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Oct 10, 2011 · Columbus Day is a national holiday, celebrated with parades and songs. While most Americans know that Columbus sailed the ocean blue, many of the facts surrounding the voyage remain misunderstood.
Oct 2, 2018 · Another persistent myth about Columbus is that he was in the minority, or even alone, in believing that the earth was round. This is not merely a simplification used to embellish his story in children’s books; even scholars have been known to repeat this myth, suggesting that Columbus’s venture was so adamantly opposed at first because ignorant and narrow-minded officials in the Spanish ...
Aug 3, 2014 · The Columbus Myth. The name Christopher Columbus is the Anglicization of the Latin Christophorus Columbus. His name in Italian is Cristoforo Colombo, and in Spanish Cristóbal Colón. The story of Columbus is not at all that we have been told. This article is not written to infer that Columbus did not travel to America; there is plenty of ...
Oct 10, 2016 · 10 Oct 2016. Christopher Columbus, painting by Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805-1880) [Getty] On October 12, 1492, a geographically misguided voyager by the name of Christopher Columbus happened ...
Oct 11, 2021 · Columbus: Separating Myth from Fact. The mariner from Genoa was neither a slaver nor a saint—but he *was* concerned about the rights and the souls of New World natives. Editor’s note: As time passes, controversy over the historical Western project to explore, colonize, and Christianize the Americas and other non-European lands seems only to ...
Oct 9, 2023 · Columbus never discovered America but his voyage was no less courageous. Even if you were to overlook the not-so-minor fact that millions of people were already living in the Americas in 1492, the ...
Oct 6, 2017 · A map of the four voyages of the Italian navigator, Christopher Columbus. The myth of Columbus’ supposed flat earth theory is tempting: It casts the explorer’s intrepid journey in an even more ...
