Dammit I typed a whole paragraph and accidentally hit a link and deleted it. Basically TPTB have hidden this for not clear reasons. If you were taught US history as Americans were, the beginning of the discovery of this land goes: That Christopher Columbus had a wild theory at the time that the earth was round not flat, and he convinced the royalty to let him take an expedition to sail to asia around the globe. He actually founded America, but thought he was in Asia.". Look at this with new eyes, it is all propaganda indoctrination of the globe earth.