[WWI] Dame Karen back

[Magnus Berggren]

And they where not even the first europeans there. Leif Eriksson was there 
about 500 years earlier, and some claim that Joao Vaz Corte Real was there 
in 1472. And Vespucci could have been on continental america before 
Columbus. Sometimes history is strange.:-)

/M


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grzegorz Mazurowski" <grzem at onet.eu>
To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [WWI] Dame Karen back


>> the ship's
>> name is "Amerigo Vespucci" and I took it upon myself to correct an
>> American tourist next to me who declared to his wife that it was named
>> after the guy who discovered America...duh!
>
> Well, he was right, at least partially. Columbus thought that he has 
> reached
> India. Vespucci was the first, who knew that it is a new continent!
> G.
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