hi all,, micheal,,, i see good reason that maybe this site or a
separate site for precolumbian inscriptions of NORTH AMERICA is
needed. the other site is primarly south american and has missed the
boat in north america.
happy pats day
thanks
steve

ps...
Now we know why!!

WHY ST. PATRICK'S DAY IS CELEBRATED EACH YEAR IN AMERICA

The reason the Irish celebrate St. Patrick's Day is because this is when
St. Patrick drove the Norwegians out of Ireland.

It seems that some centuries ago, many Norwegians came to Ireland to
escape the bitterness of the Norwegian winter. Ireland was having a
famine at the time, and food was scarce. The Norwegians were eating
almost all the fish caught in the area, leaving the Irish with nothing
to eat but potatoes. St. Patrick, taking matters into his own hands, as
most Irishmen do, decided the Norwegians had to go.

Secretly, he organized the Irish IRATRION (Irish Republican Army to Rid
Ireland of Norwegians).
Irish members of IRATRION passed a law in Ireland
that prohibited merchants from selling ice boxes or ice to the
Norwegians, in
hopes that their fish would spoil. This would force the Norwegians to
flee to a
colder climate where their fish would keep.

Well, the fish spoiled, all right, but the Norwegians, as every one
knows today,
thrive on spoiled fish. So, faced with failure, the desperate
Irishmen sneaked
into the Norwegian fish storage caves in the dead of night and
sprinkled the
rotten fish with lye, hoping to poison the Norwegian invaders. But,
as everyone
knows, the Norwegians thought this only added to the flavor of the
fish, and
they liked it so much they decided to call it "lutefisk", which is
Norwegian for
"luscious fish". Matters became even worse for the Irishmen when the
Norwegians started taking over the Irish potato crop and making something
called "lefse".

Poor St. Patrick was at his wit's end, and finally on March 17th, he
blew his top and told all the Norwegians to "GO TO HELL".

So they all got in their boats and emigrated to Minnesota