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Originally Posted by Shipwreck
Thales Optronics vs Britannica actually...
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Thales is some benchmark?
I am not aware.
I prefer not to take defence industry handouts as the gospel.
They have a product to sell with its obvious implications!
The Chinese claim that they discovered America and not Columbus. Some agree, some don't.
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"There are several reasons why. There are a number of European maps based on this one, and they would also be forgeries if this were a fake. There is a mass of corroborative evidence, and everything in the map appears in separate Chinese records. Finally, European explorers found Chinese junks and evidence of Chinese people in North America. This shows the Chinese were there first."
Map bolsters America-discovery claim
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