> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu]On Behalf
> Of Jinx
> Sent: 21 September 2006 00:10
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [EE] Edison Lightbulbs found in attic. Revisionists
>
>
> > > If Thompson is right, Admiral Zheng may have beaten
> > > Columbus by at least 74 years, and 500 years of history
> > > would have to be rewritten
>
> "discovered" is parochial term of the "discoverer's" culture
>
> In recorded history there are probably very few, naturally
> uninhabited, places actually discovered for the first time
quite right, there were certainly people in america before columbus got
there and that fact was never in dispute.

columbuses "discovery" was merely the one that lead to present day european
knowlage of americas existance.

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