Beaagles and the age of discovery.

[Tryg Helseth]

Beagle Boys in Ducktales
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James Williams said that he didn't like the portrayal of the Beagle Boys in
Ducktales because they were too young.  The age factor hadn't occured to 
me, but I always found Ducktales depiction of the BB disturbing because 
they were so different in size and appearance.  The BB in the comics looked
identical except for their permuted 1,7,6 identification numbers.

Turning over a new Leif
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Was it Columbus, Leif Ericsson, Brendan, ... ?   Andrew Peterson mentioned 
the infamous Kensington Runestone and how it is considered a fake by 
historians.  There was an earlier stone found in North Dakota by French 
explorer, La Verendrye, in 1738.  He took it to Jesuit scholars in Canada 
who described the inscription on it as Tatarian.   The stone was sent to 
France and never seen again.  Tatarian and Runic alphabets are similar in 
appearance, so some think it may be evidence of the authenticity of the 
Kensington Runestone.


Indians and the politically correct
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Dwight Decker mentioned that the politically correct crowd are pushing for 
"encountered" instead of "discovered" claiming that the native americans 
found it first.  There are those who believe that the native americans were 
here all the time and actually migrated to Asia instead of the other way 
around.  It that were so, then the native americans couldn't have 
discovered something they had all along... :)
Tryg Helseth  <trygve at maroon.tc.umn.edu>   Minneapolis, MN, USA
          or  <tryg.helseth at tstation.mn.org>

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