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Devil-sAdvocate t1_iw4nazf wrote

Reply to comment by Dinglederple in 600-year-old coin may be oldest found in Canada by IslandChillin

Not Canada, but the Maine penny, also referred to as the Goddard coin, is a Norwegian silver coin dating to the reign of Olaf Kyrre King of Norway (1067–1093 AD).

This was found by an amateur archeologist in the 1950's at an extensive archeological site at an old Native American settlement at Naskeag Point on Penobscot Bay in Brooklin, Maine. That location is about 500 miles south of Newfoundland.

The Goddard site has been dated to 1180–1235. Much of the circumstances of the finding of the coin were not well preserved in the record (as was the case with the majority of the other 30,000 finds, none of which included anything else Viking related).

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KahuTheKiwi t1_iw4m580 wrote

Reply to comment by redcrowknifeworks in They fled persecution in Nazi Germany. Then the British put them behind barbed wire by lanzkron

I read a collection of Hitler's speaches. He was a huge fan of the US and emulated a number things; Monroe Doctrine was the source of his Sphere of Influence idea, Manifest Destiny and Living Space In the East, slavery and slavery.

Apparently the Nuremburg laws were copied from Alabama state laws. The laws on eugenics were provided by the New York based Eugenics Society.

Meanwhile concentration camps in German were inspired by the British concentration camps used during the Boer Wars

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psibomber t1_iw4k3cz wrote

Reply to comment by LargeMonty in 600-year-old coin may be oldest found in Canada by IslandChillin

I was watching a Max Miller youtube video about pemmican and how early explorers and traders had to pretty much bury their return provisions in the ground to ensure their survival for the return trip (as early north america wouldn't have the infrastructure available where you could just buy provisions/order them to be made).

So I'm thinking if it wasn't something that arrived after, then an early explorer who got there but never successfully returned?

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Kjartanski t1_iw4iy9e wrote

Reply to comment by 300450500350400550 in 600-year-old coin may be oldest found in Canada by IslandChillin

My brother in christ have you heard of the Greenland Norse? And the L’anse aux meadows settlement in Newfoundland? There were Norse settlers for absolute sure, in Canada, in the year 1021, and the Greenland settlement lasted for over 400 years, with the last absolute carbon date in the 1430s. The norse were in Greenland BEFORE the Inuit

This is Norse erasure and i won’t stand for it.

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