Word: columbus
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Part I of this article, which appeared yesterday, discussed the validity of Professor Barry Fell's theory that America was settled centuries before Columbus by various seafaring peoples, including Basques, Celts, Phoenicians, Libyans and Egyptians...
...Wauchope might have been thinking of Fell's theories linking the Algonquin tribes to the Celts when he wrote that in 1836 "J. MacKintosh, in The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus and the Origin of the North American Indian... showed that radical resemblances between Celtic and Algonquin did not mean that the Indians were related to the Irish...
...interesting feature of the purveyors of "wild" theories for the origins of American Indians is that they rarely attack each other. Instead, they are joined in common opposition to the Establishment. Indeed, Fell said yesterday that although he is not familiar with a new book called They Came Before Columbus, which claims that Africans visited America in ancient times, he is sure that it is "complementary...
...crazy, Fell's ideas are no less than fantastic. In his book he argues that Columbus and Leif Erickson were merely the most recent in a long line of ancient adventurers to the New World that includes Celts, Basques, Phoenicians, Libyans, Carthaginians, and Egyptians. Since America B.C. was published Fell has added Arabs and Minoans to his list...
...seems a shame that Inauguration Day isn't a national holiday. I would like to have my children home from school so that they could watch the events on television. Instead, they are home on Columbus Day, Washington's Birthday, Lincoln's Birthday, when the only thing they see is the sales in the department stores. Congress should rethink our entire national holiday setup...