There is a fine man... from Iceland... who has shown us much of his homeland... through his lens and his histoires!
IT IS HIS BIRTHDAY... HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS... MAY YOU LIVE TO 100!!!
The Vinland Map is a drawing of Iceland, Greenland and the northeastern seaboard of North America that has been dated to the mid-15th century, suggesting that Norse explorers charted North America long before Columbus. The map, which has had a contentious history since its discovery in the 1950s, resides at Yale University. In July 2002, two papers about the Vinland Map were published simultaneously in separate scientific journals ? one in Radiocarbon, which set a date for the map's parchment at about 1434 using carbon dating; and another in Analytical Chemistry, claiming that the map is really just a clever 20th-century forgery on medieval parchment.
Clearly Icelanders will have their own story... yet to be told!
my dear IT... always thinking about your fellows... a beautiful artistic gift and as always a most informative and original about... i love maps and that subject you mention is trully interesting with a lot of stories for "peculiar" maps to form a big puzzle about the past!!!! emy ;)
@L: the composition is fantastic, since I'm young I have an interest in maps...triggered from my father and ended in my profession...worked several years in forwarding companies
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