Actually, it was only one of a number of pre-Columbian cities. Do a
Google on "Poverty Point" if you want to ream out the pre-Columbian
assumptions you learned in school. Or try "Kennewick Man."
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On 1 Mar 2009, at 18:10, Jessica Welton wrote:
> St Louis?
> Cahokie?
> How many Americans know about that city -- the largest in the
> country before the Europeans came, wasn't it?
>
> Jessica
>
> On Feb 27, 2009, at 9:00 PM, Craig Kilby wrote:
>
>> Fred:
>>
>> I had to laugh, cry and sob all at one time when I saw your
>> signature that said "Fred, St. Louis".
>>
>> To me, that moniker said it all.
>>
>> I now live in Virginia and have long wanted to host a party where
>> people had to put a pin on map showing where St. Louis is. I want
>> to take parlour bets on this one. I don't think one in one hundred
>> people in Virginia even have clue where, much less what, St. Louis
>> is to American history. I think most of them would put it
>> somewhere in Louisiana, assuming they even know where that is. Or
>> sometimes they put in Colorado, or Minnesota.
>>
>> Mississippi River? "Oh, that thing out there somewhere."
>>
>> Lewis & Clark? "Who?"
>>
>> Louisiana Purchase? "What?"
>>
>> Napoleon? "Is that a new fur coat?"
>>
>> This is all very amusing. I miss St. Louis. I guess this is a bit
>> poigent today for me because I had lunch with an old friend who
>> also lived in St. Louis, though I did not know her then. She loved
>> it there. I am going back in July to conduct an interview that I
>> hope will become a very good article.
>>
>> I really, really love Virginia and Virginians, and I am glad to be
>> a taxpaying member of the "Virginia is for Lovers" state ( I have
>> yet to see that side of the slogan). But by golly, they have much
>> to learn about elsewhere.
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 27, 2009, at 4:33 PM, John Frederick Fausz wrote:
>>
>>> Whether she told "lies" or employed "imaginative fabrications"--
>>> a methodology that one esteemed reviewer called "outrageous"--
>>> that author has discredited the historical profession and revealed
>>> the sham of commercial publishing and the once-credible National
>>> Book Award. That so few have criticized one of the worst-titled and
>>> least reliable books of "history"--which sadly beat out a fabulous
>>> book by the president of Harvard--is a sad commentary on our
>>> times and the clearest signal yet that factually-accurate research
>>> and writing are DEAD in this country. More hype and hyprocrisy
>>> of a celebrity culture to match our dismal economy and disastrous
>>> politics!
>>>
>>> Fred Fausz
>>> St. Louis
>>>
>>>
>>> **************
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