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Old 08-16-2006   #421 (permalink)
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Q. With all of the new technology available today, we should be able to know precisely when the first European ships reached the New World. What is the latest news? It was a group of Vikings who made landfall around 900 A.D., right?

A. Wrong! It is now confirmed that a Roman ship reached Brazil around the year 19 B.C.! Here is the whole story …
http://www.dockwalk.com/issues/2002/.../trivia1.shtml


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Very interesting, Turtle! Do you think there'd be a case for renaming Columbus, Ohio, or Columbia, or any of the Columbus-referenced place names to "Julius", or "Ceasar"?


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Q. With all of the new technology available today, we should be able to know precisely when the first European ships reached the New World. What is the latest news? It was a group of Vikings who made landfall around 900 A.D., right?

A. Wrong! It is now confirmed that a Roman ship reached Brazil around the year 19 B.C.! Here is the whole story …
Come off it mate
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We were there first
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'First Americans were Australian'
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Come off it mate
Don't come the raw prawn
We were there first
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'First Americans were Australian'
Shhhh! I likes me raw prawns mate! The main point is that it wasn't Columbus or Vikings. Your info is highly speculative & rather like the pot calling the kettle black.
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Archaeologists speculate that such an incredible sea voyage, from Australia to Brazil, would not have been undertaken knowingly but by accident.
Come on now. Didn't know what they were doing? Roight.
We now return to the regular topic of this thread; this has been a public service announcement.


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70% of the world's volcanoes are under-sea.


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In our corner of the Milky Way, the density is such that a sphere with a radius of 200 light years contains 200,000 stars!


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In our corner of the Milky Way, the density is such that a sphere with a radius of 200 light years contains 200,000 stars!
Ah. What a number density!

Now lets take the other face of it.

The matter density appears to be around...


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Approximately 99% of the Homo sapien genome is identical to the chimpanzee genome, our closest living relative.

It is estimated that the Neandertal shares 96% of the 1% difference with Homo sapien.

The Neandertal shares the remaining 4% of the difference with the chimpanzee.

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I heard that the Orangutans where more like us..


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I heard that the Orangutans where more like us..
They look more like us
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