Steve LeMaster Wrote:
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> Who's this Gavin Menzies?

A retired English navy person who published a book 1421 claiming that the Chinese admiral Cheng He sailed to the New Word and explored both coasts leaving a number of traces. Menzies is a gifted publicist and is making a mint of money. There are a number of posts on Maat on his claims.
Bernard
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> Steve LeMaster
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> The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a
> beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
> Thomas Henry Huxley