"The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all." Ecclesiastes 9:11   Five hundred years before Christopher Columbus ever set sail across the ocean, a young Viking named Leif Erikson stood on the shores of Greenland and looked out at a horizon where maps simply ended. Beyond that final line of safety lay a vast and terrifying expanse....