Word: leif
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci is going to make Yale and Leif Ericson both wish they'd never heard of America...
Vellucci was incensed last week when Yale announced that it had found a map, drawn in 1440, which seemed to indicate that Norseman Leif Ericson, not Italian Christopher Columbus, discovered America...
...century, the rest of Europe knew about the Viking voyages. While it is possible that detailed knowledge of the voyage may not have been generally available by the 15th century, discovery of the map still forces a reappraisal of the entire age of exploration, from the year 1000, when Leif Ericsson and his men were blown ashore on the North American coast, to the late 16th century, when Europeans were exploring the waters of Asia, Africa and America. The map throws further doubt on the legend that Columbus was sailing into completely mysterious and uncharted seas when...
District Court held Lament's case to be moot. In San Francisco last fall, how ever, a Danish journalist named Leif Heilberg won his case hands down in the same kind of court when he sued for unimpeded delivery of a Chinese Communist magazine printed in Esperanto...
Learning related facts, pupils are introduced to maps in kindergarten instead of waiting until the fourth grade to grasp what the whole earth looks like. They are told that Norseman Leif Ericson discovered the New World, not Columbus. For years, social-studies courses pounded away on the virtue of thrift, but the council program realistically recognizes that students know their own families rely heavily on credit, and teaches that both saving and spending have a place in the usual household economy...