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I am appalled that this kind of tosh: http://frontpagemag.com/2010/01/06/seven-miracles-that-saved-america-by-david-forsmark/ - is being not only published but promoted, even by a notoriously narrow-minded website. If the American conservative movement does not want to confirm every bad stereotype attached to them across the world, they ought to take the lead in criticizing and demolishing this sort of irrational (and ignorant) production.

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there is good reason to believe that illiterate British and Breton fishermen had already discovered the banks of Newfoundland and had kept the discovery secret to their own advantage.
I have a book called Cod(and I'm damned if I can remember the author right now) which devotes a chapter to making this case--the quantity of fish that Breton and Portuguese ships were coming back with pretty much had to have come from the Grand Banks/Georges Bank (which is coincidentally also where The Perfect Storm takes place).

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I know the book, though I've never read it.