@DavidPaternostr I watched a probably less-good-than-I remember it vcr-taped two-part TV movie about George Washington and/or Ken Burns’ “The Civil War” pretty much every sick day (or other free day) when I was a kid.
@EduardHabsburg If Florida is the "Florida" of the USA, and Queensland is the "Florida" of Australia, what would the "Florida" of the Holy Roman Empire have been? Bavaria? The Rhineland Palatinate?
@canonlawyered Spain claimed and explored the coast of (but didn’t settle) the Pacific Northwest quite some far ways north. The Russians did get down as far as Northern California but their presence was equally, if not even more, sparse. https://t.co/fX6eS4Otmt
In 1521 Nicolaus Hussovianus had to travel all the way from Lithuania to Rome with a massive stuffed bison as a gift for Pope Leo X - and someone needs to make a quirky road movie about this