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 Oct 8 2007, 5:14 am
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(just to dispel the myth that he discovered North America, as schools once taught).
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Oct 8 2007, 9:28 am
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The Naked Ninja
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No matter what he discovered, sooner or later it will all belong to North America.
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Deeeeerrrrh, who's that? 0.o
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digitalmouse wrote:
(just to dispel the myth that he discovered North America, as schools once taught). Cuba? Pff.. Indians didn't live on Cuba!:P | |
Yeah, we don't get a day off anymore. I could've used that day off to do something much less productive, too.
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lol. We do here, but they dont even call it Columbus Day, its under a much more generic "Fall Break I" (which consisted of last Friday and today). "Fall Break II" is in reality Thanksgiving Break, and "Winter Break" is what used to be called Christmas/New Years Break. They are slowly but surely deemphasizing holidays. I expect a day soon when holidays are non-existent, and then they will begin pushing towards having Summer Vacation turned into Summer Break (theyve been pushing for year-round schooling in this area for a while now)
[/offtopic] Technically, he did not discover Cuba, he found it. There is a difference. | |
Jerico2day wrote:
digitalmouse wrote: true, but since Columbus thought (at first) that he found a way to India, the locals were first called 'indians', both in Cuba and in Central America. thereby screwing-up hundreds of years of school textbooks. | |
Hah! I tried to explain that to my wife on monday, and she couldn't wrap her head around it. She told me I was wrong! XD
It's like she bases the foundation of her beliefs on some made up story from primary school, like the pilgrims and the indians (minus the part where we raped and pillaged their culture), and the story of Christopher Columbus, and about how modern man evolved from Neanderthals! (Note, due to a poorly informed 4th grade teacher, we were actually taught literal evolution, not common ancestor evolution. DAMN YOU KANSAS SCHOOLS!.) Yeah, it was kind of funny, she still doesn't buy it that CC discovered Cuba for the Spanish... =/ | |
yeah, i actually got into a verbal fight and was sent out of class because my 6th grade History teacher demanded that Columbus actually set foot in North America (Florida/Georgia region no less), otherwise why would we celebrate 'Columbus Day'?
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