Columbus Day Ping!
Great article. Thanks for posting it!
Very interesting read.Thank you for a history lesson I seemed to have missed in HS.
And if Columbus had never sailed, the New World would still have been found in 1500 by Pedro Álvares Cabral.
Chris was a badazz who accomplished more than most men before his death at the young age of 54 years...
He was a good Christian Italian like me!! :)
And A LOT of this and his writing I did not know.
Thank you Salvation.
Happy Columbus Day!
Everyone eat a cannoli today!! :)
Columbus also did not discover Ohio.
Great post- Thank you, Salvation.
Thank you for this article.
Is it possible that columbus knew about the vikings? I have heard he sailed to iceland in 1477 he could have heard about them then. Any references would be appreciated
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Very nicely done thanks for posting...
I would quibble that vikings were not precisely illiterate although nothing remotely like Italians or Spaniards half a millennia later, Vikings did have a runic collection of representative symbols for writing
I was raised being taught Columbus was looking for a shorter route to India
Myth 10 reminds me of my lastest near death experience where an extended Ventricular Tachycardia episode as I slipping into darkness I verbalized in my mind and possibly out loud something to similar effect that Columbus is said to have uttered
But I felt some shame feeling I was actually appropriating Christ’s own words and thst was a bit presumptuous
Luke 23/46
Nonetheless my heart regained normal beating and I was drenched in sweat and a bit discombobulated
Funny how you act when tottering on deaths door...not my first rodeo btw but this one came with zero warning
Thank you for posting this.
There was a screed posted here at FR a couple of days ago that repeated many of these same lies.
I thought something smelled fishy.
Thanks for the rebuttal.
Refreshing! Thanks for posting!
Columbus was a hero!
The maps Columbus used were gained from the Portuguese Library in Lisbon. They were State secrets of the time. The quake in 1755 destroyed the Library and its contents. No one today knows what the true state of knowledge about the world that the Portuguese knew. In other words, CC was not sailing blind.
So is the story of blankets that had smallpox in them given to the Indians to try and wipe them out also false?
Humorist Stan Freberg cleared up all confusion about Columbus and his discovery of America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qiqdb518wZ8