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Arild and All,

What we are often taught as "history" is usually an antique 
politically correct version of European History, with all of its 
prejudices and parochialisms.

There is a chapel, the Roslyn Chapel in Scotland, that was completed 
in 1446. It has a frieze (border) around the top of the chapel that 
has carvings of plants - aloe and Indian Maize (corn) only found 
(then) in the Western Hemisphere, and probably only in North America. 
Therefore, it is obvious that someone (Knights Templar) voyaged to 
this continent long before Columbus stumbled upon it. However, while 
once very popular and open, the Knights Templar fell out of "Royal" 
favor and it became an automatic sentence of death in most European 
areas to be known as a Knight Templar, so, their history has been 
widely expunged and subsequently has never really been brought to 
light, even though many, many scholars know of the Roslyn Chapel and 
its proof of the travels of the Knights Templar, who had the most 
extensive fleet of commercial sailing ships at that time.


Take care and be safe.

Wayne
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