COLUMBUS TOOK NO STUPID CHANCESco

This is NOT a very good picture of Christopher Columbus.

http://riotvonphilly.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/cc.jpg

You see, Chris isn't shown with red hair and a yellow beard, which is
what he looked like when he was discovering America.

The Wikipedia article about Chris is also loaded with inaccuracies and
I think a retraction is in order.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus

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GOD BLESS AMERICA -- AND THE COMPASS

The compass!

That's what did it.

Columbus was one of the first seafarers to realize that the compass,
invented
hundreds of years before the days of King Ferdinand and Queen
Isabella, was
NOT a child's toy, as almost everyone believed at the time.

In fact, the compass was the reason why Columbus -- in the years
before he
discovered America -- could set sail toward unknown parts of the ocean
and
always come back safe and sound.

Other ship captains would do it, obviously, but, without a compass to
guide them,
a lot never returned. Columbus always returned.

In fact, that's how Christopher Columbus got his last name: Columbus,
which
is actually a nickname.

Because Columbus astounded people in the port cities by often sailing
to the Great Unknown and always returning, he became known as
"Columbo," which was pigeon
in Italian -- and adding Homing just came naturally.

But it took more than just a compass for Columbus to discover America.
It also
took a great deal of common sense, which indeed he had.

For example, he had to make sure that those aboard the Nina, the Pinta
and
the Santa Maria wouldn't starve if they sailed so far into the unknown
without
finding land and their food and drinkable water gave out.

So Columbus devised a plan assuring that he and all of the ships' crew
members not only wouldn't starve, but that they would just eat as well
heading back to port as they did sailing from it.

On the sides of Columbus' three ships, there were several barrels in a
row
containing different food items. When a crew member ate, he first
filled his
plate with a bit of food from each barrel.

But -- surprise! -- he wouldn't sit down and eat it. Instead, he would
proceed
to the barrels on the other side of the ship and empty each particular
food item into their respective barrels.

Then the crew members would return -- empty plate in hand -- to the
first
Set of barrels and refill it. At that point, he would sit down and
eat.

You see, Columbus wanted to make sure none of his crew was threatened
with starvation. When the food ran out in the first set of barrels, it
was time
to turn the ships around and head back to port.

The food in the other barrels meant the crew would be able to eat as
well
ailing back home as they did on the way out.

Ditto for their water supply.

Brilliant, huh?

You also may be interested to learn that Columbus had yellow hair and
a red
beard. And he *wasn't* Italian.

He was born in The Tyrol, in the Alps, and was assumed to be Italian
by scholars
and history buffs -- but only because he grew up in what was NOT Italy
back in
1492.

See. Columbus had yellow hair and a red beard, and only men of
Tyrolean ancestry
ave that distinction. Nowhere else in the word is this combination
found, only
in men of Tyrolean ancestry.

What you have read are additional revelations from David Fellin, one
of two coa
miners who were rescued after being entombed 14 days following a cave-
in
near Hazleton, Pa., back in August 1963,

It was while Fellin and Hank Throne were waiting to die -- since their
rescue
required nothing short of a miracle -- that, for whatever reason, he
had numerous out-of-body experiences which included trips back in time
to see key events of
history unfold.

In his trip back in time to Columbus' journey that eventually would
lead to the
discovery of America, he had testified that he was aboard Columbus'
flagship
- seeing everything that was going on but not being seen -- to witness
firsthand
what is revealed here.

And, yes, David Fellin was taken back in time to see how the Pyramids
were "really" constructed.

He revealed that those multi-ton blocks weren't moved an inch but,
instead, were constructed right where they can be found today -- as
part of the Pyramids.

He said they were built by Egyptian-looking men pouring a mixture of
liquid and
what appeared to be sand into huge wooden forms, the way sidewalks,
etc.,
are made today.

He also revealed that the groups of 20-25 Egyptians making each block
-- other
groups making other blocks at the same time -- were supervised by a
Caucasian
man with a dark, dark tan whom he identified as an extraterrestrial.

It should be emphasized that David Fellin took two sets of polygraphs
about
what he saw and experienced while out of his body and passed both
tests
with flying colors.

See . . .

HOW THE PYRAMIDS REALLY WERE BUILT

http://groups.google.com/group/soc.cultu...c8feb82d68

"GOOD GOD!" -- Boy, You Certainly Can Say THAT Again!

http://www.edconrad.org

Ed Conrad

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