Wouter,

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 21:29:26 +0200, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

> > Actually the Spanish discovered America... may be you that 
> > was part of the
> > sarcasm, but I didn't get it that way...
> 
> I never knew the vikings were spanish! 

LOL!  Although they got as far as Greenland, I'm not sure there's evidence they got the the American mainland.  
John Cabot is reckoned to be the first to do that, certainly before Columbus.

> And wasn't that Columbus guy an Italian? (not that Italy existed at that time.)
 
Well there is some argument as to whether he was from Genoa (where he was born) or Portugal, where he moved 
later.

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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