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are we doing anythin on thanksgiving here?

Erm... this is an international forum... I'm a NZer so couldn't care less about some spanyard making it to america and calling it india... no I don't think anything is going to happen.

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Although you have your holidays confused. You're thinking of Christopher Columbus, and that was in 1492, and he wasn't even Spanish. Not only that, but he didn't find America...from my understanding, he found modern-day Dominican Republic. He never even set foot on "American" soil. It wasn't until Amergo Vespucci made HIS trip that a European set foot on American soil. Funny though, considering people had already been living here for centuries...

Exactly, see I don't even know what it is properly

I reckon that's all well and good, considering I don't know any New Zealand holidays.

Hey maybe someone should set up a list of holidays or something, just for the hell of it...would help this international community learn a thing or two about each other's cultures.

Hmmm, well in NZ we have Waitangi Day (6th Feb), it's supposed to be like our "national day", when the "Treaty of Waitangi" was signed that said that the english and maori were pals... but it's turned into "National Protest Day"...

thanks for the history adosorken. vicking came to arica around the 1000's i think and back in 800 teh chinenes toured the west coast of california down into parts of central america.

The "natives" of what is now the USA were migrates from Asia who came across the divide many centuries ago when it was actually a connected mass. I'd have some trouble believing that the Vikings would make such a trip though, especially around the turn of the first millenia...do you know of any articles online that could support that?

The vikings did come to America. Though not in one trip from Danmark/Norway/Sweden.

It's a long story, but to make it short, one guy did some killing and fled from Norway->Iceland, his son (or himself can't remember), did the same and fled to greenland ('discovered' it, brought some fellas), his son went to America. And yes there are historical facts to prove that, in books though, don't know if they are on the 'net.

Take a look at the map, and you'll see that Greenland ain't *that* far from America.

The vikings called it 'vinland', which has nothing to do with 'vin' (danish word for 'wine'), a common mistake, but rather means the land with many vines.

BTW, just to put another historical fact straight: The vikings did *not* have horns on their helmets. It was a cerimonial outfit, for people living severel hundred km south, I don't know the english word for them.

EDIT: As far as I know, the 'indians' as they are called today, went from Asia to Ameriace, east, while the Vikings went the other way around, west.

Gotcha.

I thought of something weird though...isn't it kind of silly that Greenland is cold and icy but Iceland is all greenery?

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