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Chris Hutton
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Paul Go, where did you find that Yankees picture?
It makes no sense-- African-American armband?
PLUS, there are TWO grammatical errors.
I doubt that item's truthiness.
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Paulo Pereira
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QUOTE:
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Good question, but it's not the only misnomer out there.
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Joe Mayer
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Sometimes the world is just funny the way things happen.
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Brian O'Neill
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Columbus...what's up with that?
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Neil Lindholm
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Maybe the "Pacific-Islanders" confusion with India is because there are a lot of East Indians living on Pacific Islands. Like Fiji, whose population is almost half East Indian.
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Jay Matthews
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And you know because you now live in China? Oh, Mr. China is suddenly an expert on that whole part of the globe? Spare us your smothering condescension on the appropriate categories of people on the Pacific Rim.
(As if it weren't obvious, I feel compelled to disclose that the preceding is entirely in jest -- hope things are settling in well, Neil. And I think you're probably right about the Pacific-Islanders discussion)
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John Byrne
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Why couldn't Columbus call the natives something else!!!!??? And why did it stick even though it was so wrong!!!!!!???**** Columbus died believing he had found a way to Asia. For the rest of his life he insisted that China lay just over the hill somewhere. It was the guy whose name the continents bear who showed what they really were.
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Brian O'Neill
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JB:
Columbus died believing he had found a way to Asia. For the rest of his life he insisted that China lay just over the hill somewhere. It was the guy whose name the continents bear who showed what they really were.
"I know not these 'continents of Vespucci' you speak of." ;-D
Maybe Italian-Americans would be better off celebrating 'Joe DiMaggio Day'...
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John Byrne
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I really, really, really wish we did, in fact, celebrate "Amerigo Vespucci Day". That guy has gotten such a bad rap, mostly due to myth and urban legend. Far too many people think he was Columbus' "navigator" and "stole" all the credit.Columbus should be reduced to a footnote in history. The man who did the real grunt work is the one who should be getting the glory.
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Steve Horton
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Plus, there's the whole rape and murder thing. The fewer of those we glorify in our history, the better.
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Caleb M. Edmond
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I really, really, really wish we did, in fact, celebrate "Amerigo Vespucci
Day". That guy has gotten such a bad rap, mostly due to myth and urban
legend. Far too many people think he was Columbus' "navigator" and
"stole" all the credit.
Columbus should be reduced to a footnote in history. The man who did
the real grunt work is the one who should be getting the glory
Thank you ! Thank you! Thank you!
I've been saying this for years and people look at me like I have three
heads!
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John Mietus
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I'm all for that one, too. Still haven't figured out why the continents are
named for his first name, rather than his surname, though. time to go re-
read Boorstin's The Discoverers, I suppose.
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