Re: hum....

Not urban legend [yet]. It's one of those things anthropologists argue about when they're not arguing over those small cave people. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis


On Oct 12, 2005, at 8:54 AM, Cathy Carpenter wrote:

Actually, I heard that in case of syphilis, it might have been the
other way around. Or is that an urban legend....

Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On Oct 10, 2005, at 8:02 PM, Pam Evans wrote:


Yeah, I always thought it was silly to make a holiday for the guy
whose
people introduced syphillis, smallpox & measles to the New World.
What's
next, Typhoid Mary Day?? Please.


 On 10/10/05, Christopher P. Lindsey <lindsey@mallorn.com> 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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