In pursuit of a theory that people who knew what they were talking about knew was wrong, and mistakenly landed someplace else than where he thought he was, and kept stubbornly to that view the rest of his life in the face of universally accepted evidence that he was wrong. Plus treated the people he found so badly that people at the time were shocked at his behavior.
Other than that, it was a great feat, though, along with Vasco da Gama rounding the Cape of Good Hope, it pretty well would inevitably have been done done by somebody in the next few years.
Still, kudos to the great explorers of the time. The second greatest epic of maritime exploration.
The Cleveland Marauders might be more in line with the original idea.
Really? Which people? The home town crowd or the victims? And are we now saying that island inhabitants and the Indians up and around the Ohio River Valley were one and the same?
USA is the most pluralistic in the history of the world. Japan one of the most xenophobic. USA can take lessons from Japan on diversity like Lebron James can take lessons from me on playing basketball
That is so true. Japan is probably the most racist developed nation on earth , a few others come close I can think of another one beginning with the letter T.
