Wednesday, October 12, 2016

The real Columbus Day is October 12 as celebrated in Spain.  Cristoforo Colombo's four voyages to the new world opened the Americas to European culture, law and ideas. Columbus is of course, not ithout detractors.  Many view his explorations of the Bahamas, the Antilles, coastal Venezuela and Central America as exploitation, but 524 years after the first voyage he is still credited with opening the new world to adventuristic Europeans.

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