No, just before Columbus:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/1386655/Explorer-from-China-who-beat-Columbus-to-America.html
Charlie
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:11 PM, richard mcgrath <
richardinvermont@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...the Chinese were in America before the native Indians?
>
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> > The Chinese had introduced them to bamboo piping centuries before.
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
> > chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Where did they get their plastic pipe? :-)
> > >
> > > Chuck Norcutt
> > >
> > >
> > > richard mcgrath wrote:
> > > > ...here too. The Canadians don't have a monopoly on high(ish) tech
> > > > sugaring. American Indians were doing it before either French or
> English
> > > > arrived...or so the story goes.
> > > > Richard
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "John Hudson" <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:24 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: walkabout in Valencia
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >> ...ever been to a maple syrup production facility in Quebec or Nova
> > > Scotia
> > > > ?
> > > >> The last one I went to in Nova Scotia had upwards of 10,000 mature
> maple
> > > >> trees in the woods all hooked up together with 3/4 to 1" bore
> plastic
> > > > piping
> > > >> collecting the sap. 100 gallons of sap are boiled away down to 1
> gallon
> > > > and
> > > >> that 1 gallon is the "maple syrup". The in-the-woods production
> > > facilities
> > > >> are pretty primitve and basic .............. just a water boiling
> > > > operation
> > > >> fed by wood fired furnaces consuming eight foot long semi-split
> seasoned
> > > >> fire logs !
> > > >>
> > > >> jh
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> ----- Original Message -----
> > > >> From: "richard mcgrath" <richardinvermont@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:50 PM
> > > >> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: walkabout in Valencia
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>> Chris, I dunno' about there, but here they sell bars of Lindt 90%
> cocao
> > > > in
> > > >>> the supermarket. Then again, here...they make maple syrup from
> tree
> > > >>> sap.--Richard
> > > >>>
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> > > >>> From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >>> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >>> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 3:29 AM
> > > >>> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: walkabout in Valencia
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>>> I hate to admit it, Richard, but I have a feeling that there is
> more
> > > >>>> cocoa
> > > >>> in a Hershey bar than in the average bar of English "chocolate".
> > > >>>> But German, French and Belgian chocolate is the best, along with
> the
> > > >>> organic stuff from Green & Black's and the Fairtrade stuff from the
> > > > Co-op
> > > >>> in
> > > >>> the UK.
> > > >>>> Chris
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> On 12 Apr 2010, at 21:07, richard mcgrath wrote:
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>> ...clearly not a fan of Hershey bars...
> > > >>>>> Richard
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