[WWI] Dame Karen back

[Douglas Anderson]

And do not forget the Irish monk St Brendan the Navigator. Although this is contentious, in 1976 Tim Severin built a traditional curragh to prove that he could have sailed to N. America.

Magnus Berggren <carius at comhem.se> wrote:  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" 
To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" 
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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