OK, so Monday was Columbus day. Interesting because he discovered America, right? Well, I believe the history books we read in school were fabricated to keep the story simple as it really doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Now I like Columbus like the next guy but he really didn’t land in North America in 1492 and he wasn’t the first.
There were Indians (Native Americans) there, right? So, perhaps Columbus discovered Indians but that’s a whole other story. The population that existed in North and South America and the Caribbean has nothing to do with that. Records indicate that Portuguese explorers visited the Americas and mapped the area in 1424, but other than the map itself, there is no information. Going even earlier, Leif Erikson landed in Newfoundland in roughly year 1000 A.D. and even in 1963 an ancient Viking type settlement was discovered at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. It is believed to have been extant around 1000 A.D., roughly half a century before Christopher Columbus. Going back even further, such as the Phoenicians, who have nautical records that stretch back to 1600 B.C., could have and did travel to the New World. Many of the islands on ancient maps, long thought to be mythological or imaginary, were actual places. Many of them, he asserts, correspond to real geographical locations, leading experts to believe that Erikson and others were late to the game of discovering the Americas.
We see discoveries everyday in nanomaterials and elements but often the inventor is correct (except for the likes of Edison or Marconi on some of their popular inventions). For more news on the nanotechnology scene stay tuned to ssnano.com
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