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I Am Not Making This Up: Ep. 50 Why We Don’t Live In The United States Of Columbia
No matter how he looks, we know Columbus as the guy in that hat.
Rightly or wrongly (and these days, everyone considers it wrongly) Columbus is known as “The Man Who Discovered America.” For many of us, that is how history is taught: Columbus set out to prove that the Earth wasn’t flat, landed in the Caribbean and said “whoooo hoooo! New world!”
The truth is a little (okay a lot) different.
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By Tracy S. Morris
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No matter how he looks, we know Columbus as the guy in that hat.
Rightly or wrongly (and these days, everyone considers it wrongly) Columbus is known as “The Man Who Discovered America.” For many of us, that is how history is taught: Columbus set out to prove that the Earth wasn’t flat, landed in the Caribbean and said “whoooo hoooo! New world!”
The truth is a little (okay a lot) different.