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Re:Facebook Hidden Friends Vulnerability? by kubiiii on Monday June 02, 2014 @06:24AM (#7832722)
HN, 1492. Christopher Columbus discovers America. HN user comment : pretty misleading title, large parts of America are most probably not discovered yet. Joke aside, I've seen far worse titles than this one.
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Re:Facebook Hidden Friends Vulnerability? by a1a on Monday June 02, 2014 @06:51AM (#7832795)
To be fair it would really be misleading as he wasn't the one who "discovered" America.

>>He was the first person to establish long and meaningful

>>connection with the New World that would eventually tie

>>Europe to the Americas, but it is a misconception that he

>>was the first to “discover” America.

http://sites.psu.edu/mmancini/2012/09/08/1-columbus-was-the-...

Additional source: http://web.dsbn.edu.on.ca/[email protected]/FO...

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Re:Facebook Hidden Friends Vulnerability? by kamjam on Monday June 02, 2014 @08:27AM (#7833084)
To be really fair, Columbus was searching for India when he first discovered America so I doubt he even knew what he had stumbled upon
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Re:Facebook Hidden Friends Vulnerability? by dragonwriter on Monday June 02, 2014 @02:16PM (#7834914)
IIRC, he continuously insisted that he had reached the ("East", as we now know them as a result of him being wrong) Indies, in fact.
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Re:Facebook Hidden Friends Vulnerability? by kubiiii on Monday June 02, 2014 @07:12AM (#7832845)
Consider my post a alley oop assist ;)
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