14-05-2014, 03:25 PM
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The Santa Maria found in Haiti
I know it sounds silly but I am really excited about this find.When I was at school over 50 years ago I used to love the
story of Christopher Columbus and his three ships the Nina,
the Pinto, and the Santa Maria.
They have now verified that a wreck found in the North of
Haiti aka Hispanola was the Santa Maria. It ran into rocks in 1492 and Chris had to build a settlement on the coast where he was. He managed to go back to Spain on the Nina, leaving 39 men behind who couldn't get on that ship and went back a year later to try and find them. Sad story being they were not there and the houses were burnt down.
So back to the Santa Maria. Found at last after 522 years.
Just a fotenote to this story. At school and even now on quiz games you have to say it was Christopher Columbus who discovered America. Therefore, I was upset in later life to find out that when reducated find out that the discovery of America could have been 500 years before CC by Leif Erikson a Viking but whoever or whatever it was how fab that they discovered something by being humans and going forth instead of sitting on their behind watching tv.
14-05-2014, 05:20 PM
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Re: The Santa Maria found in Haiti
Originally Posted by BowieEyes
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I know it sounds silly but I am really excited about this find.When I was at school over 50 years ago I used to love the
story of Christopher Columbus and his three ships the Nina,
the Pinto, and the Santa Maria.
They have now verified that a wreck found in the North of
Haiti aka Hispanola was the Santa Maria. It ran into rocks in 1492 and Chris had to build a settlement on the coast where he was. He managed to go back to Spain on the Nina, leaving 39 men behind who couldn't get on that ship and went back a year later to try and find them. Sad story being they were not there and the houses were burnt down.
So back to the Santa Maria. Found at last after 522 years.
Just a fotenote to this story. At school and even now on quiz games you have to say it was Christopher Columbus who discovered America. Therefore, I was upset in later life to find out that when reducated find out that the discovery of America could have been 500 years before CC by Leif Erikson a Viking but whoever or whatever it was how fab that they discovered something by being humans and going forth instead of sitting on their behind watching tv.
Lots of weird stuff about if you look around, like the Piri Reis map that shows Antarctica ice-free! stevmk2
15-05-2014, 12:47 AM
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Re: The Santa Maria found in Haiti
Originally Posted by Uncle Joe
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It could equally have been the Russians (or what is now Russia) who discovered and colonised the American continent, crossing Bering straits into Alaska and then down the western side of the American continent.
Well, that's all I know about it.
BTW the Pleistocene was from something like 2 million years to 10000 years ago (that may not be exactly right but close enough)
15-05-2014, 07:27 AM
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Re: The Santa Maria found in Haiti
Originally Posted by Bruce
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Joe me old pal, me old beauty. It is undisputed that Man crossed the Bering land bridge during much of the Pleistocene. There are no evidence of apes in the Americas so it is thought that only modern man ventured that far east in search of the plentiful woolly mammoths and mega fauna that existed at that time.Well, that's all I know about it.
BTW the Pleistocene was from something like 2 million years to 10000 years ago (that may not be exactly right but close enough)
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