Sir George Cayley

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Cub Driver wrote:

This would explain why we celebrate Lief Erikson Day,

Yes, it does. (Leif Erikson Day is October 9:th in the USA.)

If it doesn't have consequences, it wasn't discovery.

Well, it wasn't exactly like Vinland and Greenland were
instantly or totally forgotten, it was more like the
knowledge wasn't very useful, with the climate change and
all. So by your definition, it was discovery, and
analogously some of the pre-1903 pioneers' actions did
have consequences.
--
Urban Fredriksson http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/
Things that try to look like things often look more like
things than things do.

Yes, it does. (Leif Erikson Day is October 9:th in the USA.)

A fact that is known to what percentage of Americans (a term that
includes in this usage all residents of the Americas)?

One millioneth of one percent?

Be serious.

Is Lief Erikson Day celebrated even in Norway? When I was in Madrid on
12 Oct 1957, I was amused and touched to discover that Columbus Day
was a big event in Spain--bigger, in fact, that it presently is in the
U.S.

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In article ,
Cub Driver wrote:

Yes, it does. (Leif Erikson Day is October 9:th in the USA.)

A fact that is known to what percentage of Americans (a term that
includes in this usage all residents of the Americas)?

One millioneth of one percent?

Be serious.

I don't think you're serious. Why would foreigners know
when that day is in USA? (And the number doesn't make
sense anyway.)

But no, it doesn't seem he's celebrated south of USA, if that's
what you're thinking of:

http://cartography.geog.uu.nl/eriksson/introduction.html
--
Urban Fredriksson http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/
A boundary between the known and the unknown always exists.