Which book will you prefer for evening.

[El Corazon]

Jim Crafton wrote:

WTF! Really, this isn't some goofy pseudo history tome? I'd be curious to hear more about this.

It is a widely disputed claim as mentioned. There is sufficient evidence to suggest "something" odd happened, but the methods used to "fill in" the gaps in knowledge have brought the author of thise particular book almost no support from historians: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1421:_The_Year_China_Discovered_the_World[^] For instance the amount of chinese ancestry in native american culture is known to be exceedingly high. Of course those in favor of parallel adaption have said that such changes do not need a new flow of chinese blood into eastern and central native cultures. There is also still wide dispute on the actual number of landbridge migrations to the new world from asia and wence those migrations came from (at least one may have come from the southern lands of modern China and migrated all the way to say... New Mexico to influence the Navajo). The modern DNA can be compared and say "Mitochondrial DNA states that the Navajo evolved from one of the largest Eve trees, the same Eve that is responsible for the Chinese culture." But what that means, is very difficult to perceive. The genetic Eve trees all support the land-bridge migration of a southern asianic influence, adaptive traits of eyes skin, hair, etc. are difficult to fully understand a timeline, therefore difficult to know if they require modern influence or distant. The resemblance to certain features in Mongolian lines are impossible to understand "when" the influece occured. The book above, itself, ignores some world-of-mouth history from the Inuit that is ignored also by some historians as well, that the Inuit have been helping people cross both directions for as long as they have been there. From idiots attempting to boat the arctic shores from Asia to people trying to cross the ice on foot, they rescue them and pass them from villiage to villiage into the North American continent or back to Asia. This could explain influences from quite a few post-AD cultures that are open mysteries of North America (and currently ignored by historians, and only attempted to be explained by the Inuit stories, and "help from flying saucers" -- personally I like the Inuit stories,

[Tim Deveaux]

Christian Graus wrote:

I am waiting for a book on the Inquisition to come in the mail

So... you're expecting the Spanish Inquisition? :~

[Russell Jones]

Cryptonomicron by Neal Stephenson is a great book i read a couple of years ago, as is SnowCrash by the same author. I'm currently re-reading the first half of Anna Karenin (when i get to page 400 it'll just be reading, haven't ever managed to finish it) almost anything By Iain Banks Crow Road and excession are both good, depending if you like fiction or sci-fi.

[Russell Jones]

since chip and pin his writers cramp has mysteriously vanished.

[Gary Kirkham]

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