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Columbus knew where to go
OStO: Christopher Columbus reached the new world in 1467 for the first time, 25 years before he officially "discovered" America in .1492, according to Norwegian explorer and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl, reports AFP.
In an interview with the Norwegian daily Aftenposten, Heyerdahl said that old maps and documents from Danish archives indicate that Columbus took part in a Danish-Por- ; tuguese expedition to the Davis Strait between Canada and
According td the 80-year old archaeologist, the experiences from the Davis Strait expedition enabled Columbus to chart his famous voyage to the new world in 1492.
"Everyone said that Columbus landed where he did by chance, that he hadn't taken enough food and water for the voyage and that it was pure luck that he and his crew survived," said Heyerdahl, who was made famous by his own ' expedition, the Kon Tiki, in 1947.
"But Columbus knew exactly where land was, even if he thought he had found the western passage to India," he stressed.
"He sailed deliberately southwards to the Canary Islands, then took a straight path across the Atlantic Ocean to his new goal. Which turned out to be America,” he said.
‘New man'... a myth !
LONDON: British women think they are losing the’battle of the sexes, according to a poll published on Sunday, reports Reuter.
The Mori Poll for The Mail on Sunday found that a majority of 1,000 women questioned felt they were discriminated against and were pessimistic about the future.
Halt of working women said they suffered sexual harassment at work. The same ratio believed the "new man”, who considers women his equals and helps with housework and children, is a myth.
Sixty-four per cent of women said they do all the housework and 65 per cent cook all the meals.
"Far from feeling victorious after a century of fighting against male oppression, a great many women feel they have achieved very little ana have had almost no impact on the chauvinistic perceptions of men," the newspaper said.
May God bless him
BEIJING: An airline doctor and US charity have come to the aid of a 13-month-old Chinese boy who will undergo surgery in the United States for six kinds of heart disease, Xinhua news agency said yesterday, reports Reuter.
Wang Zhingao and his' parents left Beijing on Saturday for Hemayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, it said.
The boy was given no more than four years to live, it said.
A charity organisation in the United States is paying the cost of the treatment, estimated at more than 40,000 dollars and Northwest Airlines has provided free tickets for Wang and his parents, the agency said.
James Hoder, a doctor in Beijing with Northwest Airlines, is paying the living expenses of the family while they are in ^the United States, it said.