in 1170. Intriguing clues exist, but no
definitive proof. More info atwww.Madoc1170.com.- Hide quoted text -

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Ah yes, the blue-eyed Indians of the Mississippi Valley.
There is also interesting evidence for St Brendan, from Ireland.

And it's a historic fact that codfish caught off Newfoundland were for
sale in London decades before Columbus "discovered" the Western
Hemisphere.

Not entirely unrelated to what *really* happened to the settlers at
Roanoake, Virginina. We were taught in our US history classes that
"nobody knows" what became of the colonists who mysteriously
disappeared while their supply ship returned to England. Nonsense.
There is an "Indian tribe" on the East Coast where some of the Indians
are blonde, many are blue-eyed, and their tribal history has stated
very matter-of-factly and continuously for the last few hundred years
that their ancestors were the original settlers at Roanoake. The
settlers were cold and starving to death while they noticed the
aboriginal communities around them enjoying relative abundance. It
seemed perfectly logical to the suffering colonists that if they were
to survive, let alone thrive, in this hostile new land they might be
better off following the native ways than trying to live like
Europeans.




I prefer to think the native Americans realized right away that the European white man brought with him only disease, bad habits, a bizarre religion and the desire to conquer and kill everything that got in the way, and therefore they slaughtered the "settlers."
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