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No that is interesting. I

Richard Day — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:57:06 +0000

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No that is interesting.

I guess I should pick up a copy of Altman's book as long as it is printed in soft cover!

You make great points here

Richard Day — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:50:57 +0000

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You make great points here Smith and it reminds me of something along similar lines.

It turns out that Sir Rust Bucket, the knighted explorer who discovered New Jersey is almost totally ignored in today's school textbooks.

Thank you for this. I'm

MrSmith1 — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:54:43 +0000

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Thank you for this. I'm going to be laughing about it all day.

The lesson from this, I think, is clear: If you are the Johnny Appleseed of pigs, you will have a clunky car named after you. On the other hand, if you discover Hudson Bay and a river and explore most of the Eastern part of Canada and New York, you will also have a clunky car named after you. The only way to be an explorer and NOT have a clunky car named after you is to pretend to find the fountain of youth ... and then get shot with an arrow and die.

Unfortunately, George W. Bush will never have a clunky car named after him.

Hernando de Soto landed his

trkingmomoe — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:45:46 +0000

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Hernando de Soto landed his ships about 10 miles from where I live. Somewhere at the mouth of the Manatee River that flows into the south west corner of Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay was shallow and where the river comes out is deeper. That is not in dispute but where he went after he got into Alabama is. They have uncovered a few sites that they attribute to de Soto in Florida. He was looking for gold but didn't find any cities with it like he found in Lima on his first trip. He spread disease and left pigs and horses behind. Ponte Verda, Florida celibrated 500 year aniversery of Ponce de Leon's landing on it's shores yesterday. I guess that is why the op-ed piece was written. There was other places too on the east coast of Florida that had events April 2.