The History Channel....

[Lucky13]

Well, I watched the show and they DID mention that John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer named Giovanni Caboto...
Also, in 1997 they did the same trip as he did 1497 to mark the 500 year anniversary between Bristol and.....


NEWFOUNDLAND!


Why is Newfoundland North America to John Cabot but not Leif Eriksson, big or small island? It is still Newfoundland and North America!

 

[GrauGeist]

Lucky, it's probably because they figured that Red and Leif were just pesky scandanavians looking for trouble...the Vikings of old kind of gave themselves a bad rap with that "looting pillaging" thing and the Ericsons were cought up in that stigma...

Seriously, they have not only played down the fact that there is well documented proof of at least one Norse settlement in North American soil, both in the actual ruins, and written records, but they also do everything they can to disprove that Norsemen ever sailed past Iceland.

There is even possabilities that Norsemen made it as far as Mexico. Experts have said that Montezuma thought that Cortez was the return of the "visitors" who came centuries before him. Not wanting to anger what Montezuma thought were dieties, he held his massive military in check.

The old legend referred to the visitors as having fair skin, some had golden hair or flaming hair and all had shining skin. Either the Aztecs got into a bad batch of liquor, or they were looking at Europeans...

If it wasn't for that legend, the Aztecs would have snuffed the Spaniards before they ever got as far as they did in Central America

 

[Amsel]

Some people believe that the native americans of the eastern tribes were a mixture of European and Asiatic.

 

[GrauGeist]

Some people believe that the native americans of the eastern tribes were a mixture of European and Asiatic.

I could see that, because the east coast Indians like the Iroquois are much taller and lighter skinned than west coast Indians, like the Wintu for example.

 

[Vassili Zaitzev]

At least the History Channel hasn't discontinued Battlefied Detectives.

 

[Lucky13]

Wish that they could get heads out of their *rses and make new "Dogfight" episodes.... But, I guess that would be like asking the devil to attend a Sunday Mass, which probably would be easier as well...!

 

[Vassili Zaitzev]

Wish that they could get heads out of their *rses and make new "Dogfight" episodes.... But, I guess that would be like asking the devil to attend a Sunday Mass, which probably would be easier as well...!

Dogfights are out on Itunes, but it's two bucks a pop. I think youtube has a few episodes up and running. I don't have the Military Channel up here in college.