our congress has gone nuts...looks like Columbus Day will be eliminated and

[Ransom]

Other than the fact that the Cape of Good Hope is one of the most dangerous places to navigate a ship given the heavy seas and bad weather?

Yes Dr. Who. Something that made navigating the Good Hope Cape seem child's play.

[Dr. Who]

Yes Dr. Who. Something that made navigating the Good Hope Cape seem child's play.

Why don't you just tell me?

[Ransom]

Constantinople had fallen, Who. And the Byzantine Empire with it. And the Middle Ages as well. Many eastern scholars fled west into Greece and especially Italy aiding the beginning of the Renaissance and Navigators such as Columbus and Cabot. Navigating the Cape of Good Hope would have then crossed paths with the Ottomans who....would not have tolerated a Spanish Exploration, would have enslaved or killed Catholic Columbus. As they did so many others. For it was the way of the entire world at the time, wasn't it.

[Peter1469]

Constantinople had fallen, Who. And the Byzantine Empire with it. And the Middle Ages as well. Many eastern scholars fled west into Greece and especially Italy aiding the beginning of the Renaissance and Navigators such as Columbus and Cabot. Navigating the Cape of Good Hope would have then crossed paths with the Ottomans who....would not have tolerated a Spanish Exploration, would have enslaved or killed Catholic Columbus. As they did so many others. For it was the way of the entire world at the time, wasn't it.

Maybe not. Trade was valuable to them. Just ask Marco Polo. He traveled through the early Ottoman Empire.

[Cannons Front]

True....but no one knew it. It was post-civil war...news didn't travel fast from DC in those days. June when the amendment was read to a state, I believe it was Texas, I believe Juneteenth appropriate.

No it was not Juneteenth is a celebration of when Gen Gordon Granger announced the Emancipation Proclamation to the slaves of Texas June 19th 1865, before the 13th was ratified. Slavery did not end that day, not even in Texas