Rye Miles #13621 Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/columbus-day 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 Columbus ? , ............... didn't he invent clouds ?? ........... no, that was Cumulus ......... 🙃 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 Columbus discovered America. The folks who were living here at the time did not know where they were. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted October 14 Author Share Posted October 14 8 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: Columbus discovered America. The folks who were living here at the time did not know where they were. Columbus made the world aware of a new continent. The stone age people that were here had no idea and couldn’t let the world know about it ! Happy Columbus Day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 Christopher Columbus, Jewish gent who got turned down for funding a half dozen times, finally bought three tiny boats with other peoples' money, went looking for China and India, had no idea where he was, had a crew who nearly mutinied because of very crowded conditions and really lousy food, ran his flag ship aground and had to abandon her, finally got home again, came back two or three times, and eventually got a river and a few towns named after him.......and then a Dago came along later and got two whole continents named after him.....and Chris gets a holiday in his honor so all the drones get a day off. Besides, Leif Eriksson was here five hundred years earlier, and likely Irish fishermen were making catches along the East Coast not long after that, too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: Columbus made the world aware of a new continent. The stone age people that were here had no idea and couldn’t let the world know about it ! Happy Columbus Day! Amerigo Vespucci was the first to identify TWO continents and made maps to prove it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 17 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Besides, Leif Eriksson was here five hundred years earlier, and likely Irish fishermen were making catches along the East Coast not long after that, too. Portuguese fishermen salted cod from an undisclosed rich fishing ground. ( could have been the Grand Banks.) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted October 14 Author Share Posted October 14 (edited) 37 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Christopher Columbus, Jewish gent who got turned down for funding a half dozen times, finally bought three tiny boats with other peoples' money, went looking for China and India, had no idea where he was, had a crew who nearly mutinied because of very crowded conditions and really lousy food, ran his flag ship aground and had to abandon her, finally got home again, came back two or three times, and eventually got a river and a few towns named after him.......and then a Dago came along later and got two whole continents named after him.....and Chris gets a holiday in his honor so all the drones get a day off. Besides, Leif Eriksson was here five hundred years earlier, and likely Irish fishermen were making catches along the East Coast not long after that, too. Columbus was not Jewish he was Italian and he was financed by Isabella of Castile. It’s all right here… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus Edited October 14 by Rye Miles #13621 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted October 14 Author Share Posted October 14 21 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: Columbus was not Jewish he was Italian and he was financed by Isabella of Castile. It’s all right here… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus Vespucci came after Columbus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_of_the_Americas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rye Miles #13621 Posted October 14 Author Share Posted October 14 7 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said: Right on!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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