"Jack Linthicum" wrote in message
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| Walt wrote:
| Ed Conrad wrote:
| a bunch of crap, mercifully snipped
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| All I can say is "God Bless Vespucciland"
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| //Walt
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| What Vespucciland?, Amerika as in Richard Americk
| Had a whole continent named after him, America!
| He was wholly Welsh , surname Ap Meurig. In 1491 He was working as the
| senior customs official in Bristol and regularly sent supplies to ships
| in the fishing grounds off Newfoundland. In 1497 he authorised John
| Cabot to search for the new land.

And Cabot found the new found land and called it NewFoundLand,
shortly after he kicked out that damned Norwegian Dane from Ireland,
Eric the Ginger, right?
http://www.clubworkout.com/bonvoyage...on/erikthered/

Androcles