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Sep 1, 2020 · Five Myths About Columbus. Outrageous claims about Columbus need to be tempered by a sober look at the historical record. by Robert Royal 9/1/2020. A painting depicts Christopher Columbus and shipmates landing at sunrise Oct. 12, 1492, on the island he named San Salvador.
Oct 8, 2015 · Christopher Columbus wasn't Italian? Kris Lane, professor of colonial Latin American history at Tulane University, busts five myths about the explorer. (Video: The Washington Post)
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Oct 11, 2015 · 1. Columbus proved the “flat Earth” theory wrong. In an early scene in the 1992 Ridley Scott film “1492: Conquest of Paradise,” Columbus, played by Gérard Depardieu, gazes out at the Atlantic...
Oct 5, 2020 · 1. Columbus set out to prove the world was round. If he did, he was about 2,000 years too late. Ancient Greek mathematicians had already proven that the Earth was round, not flat. Pythagoras in the sixth century B.C.E. was one of the originators of the idea.
Oct 10, 2011 · Much of what we say about Christopher Columbus is wrong; to celebrate Columbus Day, we describe a few of these misconceptions about the intrepid explorer, from the flat-Earth myth to his...
Recently, more complete and more honest accounts of Columbus’ life have led Americans to question how the U.S. should remember Columbus, and how it should disentangle the unvarnished truths about Columbus from the mythology that has developed around him in America’s collective memory.
Oct 10, 2015 · 1. Columbus proved the “flat Earth” theory wrong. In an early scene in the 1992 Ridley Scott film “1492: Conquest of Paradise,” Columbus, played by Gérard Depardieu, gazes out at the Atlantic...
