1492, Sometimes it's worth a minute's wait.

The Discovery of America by artist Salvador Dalí

Do Europeans ever wonder what their lives would be like in 1492,
                                 [had Columbus not discovered the land of opportunity?
Do they ever wonder how their lives would be if his ship,
                              [were captured by pirates, or if the crew were to mutiny ?

Tomatoes, potatoes, salmon, pumpkins, peanuts, chocolate, vanilla,
                             [blueberries and corn, they would never have been eaten,
and Europe would also be a German colony if it wasn't liberated
                                         [by the US Army, which so far remains unbeaten.

But according to anthropological genetics and linguistics studies,
                                                [America was discovered 15,000 years or so,
(not by Columbus) by the populations
                                 [that migrated crossed the Bering Strait very long ago.

Whoever it was, I feel obliged to say thank you
                         [to my American childhood friends including Elizabeth Taylor,
Errol Flynn, Kim Novak, John Wayne,
                        ["Scaramouche" Stewart Granger and "Ivanhoe" Robert Taylor....
Steve McQueen (Sam Peckinpah‘s “The Getaway),
                                                          [Nick Nolte (48 Hrs. Director Walter Hill)
Victor Mature, Hedy Lamarr (Samson and Delilah, Director Cecil B. DeMille)

Wait....... wait a minute.........

For the sake of truth, and only the truth,
                                                       [I have to mention a true fact,
which any historian scientist,
                                           [or historian researcher, may distract.

Just take a look (archive of Turkish Admiral Piri Reis)
                                  [in the ancient map below, from the time of Alexander the Great,
The Greeks were at that time the only civilization,
                 [who knew that the Earth was round.. Sometimes it's worth a minute's wait !!

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to be continued

* The Piri Reis world map was based on several other charts, many dating as early as the 4th century BC, and depicts the west coast of Africa, Europe, as well as the entire American continent on the Atlantic side.

While by any means the famous map does not come close to a satellite image, it still properly depicts the continents on both sides of the Atlantic, although with one major flaw. It shows the horn of South America turning sharply eastwards, almost at a 90-degree angle, as if South America "wraps around" the Atlantic at the bottom of the map.  

The existence of this map helps reinforce a couple of assumptions made earlier.
Piri Reis borrowed from other ancient maps dating back to the 4th century BC..... Unquestionably this reinforces the suggestion that Plato, at 360 BC, could have been aware of the American continent in order to include it in his story. 

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* ''IT COULD BE OTHERWISE in verse''
Texts and Narration: Odysseus Heavilayias - ROTTERDAM //
Language adjustments and text adaptation: Kellene G Safis - CHICAGO//
Digital adaptation and text editing: Cathy Rapakoulia Mataraga - PIRAEUS//
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