Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SAMUEL STOCKHAMER East Northport...
...EUROPEAN DISCOVERY OF AMERICA: THE NORTHERN VOYAGES by Samuel Eliot Morison. 712 pages. Oxford University Press...
...know, unless you're a fool, That they told you all wrong, when you studied at school!-Samuel Eliot Morison...
Like the Ancient Mariner he is, Samuel Eliot Morison stoppeth one of three-among the myths that pass for history in the European discovery of America. As a seagoing admiral, U.S.N.R. (and Harvardman), Morison gives the back of his salty hand to those modern "library navigators" (particularly Yalemen) who in 1965 swallowed whole the Vinland map story. Morison sees a fine post-1600 hand behind this document, which was dated about 1440 by its discoverers. "I have 'serious reservations,' " he writes, "the polite scholarly term for saying that you suspect fakery." Growling about "phony voyages," he swiftly slaps...
Most professors contacted saw the speech as an attempt to resurrect public support for a policy of gradual withdrawal. "He was clearly making an emotional appeal for support," remarked Samuel P. Huntington, Thompson Professor of Government...