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Who really discovered the new world? Christopher Columbus or Leif Ericson
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| Columbus | 20% | 220 votes | Total: 1088 votes | |
| Ericson | 80% | 868 votes |
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by Steven Koch
Created on: November 30, 2009 Last Updated: December 02, 2009
There is no real debate in this question. Historically, Leif Ericson discovered the new world before
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Ericson
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by Nick Ford
Created on: November 07, 2010 Last Updated: November 08, 2010
Americans who celebrate Columbus Day may be celebrating the landfall of the wrong explorer. Leif Ericson
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by Dean Traylor
Created on: September 19, 2009 Last Updated: November 22, 2010
Without a doubt, Leif Ericson was the first to discover America, almost 500 years before Christopher
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Created on: September 29, 2009 Last Updated: November 22, 2010
Although we use the term discovered, as if there wasn't already thousands of people with many varied
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by Charles Ray
Created on: November 08, 2010 Last Updated: November 09, 2010
A perennial debate wages over who ‘discovered’ the so-called New World, referring to the
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