What I got from the Wiki article was that actual construction of Trump's Wall is being held up by several court challenges. The Supreme Court only recently ruled that construction may continue while the cases are being litigated. Come to think of it, I seem to remember reading something awhile back that specs were being worked up so the project can be put out for bids. After the bids are awarded, construction is estimated to take several years to complete anyway. Too little, too late, in my opinion.
I seem to remember reading that most educated people in the time of Columbus believed that the Earth was round, although some of his crewmen weren't so sure about that. What was not generally known was that North and South America lay between Europe and Asia. Columbus himself maintained to his dying day that he had been to India, although some of his contemporaries weren't so sure about that. The difference between me and Columbus is that he had a physical way of confirming his theory, while all I know about this immigration thing is what I read in the newspapers.
Archeological evidence has confirmed that there was at least one Norse colony in, what is today, Newfoundland. They're not sure what happened to it, but it was likely the same reason that the first colony in Greenland expired, namely climate change. During the Medieval Warming Period, Greenland was considerably greener than it is today you know.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period
I am not familiar with the music of Robert Johnson but, if Uncle Ken is talking about the old fashioned pre-electric Mississippi Delta Blues, it think it has a certain rustic charm to it, not unlike other folk forms. My favorite African music, however, is the Zulu style chants made popular in modern times by Ladysmith Black Mombasa.
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