thought the mounds were along the southern Mississipi -- and the operating theory is that the diseases spread ahead of white explorers and got them before the whites even showed up. > -----Original Message----- > From: fork-admin@xent.com [mailto:fork-admin@xent.com] On Behalf Of Gary > Lawrence Murphy > Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 9:26 PM > To: Robert Harley > Cc: fork@spamassassin.taint.org > Subject: Re: Al'Qaeda's fantasy ideology: Policy Review no. 114 > > >>>>> "R" == Robert Harley writes: > > R> Well IIRC, Cortez arrived in 1519, and DeSoto was born circa > R> 1500. You do the math. > > Ah, I suppose so. If it wasn't DeSoto ... then who was it that landed > in Southern Florida to be greeted by great cities of millions of > mound-dwellers who had completely vanished by the time Cortez arrived > to kill as many as he could? > > -- > Gary Lawrence Murphy TeleDynamics Communications Inc > Business Advantage through Community Software : http://www.teledyn.com > "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."(Pablo Picasso) > > http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/forkhttp://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork