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Well, before Columbus Day is up, I figure, this is just as good a topic as any.

I'm wondering.. does anyone know that Christopher Columbus was retarded, or am I the only one?

Point #1: He discovered the Bahamas. He didn't discover America.

Point #2: He never realized he was in the Bahamas. He thought he was in India. The guy called the people Indians. (And why is it that we still call Native Americans Indians? They are not from India. They are Natives of America.)

Wow. 2 rants in one day. I'm tired.

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Man, I went to the post office today to send something I sold on eBay...and it was closed. No sign, no nothing.

I drove to the other post office in town, and of course, it was closed...then I saw a sign the other post office didn't have: Closed For Holiday.

Fucking Columbus Day.

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people are just generally stupid. they cant help it, wait no, they can help it. they should all die.

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they're not really natives of america either, since it wasn't america when they got here a few thousand years ago.

it wasn't america until around the time of columbus when it was landed on by(discovered is such a bad word, since it was never missing) and named after amerigo vespucci.

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What I hate, is the fact that everyone's hung up on Columbus "discovering" the Americas... What a load of shit. I would hope that it would be common knowledge that the Vikings were by far the first Europeans to settle in North America, besides the "Native Americans," of course...

*cough* bullshit *cough*

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if you wanna get really technical, the first people in the "americas" were probably the siberians that came across the land bridge during the last ice age, or maybe some sort of tribe down in what is now south america.... but it sure wasn't anyone for europe.

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Of course, I'll give you that. I said that they were the first Europeans, not the first settlers. I said that cause everything's revolved around the first European settlers...

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huh? ok, now im just confused. i know for a fact (ok, maybe not) but cavemen, you know-like the REAL early people, started to move east across Russia until they crossed an iceberg and ended up in alaska. within hundreds of years, they had made it all the way down into South America. the reason taht there are 'indians' in america is because osme people stayed behind and started their own clans and stuff. you see, life began at a central point (prolly africa) and spread out wards. yeah, we are a virus. spreading and spreading... like kuru. erm, wait i didnt say that.

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Hehe... yeah that is the common belief (as it is the most likely). While the Siberians (as they will be called) were probably the first over. Here is an article that may be interesting: http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/10/10/fp23s2-csm.shtml
There is some evidence suggesting that the Egyptians sailed across the atlantic http://www.flem-ath.com/cocaine1.htm
(sorry I don't have a better link at the moment) and traded with Native (South) Americans. Traces of tobacco and cocaine have been found *inside* mummies of ancient egypt.
As well, I read somewhere (again, sorry no link) that there are ancient coins that have a "map" of the "known world" that also includes what appears to be the coast of the Americas.
Personally, I don't think Columbus is all that great. Though, I do admire his open mindedness in opposing the "world is flat" nonsense that was so widely held at that time.

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i remember reading about the studies on egyptian mummimes that contained tobacco, which is a plant that ONLY grows in the americas. it was quite interesting, because great effort was taken to be sure that there was no contamination.

and columbus wasn't the first guy to know that the earth wasn't flat. the egyptians knew, the druids knew, and coppernicus knew too. columbus's big cojones are probably most evidenced by the fact that when his own country (italy) refused to sponsor his voyage, he managed to get queen isabella of spain to do it.

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