What Happened to Columbus Day???

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Columbus Day -- October 12, 1492 - Christopher Columbus, an Italian from Genoa Italy - set foot on dry ground at Guanhami island, Bahamas after long trip across S Atlantic. Columbus commanded the Santa Maria, about 62 feet long with a crew of 40. Columbus was a devoted navigation student and made repeated attempts to fix latitude using a quadrant to determine angular elevations of various objects like sun and north star. Lots of latitude fixes were made, all not very accurate (angular measurement using plumb line device on rolling & pitching vessel). He essentially used a compass and DR (timed floating chip passing alongside) with hour glass at set at half hour intervals and sailed west until land happened. Good accurate clocks had not happened at that time. Subsequent economic efforts had adverse consequences.

Then there was the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland Canada, some time between 990-1050, like 592 - 442 years before Columbus' trip.
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The Vikings, did not document their voyages as well as Columbus, a paid mariner.

Exploratory Viking vessels were about 65 feet long. The smaller Viking vessels used to for trading throughout Europe and possibly some N. Africa ports were some 20 feet shorter and could be transported over land from water body to water body. These vessels were relatively light weight, lap construction and flexible. The Viking trips across the horrible N. Atlantic in open boats must have been real nasty. The Vikings were real good sailors.

The Viking probably did not have magnetic compasses. They determined latitude using something that looked like a sun dial to get sun lines. When the sun was not shining thru clouds the Sun Stone was used, a calcite crystal. Calcite crystal is bi-fringent, like light splits into 2 polarized waves (streams of particles) when it enters the Sun Stone. Upon looking thru the Sun Stone at the brightest area above and rotating it until the 2 bright areas converged the approximate location of the sun could be determined and sort of a sun line made, like at high noon. A fix angle on the North Star will give sort of a latitude. When birds were seen and off shore winds at night fall blew land smells out, land was near. A lead line hitting bottom confirmed it.

Viking depredations & hostility were more known than their artistic and tech abilities.
 
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To put the timeline in perspective.. you could put the entire history of the USA into the time period between Columbus and the deployment of practical marine chronometers that allowed for accurate measurement of longitude.
 
Wifey now tells me and I see on OAN that Christopher Columbus might have been western European Jewish - this would account for his high degree of intelligence and curiosity of how things work as shown by is navigation studies.

Could it be, upon disembarking on his journey across the wide ocean sea Columbus's detractors wished his the Santa Maria and the other tiny vessels would plummet over the waterfall at the flat earth's edge and erase Columbus and his floatilla. The flat earth guys knew the earth was flat because the ocean sea was flat. Objective factual knowledge like being able the see the tops of masts & sails before the lower hull did not get past their subjective thinking.Try it out with a good binocular.

Columbus was successful and probably was paid upon completion of the journey to the dismay of the flat earth guys.

The Vikings had no detractors other than inhabitants of places they looted. They were smart enough to figure out why the tops of masts and mountains could be seen before the entire object.

Christoforos - bearer of the messiah - when the entire world will be peaceful.
 
It's what Communist do.
They destroy history and take control of the meaning of words.
Just like in Russia after the Bolshevik revolution. They destroyed Russian Christian culture and band the use of he or she and replaced it with comrade. Everyone was forced to use the non binary term comrade.
You know when a revolution has taken place?
They tear down the old statue's that represent the history and memory of the past.
Kinda like the book animal farm where the rules change slowly and non of the animals remember the original wording. Until people acknowledge that they have been taken over by communists they will never fight back and refuse it.
 
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