Re: hum....


Just read a review of "1491" in the NYT. Sounds like a book about the way it really was.


On Oct 10, 2005, at 5:40 PM, Christopher P. Lindsey wrote:

what holiday? just got home from work.
Columbus Day, celebrating a guy who got lost and made the Americas
available for plunder and genocide.

I wish they had a Magellan day to celebrate a guy who *almost*
circumnavigated the globe but got eaten by headhunters instead.  At
least there the natives won.  :)

Chris

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