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Originally posted by AZpinkkittie
High five on the Christopher Columbus thing. Dumbass for not knowing he'd hit a completely different land mass (which wasn't north america by the way, it was the west indies. Amerigo Vespuci found north america, hence the name America) and dumbass royalty for going along with him. I can't hate him to much though, at least he realized the world was round.
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I thought Columbus was
looking for the West Indies, but ran into North America instead. I tell you what, it's all messed up...Vespuci got America named after him, but Columbus got credit for discovering it, even though it had already been discovered before by the ancient Irish and the Vikings.
