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<DIV>If you're really Red, then we should be comrades.</DIV>
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<DIV>Siarlys</DIV>
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<DIV>On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 12:20:53 -0700 "Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
List" <<A href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</A>>
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<DIV><FONT style="COLOR: #000033">You're always throwing some reality toward
us, aren't you? Well, barely any of it hits me, and what does often fails to
stick. Keep trying, though.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="COLOR: #000033">Red</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="COLOR: #333333"><I>Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE
DROID</I></FONT></DIV></DIV><BR><BR>"Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies
List" <gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net> wrote:<BR><BR>I hate to be a kill-joy (no,
that's a lie, I love it), but Columbus was<BR>not particularly original in
realizing that the world is round. A Greek<BR>living in Egypt circa 500 BC had
figured out its circumference,<BR>Aristotle, although he thought the world was
at the center of the<BR>universe, understood it was round, and most Christian
scholars understood<BR>the world was round. Columbus thought it was a much
shorter distance from<BR>Europe to Asia than it actually is, and he was wrong.
He never did<BR>realize he had discovered a whole new continent.<BR><BR>Now
the notion that the earth revolves around the sun, that raised some<BR>hackles
for a few centuries. But that had nothing to do with Columbus.<BR><BR>The
origin of the "everyone thought the earth was flat except Columbus"<BR>myth
may be traceable to Washington Irving, who made up some stories<BR>about
Columbus as a patriotic gesture. Columbus had been half-forgotten<BR>until the
infant United States of America began writing its own legend,<BR>and some
literati like Irvine dredged Columbup up as an original
American<BR>hero.<BR><BR>Not that Columbus was sailing to find a land where
liberty could flourish<BR>or anything like that... he was a devoted servant of
Their Most Catholic<BR>Majesties, the King and Queen of
Spain.<BR><BR>Siarlys<BR>(who
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