Comments on: Germany gifts America with a piece of her past

By: BubbaRay

BubbaRay — Tue, 01 May 2007 22:20:59 +0000

At least Ross Perot didn’t buy it. As I recall, he owns one of the original Magna Carta documents.

By: James Hill

James Hill — Tue, 01 May 2007 22:18:53 +0000

#15 – Probably the Native Americans.

By: Smartalix

Smartalix — Tue, 01 May 2007 21:43:56 +0000

18,

I put that comment in so people would know the error was deliberate, not that I was making up an excuse for poor grammar in the headline. I must admit that none of our sharp-eyed readers caught it.

12,

Since we have taken the name of the continent as our own, and that name is also what the world calls us, the first use of that name is important. This artifact is part of the discovery and founding of this country, and a part of its history. American history didn’t start the moment the Articles of Confederation were signed, it began long before that. This map is a marker that highlights that beginning.

By: al bickers

al bickers — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:54:47 +0000

“I deliberately left an ambiguious pronoun reference to see if anyone caught it. ”

Then, wrote of your adventure in white text at the bottom of the post.

By: Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:37:20 +0000

From the article:
“a 500-year-old map that was the first to tell the world of a new land that it called America.”

Thanks Europe for giving it a name (Italian at that), But we were also inhabitants of the world, when you idiots thought the damn thing was flat.

By: mark

mark — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:22:04 +0000

13. Yes but who do you think coughs up the money? Now if we can just get the rest of the North and S American countries to pay their share.

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:52:50 +0000

#14

It makes you wonder from whom did they took it from?

By: James Hill

James Hill — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:20:07 +0000

Those NAZIs sure are good at collecting priceless pieces of art and history.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:10:49 +0000

#12, though I agree with you, I do believe he was referring to the continents, not the country.

By: OhForTheLoveOf

OhForTheLoveOf — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:43:18 +0000

#5 – Welcome to my point

#8 – A German mapmaker was first to create a map showing the new world, and he chose to name it after an Italian who was first to map the coast of the southern continent. This is a peice of “American” history how?

Don’t get me wrong… It’s a nice map and well worth the price… But it is only marginally a peice of American history and it is in no way shape or form a peice of the history of The United States of America.

Well… In one way it is… Maybe news of this map will finally teach rednecks across the land where the word “Merrkin” comes from. (Take that hicks! – America is Italian! WOO HOO!)

By: moss

moss — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:15:09 +0000

We can always count on at least one American showing up whose perception of history requires a Walt Disney production and thorough analysis from John Wayne.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 01 May 2007 12:26:52 +0000

This is to American history as humans first calling the Moon “the Moon” is to lunar history. Boring.

By: BertDawg

BertDawg — Tue, 01 May 2007 11:12:41 +0000

They were cleaning out their attic, that’s all. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Perhaps.

By: smartalix

smartalix — Tue, 01 May 2007 11:05:39 +0000

The Germans didn’t have to sell it, and $10 million is actually not a lot of money for a priceless piece of American history.

By: ChrisMac

ChrisMac — Tue, 01 May 2007 08:15:04 +0000

Is this some sort of offsite backup?