Little Known Facts

[R. Richard]

Today is Columbus day.

When Columbus first reached land in the new world, it was a VERY clear day. Columbus, standing on the deck of his ship asks the lookout in the crows nest, "What can you see?"
The lookout replies, "Wow! It's really clear. I can see all the way to Georgia, Columbus."
Columbus sighs and says, "That's Columbus, Georgia." Then, shaking his head, "It's so hard to get good help."

 

[Stella_Omega]

Another geography class dropout, eh?

 

[Carnevil9]

Columbus Day thought:

Natives Americans discovered what happens when you don't control immigration.

 

[R. Richard]

Native Americans discovered what happens when you don't control immigration.

You have hit on a key item. Columbus nad no idea that he had discovered 'the new world.' Columbus thought that he had found islands South of India, thus he called the autocthones 'Indians.' It wasn't until Amerigo Vespucci that the Europeans suspected that what Columbus discovered was a new world and a new continent. By the way, the 'new world' that Columbus discovered had been discovered some five centuries earlier by northman voyagers. Of course, the Amerinds were in the new world several millenia before, but they had no idea that they were on a new continent.

 

[Handley_Page]

Columbus Day thought:

Natives Americans discovered what happens when you don't control immigration.

Best joke I've heard in ages. All the better for being true, I guess.
(I can almost hear a similar complaint from the Angles & the Saxons)

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Best joke I've heard in ages. All the better for being true, I guess.
(I can almost hear a similar complaint from the Angles & the Saxons)

Or the Celtic Britons before them. Mind you, neither the Native Americans, the Anglo-Saxons, nor the Celtic Britons were given a real choice. They let in their illegal aliens because they were forced to do so.

Somehow, I don't see that happening again.

What happened to the Vikings in present-day Canada shows what happens when the native population is strong enough to oppose the invasion. Reading between the lines, those blond pirates got their butts kicked back to Scandinavia.

 

[Handley_Page]

There are those who fear for this countries "Englishness" in the light of recent EU prattlings.

 

[R. Richard]

Or the Celtic Britons before them. Mind you, neither the Native Americans, the Anglo-Saxons, nor the Celtic Britons were given a real choice. They let in their illegal aliens because they were forced to do so.

Somehow, I don't see that happening again.

What happened to the Vikings in present-day Canada shows what happens when the native population is strong enough to oppose the invasion. Reading between the lines, those blond pirates got their butts kicked back to Scandinavia.

The present day British are once again letting in illegal aliens and even giving them welfare.

There is a legend among the Baffin Bay Inuit that a ship arrived from the East, carrying 12 families. The men were giants or dwarfs, but even the dwarfs were very strong. The supposed time fram of the illegal immigration was consistent with the breakdown of the Northman attempt to colonize Greenland. The presence of dwarfs could be due to the deprivation in the late stages of said Greenland settlement. In any case, the eastern Inuit are taller and stonger than the western Inuit, although both groups are from the same stock.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

You have hit on a key item. Columbus nad no idea that he had discovered 'the new world.' Columbus thought that he had found islands South of India, thus he called the autocthones 'Indians.' It wasn't until Amerigo Vespucci that the Europeans suspected that what Columbus discovered was a new world and a new continent. By the way, the 'new world' that Columbus discovered had been discovered some five centuries earlier by northman voyagers. Of course, the Amerinds were in the new world several millenia before, but they had no idea that they were on a new continent.

Wrong! Columbus was the best navigator of his age and knew full well that he was 'way north of India. He thought the islands he'd landed on were something called 'the Indies' but no one knew for sure where they were. They were probably what today are called the Philippines. In any event, there is a letter in the Vatican library from the Admiral to the pope describing the people he met as innocent, sinless and living in Dios, 'in God'. Gente in dios moves very quickly into gente indios and from there to Indians. India had nothing to do with it.