Apparently that's what today is. So who was this guy and why did so many people care and why has he gone out of favor?
I'm starting to think that everything is political. If you want to see Europeans as superior to AmerIndians than you tout the explorers. If you want to see whiter people as wonderful than those Mediterranean types than you talk about Erik the Red and his son Leif.
Everybody picks somebody they relate to and that's who they remember.
It still bugs me that two continents are named America for Ameriggo who doesn't sound much like it and is some guy who never left the old world. There are lots of things named for Columbus but he doesn't have even one continent.
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