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From: jlg@lanl.ARPA (Jim Giles)
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Subject: Re: Long Term Implications of Challenger Accident
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Date: Sun, 9-Feb-86 19:56:03 EST
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In article <731@astrovax.UUCP> elt@astrovax.UUCP (Ed Turner) writes:
... The European discovery, exploration,
>and eventual occupation of the New World began in Columbus's time and owed
>nothing the the much earlier, abortive Norse/Viking efforts.  ...
>
>Ed Turner

Read your history again.  Columbus made several visits to Norway, Denmark,
etc., before he began to seek funding for a westward venture to Asia.  It
is thought by some historians that this is where Columbus came by the idea.
He certainly used the Norse histories to bolster his own claims.

J Giles
Los Alamos