SC - Americans and corn (was: Food guessing game)

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/8/00 7:29:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, troy at asan.com 
writes:

<< I think they also may have considered that Columbus discovered America in 
 > 1492 >>

More accurately Columbus is credited with discovering America. He actually 
found a group of islands in the area of the Atlantic south of the American 
continent which were inhabited by the descendants of the people who 
discovered it centuries before. He never set foot on the American continent, 
SFAIK. Several centuries before the Vikings had found Newfoundland and 
navigated the St. Lawrence. Again even they found the descendants of those 
who actually discovered it.

What Columbus did was open up the New World to European domination and set 
off a series of events which resulted in the complete destruction of several 
highly advanced preexisting cultures. Hardly, a thing to be glorified for, 
IMO.

Ras