• Skua
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    61 day ago

    Vinland is Newfoundland, I’m afraid! It’s not generally thought that the Norse made it as far south in the Americas as the modern day contiguous USA

    • @AA5B
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      114 hours ago

      It’s just a matter of what history you accept. Here in Massachusetts, there are several places with monuments to Viking explorers. Since we’re throwing away educational standards, deciding on our own “facts, and ignoring all sorts of disconnects with reality, why not choose what history to accept? If we can end climate change by not being allowed to mention it, surely we can fix history by declaring different facts true