Christopher Columbus was Polish!

[Norbert]

Mamma Mia! A new book claims Christopher Columbus was Polish - not Italian.

New research suggests the man credited with discovering America was actually the son of exiled Polish King Vladislav III - and not the son of a humble craftsman from Genoa.

Manuel Rosa, who works in Duke University's IT department, delves into the historical figure's background in his biography "Columbus: The Untold Story."

"I spent my first 10 years of investigation trying to confirm the current story of the Genoese wool-weaver, until I understood...that the Genoese wool-weaver story is a fable," Rosa wrote in an email to the Daily News.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010...ms-wool-weaver

[Jake Featherston]

Many people have believed he was Croatian (there were many Croats in Genoa at that time), but I've never head any claim he was of Polish descent before.

[AFC_Lad]

I heard somewhere that he was Greek...?

[Comte Arnau]

Of all theories I've read, and there are many, I still think the Catalan one is the most plausible. And not because I am particularly fond of this guy being a country fellow of mine, but because of the evidence given.

That article doesn't say anything about the evidences on which that Polish theory is based.

[askra]

there are a lot of theories about the origin of Christopher Columbus,
well according to the spanish historian Marisa Azuara he was Sardinian.

[Supreme American]

Jews try to claim him. Blacks try to claim him. I was like, hey take him, that way we can dispense with the white guilt trips that accompany.

[Scrapple]

We all know Leif Eiriksson discovered America.

Here is a smilie illustration of how it happend

[AFC_Lad]

hmm.. not really the oldest skull found in the Americas was found on the west coast, it was Caucasian, and i believe it dated to the B.C. period, so I dont think it was the Vikings who discovered America first.. they were one of the first though.

[Comte Arnau]

The guys who discovered America marched on an iced Bering pass. I'd say the Vikings weren't even a project then.

[Raskolnikov]

Wrong thread.