[Sca-cooks] OT: FW: [TY] Think you know when Columbus "sailed the ocean blue"?

[Christine Seelye-King]

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Very interesting, indeed.  It really makes you wonder how many other
historical "facts" might be waiting on the historical revision they
underwent to be uncovered.
Christianna

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From: jeanclaude at bham.net [mailto:jeanclaude at bham.net]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 1:24 AM
To: meridian-ty at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [TY] Think you know when Columbus "sailed the ocean blue"?


Greetings all!

"Verrrry innnteresting" as Arte Johnson would say...  According to
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-126037,00.html
new evidence indicates that Christopher Columbus' 1492 journey was
actually a return visit.  An early 16th-century Ottoman map shows
that Columbus found America in 1485, during the reign of Pope
Innocent VIII.  It is corroborative proof of an inscription on the
tomb of Innocent VIII, in St Peter's Basilica, which reads "Novi
orbis suo aevo inventi gloria", meaning that during his
pontificate "the glory of the discovery of the New World" took place.
Innocent VIII died at the end of July 1492, before Columbus set sail
and three months before he landed at the Bahamas. It seems that
Columbus' earlier visit was secretly financed by Innocent and his
Medici relatives in hopes of finding new gold to finance efforts to
win over converts to the Church.

But of course we all know that he wasn't the first "old world"
explorer to cross the Atlantic.  A quick bit of web research found a
few more than I was aware of.  Here are some of the innnteresting
sites I found:
Norse - http://www.seidata.com/~wroberts/katy/vikings.html and
http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/vinland/3.html
African - http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/010.html
Portugese - http://www.millersv.edu/~columbus/data/art/COLOMBO.HTML
Chinese and Indian - http://www.discovery.ca/Stories/1997/02/10/09.asp
Scots - http://www.renaissancemagazine.com/backissues/sinclair.html
...and of course...
Prince Madoc (Welsh) - http://www.where-can-i-
find.com/wales/history/madoc.htm

Enjoy!

J-C

"When you find food for thought, sometimes the best spice is a grain
of salt." -- me


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