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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Triffin who wrote (7207)	8/12/2006 1:20:43 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36918

More PR . In those days, Europeans looked more favorably upon commies than on Vikings. He didn't have a clue about those purple guys from Minn., and felt Eric Bloody Hands wouldn't do, either. Fitting that his kid was the first to step foot on what later became Madison Ave. Erik the Red (950 - 1003 [citations needed]; Old Norse: Eiríkr rauði; Norwegian; Eirik Raude; sometimes Eric the Red), so-called because of his red hair and beard (and perhaps even because of his bad temper), founded the first Nordic settlement in Greenland. Born in the Jaeder district of south-west Norway as the son of Þorvaldr Ásvaldsson (Thorvald Asvaldsson), he was therefore also called, patronymically, Erik Torvaldsson (or Eiríkr Þorvaldsson). en.wikipedia.org Eric the Red (also called Erik Thorvaldson, Eirik Raude, or Eirik Torvaldsson) was born in Norway, but his family settled in western Iceland, after his father, Thorvald Asvaldsson, was banished for murdering a man. Eric later killed two men in Iceland and was banished from Iceland for three years. enchantedlearning.com Wharfy Bluetooth