Leif Erikson 
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
10-5-18
The Troubling History of the Fight to Honor Leif Erikson—Not Columbus—as the Man Who 'Discovered America'
Leif Erikson Day is a celebration of the Viking explorer credited with reaching the continent around the year 1000, nearly 500 years before Columbus did.
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4-9-16
Who Really Discovered America?
by Ed Simon
That’s a complicated and fraught question that no fresh discovery of the Vikings’ presence, however important, can answer.
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