[Sca-cooks] RE: Basque Food

[Terry Decker]

> Everybody may have the New World before Columbus, but finding ain't 
> keeping.
> Columbus's claim to fame (or infamy) was what he was able to do after he 
> got
> here.
>
> *Then why was America named after Amerigo? :)
>
> Lyse

Columbus was in bad with the Spanish Court at the same time Amerigo Vespucci 
was touting (from his explorations) the opinion South America was a seperate 
continent.  Naming the whole shebang America was early 16th Century PC.

Bear