<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/faa7956c-5905-4c30-b860-c919800340d3/F0C5A006-2142-4CE9-A070-960A90CFF27D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/03/10/columbus_was_a_scot_jimmie__whaurs_yer_walter_raleigh_noo" href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/03/10/columbus_was_a_scot_jimmie__whaurs_yer_walter_raleigh_noo" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/03/10/columbus_was_a_scot_jimmie__whaurs_yer_walter_raleigh_noo"><H2 class="oneBlogTitle"> <A href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/03/10/columbus_was_a_scot_jimmie__whaurs_yer_walter_raleigh_noo"><SPAN>Columbus was a Scot, Jimmie - Whaur's yer Walter Raleigh noo?</SPAN></A> </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/03/10/columbus_was_a_scot_jimmie__whaurs_yer_walter_raleigh_noo"><P align="justify">Christopher Columbus was a Scot - that's official (Whaur's yer Walter Raleigh noo?). According to Spanish historian Alfonso Ensenat de Villalonga, the discoverer of America was born to Scottish shopkeepers settled in Genoa and was christened Peter, surname Scotto. In a further genealogical tour de force, Villalonga claims that the Scotto family came originally from Douglas, in Lanarkshire, Scotland.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/03/10/columbus_was_a_scot_jimmie__whaurs_yer_walter_raleigh_noo"><P align="justify">If you assume that this news will be received with jubilation on the unfashionable side of Hadrian's Wall, you may well be mistaken. For this claim collides with the already well-developed Scottish revisionist theory that America was discovered a century before Columbus, in 1398, by Henry St Clair, Earl of Orkney. Needless to say, this theory involves the Knights Templar - an indispensable ingredient in almost any piece of counterknowledge - as well as a great deal of other hokum besides.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F0C5A006-2142-4CE9-A070-960A90CFF27D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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