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[belenus]

Hi Loonies,

I introduce you to the man who founded the first city-to-be in the United States: Mr. Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, who was born some years ago in the same town I was a little bit later. He had good taste for this indeed.

I hope you enjoy this little lesson of History, we "avilesinos" are proud of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Men%C3%A9ndez_de_Avil%C3%A9s

Always Ni!
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[rotciv KOTHRT]

http://www.wordplay.com/tourism/viking.html


He wasn't the first.

When Bjarni Herjulfesson left Iceland, soon after 986, to join his father in Greenland, he was driven far Southwest by bad weather. He sighted unfamiliar coasts but without landing anywhere he turned back out to sea and eventually reached Greenland.

eif Eiriksson, son of Eric the Red, was prompted by Bjarni's findings to organize an expedition. He reached the far North land Bjarni had seen, very probably Baffin Island, and gave it the name Helluland (land of flat stones).

Turning southward, he found low, forested coastline with white sand beaches. This was apparently Labrador, and Leif named it Markland (Woodland). He finally arrived at a third place which tempted the seafarers with good grazing ground, timber and salmon. The Sagas tell us that Leif built large houses there and he "gave the land a name in accordance with the good things they found in it, calling it Vinland." After remaining a year or so he returned to Greenland.

The glowing account of Vinland or "Vineland the Good" encouraged others to mount expeditions to the country which Leif had found. None of them achieved permanent settlement and each group eventually returned to Greenland. The wife of one of the colonists, Thorfinn Karlsefni, brought back with her a small boy named Snorri, the first European born in North America.
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[belenus]

Ok, I didn't use the right words. He founded the first permanent settlement and the first town inhabited to this day.
Vikings just arrived and departed leaving almost no traces of their staying.
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[Ironheart]

All those euro-latecomers crashing the party of those who came transpacific several millennia earlier.
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[belenus]

Ok, i just was trying to make a bit of history. Yes, the first inhabitants of the Americas got there thousands of years before any european did, and the last thing i know is that it's not clear the way it was (Bearing's Strait?, most likely, but i think there are some unconformists). I don't tlike Romans also coming here and conquering it centuries ago, but, probably, i wouldn't be here, having it been different.

The real thing (as it seems to be) is, we all humans came from an Adam who lived in Africa long, long ago. Then came evolution.

Hope my bad english had not caused any misuderstanding.


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