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To: Snowshoe who wrote (16536)3/7/2002 7:55:41 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559
 
But the Mandan would possibly be speaking Mandan, the Sioux Sioux, the Utes Ute, and the Havasupi wouldn't have changed an iota.

Since that Italian was working for the Spanish Crown to try to beat the Portuguese at their own game and the English were jealous of the Dutch, as well as the French, I'd say it's still a fair bet that we'd be still be Eurocentric, no matter what that hurricane did. But, you know, we might not be named after Americus Vespucci.

I can just hear the refrain now: "God bless Drakia, land of the free." Piracy has its privileges....

Ciao!



To: Snowshoe who wrote (16536)3/7/2002 8:02:59 PM
From: TobagoJack  Respond to of 74559
 
Hi Snowshoe, Columbus chanced upon Trinidad on one of his earlier trips ... yes, lots of birds vacation there. Chugs, Jay



To: Snowshoe who wrote (16536)3/7/2002 8:09:44 PM
From: Ilaine  Respond to of 74559
 
I think the Portuguese were fishing for bacalao off the coast of Newfoundland before 1492. And bringing them on land to dry. But no permanent settlements.