[rescue] Digital server 7000r
Joshua D Boyd
jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Mon Dec 16 15:26:29 CST 2002
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 02:43:34PM -0600, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> "L'Anse aux Meadows is the only authenticated Viking site in North
> America. It was established 1000 years ago by the explorer Leif
> Eiriksson during his adventures in eastern North America - 500 years
> before Columbus' exploits in the "New World". The site was rediscovered
> by Helge Ingstad and his wife Anne Stine in 1960. L'Anse aux Meadows is
> now a National Historic Park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the first
> cultural site in the world to receive this designation - a symbol of its
> outstanding cultural and historical value."
>
> From (http://www.biztravel.com/Articles/20000327.html)
My understanding is that technically Greenland is part of America, thus
it was his father Eric Thorvaldsson who discovered America.
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Joshua D. Boyd
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